Samuel Averill Elton ARCA (abt. 1827 - 1886)

Born about 1827 in Newnham, Forest Of Dean, Gloucestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Averill) Elton — married about Dec 1848 in St Geo Han Sqr, London, England

Descendants

Died 15 Jun 1886 at about age 59 in Darlington,Teeside, Durham, England

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Biography

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1827

Christening: ^[1]

Date: 16 Sep 1827

Place: Newnham,Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England

Year: 1827

Month: Sep

Day: 16

Parents_Surname: ELTON

Child_Forenames: Samuel

Fathers_Forenames: Elijah

Mothers_Forenames: Sarah

Mothers_Surname:

Residence: Newnham

Occupation: Shoe maker

Officiating_Minister: Geo[rge] Ridout Off[iciating] Minister

Event: Baptism

Memoranda:

Notes:

Register_Reference: P228 IN 1/5

Page_Number: 61

Parish_Chapel: Newnham

Marriage

Marriage: ^[2]

Date: Dec 1848

Name: Samuel Averill ELTON

Spouse: Hannah AVERILL

Source: http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

Marriages Dec 1848 (>99%)

Elton Samuel St Geo Han Sqr. 1 48

Foreman Hannah Averill St Geo Han Sq 1 48

Children

Emily, dau b. 1850 Pimlico, Middx d.1938

Herbert Averill, son b. 1851 Pimlico, Middx

Alfred Michael, son b. 1852 Hanover Sq, Middx d.1858 Darlington

Edgar Averill, son, b 1859 Darlington, m.1893 Carlisle, d.1923

Eleanor Averill b.1896

Samuel Averill b.5 Feb 1900 m.1926 d.1971

June A b.1929 Darlington m.1955

Frederic Samuel, son, b 1861 Darlington d.1861

Gertrude, 8, dau, b 1862 Darlington d.1948

Eleanor, 6, dau, b 1864 Darlington d.1884

Arthur A, son, b 1866 Darlington m.1899 Carlisle d.1943

married Violet Teasdale Lowthian b.1866 Carlisle d.1960 Hull

Census

Census

Date: 1841

Place: Newnham St, , ,

Source: 1841 Census for England, Scotland & Wales

Occupation:App Painter

Household

Name Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born

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ELTON, Elijah M 35 1806 Shoemaker Gloucestershire

ELTON, Elizabeth F 30 1811 Gloucestershire

ELTON, Samuel M 13 1828 App Painter Gloucestershire

ELTON, Sarah F 9 1832 Gloucestershire

ELTON, Elizabeth F 5 1836 Gloucestershire

ELTON, Emma F 4 1837 Gloucestershire

ELTON, Horriett F 2 1839 Gloucestershire

ELTON, Thomas M 0 (3 months) 1841 Gloucestershire

FEREMAN, James M 35 1806

BIRT, Robert M 20 1821 Gloucestershire

BIRT, Charlotte F 20 1821 Gloucestershire

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RG number:HO107 Piece:369 Book/Folio:26 Page:18

Registration District:Westbury on Severn Sub District:Newnham Enumeration District: Ecclesiastical Parish:

Civil Parish:Newnham Municipal Borough: Address:Newnham St, Newnham County:Gloucestershire

Census

Date: 1851

Place: 29, Caroline Street, Saint George Hanover Square , ,

Source: 1851 Census for England, Scotland & Wales

Occupation:Painter

Household

Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Disability Where Born

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ELTON, Samuel Head Married M 24 1827 Painter Newham Gloucestershire

ELTON, Hannah Wife Married F 24 1827 Newham Gloucestershire

ELTON, Emily Daughter F 1 1850 Pimlico Middlesex

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RG number:HO107 Piece:1477 Folio:226 Page:60

Registration District:Saint George Hanover Square Sub District:Belgrave Enumeration District:8H Ecclesiastical Parish:St Paul

Civil Parish:Saint George Hanover Square Municipal Borough:Westminster Address:29, Caroline Street, Saint George Hanover Square, Westminster County:Middlesex

Census

Date: 1871

Place: Blakeney, 17 Westbrook Villas Darlington,Teeside, Durham, England

Source: 1871 Census for England, Scotland & Wales

Household

Samuel Averill 43 techer, govt sch of art, b Newnham, Gloucester

Hannah 44 wife b Newnham, glouc

Emily 21 , dau, b. Pimlico, Middx

edgar averill, 11, son, b d'ton

gertrude, 8, dau, b d'ton

eleanor, 6, dau, b d'ton

arthur, 4, son, b d'ton

Census

Date: 1881

Place: Blakeney, 17 Westbrook Villas Darlington,Teeside, Durham, England

Source: 1881 Census for England, Scotland & Wales

Occupation:Art Master Gov School Of Art (Teacher)

