High Halden, Kent

William Brown Staveley was born in St. Alban Wood Street, London in 1810, the son of Richard Henry Thomas Staveley and Mary Ann FYFE.  Prior to residing in High Halden, William and his wife, Eleanor ELWIN, were living in Falmer, Sussex:

1861: The Rectory, Halden Street, High Halden, Kent, England

 William B. STAVELEY   Head   M   Male   51   London, Middlesex, England   Rector of High Halden
 Eleanor STAVELEY   Wife   M   Female   53   St. Pancras, Middlesex, England   
 Eleanor STAVELEY   Daur   U   Female   25  Over Darwen, Lancashire, England   
 Elizabeth STAVELEY   Daur   U   Female  19   Falmer, Sussex, England   
 Catherine F. STAVELEY  Daur  U  Female  15  Falmer, Sussex, England   Scholar
 Jane E. O. STAVELEY  Daur  U  Female  13  Falmer, Sussex, England   Scholar
 Lydia C. E. STAVELEY  Daur  U  Female  11  Falmer, Sussex, England   Scholar
 Henrietta STAVELEY  Daur  U  Female  6  Falmer, Sussex, England   Scholar
 Elizabeth ELWIN  Mother in Law  W  Female  83  Pentonville, Middlesex, England  
 Eliza PLUMMER  Serv  U  Female  29  Hadlow Down, Sussex, England  Cook
 Ann FAGG  Serv  U  Female  22  Whitfield, Kent, England  Housemaid

 

Son Richard is missing from the household in 1861, and has not been located in the 1861 census.  William and Eleanor's daughter, Lydia Caroline Elwin Staveley, died in Kent in 1864.

In 1861 William and Eleanor's son, William Robert Staveley, is found in Newhaven, Sussex.  The following year he married Mary Gertrude JACKSON on October 8, 1862 in Brighton, Sussex.  Their family is residing in Newhaven in 1871, except for their daughter Gertrude Jane Staveley, who is visiting with her Grandparents in Kent during the 1871 census:

1871: Rectory House, Halden Street, High Halden, Kent, England

 William B. STAVELEY   Head   M   Male   61   St. Albans Wood, London, Middlesex, England   Rector of Halden B. A.
 Eleanor STAVELEY   Wife   M   Female   63   St. Pancras, London, Middlesex, England   
 Henrietta STAVELEY  Daur  U  Female  16  Falmer, Sussex, England   
 Gertrude Jane STAVELEY   Gran Daur  U   Female   8  Newhaven, Sussex, England   Visiting

 

1881: Rectory, Halden Street, High Halden, Kent, England

William B. STAVELEY   Head   M   Male   71   London, Middlesex, England   Rector Of High Halden 
 Eleanor STAVELEY   Wife   M   Female   73   London St Pancras , Middlesex, England    
 William R STAVELEY   Son Visitor   M   Male   42   Falmer, Sussex, England   Civil Service Col Of Customs 
 Henrietta STAVELEY   Daur   U   Female   26   Falmer, Sussex, England    
 William STAVELEY   Grandson Visitor   U   Male   12   Newhaven, Sussex, England   Scholar 
 Ellen WILLS   Servant   U   Female   16   London, Middlesex, England   House Maid Domestic 
 Sarah A. ROBERTS   Servant   U   Female   23   London, Middlesex, England   Cook Domestic 

 

In 1881, daughter Catherine Fyfe Staveley is residing in a boarding house in Brighton:

1881: (Boarding House), 25 Black Lion St, Brighton, Sussex, England

Catherine F. STAVELEY   Boarder   U   Female   35   Sussex, England 

Catherine Fyfe Staveley died in Brighton, a spinster, in 1914 at the age of 68 years.

William's wife died in 1890, and later that same year, William Brown Staveley died in Kent at the age of 81 years.  There is a stone near the Chancel door of the church at High Halden that reads:

William Brown Staveley

for 26 years Rector of this Parish

born 22 May 1809, died 14 November 1890

Eleanor Staveley

Elizabeth Elwin

Eleanor Sophia Staveley

Lydia Caroline Elwin Staveley

 

In 1901 daughter Henrietta is living in St. Marylebone in London, unmarried, working as a traveller's aide.

 

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