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Leah Mary LovelockAge: 29 years18441874

Name
Leah Mary Lovelock
Given names
Leah Mary
Surname
Lovelock
Note: Despite this daughter of George and Martha appearing in Census entries as 'Sarah' the birth of Leah Mary is the only one where the mother's maiden name was Harding. At her marriage Leah named her father as George Lovelock (deceased).
Birth between October 1844 and December 1844 35 31
Text:

St Luke, Chelsea RD, ref 3 29

Birth of a brotherGeorge Henry Lovelock
26 September 1847 (Age 2 years)
Note: RL 4/7/07: Uncertainty over place of birth - see general note.
Text:

Kensington RD, ref 3 291 (registered in Oct-Dec quarter)

Christening of a brotherGeorge Henry Lovelock
24 October 1847 (Age 3 years)
Birth of a brotherWilliam Thomas Lovelock
14 April 1850 (Age 5 years)
Citation details: Birth in 2Q 1850 in Westminster RD, ref 1 460
Text:

Lovelock, William Thomas

Quality of data: primary evidence
Note: RL: There's also a William Thomas L birth in Shoreditch RD in 4Q 1851, ref 2 400; this seems much less likely to be our boy, given the census entries we have, except that the age fits better with the stated age of "2 mths" which certainly appears from the image to be what's written - possibly "ten months" mis-heard?
Shared note: RL 16/7/07: Place and date of birth initially from the 1861 census. See comment to GRO birth data ref. stated age "2 months" [?] in 1851.
Census 1851 (Age 6 years)

Citation details: email message 14-Jul-06
Quality of data: primary evidence
Citation details: agreed transcription added RL 25-Jun-07
Quality of data: primary evidence
Note: RL 25/6/07: Replaced a previous transcription - small additions/differences.
Note: Barracks (2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards), St Thomas, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Birth of a brotherEdwin Charles Lovelock
15 November 1853 (Age 9 years)
Citation details: Birth in 4Q 1853 in Westminster RD, ref 1a 261
Text:

Lovelock, Edwin Charles

Quality of data: primary evidence
Note: RL: There's an Edwin L birth in St Pancras RD in 3Q 1853, ref 1b 16, but that seems much less likely to be our boy, given the census entries we have.
Christening of a brotherEdwin Charles Lovelock
18 December 1853 (Age 9 years)
Death of a paternal grandfatherThomas Lovelock
about September 1854 (Age 9 years)
Source: GRO - FreeBMD
Citation details: Death in 3Q 1854 in Winchester RD, ref 2c 64
Quality of data: primary evidence
Shared note: RL 19/3/07: GRO entry is believed to refer to this Thomas L, who we've captured in 1841 and 1851 but can't locate in later censuses. [However, see notes to son Thomas bap 1817.]
Birth of a sisterAmelia Martha Lovelock
11 November 1857 (Age 13 years)

Text:

Westminster RD, ref 1a 288

Death of a sisterAmelia Martha Lovelock
March 1858 (Age 13 years)

Text:

Westminster RD, ref 1a 241 (age 4 months)

Christening of a sisterAmelia Martha Lovelock
18 March 1858 (Age 13 years)
Burial of a sisterAmelia Martha Lovelock
26 March 1858 (Age 13 years)
Death of a motherMartha Harding
between January 1860 and March 1860 (Age 15 years)

Text:

Kensington RD, ref 1a 80 (age 46)

Christening of a brotherWilliam Thomas Lovelock
12 May 1860 (Age 15 years)
Census 1861 (Age 16 years)

Citation details: transcription provided by Graham Lovelock, email message 13-Jul-06
Quality of data: primary evidence
Citation details: agreed transcription added RL 25-Jun-07
Quality of data: primary evidence
Note: RL 25/6/07: Replaced a previous transcription - small additions/differences.
Note: 12 Cheesehill Street, St Peter Cheesehill, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Death of a fatherGeorge Lovelock
between July 1867 and September 1867 (Age 22 years)

