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Ancestors of George and Isabella Aldous

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ALDOUSES (PRE 1855)

the Norfolk and Suffolk connections - now some of them are web visible at www.aldous.net

1785 - James Aldous

is born / christened (6 March 1785) in Redenhall (see Family Search).  His parents are from nearby Starston and are said to be buried in a vault in St Margaret's Church, Starston..

1785 - Harriett Aldous (Poole)

is born in Mendham (probably).

1809 - James Aldous marries Harriett Poole

on 10 July 1809 in the delightful All Saints Church, Mendham (Suffolk).  Harleston / Redenhall, just on the other side of the River Waveney and where they were to live, is in Norfolk.

1816 - Alex Aldous born

in Harleston, Norfolk.

c 1825 - James Aldous lists his family

on a (folded) paper - possible kept inside the family bible. The oldest family artefact we have.

1819 - 1854 James Aldous is Churchwarden

of St Mary Redenhall - the "daddy church" of the area - for 35 years.

Harleston Market Square c 1820 when James Aldous was 35, and (below) in 2009 (the tower is not the same as the one above and the chapel has been demolished).  James' nephew William Poole Aldous (1816-1861 (44)) was licensee of the Swan Inn (big red building on the distant left) from 1851 for 10 years.

Trade Directories for Harleston and Redenhall

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1830 & 1839 - Pigot & Co Directories of Harleston with Reddenhall include James Aldous (then aged 45) (with his brother John) as Brewer & Porter Merchant, Maltster and Wine Merchant.  Our man is into vertical integration as he and (his brother) John are also the licensees of "The Grape Tap".  His name reappears in the 1845 White's and the 1850 Hunt's Trade Directories - latterly at age 65 as farmer and bank trustee as well - and the 1854 Whites .

Census records start in 1841

1841 - James Aldous, wine merchant,

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is living with his wife Harriett and four grown up children in Narrow Street, Redenhall (a mile or so to the east end of  Harleston).  The stately monastic church of Saint Mary in Redenhall was the real church for Harleston, which, despite being a prosperous medium sized market town, only had a graveyardless chapel (since demolished and replaced by a "proper Victorian church").  James Aldous was church warden of St Mary's Redenhall for 35 years from 1819 to 1854.  His wife Harriet Poole probably came from Mendham, equally close but nowadays on the other side of the Norfolk / Suffolk county border defined by the River Waveney.  The area was rich farmland, with several mills on the river.

1841 - Alexander Aldous, the

oldest son of James, is lodging with Edmund Stokes, wine merchant, at Portsea - "learning the trade" - the first "Portsea link" (see below).

1851 - James Aldous

at Thowfare (now Thoroughfare Street), Harleston - 2 daughters left at home.  The Grape Tap pub, which James had run with his brother John, was around here somewhere.  Down the road (the large red brick building in the left distance in both scenes) is and was the Swan Hotel, and in 1851 was run by James' nephew William Poole Aldous.

1851 - Alex Aldous is a visitor / lodger

at Boarhunt (pron Borunt) Farm, in South Hampshire.  He will marry Elizabeth Seward of Buriton in 1855.

1859 - James Aldous dies aged 74

1860 - Harriet Aldous dies aged 75

and are probably both buried at St Marys Redenhall (no tombstones found in 2009, but it would be good to see the church's burial records sometime).

1859 - Probate

SEWARDS & HAWS, then ALDOUSES

the Hampshire (Buriton and Weston) and London (St Pancras and Oxford St) connections

1748 - Thomas Seward, Samuel's father

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christened in St Peter ad Vincula, Wisborough Green, Sussex

1764 - William Haw, Samuel's father-in-law,

born in London - he could be the "William Hawes" shown in Family Search as christened in St Martin in the Fields on 23 December 1764.  Address on tomb is Hanway Street, which (still) links Oxford St and Tottenham Court Road, London, but he possibly lived in St Pancras.  Was almost certainly pretty wealthy! 

