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wow what an interesting yet sad story
here's a possible for Horace
1911 census
Address: Granville House Granville Place Portman Square W London
Name Relation Condition/ Yrs married Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born
BIRCH, Claude Churchill Head Single M 64 1847 Retired Civil Servant Admin Atty Finchley Middlesex
BIRCH, Horace Heathorn Brother Of Above Single M 54 1857 Retired Indian Union Service London
MELSOM, Martha Servant Widow F 62 1849 Kilburn London
BURTON, Mary Jane Servant Single F 48 1863 Chelsea London
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thanks so much for taking the time to look i really do appreciate it.
my husbands grandfather left some notes before he died and this is an excerpt.
Excerpt from Harrys memories
When I came out of hospital I found that my mother and sisters had gone. There was just father and a grown-up stepbrother (about 45 years old I should think) left. It wasn’t long before I found that I was to go to London to Barts Hospital for further treatment to my arm. I left all this real life behind and went to a horrible jumbled up existence in London. I remember leaving by train from Itchen Abbas station. The old man gave me 6d. and a neighbour another 6d, these 2 coins I kept in a purse I had stitched from a part of an old glove. I kept them for years and think they were stolen from me at sea.
I do not remember how I was met at Waterloo, but I eventually ended up at the New University Club in St.. James Street, S.W. . I do not know what the connection was, but the Secretary of the Club, MR HORACE BIRCH, and the House-keeper, Mrs. WIDDOWS, were both father and mother to me and I learnt that MR BIRCH was my legal guardian. They were good people. In due course I went into St. Barts Hospital (Barker Ward) where I had weeks of electric treatment which was highly successful, and then back to the Club. However, I missed our old village where nobody knew anything, whilst here everybody knew everything."
The timeline for this was after the 1911 census but before ww1. i had just hoped that the club secretary and the housekeeper in 1911 might have been Horace Birch and Mrs Widdows.
it has always been a mystery as to why a boy from a very poor home was sent to a gentleman's club and also given very expensive treatment on his broken arm.
harry was born in Fulham workhouse an illegitimate son of Elizabeth Carter who married a man 25 years older than herself to get away from the workhouse.
guess i wont find out who Mr Horace Birch or Mrs Widdows were . that's such a shame it has the hallmark of a good tale.
thanks once again
Linda
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1911 census
Address: 59 St James ST
Name Relation Condition/ Yrs married Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born
HOFMANN, George Head Married M 31 1880 Housekeeper Offices In Germany Resident
HOFMANN, Eliza Wife Married F 31 1880 Housekeeper Suffolk Lakenheath
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1911 census transcription details for: 57 St James ST
National Archive Reference: RG14PN417 RD5 SD1 ED3 SN30
Reg. District: St George Sub District: Mayfair and Knights Bridge
Parish: St George Hanover Square Enum. District: 3
Address: 57 St James ST County: London
MAINE, Henry C S Single M 25 1886 Secretary London Kensington
PILTER, Charles Single M 23 1888 Private Means France
HILDYARD, John A Single M 49 1862 Land Owner Private Means Hullen Boridle Cty Yorkshire
EBDEN, Charles J Married M 58 1853 Private Means Melbourne Victoria
WANCHOPE, David Alexander Single M 40 1871 Wine Merchant Edinburgh Edinburgh Visitor
MORGAN, Agnes Housekeeper Widow F 47 1864 Housekeeper At The University Club Keswick
MORGAN, Mary Catherine Housekeeper Single F 16 1895 Telephone Operator Sloane Gardens London
AYRES, Lucy Servant Single F 28 1883 Still Room Maid Everleigh Wiltshire
GADD, Nellie Elizabeth Servant Single F 25 1886 Still Room Maid Tufton St Westminster
NICHOLL, Mary Servant Single F 20 1891 Still Room Maid Woolwich Kent
DAVIES, Emily Louisa Servant Single F 22 1889 Servant House Maid Deptford
BURNS, Ethel Servant Single F 25 1886 Servant House Maid Deptford
WHITE, Annie Katthleen Servant Single F 17 1894 Servant House Maid Old St E C
EVANS, Mary Annie Servant Single F 28 1883 Servant House Maid Llamon South Wales
BULLEY, Alice Sarah Servant Single F 34 1877 Servant Kitchen Maid Fulham London
THOMAS, Edith Servant Single F 19 1892 Servant Kitchen Maid Newport Wales
READE, Beatrice Constance Seervant Single F 23 1888 Servant Kitchen Maid Upton Park London
MANSFIELD, Edith Servant Single F 19 1892 Servant Kitchen Maid Custom House London
BEST, Florence Sarah Servant Single F 17 1894 Servant Kitchen Maid Knightsbridge London
FLEMING, Julia Servant Single F 20 1891 Servant Kitchen Maid Battersea London
LUCY, John George Servant Married M 32 1879 House Porter Oxford St London
MOSS, William Alfred Servant Single M 32 1879 Kitchen Porter Bloomsbury London
ROSE, George Charles Servant Single M 19 1892 Waiter Chelsea London
WOODS, Arthur Stanley Servant Single M 15 1896 Lavatory Attendant Stratford London
WICKISON, Fredrick George Servant M 14 1897 Page Cumberland Haymarket London
PULHAM, Arthur John Servant Single M 20 1891 Waiter Cheltenham
CUTLER, Frederick Charles Seervant Married M 51 1860 Head Waiter Dagnall Bucks
Maureen
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_University_Club
A third club for members of the two Universities, founded in 1864 and called the New University Club, had its rooms at 57 St James's Street. This amalgamated with the United University Club in 1938
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Hi
I am trying to find out who was the housekeeper and secretary of the New University Club St James Street SW London on the 1911 census but not having much luck.
I don't know the exact address but if anyone out there could help me out i would very much appreciate it
regards Linda
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