See also

Family of Francis John Attfield and Rebecca Carter

Husband: Francis John Attfield

  • Name:

  • Francis John Attfield

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • John Attfield (1796-1873)

  • Mother:

  • Ann Lines (1800-1862)

  • Note 1:

  • Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, 16.5.1854.

    Francis John Attfield. sued as F. J. Attfield, and as Frederick John Attfield, formerly of No. 6, Foxley-terrace, Earls-court, Kensington, Builder, then of No. 40, Kensington-place, Notting-hill, and late of No. 2, Waterloo-place, Shepherds-bush, all in Middlesex, and whilst at two last places carrying on business at Starch-green, Hammersmith, Middlesex, in partnership with Barnabus Jennings, and John Rayson, as Dealers in Gravel, and Brickmakers, under the style of Francis John Attfield.

    London Gazette, 2.5.1854, p.1395

  • Note 2:

  • Further activity in Raphael Street [Kensington] took place in 1852/3 with the erection of a row of five shops (which became Nos 33/37) on the shallow plots opposite the Pakenham Tavern. They were the work of a Kensington builder, Francis J. Attfield. Another builder, George Day of New Kent Road, was responsible for the remainder of the south side of the street, built up in 1854/5, and Nos 10 and 11 on the north side, built in 1854. Both Attfield and Day were presumably working under contract not as speculators, for in August 1853 all their houses ... were leased directly by Raphael's heirs to a West End solicitor, Frederick William Dolman ....

    Day's houses ... were built close to the pavement edge, with gratings to light the basements or cellars. They had stuccoed window surrounds and roundarched entrances. The Pakenham Tavern was large and showy; its curved and fully stuccoed façade was echoed across the road by Attfield's shops.

    Source: 'Knightsbridge Green Area: Raphael Street', Survey of London: volume 45: Knightsbridge (2000), pp. 91-2. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45911

    The source also includes a photograph of one of Attfield's buildings.

  • Note 3:

  • 6 February 1878. The Will of Francis John Attfield late of 15 Brandram Road Lee in the County of Kent who died 17 August 1877 at 15 Brandram Road was proved at the Principal Registry by Rebecca Attfield of 15 Brandram Road Widow the Relict the sole Executrix. Personal Estate under £600.

  • Birth:

  • 14 Jan 1828

  • Whetstone, Friern Barnet, Middlesex

  • Baptism:

  • 10 Feb 1828 (age 0)

  • St James the Great, Friern Barnet, Middlesex

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 12-13)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 22-23)

  • Census Enumerator for Whetstone, Friern Barnet

  • Census (3):

  • 1851 (age 22-23)

  • Living with parents at census, unmarried

  • Occupation (1):

  • 15 Apr 1854 (age 26)

  • Builder & brickmaker, 2 Waterloo Place, Shepherds Bush (in debtors prison, L.Gazette, 18.4.1854)

  • Occupation (2):

  • 1855 (age 26-27)

  • Brickmaker & builder, 2 Portland St, Wandsworth Road, Surrey (on marriage cert.)

  • Occupation (3):

  • 18 Aug 1857 (age 29)

  • Gas fitter, 1 Murray Terrace, Londonderry Road, Camberwell (on daughter Laura's birth cert.)

  • Census (4):

  • 1861 (age 32-33)

  • Plumber & painter, Church Lane, Lee

  • Residence:

  • 1861 (age 32-33)

  • Dacre Place, Lee, Kent

  • Occupation (4):

  • 1861 (age 32-33)

  • Plumber (A.C.Attfield's birth certificate)

  • Census (5):

  • 1871 (age 42-43)

  • General contractor, 15 Brandram Road, Lee

  • Death fact:

  • 1877 (age 48-49)

  • 1877 Sept Qtr, Lewisham, 1d/500 (listed as Francis Joseph)

  • Occupation (5):

  • 17 Aug 1877 (age 49)

  • Builder and decorator (on death cert.)