1767 - Elizabeth Haw (  ) - Samuel's

future mother-in-law is born in London.

1787 - Samuel Seward,

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is christened probably in St Peter ad Vincula, Wisborough Green, Sussex, though in census returns he is shown as being born just to the north in Loxwood (which then had a little old cemeteryless chapel and relied on the Wisborough church for bmds etc). In 1804 he moves to the farming hamlet of Weston with his dad and family, becomes a tenant yeoman farmer on 600+ acres thereabouts, builds a humungous windmill, burns lime, and does lots of other enterprising things, and eventually dies in Weston in 1867 aged 80 (see below).

1792 - Elizabeth Seward (Haw) -

Samuel's wife - born in St Pancras, London.

1813 - Will of Samuel's dad Thomas

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1821 - Samuel Seward (34) marries

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Elizabeth Haw (29) in the Old Church, St Pancras, London on 6 March 1821.

Old Church, St Pancras c 1828

1824 - Elizabeth Haw Seward,

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the future Mrs Alex Aldous, is christened in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Buriton on 26 May 1824.

1829 - Elizabeth Haw (  ) snr dies aged 62

in London on 18 December 1829.  The Buriton parish church of St Mary the Virgin has large memorial wall plaque in the south aisle and a great sarcophagus tomb outside - probably funded by hubbie Bill.

1839 - William Haw dies aged 75.

in Buriton on 17 June 1839 - Bill joins the wife on their memorial plaque and in the sarcophagus.

Census records start in 1841

Link to photo page about the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Buriton, and its Haw and Seward memorials and tombs

1841 - Samuel Seward, Yeoman (Farmer),

wife Elizabeth, and 8 children are farming, milling, burning lime etc at Weston (nr Buriton, Hampshire).

1851 - the Seward family still working the farm

at Weston nr Buriton.  Daughter Elizabeth Haw Seward is 26 and will become Mrs Alex Aldous before the next census.

1855 - Alex Aldous (39) marries Elizabeth

Haw Seward (31), in the Buriton Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin.

1858 - Elizabeth Seward (66), mother of

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the new Mrs Aldous dies -  the Buriton parish church of St Mary the Virgin has memorial wall plaque in the south aisle and her body was added to the great sarcophagus vault-tomb outside

1861 - George Frederick Aldous born

 in Portsea 24 August 1861.

1861 - Census time again - Samuel Seward,

now a widower, hosts recently married daughter Elizabeth, her husband Alex and young children at the Weston (Buriton) farm.

1862 - Elizabeth Haw Aldous (38) dies from scarlet fever

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on Christmas Day 1862, along with young son James William (2), leaving two little motherless children behind - Florrie (4) and George (1) - the Buriton parish church of St Mary has memorial wall plaque in the south aisle.

1866 - Alex Aldous remarries - Mary Gray

in March, Cambridgeshire - it does not work for Florrie and George or reportedly Alex's own happiness !

1867 March - Florrie (9) and George (5) in the earliest family photo we have.

1867 - 25 November - Samuel Seward

dies aged 80 - the Buriton parish church of St Mary the Virgin has memorial wall plaque in the south aisle and a great sarcophagus tomb outside.  The Weston farm business is taken over by his eldest son "Colonel" Samuel Seward.

1871 - Alex Aldous and Mary in Portsea

with three servants and kids off at boarding schools.  He is to die an unhappy 63 year old early 1879 after Mary gives birth to a son Hubert (Bertie) whom the family are "certain" was not fathered by him, and to whom they give the surname Banks - they say the real father.  Mary later remarries (not Mr Banks but RN Fleet Surgeon Henry Sedgewick) and they have a daughter Louise.  Bertie, a surgeon, dies a 78 year old bachelor in 1952 and leaves £20,000 in his will  to build statues of Nelson and teach sea scouts how to swim - but wait, he can't have as his estate was valued at under £16,000 - don't believe those family stories!

