Alfred Quartermaine (bef. 1826 - 1862)

Biography

Alfred Quartermaine was born in Oxfordshire, England.

Name: Alfred Quartermaine Sex: M AKA: Alfred Quartermain

Birth Date: Bef 22 Nov 1826 Place: Thame, Oxfordshire, England

Bap. Date: 22 Nov 1826 Place: Thame St Mary the Virgin, Thame, Oxfordshire, England Address: St Mary's Church, Church Road, Thame, Oxfordshire OX9 3AJ, England

Death Date: 1 Feb 1862 Place: Smithfield, Middlesex, England

Burial Date: 6 Feb 1862 Place: West of London and Westminster Cemetery, Brompton, Middlesex, England

Events 2. He was baptised Alfred Quartermaine, from Thame, son of Ann and Charles Henry Quartermaine, Cordwainer on 22 Nov 1826 in Thame St Mary the Virgin, Thame, Oxfordshire, England.

3. In the Census of 6 Jun 1841, Alfred Quartermaine, aged 14, born abt 1827 in Oxfordshire, living with [father], Charles Quartermaine, [mother], Ann Quartermaine (Vear), [brother], Stephen Quartermaine and [sisters], Ruth and Jane Quartermaine on 6 Jun 1841 at Priest End, Waterloo, Thame, Oxfordshire, England

4. Alfred Quartermaine, Bachelor, Aged Full, Porter from 22, Cornhill, son of Charles Quartermaine, Bootmaker, married Ann Elizabeth Burden, Spinster on 25 Nov 1849 in St Michael, Cornhill, London, Middlesex, England

5. In the Census of 30 Mar 1851, : Alfred Quartermaine, Porter, aged 24, born abt 1827 in Thame, Oxfordshire, married living with wife, Ann Quartermaine (Burden) on 30 Mar 1851 at 9, Well Street, St Giles Cripplegate, London, Middlesex, England

6. He worked as a Porter at baptism of son, Alfred on 29 Apr 1851 in Finsbury, Middlesex , England.

7. He worked as a Porter from 8 Queen Square WC1 (Bloomsbury) at birth of son, Charles Stephen Quartermaine on 17 Mar 1853 in Bloomsbury, London, Middlesex, England.

8. Marriage Certificate: Witness at brother, Stephen's wedding, on 23 Aug 1855, in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, England.

9. Tax Records: Cloth Fair taxes £3 1s. 3D., in 1856, in Aldersgate Within, London, Middlesex, England.

10. Tax Records: Queen Square taxes £3 1s. 3D., in 1855, in Farringdon Without, London, Middlesex, England.

11. He resided at 23, Cloth Fair (House) in 1859 in Farringdon Without, London, Middlesex, England.

12. Tax Records: Cloth Fair taxes £2 18s. 4D., in 1859, in St Bartholomew, London, Middlesex, England.

13. Tax Records: Cloth Fair taxes £2 18s. 4D., in 1860/1861, in St Bartholomew, London, Middlesex, England.

14. In the Census of 7 Apr 1861, : Alfred Quartermaine, Cheesemonger, aged 34, born abt 1827 in Thame, Oxon, married, living with wife, Ann Quartermaine (Burden), 2 sons, Alfred and Charles Quartermaine and 2 servants on 7 Apr 1861 at 23, Cloth Fair, St Bartholomew The Great, West Smithfield, London, Middlesex, England

15. Quartermaine Alfred, Age at Death: 35 born abt 1827, was registered as dying in the quarter of Jan-Mar 1862, in RD West London, London, Middlesex, England.

16. He set up a trust of £1,300 with income to Ann for life or marriage and the capital to his two children. £5 For his parents and siblings the residue to Ann on 25 Jan 1862 in West Smithfield, City of London.

17. He resided at at time of death on 1 Feb 1862 in London, Middlesex, England.

18. He was buried Alfred Quartermaine, aged 35, from 23, Cloth Fair, City, buried in a common grave on 6 Feb 1862 of London and Westminster Cemetery, Brompton, Middlesex, England.

19. Will of Alfred Quartermaine of Cloth Fair, W. Smithfield, Cheesemonger, proved by widow, the relict, Ann Elizabeth Quartermaine, brother, Stephen Quartermaine, police officer and cousin Henry Cox, of Westminster, Chemist on 26 Feb 1862 in London, Middlesex, England.

20. He worked as a Cheesemonger, deceased at baptism of son, Charles Henry on 20 Apr 1862 in Finsbury St Thomas Charterhouse, Holborn, Middlesex, England.

21. He worked as a Cheesemoger, deceased mentioned at marriage of son, Alfred Quartermaine to Mary Ann Elizabeth Wright on 5 Jul 1875.

22. He worked as a Cheesemonger, deceased mentioned at marriage of son, Charles Henry Quartermaine to Eugenie Henrietta Baker on 31 Jul 1875.

