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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Essex => Topic started by: ruthhelen on Wednesday 04 May 16 16:10 BST (UK)
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I wonder if anyone else has come across this family, or can shed any light on what happened to them? The only concrete evidence I have of them all together comes from the 1891 census in Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, as follows:
Rupert Graham, head, married, 57, printer & publisher, Essex, Chelmsford
Emma Graham, wife, married, 33, Essex, Cold Norton
Cicely/Cecily Graham, daughter, 10, scholar, Essex, Maldon
Cuthbert Graham, son, 8, scholar, Essex, Maldon
Hilda M Graham, daughter, 5, scholar, Essex, Maldon
Harold V Graham, son, 4, scholar, Essex, Maldon
Leo Graham, son, 3, Middlesex, Sunbury
Percy L Graham, son, 3, Middlesex, Sunbury
Louis Graham, son, 1, Middlesex, Sunbury
With such distinctive names for the children, you’d think it would be relatively easy to track them down, but it seems not ::)
I have found birth records for the three youngest boys, born in Middlesex - Percy Leo S Graham and Leo Vincent S Graham were twins, Leo died in 1892, aged 3, the death was registered in Tendring, Essex. The youngest son, Louis Wilfred S Graham, surfaces again in Tendring in 1907, where he marries Violet Castleton Johnson. He died in Chelmsford in 1958.
I believe Emma Graham could be Emma Devenish, born in April 1858 to Thomas Devenish and Lydia Sach, but I can find no trace of a marriage between her and Rupert Graham, nor can I find her after 1891 (or in 1881 either, when she is presumably already married).
And that is pretty much the sum of what I have ;D No trace at all of the other children, nor of father Rupert Graham, either before or after 1891. The only other possibility is the death of a Rupert Graham of the right age in Cambridge in 1899.
The only other piece of information I’ve managed to glean about the elusive Rupert Graham is from random newspaper adverts across the regional press in the late 1880s, where he is advertising various publications for sale - the address is given as Holloway House, Sunbury, Middlesex - the address he appears at in the 1891 census. As a slightly curious twist, he’s also quoted as a testimonial in an advert for some ‘cure’ for rheumatism, where he signs as Rupert Graham, Graham & Son Publishers - same address as before… ???
Google has so far failed to provide any further information about Rupert and his publishing empire - Holloway House doesn’t appear to exist any longer, although the pub next door in the 1891 census - The Britannia - is still in French Street, Sunbury, now called The Jockey… :D
I fear I may be forced to get the 1899 death cert for the Rupert Graham who died in Cambridge in 1899, if only to rule him in or out...
Ruth
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Have you identified the "S" middle name that Percy, Leo and Louis seem to have had in common in case that turns out to be an alternative surname used by the family?
E.g. I see a birth for a Cecily Osyth Savile in Maldon, Mar qtr 1881.
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I was just looking at this one ::)
Births Mar 1883
Cuthbert St John W Savile
Maldon 4a 416
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Also further Savile births in Maldon:
Dec qtr 1879: Flora Mary E Savile (died Mar qtr 1880)
Mar qtr 1883: Cuthbert St John W Savile
Dec qtr 1884: Saint Hilda E J Savile
Sep qtr 1886: Harold Vivian Savile
Cross-post re Cuthbert with Rosie :)
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Excellent spot avm228 and rosie99 ;D I think you might be on to something... Off to do some further digging...
Ruth
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The 1881 census shows this family in Maldon:
William Saville Head Mar 47 Hawker Travelling Stationer Essex Pleshey
Emma do Wife Mar 23 Dressmaker Essex Cold Norton
Cecily O do Daur 2mo Essex Maldon
RG11/1776/27/11.
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Just about to post those births and
Mar 1881 Maldon has
Cecily Osyth Savile
I think we are in business :D
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The death of a William Saville in Maldon in Jun qtr 1890 aged 53 may or may not be relevant.
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Bingo - Emma Devenish married William Savil in London in 1879 ;D
So... with the death of William Saville in 1890 (assuming that is he...), Emma married again perhaps..?
Ruth
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Or are William and Rupert the same person and he changed his name for some reason?
Realms of fantasy Jones!
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By 1950, Percy seems to have changed his surname to Rogers.
Percy Leo Rogers made a statutory declaration on 7 January 1950 as follows:
That to the best of my knowledge and belief I was born at Sunbury in the county of Middlesex on the sixteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and eighty eight and that the certificate already furnished to the Civil Service Commissioners of the birth on that date of PERCY LEO SAVILL, son of RUPERT AND EMMA GRAHAM, relates to me.
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Good grief - well, there's definitely a fair bit of name-changing going on in this family, that's for sure :o And certainly explains why I couldn't find any of the children. Except Louis Wilfred, who seems to have kept the Graham surname - he's my route into this conundrum, he's the maternal grandfather of my step father.
I wonder what father William/Rupert was hiding (from)...?
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Holloway House doesn’t appear to exist any longer, although the pub next door in the 1891 census - The Britannia - is still in French Street, Sunbury, now called The Jockey… :D
I think The Jockey was demolished a couple of years ago ::)
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I think The Jockey was demolished a couple of years ago ::)
I wondered if it might have been - when you run down the street on Google Street View, it's boarded up... :-\
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Cecily may or may not be the Cecily St O Savile who married Albert Jennings or George Tomlin in Kensington, Sep qtr 1912.
The other bride on the page was Maude M North.
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The death of a William Saville in Maldon in Jun qtr 1890 aged 53 may or may not be relevant.
Apologies - I reproduced FreeBMD's error as to William's age at death. It is in fact 63 both on the typed GRO index and on his burial in Maldon, 21 May 1890.
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This is getting even more complex - if that were possible :o
I think I've found Percy Graham/Savile/Rogers in 1901 in Great Clacton, with brother Harold and brother Lewis (sic) - all have taken the surname Rogers and are identified as step-sons. And mother Emma is there too, married to David W Rogers - there's a marriage between an Emma Devenish and a David William Rogers in Tendring in 1892...
So that William Saville death in 1890 is starting to look like a possibility...
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So that William Saville death in 1890 is starting to look like a possibility...
No... wait a minute... that's nonsense if William Saville and Rupert Graham are the same person, cos they're in Sunbury in 1891... Unless they're not, and the lovely Emma Devenish managed to get another husband in... :o
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Harold died as Harold Vivian Savile in Battersea on 28 October 1948, aged 62.
Probate was granted in January 1949 to Violet Constance Savile, widow.
Oddly the likely marriage for them (Jun qtr 1948 Paddington, so a short marriage if so) shows them as
Harold V BURDEN
Violet C VIVIAN or HUM.
Sorry - red herring, now deleted.
Harold V SAVILE married Violet C DEACON in Tendring, Mar qtr 1915.
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I have come at Rupert Graham from a different direction, trying to help a colleague wanting to know more about him. What we do know from some rare surviving publications and ephemera is this -
He was a publisher of pamphlets on horse and human health, and seller of remedies, originally based at the "Horse Doctor" Office, 174 Third Avenue, Manor Park, Essex, and subsequently as Graham and Son at Sunbury-on-Thames. He corresponds to the 1891 census return quoted in this thread. He designated himself FRHS, presumably Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, a designation only possible after 1861 when Royal Charter was granted to the Society. From an advertisement leaflet it seems that the business was founded in 1854 and he claims to have written several books on Horse and Cattle Doctoring, none of which have been traced. The books were heavily advertised in newspapers between 1892-4, from Sunbury.
Our question is much the same - what happened to him and who was he. His "publishing empire" seems to have just evaporated.
Hope this is of some help. Any further information gratefully received.
Andrew.