1871 - Florrie (13) is at Matson House

School, Richmond. 

1871 - George (9) is also away

at Brent Bridge House boarding prep school in Hendon.  Thanks to Peter Richardson for discovering him lurking under the transcript (and handwritten) name "Aldhouse".

1879 - Alex Aldous dies (aged 63)

in Portsea, an apparently unhappy man.  He was probably buried in St Mary Redenhall where his father James had been church warden for 35 years although he was living in the parish of St Kevin in Portsea (no longer any trace of that).  His name is on some of the Buriton monuments but no mention of him being buried there.

1881 - George Frederick (20) back in Portsea

as a lodger and medical student (St Barts, London) (now transcribed as Aldons - he must hold some sort of recorded for having his name mis-transcribed), whilst Florrie (23) is visiting a retired Rear Admiral's family in Croydon.

1881 - 1882 George Frederick maybe meets

Isabella Stewart whilst she is travelling in Europe with her parents.

1885 - George Frederick Aldous

admitted to British Medical Register on 6 May 1885.  Qualifications (1885) are  Lic Soc Apoth Lond, Memb R Coll Surg Eng, Lic Coll Phys Lond.  He studied at Barts in London.

1885-7 - Dr Aldous working as

Resident Medical Officer, Middlesex County Asylum, then Surgeon, Orient Steam Navigation Co - maybe this was this how he met his future wife?

1887 - George Frederick Aldous (26)

marries Isabella Henderson Stewart of Melbourne at Saint Stephens Church, Gloucester Road (London) (see below) on 7 September 1887.  James Cooper Stewart and ":Ma" come over from Melbourne for the wedding.

1891 - 1901 - 1911 Censuses

Doctor George F Aldous, his Australian wife Isabella, and their 4 growing daughters (Isabel (1889), Claribel (Clare) (1891), Madeline (1894) and Geraldine (1897)) in Charlton House, Compton Gifford, Plymouth.

1897 - Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

admits George as a Fellow

1901 - Florrie (43) is now married (1885) to

a surgeon who rose to become a Surgeon General in the Indian Army and RAMC - William Budd (seriously, and he's not American, that's his mother's maiden name) Slaughter, the son of a doctor in Farningham, Kent.  For the census she has been left with young children Cicely and Maurice in Portsea where she was brought up and the recurring town name in the Aldous / Stewart pages - James Stewart (below) is to die in Southsea ( /Portsea) in 1919 on a visit to his daughter May Watson (who married a Navy Officer).  Florrie later had another daughter named Eileen Mary and possibly more sons.

Adrian's maternal grandparents Sproule marry

1915 - Clare Aldous marries Jimmy Sproule

in Emmanuel Church, Compton Gifford (Plymouth) - a Victorian church a couple of hundred yards down the road from the Aldous home ("Carlton House" - now a nursing home). 

They had met when Clare had been detailed to do hospital visiting duty by her dad and was told to cheer up Jimmy Sproule - then a patient.  It was love at first sight - so much so that when Clare started feeding Jimmy a meal she absent-mindedly ate it herself whilst gazing into his eyes.

c1921 - George Aldous retires at 60 and pretty much immediately leaves his "working life town" of Plymouth ......

and the family moves from Plymouth to "Deanhurst" - 1 St Johns Road, Harrow (London) (now the site of a Best Western hotel).  Grandchildren Peggy and Brian Sproule stayed here during school holidays at times their parents were stationed overseas, but, certainly for Peggy, it was not much fun.  George is described in the telephone directory as "Major RAMC" (even though he was a territorial not regular soldier!).

Isabella and George Aldous and their Grandson Brian at "Deanhurst", Harrow c1932

1937 - George Frederick Aldous

1938 - Isabella Henderson Aldous (Stewart)

dies on 27 September 1937.

dies on 5 July 1938.

