Mr Samuel Ely

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Samuel was born in 1863 in Great Thurlow.

• Birth Notes

  In the 1871 census he was living in Chadwell, Barking aged 8, so posible he was born there.

Samuel's father was Mr Samuel Ely and his mother was Mrs Hannah Rush.  His paternal grandparents were Mr Joseph Ely and Mrs Lucy Starling. He had a brother and a sister, named Walter and Susan.  He was the youngest of the three children.  He died at the age of 81 on January 1st, 1944.

• General Notes

  Born at Thurlow, Suffolk.  In 1871 cencus he was in Hainhault
  
  In 1881 aged 18, he was boarding with the Boyles family, a boot maker.  9, Church Street, Lee, Lewisham.
  Samuel's sister Susan married James Boyles.
  
  Married on:  19 February 1882
  At:  Bethnal Green - Church of St. James the great
  
  1881 census of Kent
  9 Church St Lee London
  
  The Boyles household
  Samuel Ely 18yrs Boarder domestic servant b.Thurlow Suffolk
  
  He married at the age of 20 (1863) at Bethnal Green .
  
  They then moved to Upminster, where Ethel A. Was born. (1883).
  By 1884, they had moved to Balham, when Harold G was born, and three years later.
  In 1887, May E was born.
  By 1890, they had moved to the Grove Estate in Nettlebed, where Samuel was employed as head gardener at Joyce Grove (Joyce Grove Cottages no.2 src 1901 census). (owned by a Mr. Gardener). Here Samuel Charles was born (father of Kenneth.) Jessica was born in 1897. Around 1907.
  The family moved to Lavington House (now Seaford College), W.Sussex, where Samuel worked for Lord Woolavington.
  
  In 1939 (age 76) he was with May (daughter) and Aaron at 2, Pineview Cottages, Grassmere Rd, Lightwater, a widower.
  
  He is buried next to Eliza and one of his daughters Jessica, (who died at the age of 13, in 1910) at the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, Itchingfield, Sussex. Died age 82.
  
  Note from Tim Challinor:
  
  

Details of Samuel's family with Mrs Eliza Ellen Rutledge