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Frederick Joseph Carwardine.
Born 27th
May 1826, Gloucester, England
Died 7th
March 1901, Tomlins Grove, Bow, London, England.
Married
30th September 1848, St. Woolos Parish Church, Newport, Monmouthshire to Frances
Jane Long.
Children
(see separate bio notes)
George Frederick, Rosa Emily Jane, Samuel Ernest, Frances
Elizabeth Ann, *Clara Georgina, Emerald Cornish Augusta, Eliza Agnes,
Adeline Blanche and Florence Helena Isabelle.
*Clara
Georgina was born 1st August 1859 but lived for only three weeks.
Frederick
Carwardine
was the second son of James Carwardine and Mary Ann (Piffe).
He was
brought up and schooled in Gloucester, England. No other details available.
On
his Marriage Certificate in 1848, his occupation is shown as 'Attorney's Clerk'.
After
marriage he appears to have been living in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales up to
1860 when he sailed to America with his wife Frances Jane and children
George Frederick, Rosa Emily, Samuel Ernest and *Emerald
Cornish Augusta.
*Emerald
was born on board during the crossing from Liverpool to New York. Her first
names were given after the ship the SS
Emerald Isle, and the Master, Captain
Cornish.
The
duration and the purpose of their visit are not known. Their stay in America
was not very long however. When they returned they moved to Aston New Town,
Birmingham where a further three daughters were born - Eliza Agnes 1863, Adeline
Blanche 1865, and Florence Helena Isabelle 1869.
In his son
George's Marriage Certificate
Frederick's occupation
in 1868 is shown as 'Manager of Works'. He and his family eventually moved to
8, Tomlins Grove, Bow, London, England.
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William Horace Carwardine
Born 22nd February
1855, Brooklyn, New York.
Died 25th August 1929,
Evanston, Illinois.
Buried Memorial Park
Cemetery, Skokie, Illinois.
Married 27th September
1880, Methodist Episcopal Church, Jamaica, Long Island,
New York, to
Elizabeth Williams.
Children
(see also separate bio notes).
Grace
b.11-6-1881, Yates Center, Kansas. d.5-8-1913 (tuberculosis),
Chicago Illinois. Contralto soloist in many church recitals, taught
music in Chicago).
(Rev.) John
Chester b.14-7-1884, Colony, Kansas. d.28.1.1934, Colorado
Springs.
Arthur Elliott
b.24-10-1890, Poplar Grove, Illinois. d.2-4-1984, Evanston,
Illinois.
William Horace
Carwardine was the only son of William James
Carwardine and Catherine (Elliott). He was a
clergyman, writer & lecturer. Educated public schools New York;
private schools Ramsgate and Gloucester, England; student Colgate
Univ.,Hamilton, N.Y. 1880, Garrett Bible Institute. Ordained
ministry Methodist Episcopal Church 1882; pastorates in Kansas
1882-7; Steward and Poplar Grove, Illinois, 1 year each, LaSalle,
Illinois, 4 years; in Chicago since 1890 serving the pulpits of the
following churches: Ada Street, Adams Street, 47th Street, Gross
Park, Humboldt Park,
South Chicago, West
Pullman, Windsor Park; pastor Hermosa Methodist Episcopal Church
since 1922; member South Kansas Methodist Episcopal Conf.,1882-7;
transferred to Rock River Conf.,1889.
Religious editor
Chicago Herald and Examiner, contributing daily signed articles
since 1905. During and after Pullman strike in 1894 became widely
known in U.S. and abroad in matters pertaining to industrial
economics.
Lectured on this
subject in 64 cities under auspices of trade and labor
organizations, Chautauquas and clubs; lectures on other popular
themes. Member of Sons of St. George, Republican, Mason. Clubs:
Hamilton, Press. Author: History of the Pullman strike, 1895. (From
Who's Who in Chicago article in 1926).
William Horace
Carwardine, as pastor of the first Methodist Church in
Pullman, was one of the most influential figures in the Pullman
Strike. "More than any other man," writes William Adelman, Rev. Carwardine "awakened the American public to the suffering of the people in Pullman. His book, The Pullman Strike, his many speeches throughout the city of Chicago, and his address before the ARU convention helped to gain public support for the citizens of Pullman." A Populist and an advocate of "social gospel", Rev. Carwardine helped with the Pullman Relief Committee and the Homeseekers'
Association. He later gave over 60 lectures on industrial problems
in America and ran for the Illinois State Senate on the Prohibition
ticket in 1904. He strongly believed that "The Laborer is Worthy of
His Hire" and that "If there is one law for the rich man and another
for the poor man, there is no liberty."
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Born (Bapt.) 18th
December 1824, Gloucester.
