Emmeline Mary Christy 1868-1945

• Subject: Miss Emeline Christy
• Date: before 1905
• Photographer: Kingham, Victoria Studio, Cauldwell St, Bedford
• Found: UK

This attractive young woman is possibly Emmeline Mary Christy born 1868 in Ashwell, Hertfordshire. I say ‘possibly’ because there is a marriage record for an Emmeline R Christy in 1910 although I cannot find a birth record for that Emmeline. There is one other birth record for an Emmeline Christie in 1856 but as that was in Tynemouth I think it’s too far away from Bedford to be her. As Emmeline Mary lived in Ashwell, which is just over the border from Bedford where the photo was taken, I’m presuming Emmeline Mary is the right one.

Emmeline was the daughter of Henry Abram Christy and Matilda Ann née Christy who were married by licence in St Pancras Middlesex in 1860:-

Births Sep 1868
CHRISTY  Emmeline Mary     Royston  3a 282

Here she is at home with her parents in 1891 in Ashwell, Hertfordshire:-

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 1101; Folio 25; Page 12; GSU roll: 6096211.

And with her widowed mother in 1901 in Ashwell:-

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 1292; Folio: 26; Page: 10.

I had no end of trouble finding Emmeline in the 1911 census but came up trumps when I searched for her leaving the birth year blank. She had taken 5 years off her age, obviously because she had married a man 16 years her junior!

Reference RG14PN17227 RG78PN1059 RD371 SD1 ED22 SN88

Marriages Sep 1905
Christy  Emmeline Mary    Pancras  1b 55   
TOTT  Arthur Christopher     Pancras  1b 55

After 5 years of marriage with no children Emmeline possibly died without issue but we’ll just have to wait for the 1921 census to find out! She died in 1945 and Arthur in 1953:-

Deaths Dec 1945
Tott  Emmeline M  77  Wigton  10b 620  

Deaths Jun 1953
Tott Arthur C 68 Wigton 1a 181

Emmeline’s parents both left wills when they died in 1897 & 1907:-

England & Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1861-1941

Deaths Jun 1897
Christy  Henry Abram  61  Royston  3a 257

Deaths Dec 1907
CHRISTY  Matilda Ann  73  Royston  3a 338

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to Emmeline Mary Christy please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
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Is this Joseph Gould Bullingham 1849-1910

Joseph Gould Bullingham was born in Bromsgrove Worcestershire in 1849, the son of Henry Bullingham & Sarah née Gould.

Births Mar 1849
Bullingham  Joseph Gould     Bromsgrove  18 246

JOSEPH GOULD BULLINGHAM
Christening:  07 FEB 1849   Bromsgrove, Worcester, England
Parents:
  Father:  HENRY BULLINGHAM
  Mother:  SARAH 

HENRY BULLINGHAM
Marriages:
  Spouse:  SARAH GOULD
  Marriage:  28 OCT 1846   Bromsgrove, Worcester, England
 
Marriages Dec 1846
Bullingham  Henry    Bromsgrove  18 312   
Gould  Sarah     Bromsgrove  18 312 

In 1880 Joseph married Mary Ann Rendle and they had a son named Francis Carl born soon after.

Marriages Mar 1880
Bullingham  Joseph Gould     Strand  1b 745   
RENDLE  Mary Ann     Strand  1b 745  

Joseph died in 1910 & Mary Ann in 1925:-

Deaths Dec 1910
Bullingham  Joseph G  61  Wokingham  2c 238

England & Wales National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1861-1941
Bullingham Mary Ann of 46 Eastern-avenue Reading widow died 13 Jun 1925 Probate London 31 Jul to Francis Carl Bullingham farmer. Effects £4951 7s 9d.

Below are the various census entries for Joseph Gould from birth to death:-

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 2047; Folio: 75; Page: 24; GSU roll: 87456-87457.
1851 Census
Star & Garter Inn, High St, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Henry Bullingham head mar 26 innkeeper & farmer born Bromsgrove
Sarah wife mar 24 born Worcester Worcestershire
Gould son 2 born Bromsgrove
Ann dau 6m born Bromsgrove

Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 2113; Folio: 79; Page: 6; GSU roll: 542919.
1861 Census
Hanover St, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Henry Bullingham head mar 68 butcher & farmer born Bromsgrove
Elizabeth wife mar 64 shopkeeper (green groceer) born Inkberrow Worcestershire
Joseph G grson 12 scholar born Bromsgrove

Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 2119; Folio: 24; Page: 41; GSU roll: 831796.
1871 Census
8 Eton Place, Plymouth St Andrew, Devon
Joseph G Bullingham head unm 22 photographer born Bromsgrove
3 siblings & mother at home

Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 2197; Folio: 53; Page: 16; GSU roll: 1341529
1881 Census
7 Eton Place, Plymouth St Andrew, Devon
Joseph G Bullingham head mar 32 photographer employing 5 men, 4 women, 2 boys born Bromsgrove
Mary wife mar 30 born Plymouth Devon

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 1427; Folio 59; Page 4; GSU roll: 6096537.
1891 Census
Stebbing Park, Stebbing, Essex
Joseph G Bullingham head mar 42 farmer born Bromsgrove
Mary A wife mar 40 born Plymouth St Andrews Devon
Francis C son 9 scholar born Plymouth St Andrews Devon

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 1155; Folio: 117; Page: 10.
1901 Census
Hartley Court Farm, Shinfield, Berkshire
Joseph Bullingham head mar 52 farmer employer born Bromsgrove
Mary wife mar 50 born Weymouth Devon
Amelia Bullingham sister in law mar 46 born Preston Lancashire

Reference RG14PN6624 RG78PN328 RD122 SD1 ED11 SN73
1911 Census
Hartley Court Farm, Nr Reading
Francis Carl Bullingham head 30 mar farmer employer born Plymouth Devon
Ida Bullingham wife 30 mar 5 yrs 2 children 2 living born Somerset
Mary Ann Bullingham mther 60 widow independent income born Plymouth Devon
2 daughters Evelyn Mary 4 and Frances Kathleen 2 both born Wokingham Berkshire

Although his occupation is listed only as ‘farmer’ in the two census before his death it seems he was still practicing as a photographer in 1897 as I found mention of him having taken the photos of various people on this website here including the Countess of Essex.

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI
National Portrait Gallery

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Disclaimer

I originally thought this was a photo of J G Bullingham but in the course of my research I found that Joseph was also a photographer and at some stage was in business with William Heath. I can’t make up my mind about his name on the back of the photo either, is it finely hand written or is it a stamp made from his signature? So that leaves the question as to whether this is a photo of James Gould Bullingham or just a photograph taken by him of someone unknown? I would have thought if it meant he was the photographer then it should say ‘photographer’ and not just ‘photo’.

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to Joseph Gould Bullingham please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto either a family member or someone interested in Heritage Photography. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
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May Charlotte A Sproule 1862-1945

• Subject: May or Mary Sproule
• Date: Unknown
• Photographer: Lambert, 82 Milsom St, Bath
• Found: UK

Marriages Sep 1899
Hess  George Ralph     Marylebone  1a 1460   
Sproule  Mary Charlotte A     Marylebone  1a 1460

May (or Mary) is proving to be an enigma to find in any of the census before she was married although she is at home with George in the 1901 & 1911 census:-

Reference RG14PN115 RG78PN4 RD2 SD1 ED28 SN99
1911 Census
4 Harrington Court, Sth Kensington, London
George Hess head 54 mar stock jobber employer born Liverpool
May Hess wife 48 mar 11 years no children born Bath, Somerset

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 12; Folio: 23; Page: 38.
1901 Census
32 Newton Rd, Paddington, London
George Hess head mar 44 stock & share dealer born Liverpool
Mary Hess wife mar 38 born Somerset

As May/Mary didn’t have any children there will be no descendants to claim this lovely photograph of her but as you can see there is at least one child of one of her older brothers in the 1881 census so hopefully there are more generations who are still living.

Unfortunately there is no birth registration listed on FreeBMD for a May or Mary Charlotte A Sproule and this is where it gets murky as to what her given name was. From her age in the above census she was born about 1862 in Bath and as you will see from the following census entries she is listed variously as May or Mary:-

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 2873; Folio 118; Page 5; GSU roll: 6097983.
1891 Census
12 Rock Park, Bebington, Birkenhead, Cheshire
Margaret Ellen Sproule head wid 63 living on own means born Horling Kent
Lalla Sproule dau unm 40 born Bath Somerset
May Sproule 28 teacher of English born Bath Somerset
Elsie Wilcox visitor mar 40  born Bath Somerset

Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 2434; Folio: 129; Page: 1; GSU roll: 1341586.
1881 Census
2 Lynvale Villas, Lyncombe & Widcombe, Somerset
James Sproule M.A. head mar 68 vicar of St Mark's Lyncombe parish born Dublin Ireland
Margaret Sproule wife mar 53 born Hawling Kent
Kate Sproule dau unm 30 born Bath Somerset
Margaret Sproule dau unm 27 born Bath Somerset
May Sproule dau unm 18  born Bath Somerset
Daisy Sproule grdau 8 scholar born Holborn Middlesex

Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 2484; Folio: 55; Page: 44; GSU roll: 835195.
1871 Census
2 Lynvale Villas, Lyncombe & Widcombe, Somerset
James Wm Sproule head mar 58 vicar of Lyncombe Bath born Dublin Ireland
Margaret En Sproule wife mar 43 born Habling Kent
Edward Banks Sproule son mar 22 medical student born Bath Somerset
Eliza A Sproule dau unm 20 born Bath Somerset
James W B Sproule son unm 19 scholar born Bath Somerset
Margaret A Sproule dau unm 17 born Bath Somerset
Adela C A Sproule dau unm 13 born Bath Somerset
Mary Ernesta Sproule dau unm 8  born Bath Somerset

It looks like the census enumerator mixed up the names of the two youngest daughters and they probably should have been listed as - Adela Ernesta aged 13 & Mary C A Sproule aged 8.

Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 1689; Folio: 10; Page: 13; GSU roll: 542851.
1861 Census
3 Widcombe Cres, Widcombe, Somerset
James W Sprowle head mar 48 vicar of Lyncombe Bath born Dublin Ireland
Elizabeth E Sproule dau 10 born Bath Somerset
James W B Sproule son 9 born Bath Somerset
Margaret A Sproule dau 7 born Bath Somerset
Frederick Sproule son 5 born Bath Somerset
Ada E Sproule dau 3 born Bath Somerset

Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 749; Folio: 73; Page: 25; GSU roll: 542695.
1861 Census
Margaret Ellen Sproule sister mar 33 clergyman's wife born Halling Kent
staying with brother Wm J Banks 38 landed proprietor born Swansea Glamorgan

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1942; Folio: 146; Page: 21; GSU roll: 221101.
1851 Census
3 Widcombe Cres, Lyncombe & Widcombe, Somerset
James W Sproule head mar 37 curate of Lyncombe Bath born Ireland
Margaret E Sproule wife mar 23 born Haling Kent
Edward B Sproule son 2 born Bath Somerset
Eliza A Sproule dau 9 mths born Bath Somerset

Marriages Jun 1848
Banks  Margaret Ellen    Eastry  5 203   
Sproule  James William     Eastry  5 203  

Then I found a few Sproule probates that more or less confirmed most of the above:-

UK National Probate Calendar 1861-1941

Sproule The Reverend James William 29 June. The will of the Reverend James William Sproule late of 2 Lyn-Vale-villas in the Parish of Lyncombe and Widcombe in the City and Borough of Bath Clerk who died 5 May 1881 at 2 Lyn-Vale-villas was proved at Bristol by Margaret Ellen Sproule Widow the Relict and Eliza Amelia Sproule Spinster the daughter both of 2 Lyn-Vale-villas and George Edgar Lawrence of 31 Claverton-street in the City and Borough of Bath Surgeon the Executors. Personal Estate £425 15s.

Sproule Margaret Ellen of 27 West-park Whiteladies-road Clifton Bristol widow died 27 Sep 1904 Probate London 23 Nov to Eliza Amelia Sproule spinster and William John Willcox architect Effects £498 14s 10d.

Sproule Eliza Amelia of Strand House Ringmore Teignmouth Devonshire spinster died 6 Aug 1931 Probate Exeter 3 Sep to Margaret Annie Sproule and Ada Ellen Ernesta Sproule spinsters. Effects £2943 3s 4d.

Sproule Margaret Annie of Strand House Ringmore Teignmouth Devonshire spinster died 4 Nov 1933 Probate Exeter 30 Nov to Ada Ellen Ernesta Sproule spinster. Effects £4877 17s.

Hess George Ralph of Pavillon Miraniar Mentone Alpes Maritimes France died 23 Jan 1924 Probate London 12 May to Mary Charlotte Annie Hess widow. Effects £2938 18s 8d.

May/Mary’s husband, George Ralph Hess, died in France in 1924, she herself died in 1945 in the UK so no will found for her as yet (the Probate Calendar only goes up to 1941):-

Deaths Mar 1945
Hess  Mary C A  82  Newton A  5b 226

References:
ancestry.com
FreeBMD
IGI

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If anyone knows anything about or is connected to May/Mary Charlotte A Sproule please do contact me, I would love to pass this photo onto a family member. Contact by email is preferable but if you are going to leave a comment please don’t forget to include your email address.

Dawn Scotting
pandora@kc.net.nz