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Hi Tammy Emily & Frederick fostered/adopted/looked after my husbands grandmother and was at her birth ... are you a Townsend ? We have been trying to find out about my husbands grandmothers mother for a while so will be interested to know what you know about the family Regards Sue

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Does anyone have an update on this please? My great grandparents were Emily and Fredrick Townsend and my grandmother used to say that her parents fostered children which fits in with what's been said on here. Thanks

thanks to all for your help

Catherine Sorry the address was 20a Fenchurch Street Folkestone the home of Emily Townsend who was present at the birth !!! and who Doris lived with til she got married

Baptism (Find My Past)
Day:5
Month:Feb
Year:1905
Forename(s):Doris Emily
Surname:Fuller
Father's Forename(s):
Mother's Forename(s):Ethel Louise
Mother's Surname:
Birth Day:25
Birth Month:Nov
Birth Year:1904
Place:Folkestone, SS Mary & Eanswith
County:Kent
Archive Reference:U3/88/1/11
Year Range:1900-1915
Record source:Canterbury Baptisms - Transcripts
Data provider:Canterbury Cathedral Archives
(abode as, 20a Fenchurch Street)

Chris :)

(notes Residence on below Marriage for Frederick, 20a Fenchurch Street, for Emily, 24, Fenchurch Street)

Day:27
Month:May
Year:1900
Groom's Forename(s):Frederick Charles
Groom's Surname:Townsend
Groom's Age:22
Groom's Parish:
Bride's Forename(s):Emily Elizabeth
Bride's Surname:Bliss
Bride's Age:20
Bride's Parish:
Groom's Father's Forename(s):William
Groom's Father's Surname:Townsend
Bride's Father's Forename(s):Abraham
Bride's Father's Surname:Bliss
Page:136
Place:Folkestone, SS Mary & Eanswith
County:Kent

1901
TOWNSEND, Frederick C Head Married M 24 1877 (Mariner)
Sawston, Cambridgeshire
TOWNSEND, Emily E Wife Married F 21 1880
Folkestone, Kent
Piece: 846
Folio: 88
Page: 30
Registration District: Elham
Civil Parish: Folkestone
Municipal Borough:
Address: 24, Gt Fenchurch Street, Folkestone
County: Kent

1901 (20a)
VALENTINE, Elizabeth Head Widow F 68 1833 Laundress
Dover, Kent
Piece: 846
Folio: 88
Page: 30
Registration District: Elham
Civil Parish: Folkestone
Municipal Borough:
Address: 20a, Gt Fenchurch Street, Folkestone
County: Kent

Deaths Sep 1925 (>99%)
Fuller Emily A 73 Chertsey 2a 73

1911 England Census about Emily Anne Fuller
Name: Emily Anne Fuller
Age in 1911: 57
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Gosport, Hampshire, England
Civil Parish: Walton Upon Thames
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England
Street Address: Cambridge Road, Walton On Thames
Marital Status: Widowed
Occupation: Laundress
Registration District: Chertsey
Registration District Number: 32
Sub-registration District: Walton
ED, institution, or vessel: 3
Household Schedule Number: 247
Piece: 2984
Household Members:
Name Age
Emily Anne Fuller 57
Evelyn Noton Fuller 22
Gladys Emly Grace Goodenough 12 - grand-daughter
Harold Alfred Carr Goodenough 5 - grandson

Continuring with speculation re Emily & Harry;

Deaths Sep 1891 (>99%)
Fuller Harry 46 Chertsey 2a 25

Walton on Thames is in Chertsey reg district.

Another possible child?:-

Births Sep 1911 (>99%)
Roehll Ethel H Fuller Wandsworth 1d 1320

The district Wandsworth spans the boundaries of the counties of Greater London, London and Surrey

If Emily Ann was Ethel's nmother:


1901 England Census about Emily Fuller
Name: Emily Fuller
Age: 48
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Relation: Head
Gender: Female
Where born: Gosport, Hampshire, England

Civil Parish: Walton on Thames
Ecclesiastical parish: Walton on Thames St Mary
Town: Walton on Thames
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration District: Chertsey
Sub-registration District: Walton
ED, institution, or vessel: 2
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Schedule Number: 131
Piece: 587
Folio: 42
Page Number: 22
Household Members:
Name Age
Emily Fuller 48
William Fuller 18
Florrie Fuller 14
Evelyn Fuller 12

She may have gone to stay with relatives when she gave birth to Doris. What was the address she gave on birth certicate?