Died 3rd October 1867,
Westminster Hospital, London. England. Buried Finchley nr. London
Married 23rd February
1846, St. John-in-Bedwardine, Worcester to Catherine Elliott.
Children
(see separate bio notes)
Ellen Celia
b. 6-7-1848 Gloucester and
William Horace
b.22-2-1855 Brooklyn, New York.
William
Carwardine was the first son of James Carwardine
and Mary Ann (Piffe).
No details available
of early life and schooling. In 1852 he and his wife emigrated to
America and settled in New York. (No mention of daughter Ellen
Celia, presume she died in infancy?)
1861-1865 U.S. Civil
War: reference to William James Carwardine in draft of
article about William Horace Carwardine for Who's Who
in Chicago - 1926: "William James
Carwardine, although an Englishman, fought in the Civil War under
his first two names-
William James". William James Carwardine refers
to "procuring my pension" in his letter to Catherine dated "Friday 22nd", no month or year.
(Research of Civil War Pension records showed many William James -
none conclusive).
In 1866 he and his
family returned to England. William died in 1867,
Catherine returned to America where she died in February
1868. William Horace stayed with an
"Auntie
Celia" in Bristol, England until 1871 when he returned to
America also.
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Adeline Blanche Miller
(Carwardine)
(known as "Mom" or "Nan" to
the younger family members & "Dot" to her contemporaries)
Born 2nd
December 1865, Aston New
Town, Birmingham, England
Died 12th March 1948, 49
Brinkworth Rd, Ilford, Essex, England
Married 24th March 1894, Trinity
Church, Stepney, London, England to Reginald Stanley Miller
Children (see separate bio
notes except for * who died in infancy)
Leslie Howard, Stanley Eric
Francis*, Ross Frederick*, Norman George, Harold MacDonald*, Irene
Blanche, Dorothy Adeline, Edna Winifred and Douglas William
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Frances Elizabeth Anne
Carwardine
Born 17th July 1857, Aston New
Town, Birmingham, England
Died 21st March 1950, Richmond
Road, Leytonstone, London.
Did not marry.
Frances Carwardine was the
second daughter of Frederick Joseph Carwardine and Frances
Jane (Long). No further details available.
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Florence
Helena Isabelle Herrington (Carwardine)
("Florrie")
Born 4th
January, 1869, Aston New
Town, Birmingham, England
Died 1944, London, England
Married ca 1900 London, England to
Henry Robert Herrington.
Children (see separate bio
notes)
Florence Marjorie b 1902
and Henry George b 1905
Florence Carwardine was the
seventh daughter of Frederick Joseph Carwardine and Frances
Jane (Long). No further details available
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Eliza Agnes Blaber
(Carwardine)
Born 21st July 1863,
Aston New Town, Birmingham.
Died 1952, London.
Married 1888 St.
Stephens Church, Bow, London, to Thomas Blaber.
Eliza Agnes was
the fifth daughter of Frederick Joseph Carwardine and
Frances Jane (Long).
Children.
(see separate bio notes)
Lawrence Harold
b.1889 d.1960 (m. Florence Bertha Eldridge b.1886 d.1946)
Elsie Madeline
b.1891 d.1987 (m. 1914 Harold Holl = Deryck Harold b.1915 and
Madeline "Molly" b 1916 d 1987)
Doris Marjorie
b.1893. d. 1965 (m. Charles William Corrie
Finch b. 1899 d. 1967)
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Emerald Cornish Augusta
Carwardine
("Emmy")
Born 11th July
1860 aboard the S.S. Emerald Isle on route from Liverpool to New
York.
Master of ship : Captain Cornish.
Died 1946 London.
Married 1877, London to Arthur
Fulford.
Children:(see
separate bio notes)
Lillian Augusta, b. c1879
(Married 1905 to Ernest Bauckham).
Bertam, b. c1881 (Married
-?- to Nellie-?).
Daisy Emerald, b. 1883
(Married 1905 to Walter Bishop).
Violet Frances, b. 1883
(Married 1913 to Frederick Hickman).
Arthur Fulford died
c.1898. Later Emerald remarried. Second husband
Frederick Hartree.
No children from second marriage.
Emerald Carwardine was the
fourth daughter of Frederick Joseph Carwardine and Francis
Jane (Long). On return
from the U.S.A, Emerald would have spent her first years in
Aston New Town where her
three younger sisters were born - Eliza Agnes b.1863,
Adeline Blanche b.1865 and
Florence Helena Isabelle b.1869 and then moving with them
to the family home in Tomlins
Grove, Bow, London. In her later years she lived in Leytonstone,
London.
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Samuel Ernest Carwardine
Born 25th April 1854, Newport,
Monmouthshire.
Died c.1924 London.
Did not marry.
