Samuel Ely

Comments: Born at Thurlow, Suffolk

Married on:  19 February 1882
At:  Bethnal Green - Church of St. James the great

A Gardener and domestic servant for his working life, he lived in Thurlow with his parents as a child.

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.
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: