See also

Family of Henry Monkhouse and Ellen Hennig

Husband: Henry Monkhouse

  • Name:

  • Henry Monkhouse1,3,4

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • -

  • Mother:

  • -

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • muscian (drummer)1,5,6,7

  • Birth:

  • 8 Nov 1872

  • Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England1,3,6,7,8

  • Census:

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 8)

  • Chapel Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England8

  •  

  • son attending school and living with his widowed mother Eliza, and sister Miriam. Born in Cirencester Goucestershire

  • Residence:

  • 26 Mar 1883 (age 10)

  • Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, Middlesex, England9

  • Military Service:

  • frm 20 Nov 1886 to 30 Nov 1904 (age 14-32)

  • British Army 21st Hussars as musician no:26915

  •  

  • being 4' 102 tall, weighing 99 lbs, with a chest of 28", a fresh complexion, brown eyes, brown hair and a H.M.A. 1 anchor and two dots on his left forearm. He served in India, Egypt and Ireland

  • Census absence:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 18)

  •  

  •  

  • presumably on military service

  • Census absence:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 28)

  •  

  •  

  • as the family was in Ireland

  • Military Service:

  • frm 2 Dec 1904 to 12 Oct 1905 (age 32)

  • British Army Royal Fusiliers as no:11098

  •  

  • being 5' 9" tall, weighing 176 lbs with a chest of 35" expansion 22, a fresh complexion, brown eyes and black hair, and H.M.A. 2 dots 4 anchor tattoo on back of left forearm. He was discharged at his own request after eighteen years service with a view to a pension

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 38)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England6

  •  

  • married head of the household working as a professional musician and living in four rooms with his wife Helen, sons Robert, Edward and James, and daughter Dorothy. Born in Cirencester Glostershire

  • Military Service:

  • frm 23 Nov 1915 to 16 Feb 1917 (age 43-44)

  • British Army 17th (R) Battalion Rifle Brigade as no:42322

  •  

  • being 5' 10" tall with a chest of 40" and expansion 3" and a H.M.A. 1 anchor with two dots on his left forearm. He was discharged as no longer being fit for military service

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 48 yrs 5 mns)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England7

  •  

  • married head of the household working as an orchestral musician at the Coronet Theatre Notting Hill Gate and living in four rooms with his wife Helen, sons Edward and Richard, and daughters Dorothy and Cicely. Born in Cirencester Gloucestershire

  • Death:

  • 8 Oct 1938 (age 65)

  • 31 Mount Avenue, Southall, Middlesex, England1,4

  •  

  • Cause: cardiac failure, chronic myocarditis and chronic bronchitis

Wife: Ellen Hennig

  • Name:

  • Ellen Hennig10,11,12,13

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Father:

  • Edward Robert Hennig (1835?-1895)

  • Mother:

  • Ellen Wilkinson (1837?-1897)

  • Birth:

  • 30 Apr 1873

  • Hutton, Essex, England6,7,10,11,13,14,15,16

  •  

  • daughter of Robert Henning (coachman) and Ellen Henning formerly Wilkinson

  • Baptism:

  • 25 May 1873 (age 0)

  • All Saints Church, Church Lane, Hutton, Essex, England13

  •  

  • daughter of Robert Edward Henning (coachman) and Ellen of Hutton, born 30th April 1873

  • Census:

  • 3 Apr 1881 (age 7)

  • High Street, Chipping Ongar, Essex, England15

  •  

  • daughter living with her parents Robert and Ellen, and brothers Robert and Harman (sic). Born in Hutton

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 17)

  • Grove Lane, Hackney, London, England16

  •  

  • unmarried daughter as Nellie living in four rooms with her parents Robert and Ellen, brother Hermann, and three visitors. Born in Hutton Essex

  • Residence:

  • 14 Jun 1895 (age 22)

  • 2 Town Hall Terrace, Hackney, London, England1

  • Census absence:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 27)

  •  

  •  

  • as the family was in Ireland

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 37)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England6

  •  

  • married wife as Helen Monkhouse living in four rooms with her husband Henry, sons Robert, Edward and James, and daughter Dorothy. Born in Hutton Essex and married for twelve years with four children, all of whom are still living

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 48)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England7

  •  

  • married wife as Helen doing home duties and living in four rooms with her husband Henry, sons Edward and Richard, and daughters Dorothy and Cicely. Born in Hutton Essex

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 66)

  • Severalls Mental Hospital, Boxted Road, Colchester, Essex, England17

  •  

  • a married and incapacitated patient, born in 1874

  • Death:

