Selina Whitlock (abt. 1853 - abt. 1935)

Born about Aug 1853 in Clifton Hampden, Oxfordshire, England

Wife of Charles Edward Hughes Williams — married 7 Aug 1881 in St. Thomas's, Camden Town, London

Died about May 1935 at about age 81 in Oxfordshire, England

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Biography

Selina was born about 1853. She passed away about 1935. Her husband's nephew, Cyril Oliver Rhys, commented (c. 1949): "We never particularly liked Aunt Selina, though my mother once referred to her as being "as steady as Old Time".

Selina, before her marriage, aged 26, was working as a housemaid in St. John's Wood. London, a fact that tends to support the oft-repeated slander that the eight children of William 'Oliver', popular artist, were given only rudimentary educations and in consequence gravitated socially downward in their choice of spouses.

Selina's parents, Frederick Whitlock (labourer, and sometime baker) and Mary King, were a fertile couple and based generally around Oxford though one child was born in Liverpool.

Sources

• Richard Oliver (great-nephew of husband)
• GRO INDEX : Births Sep 1853 WHITLOCK Selina Abingdon 2c 242
• GRO INDEX : Marriages Sep 1881 WILLIAMS Charles Edward H & WHITLOCK Selina Pancras 1b 20
• GRO INDEX: Deaths Jun 1935 Williams Selina H 82 Oxford 3a 1343