52.5 Paternal Cousins of Eliza Brittain (née Meaden)

George and Jenny Meadon had seven children. Their children are Eliza's siblings and first cousins.

• 40.1.1 - Jane Eleanor Meaden (1810-1872)
• No known children

• 40.1.2 - George Meaden (1813-1855)
• No known children

• 40.1.3 - Harriet (1814-1890)
• No known children

• 40.1.4 - David Meaden (1818)
• See Chapter 40

• 40.1.5 - Charles Meaden (1820-1875)
• No known children

• 40.1.6 - William Meaden (1829-1904)
• Charles William Meaden (1853-1932)
• Married Annie Florence Willis (1860-1897) at St Thomas, Isle of Wight in 1879
• He was an assistant prison warder, and they lived at 111 Roman Road, Holloway, so the prison would have been HMP Holloway, the rebuilt version of which closed in 2016. It was mixed sex from 1852-1903.

Holloway Prison (credit)

• Children:
• Florence Charlotte Meaden (1880)
• (Charles) ('Harry') Henry Meaden (1887)
• Married Blanche Evelyn Cave (1879-1949) at St Thomas in 1910
• 1911: Retired civil servant (Trinidad government), which explains absence of 1881 and 1891 returns. Living with his wife (and a servant) at 127 Portswood Row, Southampton. My photos of Southampton are here.
• Children:
• Frederick Meaden (1914)
• Bertram William (Burt) Meaden (1917)

• Catherine Jane Meaden (1854-1929)
• Married Edmund Pearse Baker (1855-1933) at Holy Trinity, Islington in 1878. He was a commercial clerk, and they lived at 122 Drayton Park, Highbury. This is a terrace, which is now directly opposite the Arsenal FC Emirates Stadium. In 1878, they were still playing in Plumstead, South of the River.
• Children:
• Kate Meaden Baker (1879)
• Edmund David Baker (1880)
• Mary Beatrice Baker (1882)
• Allan William Baker (1884)
• Albert Phillip Baker (1887)
• Sydney Fraser Baker (1889)
• Walter Douglas Baker (1891)
• Margaret Anna Baker (1892)
• Ivy Charlotte Baker (1894)
• 1891/1911: 3 Duncombe Road, Holloway. He is now an auctioneer and estate agent. Her widowed father is boarding with them in 1891.

• Charlotte Marian Meaden (1857-1913)
• 1881: Infant School House, King Street, Tring, Hertfordshire. She is a mistress at the school; she is the head of household and she has three student teachers boarding with her. My photos of Tring are here.
• 1901: Staying with brother David in Finchley.
• 1911: Still a teacher, now with LCC. Visiting Mr and Mrs Didham at 190 Ferme Park Road, Crouch End

• David George John Meaden (1860-1905)
• Married Sarah Mitchell (1862-1933) at Christ Church, Highbury Grove in 1881
• Children:
• David Mitchell Meaden (1882)
• Marguerite Meaden (1884)
• Gertrude Meaden (1886)
• 1891: 48 Mountgrove Road, [Finsbury Park] Highbury. House agent, auctioneer and valuer.
• 1901: Holmewood, Woodside Park Road, Finchley. Now a school for pupils with high-functioning autism etc.

Holmewood School, Finchley

• 1905: Initiated into freemasons. Died in Edmonton the same year.

• 40.1.7 - (Edward) James Meaden (1834-1891)
• Georgina Louise Riley Vince (1869)
• Stepdaughter. Married Ernest Smale. No known children.

• Jane Elizabeth Meaden (1873)
• Born in Dover.
• 1901: 25 Fishers Row, Blandford. Brother Albert is there too.
• Married Harry Gush (1879-1945) in Lyme Regis in 1908
• Harry was a fishmonger, and they lived at 8 Windsor Terrace, Lyme Regis, Dorset. My photos of Lyme are here.

Lyme Regis (my photo)

• No known children
• 1939: She is 'Jean' and he is a boatman. They live at Benvenuto, Woodmead Road, Lyme. Two infirm relatives are staying with them.
• She died in Sturminster in 1962. My photos Sturminster are here.

• Albert Henry Meaden (1877)
• Born in Brighton
• 1901/1911: With sister Jane in Blandford. Mail driver. This would have been horses. The first vans came in around 1910, after a couple of experiments.
• Married Bessie Guy (1882-1946) in Milton Abbas, Dorset in 1906
• Children:
• Lily Edith M Meaden (1907) 
• Died in Blandford

• Edmund Charles Meaden (1880-1938)
• Born in Brighton
• 1891: His father had died. He is in the Bognor Home for Boys in South Bersted, Bognor [no Regis until 1929], Sussex. This is about the time the home came under the Waifs and Strays Society. It placed particular emphasis on military discipline, and the boys would dress as 'little sailor laddies' to perform drills. More (and a picture) here.
• Enlisted in the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry in 1915, at age 35. The link provides details of the regiment's role in WWI.
• Died in Blandford.

More on these families in Chapter 58.

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