Father: Charles Henry Quartermaine (Bef 1796-1864)

Mother: Ann Vear (Bef 1794-Abt 1868)

Spouse: *Anne Elizabeth Burden (Abt 1831 - Abt 20 May 1896)

Marr. Date: 25 Nov 1849 Place: St Michael Cornhill, City of London, Middlesex, England

1 Alfred Quartermaine (1851-1921/1921)

2 Charles Stephen Quartermaine (1853-1938)

Children of Charles Quartermaine and Ann Vear

Alfred Quartermaine was born in Thame, a small town in Oxfordshire, son of Charles and Ann Quartermaine and the sixth child out of ten. Charles was a shoemaker, a respectable trade which enabled him to provide for his large family, although it is probable that life was never easy for them. Alfred witnessed three of his sisters, Virtue, Mary and Ann, die before he was twelve. His eldest brother, George, decided to try his luck in London, when George was about 22, when Alfred was still a child of 10. George had become a worker in a draper's shop by 1841 and two years later was marrying a young girl from Herefordshire, Susannah Harper, who had also joined the many young people emigrating to London from the provinces to find fortune in the capital. By 1843, George was working as a porter in Ludgate Hill, possibly for the same drapery, which was on the same road. Unfortunately, George became ill and died one year later, without having any children. It was about this time that Alfred and his two elder brothers, Henry and Abel also moved to London, although Henry and Abel probably went first. Maybe the funeral of their brother was the trigger for the brothers' move to London. Henry was working as a servant in 1841 in Thame but was lodging at his (probable) cousin's house in Thame High Street. In 1849, Henry was working as a servant and married Margaret Fortune in St Marylebone. Margaret had immigrated from a Wexford farm in Ireland and had probably also been working as a servant in London when she and Henry met. They were living in Chelsea in 1851, and he was still working as a servant. There does not seem to be any evidence that they had any children before Henry also died fairly young in 1860 aged 35. Abel was also working as a servant in 1841 and living with his employer, the Rev. Crawley Kerby in the small hamlet of Stoke Talmage in south Oxfordshire. Stoke Talmage had been where his three times great grandfather, Thomas Quartermaine had lived in the 17th century. However, shortly after George died in 1844, Abel began working as a police constable in Stepney in London and in 1845 had married Anna Marie Bird. This marriage did not prove successful because by 1847, Abel was living with another woman, Sarah Cooper and had two children by her, George born about 1847 and Jane born in 1849. Abel like so many of his family, died a young man aged 27 in May 1851. However two months earlier at the 1851 census, Abel was recorded as working as a coachman and servant and living with his employers, George and Lydia Barlow in Southwark. In the same census, Sarah is quoted as being married, calling herself, Sarah Quartermaine, working as a charwoman, and living with her two children in Newington, close to where Abel was working. Alfred was the next to try his luck in London and maybe a year or so after George died, when he was about 18, he must have joined his other two brothers. In 1841 he was fourteen and still living with his parents and his younger siblings, Ruth, Stephen and the baby, Jane, who was still only four. In 1844, when George died, Henry, Abel and Alfred were still in Oxfordshire, and they probably all went to the funeral. Alfred, I believe, may have been taken in and helped by his sister-in-law, and George's widow, Susannah. How soon after George's death, this happened is hard to say, but Alfred also was working as a porter, like George, when he himself married in November 1849. He married Anne Elizabeth Burden, the 16 year old daughter of Richard Burden, who was also a porter and was probably a co-worker of Alfred's. Ann was a Londoner and was born in Knightsbridge in 1833. Susannah was childless after George died, as I mentioned, and seems to have begun working as a cheesemonger, which would have involved having her own stall or shop. She was living very close to Alfred in central London in Bloomsbury, while Alfred was living in Cornhill. Susannah after four years of running her shop, remarried to George Spilsbury in 1849, two months before Alfred married. George Spilsbury was a leather dresser like his father when they married, and it seems that Susannah probably continued with her business, until she had her first child, Sarah Jane in 1850. By the 1851 census, Alfred was still a porter living in Cripplegate, with his heavily pregant wife, Ann. Susannah and George Spilsbury however had moved south of the river to Newington with their daughter and George Spilsbury was working as a warehouseman. It was probably at about this time that Susannah had decided to sell off her business in Cloth Fair to Alfred. Susannah soon had a son and had dedicated herself to her family. So began the upward social movement of Alfred and his family. Alfred had two children, Alfred junior in 1851, and Charles Stephen in 1853. Like most of his family, Alfred died a young man of only 35 years old in 1862, leaving a young wife and two children. However, his cheese business must have been very successful, because we know from his will, that he left £1,300 to his wife and children. This was a very substantial sum in 1862, and which in today's money might be upward of £100,000. Alfred junior became a butcher, but Charles became a very successful stock broker and wealthy banker. And we can see the consequences of Alfred's fortune and astute business Individual Report for Alfred Quartermaine Page 3 Produced by Legacy sense in taking over her sister-in-law's shop. By 1862, the year Alfred died, seven of Charles Henry and Ann Quartermaine's children had died. They themselves were still alive in Thame. Charles died two years later in 1864 and Ann died in 1868. Their two surviving daughters, Ruth and Jane were living in or near Thame. Ruth was married with a family living in Kingsey, which was less than a mile from Thame, although it was in Buckinghamshire. Jane had an illegitimate daughter, Mary Ann in 1853 and in 1861 Mary Ann was living with her grandparents. Jane was working as a servant in Thame. The youngest son, Stephen had already gone to follow his brothers to London. Stephen, unlike his short-lived brothers, survived to be 62 years old, but he had a chequered life. He left for London after about 1852, and became a police constable as his brother, Abel had done, in Merton, South London. His exact whereabouts in the 1851 Census aren't available, however he was already named as a constable in Merton, when he married Sarah Newman in 1855 in Tetsworth in Oxfordshire. He had six children with Sarah, before she died in 1870. He then married Sarah's sister, Mary Elizabeth and had two more children. Mary Elizabeth died in 1881, and Stephen married again to Fanny Richmond, a widow, named as Fanny Williams in 1884. In the 1871 census, Stephen was a lowly lamp-lighter and afterwards is named an odd job labourer and a foreman labourer on the Common. By 1891, Stephen was named as a railways signalman, but was interned in a hospital in Holdenhurst in Hampshire. He died the following year, a pauper, and his will states that he was a labourer and he left £41 and his executor was an unrelated labourer. There is no mention of his wife or his children in the probate summary. Stephen was one of the executors in Alfred's will in 1862, along with Ann, Alfred's widow. It isn't clear how close Alfred and Stephen were, however I believe Alfred maintained a fairly close bond with his younger brother. Alfred was already well established when Stephen was first married and was also one of the witnesses at Stephen's wedding. Stephen never was able to achieve much and his many children were a heavy weight on him. His nephews, Alfred junior and especially Charles Stephen, were already making their way upwards in the social stratus and they don't appear to have lent their impoverished uncle much assistance. However, their mother, Ann, who had married Charles Dow, but was already a widow again, was present as a witness for Stephen's last marriage to Fanny Richmond. This meant that Ann, at least, kept in touch with Stephen. Of the two surviving daughters, Ruth and Jane, only Ruth lived to old age. She died in 1903 at the age of 74, shortly before her husband of fifty years, Thomas Shepherd, a farm labourer, also died. They lived in Kingsey, near Thame, for their whole life and had three children. Jane, who had an illegitimate daughter, married soon after her father died in 1865, to Richard Addison, a chemist's assistant, in Camberwell, Surrey, close to where Stephen was living. Stephen is also mentioned as a witness. However, Richard died a year later and his death was registered in Thame, so it seems that either they had moved back to Thame or he died while they were visiting. Two years later, Jane married Charles Gibson in Brighton in Sussex. They don't seem to have had any children and she died in 1874 at the age of 37 in Thame. The only members of the family who lived to old age were Charles and Ann, the parents and Ruth. Is it a coincidence that they never left Thame. London seems to have consumed the others, and might have been the cause of the early deaths.

