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Henry James FOSTER | |
(1) Georgina Annie LONG | |
(2) Victoria May HUDSON |
| b. 27 Aug 1900 at Dorchester BRK bap. 23 Dec 1900 at Dorchester BRK |
b. circa 1888 Chelsea MDX | b. 21 May 1897 at 18 All Saints Street Islington MDX |
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| m. 22 Aug 1925 at Windsor Register Office BRK [cert.] | m. 4 Sep 1930 at Windsor Register Office BRK [cert.] | ||||
| d. 14 Dec 1951 at Paddington MDX bur. Dec 1951 at St Judes Englefield Green SRY |
d. 23 Dec 1929 at Englefield Green SRY, aged 40 bur. 27 Dec 1929 at St John Egham SRY |
d. 19 Mar 1974 at Colindale Hospital MDX cremated at Golders Green |
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| Gardener(1930) | Housemaid (1912 - 1924) | Dressmaker at H A Francis, Dressmakers in Mortimer Street (1921) Seamstress (1928) |
Georgina's Children
| Gordon Thomas LONG aka ASPLIN | Cecil LONG aka FOSTER |
| b. 10 Mar 1912 at 26 South Road Englefield Green SRY [cert.] | b. 25 Apr 1924 at Old Windsor BRK [cert.] |
| m. Doreen Katie DUDLEY 7 Oct 1939 at Feltham, near Staines MDX | m. Henriette Adrienne ELOOT ? 1945 in Brussels, Belgium |
| d. 1983 Surrey RD SRY [GRO Ind] | d. 24 Apr 1960 at Ashford Hospital aged 35 [cert.] |
Victoria's Children
| Thelma |
| b. 15 Sep 1928 at Islington MDX |
| m. William Alfred James BUTLER 1951 Windsor Register Office BRK |
| d. 19 Jan 1993 at Windsor BRK, aged 64 |
Children of the First Marriage
| Phyllis Annie Mary | |
| b. 1926 Windsor RD BRK | |
| m. [William E] Kenneth BALL 1952 | |
| d. 2013 Surrey RD SRY |
Children of the Second Marriage
Who They Were
On their marriage certificate, Henry was described as a Gardener (Club Grounds) and Georgina as a general domestic servant. Georgina's father, Thomas LONG, was a deceased licensed victualler, Henry's was Henry Edward Foster a general labourer. The witnesses were John ASPLIN and A ASPLIN, Georgina's stepfather and mother.
In 1934 and 1936, Gordon Thomas LONG lived with Jim and Victoria, although he was named in the Electoral Register as Gordon Thomas ASPLIN.
According to family "legend", recently-widowed Henry James advertised for a housekeeper to look after his three young children, and along came Victoria May Hudson and her 18-month-old daughter Thelma. Jim and Victoria married in 1930 and had four further daughters at 31 (& later 29) Vegal Crescent, before moving to 41 Crown Road Virginia Water when Henry took up a post as groundsman on the Wentworth Golf Course.
Photographs of the family are not plentiful in my collection. This is Henry James at the wedding of Thelma in 1951, only six months before he died. The four daughters of Henry and Victoria are pictured at Thelmas wedding in 1951.
Cecil was in the RAF; this is a picture of him in uniform. He died in 1960 from liver cancer due to cirrhosis (not alchoholic), at the young age of 35. At the time of his death, he and Henny were living at 135b High Street Staines, and he was the assistant manager of a radio retailers. Henny is named on the death certificate as "H. A. Foster, widow of deceased" See Cecil's page for more information about him and Henny.
They were living at Vegal Crescent, Englefield Green at the time of Georgina's death. Henry James advertised for a housekeeper to look after his three young children, and along came Victoria May Hudson and her daughter Thelma. Jim and Victoria married in 1930 and had four further daughters at 31 (& later 29) Vegal Crescent, before moving to 41 Crown Road Virginia Water when Henry took up a post as groundsman on the Wentworth Golf Course.
Victoria May HUDSON is still a bit of an enigma. I know that she was living with her mother Rosina, who was estranged from her father Walter, in 1911. In 1921, Victoria May was living with her aunt and uncle, Thomas James Peck and Phoebe nee Bryer, at 30 Arlington Road St Pancras. She gave 30 Lady Somerset Road as her address when she registered Thelma's birth in Sep 1928, but she was not registered to vote at that address before or after 1928. She and Thelma also lived with Ellen South at Shalford near Guildford SRY for a time, when Thelma was small, but she was not registered to vote there either so cannot have been a longtime resident. My memories of Victoria (Nana Fos) are recorded here.
Footnote: I have reason to believe that, sometime in 1927/8, Victoria May had a liaison with a gentleman called Harry SMITH which resulted in the birth of Thelma. Harry was Polish/Ukrainian and Jewish, and had emigrated to the UK in about 1907; he had been married since 1920 to a lady named Harriett/May WELCH. I have two pieces of evidence which cause me to believe this:
1. DNA evidence linking me closely to descendents of his brothers and sisters
2. Victoria May and Thelma lodged at 30 Lady Somerset Road St Pancras shortly after Thelma's birth in 1928, a house belonging to, and occupied by, Elizabeth WELCH, Harry's mother-in-law.
Where They Lived
1901 - 9a Busaco Street Clerkenwell MDX; Victoria May HUDSON living with her parents and siblings. Busaco Street was in Pentonville, built between 1808 and 1810 on the then Penton Estate. "The only fresh street laid out after that [1808] was Wellington (later Busaco) Street, an afterthought in the form of a long cul-de-sac tucked in from about 1810 between the backs of houses in Cumming and Southampton Streets north of Collier Street." [British History website]
1911 - 30 All Saints Street King's Cross Islington MDX; Victoria May HUDSON living with her mother and siblings.
1921 - 30 Arlington Road St Pancras MDX; Victoria May HUDSON living with her aunt and uncle, Thomas James Peck and Phoebe nee Bryer.
1921 - Henry James FOSTER was lodging in Egham with John and Annie ASPLIN and their grandson Gordon ASPLIN, born Gordon Thomas LONG to Annie's daughter Georgina Annie, later to become Henry James' wife. Henry James, always known as James or Jim, was a gardener employed by Mr Tollemache of Englefield Green.
1925 - 55 Harvest Road, Englefield Green SRY; home of both Henry James and Georgina, at the time of their marriage. This is the address Georgina also gave on Cecil's birth certificate in 1924.
1928 - 30 Lady Somerset Road St Pancras MDX; Victoria May HUDSON and daughter Thelma were lodging here in Sept 1928, just after Thelma was born.
1929 - 1940 - 31 Vegal Crescent Englefield Green SRY; Henry James FOSTER was living here at the time of wife Georgina's death.
1940 - 1951 - 41 Crown Road Virginia Water SRY; Henry, Victoria, and five daughters, plus grandpa Hudson (until 1943), lived in a 2 bedroom house close to Wentworth Golf Course, where Henry was a groundsman.
Some time after Henry's death in December 1951, Victoria moved to a small bungalow in Staines MDX, close by Phyllis who lived at 43 Wapshott Road Staines. Some time in the 1960s, she moved in with daughter Georgina and her family at 42 Burgess Avenue Kingsway, north London.
Family Group Identifiers
Family: FOSOXF1
Family Group: foster150