OTTAWAY of Chobham Chart no. 160

	(1) Charles Edward WENT		(2) William Frederick OTTAWAY		Mary Ann HARRISON
	b. circa 1856		b. 15 Jul 1861 at The Workhouse Chertsey SRY		b. 6 Nov 1857 at Thorpe SRY
					m. (1) 20 Aug 1876 at St Peter Battersea SRY (2) unknown
			d. 7 Jul 1900 at Charing Cross Hospital Strand London, aged 39		d. 27 Jan 1904 at Addlestone SRY, aged 47
	Bricklayer (1877)		Stonemason's Labourer (1881) Road Mender		Laundry Workwoman (1901)

Their Children

Louisa WENT	Frederick William Went OTTAWAY	Ada Emily	Charles Edward	Arthur Henry	William	Lucy Ellen	Rose Elizabeth
b. 13 Oct 1876 at Newtown Rusthall Tunbridge Wells KEN [cert.]	b. 15 Apr 1880 at Chobham SRY	b. 1882 at Chobham SRY	b. 12 Aug 1885 at Chobham SRY	bap. 1 Dec 1889 at Addlestone SRY	b. 1892 bp. 15 Jan 1893 at Addlestone SRY	b. 24 Nov 1893 at Addlestone SRY	b. 1899 Chertsey RD SRY
m. James Ernest COWARD 9 Jan 1909 at St Peter's Lindal with Marton LAN	m. Rose Emily Mary BIDDLE 3 Jul 1909 St Mary Staines MDX	m. Walter Leonard GARRAD 11 Apr 1910 at St Thomas Nottingham, NTT	m. (1) Ellen WARD 28 Oct 1905 at St Mary Staines MDX (2) Constance Gertrude LUKER			m. William Herbert BUTLER 13 Jul 1921 at St Jude's Englefield Green Egham SRY
d. 21 Feb 1950 at Chorleywood HRT, aged 73	d. 1912 at Staines MDX, aged 30 bur. 9 Mar 1912 at Staines MDX	d. 1945 Sheffield YKS, aged 72 [?]	d. 18 May 1962 at 25 Richmond Road Staines MDX, aged 77zz	d. 27 Mar 1968 at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital Taplow BKM	d. 16 Jan 1893 at Addlestone SRY	d. 1974 at Upton Park Hospital Slough BKM cremated 19 Dec 1974 Slough Crematorium	d. 1899 Chertsey RD SRY, aged 0

Who They Were

William Frederick and Mary Ann were my great-grandparents; I am not entirely sure that they were married. I came to this conclusion when I investigated the origins of their daughter Louisa; I could find no birth record for her, even though on the census records she was most specific about her age and place of birth, Tunbridge Wells. I was also suspicious about William Frederick, because he was very young himself to have been her father, only 15 when Louisa was born. Then, too, was the second born Frederick, whose middle name was WENT; when I put two and two together, I found that Mary Ann had been married to a Mr Charles Went, who was the registered father of Louisa, who was indeed born in 1876 in Tunbridge Wells. I can find no record of Mr Went dying, so I concluded that Mary Ann left him, took her daughter and went home to Chobham. When she discovered she was again pregnant, she needed a father for the child, and her mother's nephew by marriage, William Frederick, stepped into the breach. I have blogged about this family tangle in more detail here.
It was very difficult to establish that William Frederick was part of this family [see the separate explanation here].
William Frederick died at the age of only 39, of Aortic Aneurism Rupture Haemorrhage. Mary Ann also died very young, of Heart disease and Gangrene of right leg. After being orphaned at the age of 11, Lucy Ellen went to live with her sister Ada Emily, for a time, in Nottingham.

Where They Lived

In 1876 when she married Charles Went, Mary Ann was living at 4 Wiltshire Terrace Battersea. In 1881, Mary Ann was living on her own (although next door to future mother-in-law Eliza Smithers) with children Louisa and Frederick, in Burrow Hill, Chobham. In 1891, William was back in the family, living at Victor Cottages, Addlestone, SRY. In 1901, William was dead, and Mary Ann was living with Charles, Arthur, and Nelly (Lucy) at 5 Victoria Street Addlestone.

Family Group Identifiers

Family: OTTSRY01
Family Group: ottaway0160