Unnamed Keates/Keats

1868-1868

Buried on the 28^th February 1868, this stillborn child’s parents were William and Emma Keats (nee Whitehead) who were married in 1867 in Newbury.

The child’s family:

Father: William was born in 1843 in Newbury, Berkshire, the son of Henry and Jane Keats (formerly Appleford, nee Humphries) who were married on the 12^th December 1836 at St Giles, Reading, Berkshire. William died aged 35 on the 12^th April 1879, he was laid to rest in the Newtown Road Cemetery on the 18^th April (abode at time of death: 1, Magdala Terrace, Newbury)

Mother: Emma was born in 1849 in Newbury, the daughter of William and Hannah Whitehead (nee Lambert)

Siblings:

Harry William born 1869 (died aged 5, as Henry William, buried in the NRC 16^th December 1874, with brother Percy John)

Frederic Augustus born 1871

Percy John born 1873 (died aged 1, buried in the NRC on the 16^th December 1874, with brother Harry William)

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.

Mother in later life:

Emma remarried on the 12^th September 1880, in St Pancras, London. Her 2^nd husband was Joseph Appleford. (Joseph was a Polce Constable. He was the half-brother of her 1^st husband William Keats)

Child’s half-siblings:

Charles Humphries Appleford born 1881 in Camden Town London

Alice Emma Mary Appleford born 1883 in Battersea (died aged 3, buried 28^th 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

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.

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