  • Q4 1947 (age 75)

  • Colchester "Registration District", Essex, England18

Child 1: Robert Henry Monkhouse

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Son: Robert Henry Monkhouse

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Spouse: Elsie Muriel Stephens

  • Name:

  • Robert Henry Monkhouse19,20

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Elsie Muriel Stephens (1903-1994)

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • 1st Wireless Officer on Luciline and for Olympic Lines becoming an aircraft mechanic20,21,22,23

  • Birth:

  • 26 Apr 1900

  • Curragh Camp, Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland1,2,6

  • Baptism:

  • 24 May 1900 (age 0)

  • Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland19,20

  • Census absence:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 0)

  •  

  •  

  • as the family was in Ireland

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 10)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England6

  •  

  • son living in four rooms with his parents Henry and Helen, brothers Edward and James, and sister Dorothy. Born in Curragh Ireland

  • Address:

  • 1 Jun 1929 (age 29)

  • 211 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London, England20,24

  • Address:

  • 1940 (age 39-40)

  • 100 Cotswold Avenue, Cricklewood, London, England20,23

  • Death:

  • 11 Feb 1940 (age 39)

  • Ealing, Middlesex, England1,20,23

  •  

  • Cause: a fractured skull

Child 2: Edward Monkhouse

  • Name:

  • Edward Monkhouse1,25

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Catherine Dowley (1903- )

  • Birth:

  • 30 Jul 1901

  • Steeven Hospital, Steevens Lane, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland1,2,6,7,25

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 9)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England6

  •  

  • son living in four rooms with his parents Henry and Helen, brothers Robert and James, and sister Dorothy. Born in Dublin Ireland

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 19 yrs 9 mns)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England7

  •  

  • unmarried son working as a shipping clerk for Wheatley & Co shipping agents of 46/8 Beak Street Regent Street W.1 and living in four rooms with his parents Henry and Helen, brother Richard, and sisters Dorothy and Cicely. Born in Dublin Ireland

  • Witness:

  • 1 Jun 1929 (age 27)

  • Edward Monkhouse witnessed the marriage of Robert Henry Monkhouse and Elsie Muriel Stephens on Saturday on 1 June 1929 in St. John, Ealing, London, England

  • Census absence:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 38)

  •  

  • Death:

  • Q3 1964 (age 63)

  • Newton Abbot "Registration District", Devon, England26

Child 3: Helen Dorothy Monkhouse

  • Name:

  • Helen Dorothy Monkhouse1,6,27,28

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Nickname:

  • Dorothy

  • Spouse:

  • Frank George Camp (1905-1982)

  • Birth:

  • 9 Jan 1908

  • Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England1,2,6,7,27,28,29,30

  • Baptism:

  • 22 Mar 1908 (age 0)

  • St. Columba's Church, 119 Dean Road, Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England28

  •  

  • daughter of Henry Monkhouse (musician) and Helen of 10 Beachville Avenue, born on 9th January 1908

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 3)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England6

  •  

  • daughter as Dorothy Monkhouse living in four rooms with her parents Henry and Helen, and brothers Robert, Edward and James. Born in Scarborough Yorkshire

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 13 yrs 3 mns)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England7

  •  

  • daughter as Dorothy attending school and living in four rooms with her parents Henry and Helen, brothers Edward and Richard, and sister Cicely. Born in Scarborough Yorkshire

  • Census:

  • 29 Sep 1939 (age 31)

  • 10 Council Houses, Henham, Essex, England29

  •  

  • married doing unpaid domestic duties and living with her husband, son Peter and two closed records (presumably daughters Pauline and Dawn). Born on 9th January 1908

  • Death:

  • Q1 1983 (age 74-75)

  • Crawley "Registration District", West Sussex, England30

Child 4: Richard James Monkhouse

  • Name:

  • Richard James Monkhouse1,6,31

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Nickname:

  • Jim

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • corporal in the Army1

  • Birth:

  • 29 Mar 1911

  • Shepherds Bush, London, England1,2,6,7,31,32

  •  

  • death index gives date of birth as 3rd March 1911

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 1 mn)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England6

  •  

  • son as James Monkhouse living in four rooms with his parents Henry and Helen, brothers Robert and Edward, and sister Dorothy. Born in Shepherds Bush London

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 10 yrs 1 mn)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England7

  •  

  • son attending school and living in four rooms with his parents Henry and Helen, brother Edward, and sisters Dorothy and Cicely. Born in Shepherds Bush London

  • Death:

  • Q3 1983 (age 72)

  • Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England1,32

Child 5: Florence Cicely Monkhouse

  • Name:

  • Florence Cicely Monkhouse1,33

  • Sex:

  • Female

  • Birth:

  • 18 Apr 1913

  • Shepherds Bush, London, England1,2,7,33

  • Census:

  • 19 Jun 1921 (age 8)

  • 60 Collingbourne Road, Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England7

  •  

  • daughter as Cicely attending school and living in four rooms with her parents Henry and Helen, brothers Edward and Richard, and sister Dorothy. Born in Shepherds Bush London

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1.

