See also

Family of Richard Greenwood Benney and Maria Attfield

  • Husband:

  • Richard Greenwood Benney (c. 1823-1868)

  • Wife:

  • Maria Attfield (1822-1855)

  • Children:

  • Albert William Attfield Benny (1851-1924)

  • Marriage:

  • 12 Mar 1849

  • Parish Church, Chertsey

  • Witnesses:

  • 12 Mar 1849

  • George Wheeler, Anne Attfield

Husband: Richard Greenwood Benney

  • Name:

  • Richard Greenwood Benney

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • William Benney ( -bef1841)

  • Mother:

  • Hannah Greenwood (1796- )

  • Note (shared):

  • 1841: Shoemaker's apprentice, North Bodmin Hill, Lostwithiel, Cornwall

    1851: Boot & shoemaker, 2 Chatham St, Reading

    1861: Boot & shoemaker, 28 Bath St, Plymouth St Andrew, Devon

  • Birth:

  • c. 1823

  • St Mabyn, Cornwall

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 17-18)

  • Shoemaker's apprentice, North Bodmin Hill, Lostwithiel, Cornwall

  • Occupation:

  • 1849 (age 25-26)

  • -; Shoemaker, Chertsey (on marriage cert.)

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 27-28)

  • Boot & shoemaker, 2 Chatham St, Reading (lodger, married; "Benney")

  • Census (3):

  • 1861 (age 37-38)

  • Boot & shoemaker, 28 Bath St, Plymouth St Andrew, Devon

  • Death fact:

  • 1868 (age 44-45)

  • 1868 Dec Qtr, Bodmin, 5c/67 (aged 45)

  • Death:

  • 1868 (age 44-45)

  • Bodmin, Cornwall

Wife: Maria Attfield

  • Name:

  • Maria Attfield

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Richard Attfield (1787-1868)

  • Mother:

  • Elizabeth Ashenden (1780-1852)

  • Birth:

  • 6 Nov 1822

  • Chertsey, Surrey

  • Baptism:

  • 13 Dec 1822 (age 0)

  • Chertsey, Surrey

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 18-19)

  • Living with parents, unmarried

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 28-29)

  • Wife in household

  • Death fact:

  • 1855 (age 32-33)

  • 1855 Mar Qtr, Stoke Damerel, 5b/326

  • Death:

  • 3 Feb 1855 (age 32)

  • Gloucester Street, Devonport, Devon

  • Cause of death (Facts Pg):

  • 3 Feb 1855 (age 32)

  • Cause of death: cutting her throat while insane

Child 1: Albert William Attfield Benny

  • Name:

  • Albert William Attfield Benny

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Emma Mary Smale (1851-1933)

  • Children:

  • Sarah Jane Benny (1872-1950)

  •  

  • Emma Elizabeth Benny (1876-1954)

  •  

  • Lilian Maud Benny (1877- )

  •  

  • Ernest Theodore Benny (1883- )

  •  

  • Doris Mary Hart (1905- )

  • Note 1 (shared):

  • 1881: Carpenter & joiner, 28 Gonsalva Rd, Battersea, Surrey

    1901: Carpenter, 30 Newlands Terrace, Nine Elms, Battersea, Surrey

  • Note 2:

  • BENNY Albert William Attfield of 22a Grenfell Road Mitcham Surrey died 30 August 1924 at Streatham Road Mitcham. Probate London 20 September to Sarah Jane Coleman (wife of George Edward Coleman). Effects £165 18s. 2d.

  • Birth:

  • 1851

  • Reading, Berkshire

  • Birth fact:

  • 1851 (age 0)

  • 1851 Dec Qtr, Reading, 6/263 ("Albert William Hatfield Benney")

  • Census (1):

  • 1861 (age 9-10)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1871 (age 19-20)

  • Carpenter (apprentice), living with stepmother, unmarried

  • Occupation (1):

  • 17 Dec 1876 (age 24-25)

  • Joiner in HM Dockyard, 7 Morice Square, Devonport (on daughter Emma's birth cert.)

  • Census (3):

  • 1881 (age 29-30)

  • Carpenter & joiner, 28 Gonsalva Rd, Battersea, Surrey

  • Census (4):

  • 1891 (age 39-40)

  • Carpenter, 78 Robertson St, Battersea, Surrey

  • Census (5):

  • 1901 (age 49-50)

  • Carpenter, 30 Newlands Terrace, Nine Elms, Battersea, Surrey

  • Occupation (2):

  • 1903 (age 51-52)

  • Carpenter (on daughter Lilian's marriage cert.)

  • Census (6):

  • 1911 (age 59-60)

  • Carpenter, Dunts Hill Road, Wandsworth

  • Death:

  • 30 Aug 1924 (age 72-73)

  • Streatham Road, Mitcham, Surrey

Note on Husband: Richard Greenwood Benney - shared note

1841: Shoemaker's apprentice, North Bodmin Hill, Lostwithiel, Cornwall

1851: Boot & shoemaker, 2 Chatham St, Reading

1861: Boot & shoemaker, 28 Bath St, Plymouth St Andrew, Devon

Note on Child 1: Albert William Attfield Benny (1) - shared note

1881: Carpenter & joiner, 28 Gonsalva Rd, Battersea, Surrey

1901: Carpenter, 30 Newlands Terrace, Nine Elms, Battersea, Surrey

Note on Child 1: Albert William Attfield Benny (2)

BENNY Albert William Attfield of 22a Grenfell Road Mitcham Surrey died 30 August 1924 at Streatham Road Mitcham. Probate London 20 September to Sarah Jane Coleman (wife of George Edward Coleman). Effects £165 18s. 2d.