Source: GRO - FreeBMD
Text:

Winchester RD, ref 2c 47

MarriageThomas UttonView this family
7 April 1868 (Age 23 years)
Text:

Lambeth RD, ref 1d 469

Death between July 1874 and September 1874 (Age 29 years)

Text:

St Saviour RD, ref 1d 49 (age 28)

Family with parents - View this family
father
mother
Marriage:
herself
Leah Mary Lovelock
Birth: between October 1844 and December 1844 35 31Kensington, Middlesex, England
Death: between July 1874 and September 1874
3 years
younger brother
3 years
younger brother
4 years
younger brother
4 years
younger sister
Family with Thomas Utton - View this family
husband
herself
Leah Mary Lovelock
Birth: between October 1844 and December 1844 35 31Kensington, Middlesex, England
Death: between July 1874 and September 1874
Marriage: 7 April 1868St Mary, Lambeth, Surrey, England

BirthGEDCOM file as uploaded to Lovelock website 5 March 2007; created by James Loveluck and exported from his [Legacy] database.
Birth1861 British Census
Birth1851 British Census
BirthGRO Online Indices of Births and Deaths
Text:

St Luke, Chelsea RD, ref 3 29

Census1851 British Census
CensusRobin Lovelock (email exchanges)
Citation details: email message 14-Jul-06
Quality of data: primary evidence
CensusGEDCOM file as uploaded to Lovelock website 5 March 2007; created by James Loveluck and exported from his [Legacy] database.
CensusRobin Lovelock & Graham Lovelock: email discussions July 2006/July 2007
Citation details: agreed transcription added RL 25-Jun-07
Quality of data: primary evidence
Note: RL 25/6/07: Replaced a previous transcription - small additions/differences.
Census1861 British Census
Citation details: transcription provided by Graham Lovelock, email message 13-Jul-06
Quality of data: primary evidence
CensusGEDCOM file as uploaded to Lovelock website 5 March 2007; created by James Loveluck and exported from his [Legacy] database.
CensusRobin Lovelock & Graham Lovelock: email discussions July 2006/July 2007
Citation details: agreed transcription added RL 25-Jun-07
Quality of data: primary evidence
Note: RL 25/6/07: Replaced a previous transcription - small additions/differences.
MarriageData at Findmypast website
MarriageGRO Index of Marriages
Text:

Lambeth RD, ref 1d 469

Marriage'Lovelocks in Surrey' data on main Lovelock website
DeathGRO Index of Deaths
Text:

St Saviour RD, ref 1d 49 (age 28)

SourceRobin Lovelock, updated gedcom 24-Aug-07
Publication: Updated gedcom file provided by Robin Lovelock 24 Aug 2007. Includes contributions from Graham Lovelock
SourceGEDCOM file as uploaded to Lovelock website 5 March 2007; created by James Loveluck and exported from his [Legacy] database.
SourceRobin Lovelock & Graham Lovelock: email discussions July 2006/July 2007
Note: Further extended discussion and searching for additional data on George and Martha's four known children (GRO birth entries, possible marriages and children, etc.) 26-Jun-07 - 16-Jul-07. See general note and note to birth for each of the children, especially Sarah and Henry.
Birth

RL 16/7/07: Date and place of birth from the 1851 census. Repeated searches on FreeBMD and BMDIndex (GL and RL) have yielded only the following unlikely possible entries [name 'plain' Sarah L except where indicated]:

St Luke 1Q 1841 ref 2 58 (Sarah Ann) St Pancras 3Q 1841 ref 1 276 Clerkenwell 4Q 1841 ref 3 107 (Sarah Ann) Kensington 4Q 1842 ref 3 247[?] - but see general note

Strand RD 2Q 1843 ref 1 343 (Lovelock, Female) Farnham RD 3Q 1844 ref 4 137 (Sarah Ann) St Olave RD 1Q 1846 ref 4 533

Census

Barracks (2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards), St Thomas, Winchester, Hampshire, England HO107 1674 F100 P19

Includes: George Lovelock;Private Soldier, Head of Family;M;41;Laborer [sic];Hampshire [sic] Martha Lovelock;Wife;M;36;;Hampshire, Eadelesly [sic] {**} Sarah Lovelock;Daughter;;6;;Middlesex, Kensington Henry Lovelock;Son;;3;;Middlesex, Westminster Thomas Lovelock;Son;;2m[?];Middlesex, Westminster

{**} Presumably Eastleigh was stated

Census

RL 25/6/07: Replaced a previous transcription - small additions/differences.