  • Death:

  • 17 Aug 1877 (age 49)

  • 15 Brandram Road, Lee, Kent

  • Cause of death (Facts Pg):

  • 17 Aug 1877 (age 49)

  • Inflammation of brain, congestion of lungs

Wife: Rebecca Carter

  • Name:

  • Rebecca Carter

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • George Carter (1792-1875)

  • Mother:

  • Margaret Wilkinson (c. 1797-1851)

  • Birth:

  • Nov 1829

  • North Mimms, Hertfordshire

  • Baptism:

  • 22 Nov 1829 (age 0)

  • North Mimms, Hertfordshire

  • Census (1):

  • 1841 (age 11-12)

  • Living with father

  • Census (2):

  • 1851 (age 21-22)

  • House servant, living with parents

  • Residence:

  • 1855 (age 25-26)

  • 12 Portland St, Wandsworth Road (on marriage cert.)

  • Census (3):

  • 1871 (age 41-42)

  • Wife in household

  • Census (4):

  • 1881 (age 51-52)

  • Plumber & decorator, 15 Brandram Road, Lee

  • Census (5):

  • 1901 (age 71-72)

  • 72 South St, Greenwich

  • Census (6):

  • 1901 (age 71-72)

  • Living with daughter Alice & her 2nd husband John Graves

  • Death fact (1):

  • 1909 (age 79-80)

  • 1909 Jun Qtr, Lewisham, 1d/564 (aged 79)

  • Death fact (2):

  • 19 Apr 1909 (age 79)

  • Cause of death: Senile decay & heart failure (J.W.Graves son-in-law in attendance)

  • Death:

  • 19 Apr 1909 (age 79)

  • 32 Rosenthal Road, Catford

Child 1: Alice Rebecca Attfield

  • Name:

  • Alice Rebecca Attfield

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse (1):

  • William John Newell (1853-1896)

  • Spouse (2):

  • John William Graves (1863-1928)

  • Children:

  • Elizabeth Carter Newell (1876-1968)

  •  

  • Alfred Attfield Newell (1877-1948)

  •  

  • Edith Alice Newell (1881-1956)

  •  

  • Arthur Charles Newell (1882-1953)

  • Note:

  • GRAVES Alice Rebecca of 90 Catford Hill Catford Kent (wife of John William Graves) died 7 September 1913; Probate London 4 November to the said John William Graves civil servant. Effects £1528 18s. 3d.

  • Birth:

  • c. 1853

  • Kensington, Middlesex

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 17-18)

  • Pupil at boarding school in Wandsworth (ladies' school, 3 The Elms)

  • Census (2):

  • 1871 (age 17-18)

  • Birthplace shown as Camberwell, Surrey

  • Will:

  • 1 May 1896 (age 42-43)

  • Executor to husband's will

  • Death fact:

  • 1913 (age 59-60)

  • 1913 Sep Qtr, Lewisham, 1d/1018 (aged 60)

  • Death:

  • 7 Sep 1913 (age 59-60)

  • 90 Catford Hill, Catford

  • Cause of death (Facts Pg):

  • 7 Sep 1913 (age 59-60)

  • Coma due to haemorrhage through being knocked down by a van while attempting to cross the road.

Child 2: Frank Edwin Attfield

  • Name:

  • Frank Edwin Attfield

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Emma Alice Cater (1853-1949)

  • Children:

  • Edwin Frank Attfield (1877-1966)

  •  

  • Annie Rebecca Attfield (1879-1942)

  •  

  • William Cater Attfield (1880-1958)

  •  

  • Alice Emma Attfield (1882-1967)

  •  

  • Elizabeth May Attfield (1883-1978)

  •  

  • Florence Eliza Attfield (1885-1893)

  •  

  • Lillie Victoria Attfield (1887-1979)

  •  

  • Rose Minnie Attfield (1889-1975)

  •  

  • Ethel Laura Attfield (1894-1972)

  • Note:

  • ATTFIELD Frank Edwin of 14 Southbrook Road Lee London died 23 May 1938; Probate London 11 July to Edwin Frank Attfield general dealer and William Cater Attfield oil and colourman. Effects £15072 7s 4d.