Household

Dwelling: 17 Westbrook Villas

Census Place: Darlington, Durham, England

Source: FHL Film 1342176 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 4889 Folio 23 Page 4

Marr Age Sex Birthplace

Samuel ELTON M 53 M Newmanham, Gloucester, England Rel: Head Occ: Art Master Gov School Of Art (Teacher)

Hannah ELTON M 54 F Rel: Wife

Emily ELTON U 31 F Pimlico, Middlesex, England Rel: Daur Occ: No Occupation

Gertrude ELTON U 18 F Darlington, Durham, England Rel: Daur Occ: Scholar

Eleanor ELTON 16 F Darlington, Durham, England Rel: Daur Occ: Scholar

Arthur ELTON 14 M Darlington, Durham, England Rel: Son Occ: Scholar

Betsy SYKES 16 F Darlington, Durham, England Rel: Serv Occ: Domestic Servant

Career

Samuel Averill Elton, ARCA 1827-1886

Landscape and coastal painter in oil and water colour; art teacher. He was born in Newnham, Gloucestershire. While living in Darlington he exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Suffolk St Gallery and also at the Arts Association and Bewick Club Exhibitions in Newcastle from their foundation. His Royal Academy exhibits were Mousehold Heath, Norwich (1874), and Purple Iris (1884). Suffolk St Gallery exhibits: A study near Rokeby (1860); Whitby Sands (1880).

After the opening of the Mechanic’s Institute in Skinnergate in 1854, a number of local gentlemen decided to form an art class with Mr J Morse Sparkes as tutor. In 1857 Samuel Averill Elton was appointed art master, the school received grants and became known as the Government School of Art. In 1865 he moved with his wife and family to a specially built house in Westbrook Villas, now No 21 where the family remained until the 20th Century. Samuel was art master for 28 years till his death on June 15 1886. He is buried in the West Cemetery. Represented in Victoria & Albert Museum, Bowes Museum and Darlington Art Gallery.

Westbrook Villas, Darlington

About Westbrook Villas

TUCKED away off High Northgate is one of Darlington's most unusual residential streets.

Westbrook Villas is a beautiful tree-lined street of high quality Victorian houses built along the banks of the Cocker Beck on land which belonged to the Stockton & Darlington Railway and the Pease family of railway pioneers. Immediately prior to the starting of building in the street in 1864 it had been Henry Pease’s pleasure garden with a temple and hot houses and the Cocker Beck running through the middle.

The houses were built mainly in the 1860s on the pleasure gardens of Henry Pease of Pierremont. The villas' front gardens run down to the west brook Cocker Beck and their back is bounded by a high, sandstone wall which is where the original coal drops of the Stockton and Darlington Railway were. ::Westbrook Villas produced three well known local artists: Samuel Elton and his son, Edgar both of whom headed the art school at the Mechanics Institute, and Victor William Hobson, who died of consumption in Tenerife in 1889 aged just 24. All three are represented in the Darlington art Centre collection.

Some other facts

1854 mechanics inst open

1857 elton appointed art master

15 sept 1864 built house in westbrook villas

Mrs h elton remained in westbrook till death in 1904, Emily was there till 1912-13 (voters register)

There is a name on the front of their house which reads 'Blakeney'

Northern Echo 10.5.89 tells of 50 oil paintings found in attic in d'ton.

There are 2 paintings in the V&A by samuel, both on our website: view in river tees & old mill on the eden. V&A refs AL2089 & AL4359.

Samuel exhibited in the RA 1874 &1884.

Death

Death: ^[3]

Date: 15 Jun 1886

Place: Darlington,Teeside, Durham, England

Sources

• Information researched by Jeremy Corney
• 1841 Census for England, Scotland & Wales
• 1851 Census for England, Scotland & Wales
• 1871 Census for England, Scotland & Wales
• 1881 Census for England, Scotland & Wales

1. ↑ www.forest-of-dean.org.uk/
2. ↑ http://www.freebmd.org.uk/
3. ↑ http://www.freebmd.org.uk/