Census

12 Cheesehill Street, St Peter Cheesehill, Winchester, Hampshire, England RG9 693 F43 P5

George Lovelock;Head;W;53;Chelsea Pensioner;Hants, Winchester Sarah M Lovelock;Daur;;16;Servant;Middlesex, London Henry G Lovelock;Son;;13;Ag Lab;Middlesex, London William T Lovelock;Son;;10;Scholar;Middlesex, London Edwin C Lovelock;Son;;7;Scholar;Middlesex, London

Census

RL 25/6/07: Replaced a previous transcription - small additions/differences.

Name

Despite this daughter of George and Martha appearing in Census entries as 'Sarah' the birth of Leah Mary is the only one where the mother's maiden name was Harding. At her marriage Leah named her father as George Lovelock (deceased).

Shared note

RL 16/7/07: We can find no firm information about her apart from the two census entries: the 1851 has her as 'plain' Sarah, b Middx, Kensington; the 1861 as Sarah M, b Middlesex, London - the stated ages are consistent and imply she was born 1844/5. (See note to birth for some [unlikely!] GRO birth registrations.)

I'd found the following possible marriage entry (obviously a long shot given our other difficulties locating her after 1861):

Kensington 3Q 1872, ref 1a 430 Bristow, William Cottle, Alfred Henry Cottle, Henry Alfred Jackon, Ann Jackson, Ann Lovelock, Sarah

However, Graham (9/7/07) then located the following 1881 entry, which seems to 'account for' the possible marriage among the above which would be of primary interest (although if Sarah's age is correct she married very young, with George jnr apparently not the reason):

(1881) London, Middx 33 Elgin Crescent, RG11 42 F68 P34 George Lovelock;Head;29;Glazier;Surrey, Kingston Henry Cottle;Brother [sic];26;Smith;Middx, Kensington Sarah Cottle;Wife;25;Middx, Kensington George Cottle;Son;6;Middx Kensington Henry Cottle;Son;3;Middx Kensington

GL Note 21-Mar-2020: The married couple above belong to the Ropley, Crondall and Dogmersfield Tree (qv).

Graham reported that Ancestry in fact has George L indexed as George Cottle! Also (GL 9/7/07): "I can't identify George at all ... ... I haven't been able to find him in any other census, except:

(1891) Kensington, Middx 8 St Geor Rd [sic], RG12 25 F67 P28 George Lovelock;Head;40;Glazier;Surrey, Kingston Elizabeth Lovelock;Wife;35;Paddington George H Lovelock;Son;9;Kensington Elizabeth Lovelock;Daur;5;Kensington

[GL ctd]: A George L married an Elizabeth Walker in the Fulham RD in 2Q 1881, ref 1a 407.

I presume from the 1881 entry that the Enumerator meant that George and Henry (snr) were Brothers-in-law, meaning we have a Sarah L born in Kensington in 1855/6, NOT 1844/5 as required. But if she's the sister of George ... ... oh goodness! TWO Sarah's from Kensington, neither of whom appears in FreeBMD! Or have I missed something again?"

