Kathleen Kate RANDELL 1871
Kathleen Kate Randell was the youngest of three girls to born to James Randell and Elizabeth Evans. She was born in the January quarter of 1871 in Norwich, Norfolk and whilst in the company of her family always chronicled as Kate.
Sadly, her father died before her first birthday. This event led to the three sisters being separated. Kate and her oldest sister May, stayed with her mother, whilst Alice moved to North Walsham to live with her grandmother.
Kate remained with her mother until the 1891 census, when we find a choice of two Kate Randells, both the same age from Norwich.
Kate and Kathleen could be considered as two of the possible variants of the same name. To further confuse things, a Kate Randall with an 'a', lived at a milliners shop in Paddington but an alternative Catherine Randell was employed as an attendant at the Kent Lunatic Asylum in Maidstone. By 1901 Catherine appears to have become Kate and was engaged as a Children’s Nurse at Kingston Union Workhouse, Surrey. Unfortunately, in the census record both girls have simular if not identical names, and of course, these names, would have been provided by their employer. It’s difficult to identify which was the daughter of James Randell but because of the coincidence of her sister working at Rainhill Asylum and the occupation of her future husband, Henry Percy Hosgood, I'm inclined to go with hospital Kate.
The marriage register shows that 37 year old, Kate Kathleen Randell married Henry Percy Hosgood in 1908. The wedding took place in Farnham, an historic town on the border of Hampshire and Surrey.
ANCESTRY ~ James / John / James / Kathleen Kate
|
Henry Percy HOSGOOD 1875
Henry Percy Hosgood was born in the first months of 1875 in Crediton, Devon. He appears only once in the census record in Crediton, living at 10 Parliament Street with his widowed mother Ann. He has a younger brother, inexplicably also called Henry but middle name Alfred and a sister called Ella.
Crediton is a small town 12 miles north west of Exeter and was once the Cathedral Town of Devon. It was substantially destroyed by fire in 1743 when 450 houses were incinerated. A second fire, started by ‘careless Satanist’s’ in 1769, consumed many of the newly built houses.
By the time Henry left for London in the late 1880’s it had settled down to be a pleasant market town manufacturing serge fabric for export.
In 1891 Henry was staying at the Stamford Hill home of his uncle Tom Hosgood. Tom was the Superintendent Registrar for the Hackney district of London. Like Henry, Tom was born in Crediton Devon but had moved to London and married Alice Louisa Newell the late summer of 1872.
By 1901 Henry was working at St Annes Home, Wandsworth which was a genteelly named Victorian Workhouse. He was the Workhouse Masters clerk.
Henry Percy Hosgood married Kate Kathleen Randell in the summer of 1908 in Farnham.
I found no record of children born to the couple.
|
