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SPURDENS family
an account of Samuel SPURDENS, father-in-law to George Henry FULLMAN by (SA)
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| Samuel SPURDENS was born in 1845 at 92 Broadwall, St. Saviours, Surrey. He's on the 1851 census at 42 Oakley St. age 6.
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I at last found Samuel in 1860 / 61... I was looking through microfilm of lists of apprentices to see if William was apprenticed to a chef. No joy, but there was Samuel SPURDENS, 14, apprenticed on 6 March 1860, (parents dead) to Benjamin BROWN, Tinman of 42 Oakley St. Lambeth.
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In the 1861 Census Benjamin and Elizabeth BROWN are still living at 42 Oakley St. Lambeth with 22 others - 4 families in total. Samuel SPURDENS, 15, is with them, apprentice Tinman. In fact Benjamin's first wife Elizabeth BROWN witnessed both Sarah SPURDENS Senior and youngest child, Selina Maria's deaths when they were living at this address and William SPURDENS Senior also died there in 1853. Presumably they all shared the house and as both William and Benjamin were Tinmen, were friends and witnessed William's and Sarah's deaths. Benjamin and family are not there in 1851, though.
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This is the same Benjamin BROWN who married Sam and Will's older sister Susan Harriet SPURDENS in 1877. Susan and Benjamin were the witnesses to Samuel and Eliza STROUD's marriage in 1879 (see below).
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Samuel first married in 1868 to Annie SMEED. In 1871 and still at the time of Jane Georgina's birth (Jinnie) in 1876 they were living in 29 Isabella St, Lambeth. Harriet Susan gives this address as her abode in 1876 during her acrimonious divorce from William HUMPHREYS.
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Annie died in March qtr. 1878. There's an Alfred Benjamin SPURDENS born and died Lambeth 1878 that is probably their son as well. Possibly she died in childbirth?
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Samuel was a widower at the time of his marriage to Mary Eliza STROUD in 1879. He was 33, with 2 children and she was 16. They both lived in Alpha Square (no. 17 and 23.) The Marriage Certificate omits the s at the end of SPURDENS. Witnesses were Benjamin (who apprenticed him in 1860 when his parents died) and Susan BROWN (his sister). The marriage was conducted by James BADEN-POWELL. Initially they lived at 35, Farmers Rd., Newington, Surrey (1881 census).
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By the time Frederick was born, they were living at 15, Ellis Square, Newington. Later they moved to 28, Leroy St., Old Kent Rd., near Tower Bridge. William and Jessie were christened in St. Olaves Church.
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Mary Eliza died in 1901. Samuel later went into a nursing home, also called St. Olaves. After Mary's death, three of the children were put into Orphanages - Agnes, Jessie and William in Shirley Schools, near Croydon, Surrey.
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In a letter to Florence, Samuel sadly refers to the fact that he will "never see the child (Annie) again, as Jinny is taking her to Canada." This was in 1907. In an email dated 26 Jan 2006, Bill SPURDENS comments: "Regarding Grandfather's letter, the date on the letter is May 1907, and I would guess that, just after the letter was written Aunt Jenny and Harry with Aunt Anne left for Canada".
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In 1911 Samuel SPURDENS is in the Bermondsey Parish Infirmary, Lower Rotherhithe Rd. as a patient. He died in 1913 and is buried in Nunhead Cemetry, Grave no. 31216. (SA) |
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This page last updated
4 March, 2011
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