???? (EDIT: Or maybe not - see above)

Deaths Jun 1887 (>99%)
Fuller Emily Ann 48 Brighton 2b 122


and maybe Ethel's brother???
Deaths Mar 1881 (>99%)
Fuller Harry 0 Rye 2b 3

Just maybe Ethel's parents??

Marriages Dec 1872 (>99%)
Fuller Harry Portsea 2b 740

Richardson Emily Ann Portsea 2b 740

EDIT:
Well, maybe not, in view of this census record. I would have assumed they had died, leaving Ethel with her aunt, but apparently not. (Maybe Ethel wasn't Harry's):

1891 England Census about Emily J Fuller
Name: Emily J Fuller
Age: 38
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Harry Fuller
Gender: Female
Where born: Gosport, Hampshire, England

Civil Parish: Walton
Ecclesiastical parish: Walton
Town: Walton
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

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Registration District: Chertsey
Sub-registration District: Walton
ED, institution, or vessel: 2
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 550
Folio: 30
Page Number: 14
Household Members:
Name Age
Harry Fuller 48
Emily J Fuller 38 - I know the middle initial's different, but YOB, POB, and husband all fit.
Kate A Fuller 12
Maud G Fuller 11
Mabel O Fuller 10
Wm Hy Fuller 8
Florrie C Fuller 5
Evelina N Fuller 1

West Wittering is a small village and civil parish, on the Manhood Peninsula, in the Chichester district of West Sussex.

????

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
about Ethel Louise Fuller Name: Ethel Louise Fuller
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1877
Registration District: Westhampnett
Inferred County: Sussex
Volume: 2b
Page: 343

Marriages Sep 1871
Lamming Samuel Portsea 2b 740

Richardson Grace Portsea 2b 740

???? West Wittering is in Westhampnett reg district,as in birth posted on page 1:


1881 England Census about Ethel Fuller
Name: Ethel Fuller
Age: 4
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1877
Relationship to Head: Niece
Gender: Female
Where born: West Wittering, Sussex, England

Civil Parish: Portsmouth
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England

Street Address: 59 Broad St
Education:

Employment status:

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Occupation: Scholar

Registration District: Portsea Island
Sub-registration District: Portsmouth Town
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 1150
Folio: 7
Page Number: 9
Household Members:
Name Age
Samuel Lamming 40
Grace Lamming 30 - born Gosport, Hants.
Grace Lamming 9
Alice Lamming 7
Emily Lamming 5
Ada Lamming 2
George Lamming
Ethel Fuller 4

Poor Consuelo!

Re Ethel -
There was time for her to have been promoted from laundrymaid to chambermaid between 1901 and 1904 when she became pregnant (one of those male servants at Blenheim, maybe?).

Or maybe she had to leave Blenheim, and got another position.

?????

1891 England Census
about Ethel Fuller Name: Ethel Fuller
Age: 14
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1877
Relation: Servant
Gender: Female
Where born: Chichester, Sussex, England

Civil Parish: Walton
Ecclesiastical parish: Walton
Town: Walton
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration District: Chertsey
Sub-registration District: Walton
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 550
Folio: 4
Page Number: 1
Household Members: Name Age
Thomas J C McCowan 55
Florence L McCowan 28
Emily McCowan 21
Annie Williams 25
Ellen Daly 20
Ethel Fuller 14 (Under (Dom) Housemaid)

Interesting to read about Consuelo Marlborough

"Consuelo Vanderbilt was married at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, New York City, New York, on 6 November 1895, to Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough (1871–1934).[15] They had two sons, John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford (who became 10th Duke of Marlborough) and Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill.[16]"

"Consuelo’s marriage was particularly unhappy. Blackmailed by her social-climbing mother into giving up the man she loved in favour of the duke, she was horrified when, on her honeymoon, the duke told her that he ‘never wanted to marry her either’. He was in love with someone else, but needed Consuelo’s fortune to keep Blenheim going. Consuelo did her duty and produced two sons, ‘an heir and a spare’, but the couple were never happy and began to live apart as soon as they decently could. They were eventually divorced in 1921. "