  • Birth:

  • 9 Aug 1854

  • 17 Warwick Road, Brompton, Middlesex

  • Birth fact:

  • 1854 (age 0)

  • Birth: 1854 Sep Qtr, Kensington, 1a/78

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 16-17)

  • Census: Assistant to father as general contractor

  • Census (2):

  • 1871 (age 16-17)

  • Living with parents

  • Residence (1):

  • 17 Aug 1877 (age 23)

  • 1 Dacre St, Lee (in attendance at death of father)

  • Census (3):

  • 1881 (age 26-27)

  • Oil & Colourman, High Road, Lee

  • Residence (2):

  • 1891 (age 36-37)

  • Kelly's Directory: 183 Lee High Road

  • Census (4):

  • 1891 (age 36-37)

  • Oilman, Aislibie Road, Lee, Kent

  • Census (5):

  • 1901 (age 46-47)

  • Oil & Colourman, 247 Lee High Road

  • Census (6):

  • 1911 (age 56-57)

  • Retired oil and colour man, 247 High Road, Lee, Kent

  • Census (7):

  • 1921 (age 66-67)

  • Oil & colourman (retired), 14 Southbrook Road, Lee, Lewisham

  • Death fact (1):

  • 1938 (age 83-84)

  • Death: Jun Qtr, Lewisham, 1d/890 (aged 83)

  • Death fact (2):

  • 1938 (age 83-84)

  • Cause of death: Ia) heart failure, Ib) influenza, II) fibroid heart

  • Death:

  • 23 May 1938 (age 83)

  • 14 Southbrook Road, Lee, Kent

  • Will:

  • 11 Jul 1938 (age 83)

  • Probate London to Edwin Frank Attfield & William Cater Attfield (£15072)

Child 3: Annie Winifred Attfield

  • Name:

  • Annie Winifred Attfield

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 1856

  • Southwark, Surrey

  • Birth fact:

  • 1856 (age 0)

  • 1856 S Quarter in SAINT GEORGE THE MARTYR SOUTHWARK Volume 01D Page 109

  • Death fact:

  • 1856 (age 0)

  • 1856 D Quarter in ST GEORGE THE MARTYR SOUTHWARK Volume 01D Page 94 (age 0)

  • Death:

  • 1856 (age 0)

  • Southwark, Surrey

Child 4: Laura Elizabeth Attfield

  • Name:

  • Laura Elizabeth Attfield

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Spouse:

  • Joseph (Joe) Lister (1861-1891)

  • Children:

  • Walter Attfield Lister (1884-1953)

  • Birth:

  • 18 Aug 1857

  • 1 Murray Terrace, Londonderry Road, Camberwell

  • Birth fact:

  • 1857 (age 0)

  • 1857 Sep Qtr, Camberwell, 1d/423

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 13-14)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1881 (age 23-24)

  • Pianoforte teacher, 15 Brandram Road, Lee

  • Census (3):

  • 1901 (age 43-44)

  • Nurse, living alone (widow), 144 Lee High Rd

  • Occupation:

  • 1939 (age 81-82)

  • Nurse (retired), Elsinore Road, Lewisham, London

  • Death fact (1):

  • 1944 (age 86-87)

  • 1944 Dec Qtr, Melton Mowbray, 7a/347 (aged 87)

  • Death fact (2):

  • 14 Dec 1944 (age 87)

  • Cause of death: myocardial degeneration, carcinoma of breast

  • Residence:

  • 1944 (age 86-87)

  • Yew Tree Cottage, Frisby (on death cert.)

  • Death:

  • 14 Dec 1944 (age 87)

  • 6 Thorpe Road, Melton Mowbray, Leics

Child 5: John Fawkes Attfield

  • Name:

  • John Fawkes Attfield

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Catherine Clare Heape (1861-1945)

  • Note (shared):

  • 1880: Emigrated to Texas, USA, where he settled and worked as a civil engineer

    Residence: 124 City St, San Antonio, Texas (1930)

  • Birth:

  • 15 Aug 1858

  • Lee, Kent

  • Birth fact:

  • 1858 (age 0)

  • 1858 Sep Qtr, Lewisham, 1d/594

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 12-13)

  • Living with parents

  • Emigration (1):

  • 1880 (age 21-22)

  • from Moved to Texas

  • Emigration (2):

  • 12 Nov 1890 (age 32)

  • from Sailed New York to Liverpool on Inman Line steamship "SS City of New York"

  • Emigration (3):

  • 21 May 1891 (age 32)

  • from Arr. New York from Liverpool on board "City of Paris"