STEWARTS, WAUGHS AND HENDERSONS

The Melbourne, Brechin, Belfast connections.

NOTE:  There are more early document links for James Stewart's wife, parents, parents-in-law and earlier ancestors in the  Aldous-Stewart ancestor chart.

and don't overlook the easy to read - James Cooper Stewart (his illustrated story)

1804 James Cooper Stewart's

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grandparents - James Stewart (House Painter) and Elizabeth Hamilton - marry in Edinburgh

1804 James Cooper Stewart's

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father, also James Stewart (House Painter), is born in Dundee.

1811 May Falconer,

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James Stewart's mother, is born in Montrose

1833 James Stewart Snr and May Falconer

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marry in Brechin

1836 James Cooper Stewart

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is born in Brechin (Scotland).

1838-39 Robert Waugh, baker, and his wife

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LHS  RHS

Isabella, both from Belfast (she was a Henderson), and 2 children join the 500 ton Barque Garrow to travel from Belfast to Melbourne on 9 November 1838 as assisted immigrants.  Isabella has another child on the way. They dock at the Sydney Quarantine Station on 2 March 1839 and then travel on to Melbourne.

Scottish census records start in 1841

If you want a masochistic hour, try looking up James Stewart in the Scotland's People data base - and marvel at how many of them were house painters!

1841-1851 James Cooper Stewart

is living with his father James snr (master house painter) and family in High Street, Brechin (Scotland).

1841 - Amelia Henderson Waugh is born

in Melbourne (which was part of NSW until Victoria was invented on 1 July 1851).

1856 - Robert Waugh dies in Melbourne

in July 1856, aged 56 - not in the Victorian BMD records, but recorded in the books of Old Melbourne Cemetery where he was buried.

1857 - James Cooper Stewart emigrates

 to Melbourne aboard the "fastest ship in the world" - the clipper Marco Polo, and records the experience in his diary.

1860 - James and Amelia marry

the Scottish lowlands Presbyterian marries the Belfast Presbyterian in the garden of her widowed mum in Collingwood.

1861 - The Stewart family (minus James)

James snr (master house painter) and family in 62, High Street, Brechin (Scotland).

1865 - Isabella Henderson Stewart is born

at 2 Regent Terrace, Moor Street, Fitzroy (Melbourne).  Regent Terrace (20-26 Moor Street) was then owned by a John Michael from whom James was presumably renting.

1867 - May Stewart (Falconer) 

dies in Brechin

1867 - James Stewart Snr 

dies in Brechin

1868 - James Cooper Stewart,

solicitor, partners up with Alfred Brooks Malleson in Melbourne.

1872 - Isabella Waugh (Henderson) dies,

aged 69, at 44 Lygon Street, Carlton (Melbourne).  They really knew how to have useful information on death records in those days in Victoria.  She was buried (presumably beside Robert) in the Old Cemetery, Melbourne.  The Waughs were not reinterred when the Old Cemetery closed, so are still somewhere under the Queen Victoria Market which took over the site..

1881 - 1882  James, wife Amelia

and daughter Isabella make an extended Grand Tour + to France, Italy, England, Ireland and Scotland.  Somewhere it seems Bella (aged 16) may have met medical student George Aldous (20).  We have the original dairies of the trip which are being scanned / transcribed.

1885 - 1886 James is Mayor of Melbourne.

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1886 - Mayoress Amelia lays the

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foundation stone for the Princes Bridge in Melbourne.

1887 - a year of marriages

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15 June 1887 - Gordon Robson Stewart (1862 - 1906 (43)) marries Isabella (Belle) Galbraith (1860 - 1918 (57)) in the garden of her parents home in Kew (Melbourne).  RECORD

12 July 1887 - George Alexander Waugh Stewart (1864 - 1938 (74)) marries Isabella Robina Rutherford (1866 - 1939 (73)) in the Scots' Church, Melbourne - Rev Joseph Hay officiates.  RECORD.

