Elizabeth Alice Annie Cronin
Biography
Elizabeth Alice Annie Cronin was born on 27 November 1884 at 7 Wyndham Street, Marylebone, Middlesex, eldest daughter of Edward Thomas and Elizabeth Cronin.[1] The 1891 census finds her parents living at 25 Catherine Street (now Catherine Place), just south of St James's Park, but neither Elizabeth nor her sister Kate were living there;[2] they were living with their maternal grandmother, Mary Anne Whitfield, in Rowdown, Denny Lodge, Hampshire.[3] Elizabeth's father Edward died in 1896,[4] and her mother remarried. In 1901, Elizabeth was living with her step-father David Ritchie at 11 Brown Street, Marylebone, and working as a dress-maker.[5] In the following census, she is still with her mother and step-father, but now at 38 Nutford Place, Marylebone.[6]
On 22 March 1913 she married Douglas Charles Scheu (known as Charles or Charlie) at St Mary Bryanston Square, Marylebone.[7] Constance, their only child, was born fifteen months later.[8] In the month following the British declaration of war on Germany on 4 August 1914, Charles volunteered to serve in the army and was stationed with the Royal Flying Corps in France from 1915 to the end of the war.[9] Sometime between the wars, Charles, Elizabeth and Constance moved to 69 Bowes Road, Palmers Green, Middlesex,[10] where Charles and Elizabeth remained until the 1960s,[11] at which time they moved to School Road in Hythe, Hampshire, where Constance had moved when she married. A few years later Constance, her husband Arthur, and their children moved in with them.[12] Elizabeth died in the first quarter of 1965, aged 80,[13] and Charles died on 4 April 1968 in Lymington Hospital, aged 83.[14]
Children
- Constance Frances Scheu (1914–1978). Married Arthur Thomas Banks (1905–2002).
Sources
- ↑ Birth certificate for Elizabeth Alice Annie Cronin, born 27 Nov 1884, St Mary's subdistrict of Marylebone, Middlesex.
- ↑ The National Archives. 1891 census for Knightsbridge, London, England (RG12/83), fol 11, p 16. Edward Cronin's household. Digital images on Ancestry.com.
- ↑ The National Archives. 1891 census for Fawley, Hampshire, England (RG12/911), fol 103, p 10. Annie Whitfield's household. Digital images on Ancestry.com.
- ↑ The National Archives : General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes — Deaths. Digital images on FreeBMD.
- ↑ The National Archives. 1901 census for St Marylebone, London, England (RG13/110), fol 114, p 10. David Ritchie's household. Digital images on Ancestry.com.
- ↑ The National Archives. 1911 census for Marylebone, London, England (RG14/516), sched 59. David Ritchie's household. Digital images on Ancestry.com.
- ↑ Marriage certificate for Douglas Charles Scheu and Elizabeth Alice Annie Cronin, on 22 Mar 1913, St Mary's Bryanston Square in the parish of St Marylebone, London. Original held by Richard Smith.
- ↑ Birth certificate (short form) for Constance Frances Scheu, born 27 Jun 1914, Highbury subdistrict of Islington, Middlesex. Original held by Richard Smith.
- ↑ The National Roll of the Great War, section III "London", p 210. 1920–22. Digital images on Ancestry.com.
- ↑ The National Archives : General Register Office. 1939 register for district , Southgate, Middlesex, England (RG101/0891F), p 891F. Digital images on FindMyPast.
- ↑ Information provided to Richard Smith by his mother, Constance's daughter.
- ↑ Information provided to Richard Smith by Arthur Banks, Charles's son-in-law.
- ↑ The National Archives : General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes — Deaths. Digital images on Ancestry.com.
- ↑ Death certificate for Douglas Charles Scheu, in the Lymington subdistrict and New Forest district of Hampshire. Original held by Richard Smith.
