Percy John Keats
1873-1874
Percy was born in Newbury, Berkshire, the son of William and Emma Keats (nee Whitehead) who were married on the 19th July 1867, at St Nicolas Church, Newbury.
Percy died aged 1 in 1874, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 16th December with his older brother Harry.
Percy’s family:
His father William was a Stonemason. He was born in 1843 in Newbury, Berkshire, the son of Henry and Jane Keats (formerly Appleford, nee Humphries) who were married on the 12th December 1836 at St Giles, Reading, Berkshire.
His mother Emma was born in 1849 in Newbury, the daughter of William and Hannah Whitehead (nee Lambert).
William and Emma also had the following four children:
A stillborn child, buried in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 28th February 1868
Harry William born 1869 (died aged 5, in 1874, laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 16th December with Percy).
Frederic Augustus born 1871
Ernest William born 1876
The 1871 census records William as Henry Keats (27), a Stonemason, Emma (22) and Harry William (1), living at 2, Shaw Road, Speenhamland, Berkshire.
Harry’s father William died aged 35 on the 12th April 1879, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 18th April (abode at time of death: 1, Magdala Terrace, Newbury)
His mother Emma remarried on the 12th September 1880, in St Pancras, London. Her 2nd husband was Joseph Appleford. (Joseph was the half-brother of her 1st husband William Keats)
Joseph and Emma had the following children: Charles Humphries Appleford born 1881 in Camden Town London
Alice Emma Mary Appleford born 1883 in Battersea (died aged 3, buried 28th April 1887 in Old Brompton)
Hannah Ada Appleford born in 1885 in Battersea (aka Ada Hannah)
Phoebe Elizabeth Appleford born c1888 in Battersea
Joseph Francis Appleford born 1891 in Battersea
Joseph a Police Constable, (later, an Inspector) he retired in 1890.
In 1901 Joseph (70) was recorded as a Shopkeeper living in Union Road, Clapham, with Emma (52), their children, Hannah (15), Phoebe (13), Joseph (9), Frederic Keats (28) and Ernest Keats (24).
Emma was widowed in 1906, Joseph died aged 74, in London
In 1911 Emma was recorded in the Brompton (Consumption) Hospital in Fulham Road, Kensington, staying with her brother and sister-in-law Henry (a Steward at the hospital) and Maria Whitehead.
Her daughter Ada Hannah married her cousin Charles Wallace Whitehead (son of Henry and Maria) in 1909. The emigrated in 1911.
Emma emigrated in 1913 to live with Charles and Ada Whitehead.
Emma died in California, USA in 1933
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