Martin Quartermaine, August 2016

Sources

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Ray Quartermain BMD Code ThM0058 GROM0064

Oxfordshire Parish Register Transcripts Thame Registration Distr. Vol. 1 Thame vol. 1 Baptisms p.342 Event nº 1621

Alfred Quartermaine in the Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915 Event Nº 1621 https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&r=5538&db=OxfordshireBaptisms&indiv=try&h=2017613

Alfred Quarterman in the 1841 England Census Event Nº 16550 http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1841&indiv=try&h=9432677

Alfred Quartermaine in the London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 Event Nº 16182 https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&r=an&db=LMAmarriages&indiv=try&h=21520266

Alfred Quartermaine in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915 Event Nº 10166 https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FreeBMDMarriage&indiv=try&h=23464235

Ray Quartermaine Research- Transcription of Marriage Certificate for Alfred Quartermaine Event nº 10166

Alfred Quartermaine in the 1851 Census Event nº 26304 https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1851&indiv=try&h=2904012

Ray Quartermaine Research- Transcription of Birth Certificate for son, Charles Stephen Quartermaine Event nº 6289

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England & Wales, electoral registers 1832-1932 for Alfred Quartermaine http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=bl%2fer%2fd14%2ffmp000007162%2f0406&parentid=bl%2fer%2fd14%2ffmp000007162%2f0406&highlights=%22%22

Alfred Quartermaine in the 1861 Census Event nº 26306 https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1861&indiv=try&h=8599053

England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915 about Alfred Quartermaine Event Nº 13052 https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=8914&h=27527792&ssrc=pt&tid=39342685&pid=19355345038&usePUB=true

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Middlesex, Brompton Cemetery records Transcription Event nº 24089 https://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbor%2fmiscbmds%2fdea%2f001110499%2f1&fulfillmentTypeKey=9436

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 about Alfre Quartermaine Event nº 3116 http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=UKProbateCal&h=4758424&ti=5538&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t39342685_p19355345038_kpidz0q3d19355345038z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid

Alfred Quartermaine in the London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 Event Nº 3229 (Baptism of son, Charles Stephen Quartermaine) https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&r=5538&db=LMAbirths&indiv=try&h=301901929