Samuel Carwardine was the
second son of Frederick Joseph Carwardine and Frances Jane
(Long). No details concerning schooling and early life. Did go
on to work at the docks as a crane driver. As a result of a serious
accident, he lost both legs and spent the rest of his life in a
wheelchair. No further details
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Born 9th August 1849, Newport,
Monmouthshire.
Died c.1908 Philadelphia. (Buried
Mount Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia).
Married 24th February 1868, Parish
Church Handsworth, Birmingham to
Mary Ann Price.
Children:
Millicent b. 1875.
Lillian Amy b. 1876 Aston,
Birmingham.
George Albert Victor b.
1877 Aston, Birmingham.
Bernard Crawford b. 1880
Kings Norton.
George was the first son of
Frederick Joseph Carwardine and Frances Jane (Long).
On his Marriage Certificate in 1868 his occupation is given as
'Office Clerk'. No details of his place of employment available.
His wife Mary Ann died in
1888 and two years later in February 1890, he and his children
emigrated to the U.S.A. where they settled down in Philadelphia.
In the 1900 Census for
Philadelphia, George Carwardine as head of household with
occupation of 'Printer'. Son Victor's occupation is 'Ice
Wagon Driver'. Son Bernard's occupation is 'Printer'. There
is no mention of Millicent.
However, now for a puzzler - it
mentions Lillian A. (Amy) with a birth year of 1877, the same
as Millicent (see under Children). Also in the Census it
would appear that Victor has a wife Rosmund, and a
daughter Elizabeth. Lillian A.
is also shown as having a daughter
Beatrice M.
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Leslie Howard Miller
Born 1st January
1895 Bow, London.
Died 28th July 1975
Sunninghill, Berks. England
Married 23rd June
1923, St.Georges Catholic Cathedral, Southwark, London, England to
Jane
O'Connor.
No Children.
Leslie Miller
was the first son of Reginald Stanley Miller and Adeline
Blanche Carwardine. He grew up and schooled in London, England
(Newport Road Leyton being one).
On leaving school, he
became a Coach Trimmer.
In 1914 he enlisted
in the Hampshire Regiment and was soon appointed Lance Corporal, and
promotion to full Corporal followed not long after. He applied for
a Commission in March 1915 and was subsequently commissioned as a
2nd Lieutenant in the 13th (Reserve)Battalion. He went on to serve
in Egypt, Salonika, (where he was promoted to Lieutenant), the
Caucasus, and finally, Constantinople. On discharge, he returned to
Leytonstone, London, England.
He and his wife
'Jeannie' planned to move to Oxford, England and at that time his
profession ,as recorded on his marriage certificate in 1923, was
"Motor Engineer's Clerk. No further details are presently available
on his subsequent life in Oxford.
In later years, as
an elderly couple, they moved to a senior citizen Residential Home
in Sunninghill, Berks. Jeannie predeceased him by two years
and Leslie died in a nursing home associated with the
residence called Lyndhurst Nursing home.
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Norman George Miller
Born 2nd January
1899. Bow, London, England
Died 2nd July 1987.
Ormskirk, England. Married 1923, St. Stephens Church, Bow, London,
to Florence Lizzie Gardner. ("Floss")
Children (see
separate bio notes) Desiree Norma, Valerie Blanche, Marion Hazel
and Angela.
Norman Miller was the
fourth son of Reginald Stanley Miller and Adeline Blanche nee
Carwardine. His first job on leaving school was as a delivery
boy for a butchers, then in 1914 he got a job in Fleet Street with
the Sport and General Photographic Agency as a runner to the big
papers. World War One had just started and like so many young men,
joined up under age. He enlisted with the 5th Royal West Kent
Regiment and was shipped off to France where he spent the first
night in the front line trenches. He was gassed and sent to
hospital at Wimeraux for treatment. On recovery, he was posted back
to his battalion . In 1916 on the Somme he was sent home because
they found out he was under age. He subsequently applied for a
commission in the Royal Flying Corps. but was turned down because
his balance was at fault. Eventually he was sent back to France
where he had another dose of gas. When the Armistice was signed he
was in a French hospital and didn't get back to England until March
1919. After the war he was approached and joined the Secret
Service and was sent to Dublin. No details here other than whilst in
Dublin Castle, he had to photograph men before they were executed.
In 1921 he came to Oxford and joined the Oxford Mail and Oxford
Times where he became Chief Photographer and during World War Two,
became a Captain in the 6th Oxford City Battalion (Home Guard). He
retired from the Press in 1955 on medical advice and became landlord
of the Jericho House, a pub in Walton Street Oxford. Two years
later he retired (again), to Ormskirk where he took up employment
with the Ormskirk Advertiser Group of Newspapers as Chief
Photographer. He finally stopped working in the 1970s and
finally retired to his home at Westhead, Ormskirk in Lancashire,
England.
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Dudley Stuart Miller
Born 1871 Wandsworth,
London.
