Census records connected with Beddomes

Census records connected with Richard B Beddome.

From England and Wales Census, 1851, for Clapham Common:

There are five servants - nurse, parlour maid, cook, housemiad, boy servant.

From England and Wales Census, 1861, for Clapham Common:

There are four servants - the groom is John Constable, from Limpsfield. There is also a visitor's servant (presumably of the Charlesworths).

From England and Wales Census, 1871, for number Clapham Common:

There are five servants - cook, parlour maid, 2 house maids, groom). The groom is Frank Constable, from Limpsfield.

Comments:

In 1871, both Martha and John are adult, unmarried and living at home. (John dies in 1876 - see Probates connected with Richard Beddome).

Florence Charlesworth is also there, whether living with them or on a visit. She doesn't have anyone else from her family with her.

In these census records, there are four or five servants. In "Memories of Childhood and Girlhood" by Maud Ballington Booth, it says that her family had ten servants while in Limpsfield, a rural parish, but this dropped to five when they moved to Limehouse, London, and that included two servants looking after the children. Maud also describes her grandfather, Richard Beddome, as "wealthy and very generous to all his children and grandchildren". There are two grooms in Richard Beddome's household at different times. They come from Limpsfield, the original parish of his son-in-law Rev. Samuel Charlesworth. He was rector there in 1857, when he married Maria Beddome. They moved to Limehouse around 1869.

See Probates connected with Richard Beddome for his personal estate at death.

Census records connected with Samuel Beddome (son of Boswell Beddome, not my direct ancestor).

From England and Wales Census, 1851, for Islington, 2 Crescent Road:

There are two servants - one is a cook.

There are two servants - a housemaid and a cook.

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