52.4 Siblings of Eliza Brittain (née Meaden)

David and Eliza Meaden (nee Waddilove) had a daughter:

• 52.2.1 - Eliza Meaden Meaden (1840)
• See Chapter 52

• 52.2.2 - Fanny Jane Meaden (1841-1901)
• Married Henry William Roberts (1845-1918) at All Saints, Hockley in 1868
• Henry was an accountant - his father was an officer at Winson Green where her father was governor. Henry was born in Newport, so had probably been associated with Sandhurst too. After they were married, they lived in Chestnut Street, Claines, Worcester. My photos of Worcester are here. He was then a clerk in a prison, presumably Worcester County Gaol (1813-1922).

Worcester County Gaol

• 1881: Boughton Street, Worcester
• 1991: Police quarters, Assize Courts, Worcester. He was storekeeper at HM Prison
• Children:
• Henry David Roberts (1870)
• William Edwin Roberts (1871)
• Herbert Charles Roberts (1872)
• Frederick Meaden Roberts (1874)
• Kate Margaret Roberts (1875)
• George Duncan Roberts (1877)
• (Fanny) Elizabeth Roberts (1878)
• Ernest Douglas Roberts (1880)
• Minnie Roberts (1882)
• Percy Roberts (1884)
• Died in Fulham

Eliza had also had a daughter by her first husband. She was Eliza's half sister.

• Eliza Margaret Smith (1834-1834)
• Died as an infant

David and Betsy Maria (nee Morgan) had ten children. These were Eliza's half-siblings:

• Betsy Maria Meaden (1847-1892)
• 1881: At home in Edgbaston. Governess.
• 1891: Still with her father in his retirement in Northam, Devon. Died in Bideford.

• Kate Harriet Meaden (1849)
• Married Samuel Aston (1849-1889) in Birmingham in 1875
• Children:
• Reginald Samuel Aston (1887)
• 1881: 22 Sutton St, Aston Manor. This is next door to her half sister Eliza. Reginald is a Rule Maker (literally, I assume)
• 1890: Went to New York on the SS Aurania. This ship was requisitioned in 1899 to serve as Boer War Transport
• 1891: Back in England. 27 Scholefield Street, Duddeston. (Still a Rule Maker)
• 1901: 107 Caro Street, Duddeston. Things have moved on. He is now a Hinge Works Manager.

• Mary Ann Meaden (1851)
• Keeping house for her father in 1881. No later record found.

• Julia Jane Meaden (1853-1928)
• Married George Richmond Downes (1838-1908) in Bideford in 1885
• By 1891/1901, he is Rector of Begbroke nr Kidlington Oxfordshire (roughly 5 miles from where our story began in Chapter 1). Unsurprisingly, they live in the (recently extended) Rectory.

Begbroke Church (credit)

• Children:
• Julia Ethel Downes (1887)
• Geoffrey Richmond Downes (1889)
• Roger Meaden Downes (1892)
• Edward Collis Downes (1893)
• 1911: Widowed. At 17 Fairacres Road, [Cowley] Oxford. Which is a mile from where my daughter lives. My photos of Oxford are here. 

• Alice Emily Meaden (1856-1935)
• 1891: At home in Northam
• 1901: With a cousin, Thomas Sibley at 29 High Street, Cowes, Isle of Wight. My photos of Cowes are here. 1911: on her own at Periton House, Park Road.

• Beatrice Emma Meaden (1858-1877)
• At home in Birmingham in 1871. No later record found.

• Ellen Rose Meaden (1859-1862)
• Died as an infant

• Minnie Amelia Meaden (1861)
• 1891: At home in Northam
• 1901: A companion and amanuensis (secretary) to a 74-year old widowed gentleman, Robert Manning Davy, at Grove Hill House (listing and photo), Topsham nr Exeter, Devon. There are three servants in the house. My photos of Exeter are here. Davy was a JP and "one of the principal proprietors of Topsham" (White's 1879). He died in 1908.
• 1911. Servant (dictation taker?) to William Allen and family. There is a cook and housemaid in the household. Holmbush, Findon nr Worthing, Sussex. 

• (David) George Morgan Meaden (1862-1898)
• At home in Northam in 1891. Farmer. Died in Christchurch, Hampshire. My photos of Christchurch are here.

• Henry Ernest Meaden (1864)
• At home in 1881. No later record found.

More on these individuals in Chapter 58.

Next (Eliza's paternal cousins)