The 1871 Census shows that the enumerator entries before Jonah and his family is Nottey Abbey and directly after Bellmount Farm is Factory Hse and then High St followed by Wapping . Suggesting a route away from the Abbey past Nottey Mil and up Cop Hill to the High St. Bellmount Farm may well changed its name by the time of the OS maps to Upper Farm.
An OS map of Nottey Abbey from 1892-1905 period. The only Farm on this map is called Upper Farm .
Ada possibly born at Bellmount Farm next to Nottey Abbey grounds . Photo of a typical famhouse of the period , father Jonah worked and lived on farms from approx. 1870 -1890
Domestic servants and Kitchen Maids. Ada and sister Louisa in service by 1901 both at the same address 19 Exeter Row. North Kilburn London.
Ada a Domestic Cook.
The Kilburn Connection.
Note: Sisters Ada, Louisa and Fanny most likely followed their cousin Rosa Blincoe (daughter of Mark Blincoe) to Kilburn, . Rosa was several years older and by 1887 had married Albert Stickley and was living in Claremount Rd .Willesden in 1901. Cousin Martha Jane Blincoe (also daughter of Mark Blincoe) also moved to Kilburn and in 1903 married Wallace Pinner there.
Ada married Herbert Henry ATKINS 17th October 1901 Holy Triity Church, Kilburn.
The Church was founded in 1867, destroyed by fire in 1950 and was demolished in 1970.
When the census was taken in 1911 Ada had all her family around but life was about to take real turn for the worse. Husband Henry died that year and she is forced to take her two sons to dr Barnados never to see them again.
Photo taken probably around 1912
From Mabel Head “Ada with her two daughters Mary and Gladys. (On the death of her husband Arthur Atkins, she placed her two sons temporary into Dr. Bernardos until until she had sorted herself out financially. When she went to visit them, they had been shipped to Canada. She never saw them again as she died before they were coming to see her.)”
From the 19th C London Photographers Website
Photographer:Eustace Curzon
STUDIOS: 1. 119 Pall Mall, Westminster 1894 – 1895.
2. 115 The Grove, Stratford 1904 – 1905.
3. 224 High Road, Kilburn, Hampstead (?c1900).
Listed as art publishers in 1895.
No details known.
Occupations
Photographer [List all] 1894
Art Publishers [List all] 1895
Ada and her two daughters with sisters Lily and Fanny.
Photo probably taken about 1920 in London
1939 Census 72 Harrington Street , Leicester Ada appears in a house of married but alone workers she is describe as a general labourer . Why Ada moved to Leicester away from daughters in London is unknown she was however near her brothers Fred and Alfred in nearby Coalville
The portion of Harrington Rd that Ada was living in was built after 1901 and this photo of nearby Humberstone Rd shows similar terraced building of Leicester This photo taken 1970 and part of Univ of Leicester Archives