1887 Stewart trio returns to England

The mid 1800s church of St Stephen,

Gloucester Road, London

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to marry Bella (now 22) to George Aldous in Saint Stephens Church, Gloucester Road (London) on September 7th 1887 - there would have been a diary for this trip also but it has yet to emerge..

1892 - The Stewarts build then move in

to "Edzell" (2)  at 76 St Georges Road, Toorak (Melbourne, Australia) - and still there.  "Edzell" (1) had been in Barker's Rd, Kew (Melbourne).  The original Edzell is a picturesque castle-town near Brechin.

1900 - Isabella's two sisters marry - 

21 July 1900 - A quite pregnant Ethel Amelia Stewart (1880 - 1950 (70)) marries Cyril Vernon Grey Staples (1876 - 1936 (59)) from Melbourne in St Michael's Church, Burleigh St, Covent Garden (London).  RECORD

18 December 1900 - May Falconer Stewart (1877 - 1957 (80)) marries Lt Cecil Francis Lacon Watson R.N. (1873 - 1940 (67)) from the Isle of Wight in St John's Church, Toorak (Melbourne).  RECORD

1903 - Amelia Stewart (62) dies in Barnes

on another visit to England, to see her 3 daughters (she was staying with daughter Ethel Staples).  All told she had given birth to 13 or 14 babies, of whom tragically at least 7 did not make it past the age of two.

1911 - 26 August -  James Cooper Stewart (75)

"An Old Bowler" - Christmas 1909

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marries 31 year old Sydney divorcee Edith Rosa Francis Cowling in the Scots Church, Melbourne.  George - the only son now alive (except the absent Fred) is overseas, uninformed and apoplectic with rage .......

"The family" later say Edith Rosa is a widow with 2 daughters, the marriage record says she is a divorcee with no children.  She later claims that from the start she is snubbed by George and the good burghers of Toorak, so to alleviate her loneliness she takes off, bankrolled by JC, and has a good vtime in New York. 

Eventually the Stewart v Stewart divorce case in front of the Chief Justice of Victoria provides Melburnians with lots of  titillating press reports in September 1916. 

A sad contrast to the trauma his grandson-in-law is suffering on the Western Front in WWI.

Finally, Edith Rosa is apparently despatched "back" to England (with her formidable mum?!) with an annuity that has to be grudgingly funded from the dowries of the three married Stewart girls in England.  Luckily for them Edith does not have a long life.

1919 - James Stewart (83) dies in Southsea 

(next to Portsea / Portsmouth, England) whilst staying with his daughter May Watson.  Thought to be buried next to Amelia (somewhere) in Barnes.

The illustrated story of James Cooper Stewart

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1836 - 1919 (83) - updated regularly

Stewart Family Portraits - 1886

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the page also includes a photo of Mayor James and of Mayoress Amelia Stewart laying the foundation stone for the Prince's Bridge on 7 September 1886 (though it's only Mayor James who is clearly visible) and that is not all .......

"Edzell" the c1892 Stewart Palazzo

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at number 76 St Georges Road, Toorak (Melbourne, Australia) - one of the very few grand houses remaining, it was sold in late 2008 and hopefully will be beautifully restored. 

Descendants of James Cooper Stewart

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List of descendants from the "Roots Magic" data base compiled by Adrian Fletcher - afletch at paradoxplace dot com

1915 - Aldous-Sproule Marriage - Wednesday 28 July 1915.  Emmanuel Church Plymouth, Devon.

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Clare Aldous (24) marries Jimmy Sproule (27) as England moves into trench warfare in France, where doctor Jimmy was to spend virtually the entire 1914 - 18 World War I running Field Ambulance units, latterly serving the trenches of the Welsh (38th) Division on the Western Front.  He was mentioned in despatches and decorated for bravery under fire by both England and France.