Viv Newell personal communication. Gedcom file.

2.

FindMyPast British Army Service Records, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive ref:WO 364 Royal Fusiliers no:11098. Cit. Date: 10 January 2023.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Cirencester 1872 quarter:4 volume:6a page:352. Cit. Date: 9 January 2023.

4.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Uxbridge 1938 quarter:4 volume:3a page:114. Cit. Date: 10 January 2023.

5.

FindMyPast British Army Service Records, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). National Archive ref:WO 364 Hussars no:2691. Cit. Date: 10 January 2023.

6.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG14 piece:216 class:RG78 piece:7 registration district:3 sub-district:1 enumeration district:20 schedule:334. Cit. Date: 22 September 2018.

7.

England and Wales Census 1921, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG15 piece:232 registration district:3A sub-district:1 enumeration district:28 schedule:199. Cit. Date: 9 January 2023.

8.

England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG11 piece:2544 folio:60 page:26 schedule:455. Cit. Date: 9 January 2023.

9.

Viv Newell personal communication. Discharge records of Royal Mil W0143/22.

10.

Ibid. Gedcom file. Cit. Date: February 2003.

11.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Billericay 1873 quarter:2 volume:4a page:195. Cit. Date: 9 January 2023.

12.

Birth Certificate. copy supplied by Kathy Prezeniczny. Family Archive, Held by David and Sue Wilkinson.

13.

Seax - Essex Record Office Parish Records, (on-line at www.essexcc.gov.uk). Hutton ? baptisms 1813-1876 ref:D/P 143/1/4 image:50 page:94 entry:750. Cit. Date: 9 January 2023.

14.

Birth Certificate. copy supplied by Kathy Prezeniczny; index 13a. Family Archive, Held by David and Sue Wilkinson.

15.

England and Wales Census 1881, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG11 piece:1741 folio:58 page:44 schedule:397. Cit. Date: 28 March 2022.

16.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG12 piece:191 folio:21 page:35 schedule:218. Cit. Date: 28 March 2022.

17.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG101 piece:1510B page:21 line:38 letter code:DBVX. Cit. Date: 9 January 2023.

18.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Colchester 1947 quarter:4 volume:4a page:510. Cit. Date: 9 January 2023.

19.

Birth Certificate. Family Archive, Held by David and Sue Wilkinson.

20.

Monkhouse.FTW. Imported. Cit. Date: 24 February 2003. Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich), Suffolk Record Office, Gateacre Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

21.

Register of Seamen for Robert Monkhouse. CR 2.

22.

FindMyPast Newspaper article, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Daily Telegraph, December 29, 1928.

23.

Death Certificate. Family Archive, Held by David and Sue Wilkinson.

24.

Marriage Certificate. Family Archive, Held by David and Sue Wilkinson.

25.

FindMyPast Gro Regimental Birth Indices (1761 To 1924), (on-line at www.findmypast .co.uk). Dublin 7th Foot 1901 volume:804 page:84 line:111 ref:REG1 or 21st (Empress of India's) Lancers 1901 volume:255 page:12 line:112 ref:REG1. Cit. Date: 22 September 2018.

26.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Newton Abbott 1964 quarter:3 volume:7a page:483. Cit. Date: 23 September 2018.

27.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Scarborough 1908 quarter:1 volume:9d page:399. Cit. Date: 14 June 2018.

28.

FindMyPast Parish Records Collection - Baptisms, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). Yorkshire Baptisms Transcription archive ref:PE177/2 page:3. Cit. Date: 14 June 2018.

29.

UK 1939 Register, (on-line at www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG101 piece:1590D page:9 line:1 letter code:DDVA. Cit. Date: 14 June 2018.

30.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Crawley 1983 quarter:1 volume:18 page:2010. Cit. Date: 14 June 2018.

31.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Fulham 1911 quarter:1 volume:1a page:202. Cit. Date: 14 June 2018.

32.

England and Wales Death Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Abingdon 1983 quarter:3 volume:20 page:1983. Cit. Date: 14 June 2018.

33.

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