RL (16/7): The following additional GRO births of Sarah Ls might be relevant:

Staines 1Q 1848, ref 3 395 (Sarah Elizabeth) St Saviour 4Q 1848, ref 4 451 {Brentford 3Q 1850, ref 3 4 (Sarah Maria) - I think she's a Compton tree child and that the following entry records her early death: Sarah Maria L - Brentford RD 2Q 1852, ref 3a 51 (GRO Online Index of Deaths gives an age of 1} St Pancras 1Q 1851, ref 1, 389 (Elizabeth Sarah) Wandsworth 3Q 1853, ref 1d 362 Lambeth 3Q 1854, ref 1d 268 (Caroline Sarah) Bermondsey 4Q 1856, ref 1d 81 (Sarah Ann) Bethnal Green 3Q 1858, ref 1c 225

I [RL] in turn located another Sarah L in 1851 (see following entry) [see also general note to the present Sarah M's brother Henry], and because of the other members of her family group I thought at first [miscalculating ages and dates I later realised!] that she might be of interest ref. the two entries immediately above:

Kensington, Middlesex Wrights Lane, 3 Westside, HO107 1468 F187 P25 Thomas Lovelock;Head;M;40;Cab Proprietor master 3 men;Berks, Burvil [sic] Mary A Lovelock;Wife;M;40;;Wilts, Wroughton Rosana Lovelock;Daur;;14;;Wilts, Wroughton George Lovelock;Son;;12>;Scholar;Wilts, Wroughton James Lovelock;Son;;10;Scholar;Middlex, Kensington Sarah Lovelock;Daur;;8;Scholar;Middlex, Kensington John Lovelock;Son;;6;Scholar;Middlex, Kensington Lucy Lovelock;Daur;;3;;Middlex, Kensington Joseph Lovelock;Son;;1;;Middlex, Kensington Henry Card;Visitor;U;30;Ostler;Wilts, Wroughton William Hetton;Visitor;U;49;Annuitant;Cumberland, Carlisle

(This entry is already on the website; above is my [RL] transcription, indicating some minor variations. Graham suggests, convincingly, that 'Burvil' was actually Burghfield, near Reading.)

Sarah L aged 8 here was thus another of that name born in Kensington in the mid C19th - 1842/3 if the age entered is accurate. Amazingly, given our problems finding GRO entries for Sarah Ls said to have been born in Kensington, one of the entries cited in the list recorded in a note to the present> Sarah's birth seems to 'fit': Kensington RD 4Q 1842, ref 3, 247[?]. And if that was the dob of the Sarah L in the 1851 Wrights Lane entry above, she'd have been 38 in 1881, so not really a possible for the Sarah L who married Henry Cottle unless one or both stated ages (1851 or 1881) was 'well out'. She does have a brother George 4 years her senior, but he was born in Wroughton rather than Kingston, so in the immediate context this is a red herring!

A very quick glance at the Wroughton/Tidcombe tree (and the Lyneham Line) revealed neither this family as such, nor a Thomas L born Wroughton abt 1810 to whom a wife and children might be attached. However, Graham reported (16/7 21:10pm) finding Thomas, Mary A[nn] and family in 1841 and 1861 (to add to the 1851 entry above), and further tentatively confirmed "the Wroughton connection", via a GRO record for son George's birth in 3Q 1838 in Swindon &c RD, ref 8 319.

15/8/07: Graham circulated (24/7) a quite substantial tree developed from the foregoing initial foray. Some residual puzzles notwithstanding (see also my email 15/8), there are good reasons for believing that this Thomas was the son of James L who married Lucy Doer at Burghfield on 2 Nov 1812, and was baptised there on 27 June 1813, while James and Lucy had 3 further children baptised in Hungerford 1816/21 ('Lovelocks in Berks by Parish' on website). James was in turn the son of John L and Sarah Dore at the head of the 'Hungerford - Shalbourne tree' (presently in 'Work in Progress' on the website); he was baptised in Hungerford on 28 July 1771. Lucy remarried Thomas Spicer in Hungerford on Jan 3 1825; the PR marriage entry shows her as widowed.

Source

Further extended discussion and searching for additional data on George and Martha's four known children (GRO birth entries, possible marriages and children, etc.) 26-Jun-07 - 16-Jul-07. See general note and note to birth for each of the children, especially Sarah and Henry.