  • Census (2):

  • 1891 (age 32-33)

  • Boarder at 20 Lampmead Road

  • Census (3):

  • 1930 (age 71-72)

  • 124 City St, San Antonio, Texas

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • Civil engineer

  • Census (4):

  • 1940 (age 81-82)

  • 130 Bois D'arc Street, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas

  • Death:

  • 1 Mar 1941 (age 82)

  • San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA

  • Burial:

  • 3 Mar 1941

  • St. Mary's Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Child 6: Alfred Carter Attfield

  • Name:

  • Alfred Carter Attfield

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Mary Louisa Otten (1872-1927)

  • Children:

  • Alfred Otten Attfield (1892-1983)

  •  

  • Frederick John Attfield (1893-1917)

  •  

  • Percy Bertie Edward Attfield (1894-1895)

  •  

  • George Herbert Attfield (1895-1981)

  •  

  • Ernest Edward Attfield (1897-1898)

  •  

  • Gertrude Mary Attfield (1898-1979)

  •  

  • Leonard Arthur Attfield (1901-1979)

  •  

  • Maurice Attfield (1903-1970)

  • Note (shared):

  • 1880-1890: Working on the San Antonio Rail Road, Texas

    Returned to England 1890 on the Inman Line steamship "SS City of New York"

    1901: Oil and colourman, 54 Lewisham Rd, Lewisham

  • Birth:

  • 26 Dec 1860

  • Dacre Place, Lee, Kent

  • Birth fact:

  • 1861 (age 0-1)

  • 1861 Mar Qtr, Lewisham, 1d/735

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 10-11)

  • Living with parents

  • Occupation (1):

  • 19 Apr 1882 (age 21)

  • Nurseryman & florist, Southern Road, Lee, partnership dissolved (L.Gazette 19.5.1882)

  • Emigration (1):

  • 12 Nov 1890 (age 29)

  • from Sailed New York to Liverpool on Inman Line steamship "SS City of New York"

  • Emigration (2):

  • 12 Nov 1890 (age 29)

  • from Sailed together with J.F.Attfield, brother

  • Census (2):

  • 1891 (age 30-31)

  • Boarder at 20 Lampmead Road

  • Occupation (2):

  • 25 Jul 1893 (age 32)

  • Oil & colourman, 54 Lewisham Road (on son Frederick's birth cert.)

  • Census (3):

  • 1901 (age 40-41)

  • Oil and colourman, 54 Lewisham Rd, Lewisham

  • Census (4):

  • 1911 (age 50-51)

  • Oil & colourman, 54 Lewisham Road, Lewisham

  • Census (5):

  • 1921 (age 60-61)

  • Oil & colourman (own account), 54 Lewisham Road, London SE13

  • Death fact:

  • 1922 (age 61-62)

  • 1922 Sep Qtr, Greenwich, 1d/695

  • Death:

  • 13 Jul 1922 (age 61)

  • Lewisham, Kent

  • Burial:

  • 1922

  • Lewisham Cemetery, Grave 3260 Plot D

Child 7: William Harvey Attfield

  • Name:

  • William Harvey Attfield

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Elizabeth Hales (1865-1951)

  • Children:

  • John William Hales Attfield (1892-1976)

  •  

  • Leslie Arthur Edwin Attfield (1895-1942)

  •  

  • Francis Osmond Lester Attfield (1898-1899)

  •  

  • Doris Elizabeth Rebecca Attfield (1903-1983)

  • Note:

  • ATTFIELD William Harvey of 68 Becket Avenue East Ham Essex died 30 May 1933; probate London 18 July to John William Hales Attfield musician. Effects £1439 18s 7d.

