59.12 Maternal Cousins of Elsie Squire (née Le Brun)

John and Esther De Gruchy had had six children, the older ones being born in St Helier, These are Elsie's siblings and first cousins.

• 54.2.1 - Esther Elisabeth De Gruchy (1859-1922)
• See Chapter 54

• 54.2.2 - Jane Elizabeth De Gruchy (1862-1914)
• Born in Jersey, moved to Portsea as a child
• 1871/1881: At home in Landport, Portsea. Dressmaker.
• Married Thomas Ralph Dyer Stafford (1862) in the Wesleyan Chapel, Portsea in 1891
• He is absent in 1901. She lives with daughter Amy at 27 Sandringham Road, Southsea [Fratton].
• Children:
• Amy Elizabeth Stafford (1899)
• Thomas Reginald Stafford (1901)
• Beatrice Stafford (1903)
• Ena Hilda Stafford (1906)
• 1911: Thomas was a retired carpenter, and they are lived at 21 Beresford Road, North End, Portsmouth. Jane's mother Esther is there too, as is the family of her cousin, George Romeril from Jersey, who was in the Royal Navy.

• 54.2.3 - John Philip De Gruchy (1863-1880)
• Died in Portsea, age 16

• 54.2.4 - Emma Maria De Gruchy (1866-1872)
• Died in Portsea, age 6

• 54.2.5 - Ada Ann De Gruchy (1870)
• Born in Portsea
• 1891: Back in St Helier, with her widowed sister Esther. Dressmaker.
• Married John Pattie Scott in 1895
• Children:
• Elsie Elizabeth Scott (1899)
• 1901: 6 Kimberley Road, [Larkhall] Kennington, Widow. This is half a mile from where Helen Larard was living at a similar time.
• Married Albert Baines (1865) in 1904
• He was a constable with the Metropolitan Police, and, in 1991, they live at 15 Mersham Road, Thornton Heath. This is less than a mile from where Charles Knight was living at a similar time.

• 54.2.6 - Alice De Gruchy (1872-1946)
• Born in Portsea
• Married George Bevan Mockford (1867-1943) in Portsea in 1892
• George is a ship painter, and they live at 16 Crown Street, Portsea
• Children:
• Florence May Mockford (1894)
• Elsie Marion Mockford (1895)
• 1911: George was now a foreman of painters at the government dockyard
• An Alice Mockford of the right age arrived in London from Capetown or Durban on the SS City of Karachi in 1932.
• 1939: 15 Padwick Avenue, Portsmouth. A respectable semi a short commute from the dockyards.
• Died in Portsmouth during WWII

More on these individuals in Chapter 59.

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