Banns of marriage for William Whiting, Bachelor, and Eliza Butcher, Spinster, both of this parish, were published at Stroud on 4th, 11th, and 18th January 1857.[1]
Marriages March quarter, 1857: “WHITING WILLIAM Stroud 6a 391” (with Eliza Skinner or Eliza Butcher”)
The birth of Mary Ann Emily Whiting was registered at Stroud in 1858 (Births Mar 1858 Whiting Mary Ann Emily Stroud 6a 281)
The 1871 United Kingdom census for Chalford Hill, Gloucestershire, has Mary Whiting, unmarried, 14, Domestic servant, born Bisley, in the household of Douglas Watson, medical General Practitioner, born Scotland.
When Leal Douglas’s parents were married at Salford on May 1880, her mother identified herself as Mary Ann Emily Whiting, aged 25, Spinster, residence at the time of marriage Chalford, County of Gloucester, the daughter of William Whiting, Ship Carpenter, and the witnesses were George Howel Jeffries and Mary Ann Whiting. [NB, the Stroud RD includes Chalford].
The 1881 United Kingdom census for 60, Chalford, Gloucestershire, in the parish of Bisley, has William Whiting, Head, married, 34, Ship Carpenter, Eliza Whiting, Wife, married, 34, and children Rosa, 19, Larella, 7, George, 2, and Amelia, one month, all born Bisley.
Deaths of William Whiting in Glos.
Whiting William 63 Stroud 6a 258
^“Register of Banns of Marriage published in the parish of Stroud”, page 11 (1856—1857
In the 1851 United Kingdom census, the household of Emanuel Bishop, Coachman, at Brunswick Terrace, Cheltenham, has in it two lodgers, William Whiting, Married, 24, Maltster, born Vauxhall, and Elizabeth Whiting, Wife, 19, Laundress, born Cheltenham.
The birth of Mary Ann Emily Whiting was registered at Cheltenham in July 1854.
On 6 August 1854, Mary Ann Emily Whiting, daughter of William Whiting, Maltster, and his wife Elizabeth, of Brunswick Place, Cheltenham, was baptized at Cheltenham.
In the 1861 United Kingdom census for Cheltenham, the household at Sawing Mill Yard, Regent Place, consists of William Whiting, Head, married, 30, Malt Maker, born Vauxhall, Surrey, Eliza Whiting, Wife, married, 28, born Cheltenham, and Eliza, Daughter, 9, Mary, Daughter, 7, William, Son, 4, and Sarah, Daughter, 2, all born Cheltenham. [Another William Whiting, in Trafalgar Place, is a Watchmaker aged 33, born in Clerkenwell, with a wife, Mary, 30, born St Luke’s, Middlesex, and a daughter, Mary S, aged 1, born in Cheltenham.]
On 16 November 1873, Mary Ann Emily Whiting, aged 21, Spinster, of 1, Edward Street, Cheltenham, the daughter of William Whiting, Maltster, married Frederick Brookes, of Cheltenham, Sawyer, at the Cheltenham parish church. The witnesses, David James and Sarah Hopkins, are illiterate and both sign “X”.
In the 1881 United Kingdom census for Cheltenham, the household at 18, Dunalley Parade consists of William Whiting, Head, married, 62, Maltster, born London, Elizabeth Whiting, Wife, married, 45, born Cheltenham, and three daughters, Eliza, 16, Emily, 14, and Saragh Ann, 10, all at school and all born Cheltenham.
In the 1901 United Kingdom census for Cheltenham, the household at 18, Dunalley Parade consists of William Whiting, Head, married, 74, Maltster (unable to work), born London, and Elizabeth Whiting, Wife, married, 66, and Elizabeth, Daughter, unmarried, 27, Waitress Inn, both born Cheltenham.
Also in the 1901 United Kingdom census for Cheltenham, is a household of Frederick Brooks, Head, Married, 51, Sawyer, with Mary Ann Brooks, Wife, Married, 46, and their children Emily, 16, Day Work Charing, Mabel, 12, George, 10, Ernest, 5, Dolly, 3, and William, 1, all born Cheltenham.