Died 1854 Chelsea,
London.
Married c.1904 to
May Marion Louise (Hudson).
Children (see
separate bio notes) Frederick, Ena, Constance, Donald and
Ronald.
Dudley Miller
was the seventh of ten children of Alfred William Miller and
Mary Ann (Knight). He grew up and schooled in London,
England.
At the age of 19 he
enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders. He took part in the Indian
Campaign and Relief of Chitral in 1895. A year later was sent to
Crete with the International Army of Occupation. In 1897-1898, he
served with Lord Kitchener at Khartoum and later went on to serve in
the Boer War and throughout the First World War, at the end of which
he was sent to Russia to assist the White Russians. At the age of
71 he volunteered as an Air Raid Warden where he lived in Dover, on
the day that WWII broke out. In eventual retirement (in the 1950s)
he took up residence at the Royal Hospital ,Chelsea as a Chelsea
Pensioner.
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Irene Blanche Miller To be completed
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Dorothy Adeline
Miller (AKA Daphne Miles)
Born 5th July 1906,
Leytonstone, London, England
Died 14th January
1998, Oxford, England
Married 1931, Leyton/Leytonstone?
to Herbert Joseph Grimwood. (Later separated).
No children.
Dorothy
Miller was the second
daughter of Reginald Stanley Miller and
Adeline Blanche
(Carwardine). She grew up in Leytonstone where on leaving
school, her first job was in an office (no further details
available). In her young days she developed a love for dancing
(classical and stage.) and to this end she joined Peggy le Fay's
School of Dancing. This was to radically influence her future since
after moving to Oxford in 1940, she started up her own dancing
school. It was there that she adopted the name Daphne Miles
and from then on was known by all (including the family), by that
name.
The Daphne Miles
School of Dancing was very successful and during the war years,
she presented her pupils, both junior and senior, in numerous shows,
pantomimes and dance recitals,frequently in aid of such charities as
The Oxford Eye Hospital Rebuilding Fund, Morris Motors Service Fund,
The British Red Cross, Guide Dogs for the Blind, British Limbless
Ex-Servicemen's Association, The Merchant Navy Service Comforts Fund
and The Radcliffe Infirmary, to name only a few. She also provided
entertainment for wounded British and American servicemen, and later
on with local artistes, for Retirement Homes in and around Oxford
and even the Oxford Prison.
In 1951 she continued
in this vein teaching American children whose families were based
at the United States Air Force base at Brize Norton where she became
Program Director in the Service Club. After her brother-in-law
Les Godfrey died in 1959, she moved to Leytonstone, in London,
to stay with her sister Irene at 2, Rhodesia Road and very
soon
she formed another dancing school which she
named The Lyndhurst School of
Dancing. A high point of this school's existence was that in May
1978, they performed in a Grand Gala Concert in the presence of
H.R.H. Princess Alexandra at the Assembly Hall, Walthamstow. London
[The programme
for this Gala Concert was introduced by Joyce Grenfell (ed.
a well known and talented comedy actress of the time) and
opened with a piano recital by Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich of
various pieces by Chopin and Beethoven .This was followed by
a Norwegian Ballet in three acts which was devised and
produced by Daphne Miles and performed entirely by
the pupils of her Lyndhurst School of Dancing.]
During this
period in London (1960 in fact) Daphne also formed a
revue group which was made up of local amateur singers,
musicians and dancers and others who would help in backstage
operations, she named the group "The Harlequins". Daphne
conceived a number of shows which she directed and produced. The
group rehearsed at Wanstead House, in East London and performed
in aid of various charities, on one occasion, travelling to
Oxford to perform at Morris Motors Clubhouse, Cowley.
Daphne remained in Leytonstone until her sister Irene
died in 1985, she then returned in retirement to Oxford.
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Charles William Godfrey
Born 9th October
1875, Hunsdon, Herts.
Died 1952, Langthorne
Hospital, Leytonstone, London.
Married 31st January
1898, St. John's Church, Stratford Broadway, London, to Lizzie
Medcalf.
Children (see
separate bio notes). Charles James, Arthur Samuel and
William Leslie.
Lizzie died
5th August 1935. Later, Charlie remarried (date not known),
to Alice Stephens. No children from this second marriage.
Charlie Godfrey
was the first son of James Godfrey and Martha Hutchings.
He was brought up in
Hunsdon, Herts., his address being Mill Cottage. Nothing is known of
his schooling which obviously started in Hunsdon. Later on he moved
to Leyton, London, England where he joined the Great Eastern Railway
at Stratford. He started as a cleaner in the sheds, and then worked
his way up through fireman (1901 Census gives his occupation as
'Railway Engine Stoker'), to engine driver on the London North
Eastern Railway.He lived in Cranbourne Road, Leyton.
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