  • Birth:

  • 13 Feb 1864

  • Lee, Kent

  • Birth fact:

  • 1864 (age 0)

  • 1864 Mar Qtr, Lewisham, 1d/794

  • Census (1):

  • 1871 (age 6-7)

  • Living with parents

  • Census (2):

  • 1881 (age 16-17)

  • Shopman plumber, 15 Brandram Road, Lee

  • Census (3):

  • 1891 (age 26-27)

  • Oil and colour merchant, 12 Lampmead Road, Lee

  • Census (4):

  • 1901 (age 36-37)

  • Oil & colourman, 9 High St, North Woolwich

  • Census (5):

  • 1911 (age 46-47)

  • Oil & colourman, 9 High St, North Woolwich

  • Census (6):

  • 1921 (age 56-57)

  • Oil & colourman (retired), 68 Becket Avenue, East Ham, Essex

  • Death fact (1):

  • 1933 (age 68-69)

  • Cause of death: carcinoma of the colon

  • Death fact (2):

  • 1933 (age 68-69)

  • 1933 Jun Qtr, West Ham, 4a/108 (aged 69)

  • Death:

  • 30 May 1933 (age 69)

  • 68 Becket Avenue, East Ham

  • Burial:

  • 2 Jun 1933

  • St Mary Magdalene, East Ham, Essex (aged 69)

  • Probate:

  • 18 Jul 1933

  • Probate, London, to John William Hales Attfield, musician (£1439-18s-7d)

Note on Husband: Francis John Attfield (1)

Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors, 16.5.1854.

Francis John Attfield. sued as F. J. Attfield, and as Frederick John Attfield, formerly of No. 6, Foxley-terrace, Earls-court, Kensington, Builder, then of No. 40, Kensington-place, Notting-hill, and late of No. 2, Waterloo-place, Shepherds-bush, all in Middlesex, and whilst at two last places carrying on business at Starch-green, Hammersmith, Middlesex, in partnership with Barnabus Jennings, and John Rayson, as Dealers in Gravel, and Brickmakers, under the style of Francis John Attfield.

London Gazette, 2.5.1854, p.1395

Note on Husband: Francis John Attfield (2)

Further activity in Raphael Street [Kensington] took place in 1852/3 with the erection of a row of five shops (which became Nos 33/37) on the shallow plots opposite the Pakenham Tavern. They were the work of a Kensington builder, Francis J. Attfield. Another builder, George Day of New Kent Road, was responsible for the remainder of the south side of the street, built up in 1854/5, and Nos 10 and 11 on the north side, built in 1854. Both Attfield and Day were presumably working under contract not as speculators, for in August 1853 all their houses ... were leased directly by Raphael's heirs to a West End solicitor, Frederick William Dolman ....

Day's houses ... were built close to the pavement edge, with gratings to light the basements or cellars. They had stuccoed window surrounds and roundarched entrances. The Pakenham Tavern was large and showy; its curved and fully stuccoed façade was echoed across the road by Attfield's shops.

Source: 'Knightsbridge Green Area: Raphael Street', Survey of London: volume 45: Knightsbridge (2000), pp. 91-2. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=45911

The source also includes a photograph of one of Attfield's buildings.

Note on Husband: Francis John Attfield (3)

6 February 1878. The Will of Francis John Attfield late of 15 Brandram Road Lee in the County of Kent who died 17 August 1877 at 15 Brandram Road was proved at the Principal Registry by Rebecca Attfield of 15 Brandram Road Widow the Relict the sole Executrix. Personal Estate under £600.

Note on Child 1: Alice Rebecca Attfield

GRAVES Alice Rebecca of 90 Catford Hill Catford Kent (wife of John William Graves) died 7 September 1913; Probate London 4 November to the said John William Graves civil servant. Effects £1528 18s. 3d.

Note on Child 2: Frank Edwin Attfield

ATTFIELD Frank Edwin of 14 Southbrook Road Lee London died 23 May 1938; Probate London 11 July to Edwin Frank Attfield general dealer and William Cater Attfield oil and colourman. Effects £15072 7s 4d.

Note on Child 5: John Fawkes Attfield - shared note

1880: Emigrated to Texas, USA, where he settled and worked as a civil engineer

Residence: 124 City St, San Antonio, Texas (1930)

Note on Child 6: Alfred Carter Attfield - shared note

1880-1890: Working on the San Antonio Rail Road, Texas

Returned to England 1890 on the Inman Line steamship "SS City of New York"

1901: Oil and colourman, 54 Lewisham Rd, Lewisham

Note on Child 7: William Harvey Attfield

ATTFIELD William Harvey of 68 Becket Avenue East Ham Essex died 30 May 1933; probate London 18 July to John William Hales Attfield musician. Effects £1439 18s 7d.