Jane Veale

1873-1903

Jane was born in 1873 (birth registered in Holborn). She was baptised on the 11^th May 1873 at St Silas, Pentonville, Islington, Middlesex, the daughter of William (a Postman) and Sarah Ann Ryner Graham (nee Ferrell), of 48 Henry Place.

Her father William was born on the 24^th July 1839 in Crewkerne, Somerset, he was baptised on the 1^st September 1839 at St Bartholomew, Crewkerne, the son of Henry (a Mason) and Mary Graham

Her mother Sarah was born c1840 in Teynham, Kent, the daughter of George and Eleanor Ferrell (nee Dives) who were married on the 26^th September 1838 in Teynham.

Jane’s parents were married on the 9^th September 1861 at St Mark, Kensington Park Road, Lambeth.

They also had the following children:

Henry born 1862 in Camberwell

William born c1864 in Clerkenwell (baptised with Jane)

Mary Ann baptised 24^th December 1865 in Pentonville

Margaret born c1866 in Clerkenwell

George baptised 23^rd May 1869 at St Silas

Frank born 5^th April, baptised 23^rd April 1871 at St Silas

The 1871 census records her father William (31) as a Letter Carrier living at 40 Henry Street, Pentonville, London, with his wife Sarah (31) and their children Henry (8), William (7), Margaret (5) and George (2).

Jane’s father William died aged 36 on the 29th March 1876 at home (40 Henry Street.) He was buried on the 2^nd April in Islington

In 1881 Jane (7) was still living at 40 Henry Steet, Pentonville, with her widowed mother Sarah (41), a Laundress and her brothers Henry (18), a Pupil Teacher and Frank (10) (surname recorded as Gratham on ancestry)

Her mother Sarah Ann R Graham died aged 47, in 1886 in Islington. She was buried on the 28^th August in Islington

The 1891 census records Jane (17) living at 10 Colebrooke Row, Islington with her brother Henry (27), a Teacher

Jane married in 1893

Marriage details:

Place: St. Saviour, Hoxton, Hyde Road, Hackney

Date: 9^th July 1893

Groom: William Veale, aged 23, bachelor, occupation, Policeman, abode, 38 Renfrew Road, Lambeth

Bride: Jane Graham, aged 20, spinster, abode, 59 Rushton Street

Fathers: Henry Veale, a Painter and William Graham, a Postman

Witnesses: Henry Graham and William Graham

(William Veale was born in 1869 in Newbury, Berkshire, the son of Henry and Jeanette Veale (nee Norton, no marriage found for this couple yet))

William and Jane had the following children:
Florence May, born 1894 in Lambeth (died aged 1 in 1896 buried 16^th February in Southwark)

Eva Alice Annie, born 4^th March 1896, baptised 22^nd March 1896 at St Mary, Newington, Southwalk

Winifred Elsie, born 16^th September 1897, baptised 3^rd October 1897 at St Mary Newington, Southwalk

William, born c1900 in Southwark (died soon after birth in 1900 in Southwark)

Both Eva and Winifred’s baptism records record the family living at 7 Holyoake Road.

The 1901 census records Jane (27) living a 7 Holyoake Road, Lambeth, with William (27), a Policeman, their daughters Eva (5), Winifred (3) and her brother Frank Graham (29), a Time Keeper at a Soap Factory.

Jane died aged 30 in 1903 in Newbury, she was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery of the 2^nd November.

The 1911 census records William (41) as a Metropolitan Police Officer, living at Vermont, Westmead Road, Sutton, Carshalton, Surrey with his daughter Winifred (13). His daughter Eva (15) was working as a Housemaid for a Solicitor, Charles Edward Pothecary (56) and his family, at Ettrick Lodge, Albion Road Sutton, Carshalton, Surrey.

William died aged 46 in 1916, in Newbury.

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