I wish to thank Mabel Head for the Family Photographs donated for this page
ir Hill . Long Crendon
Florence was living here in 1891 age 4yrs
Louisa was living here in 1891 with parents
Long Crendon
Church End Long Crendon C1890’s
Another view of Bicester Rd. looking towards Lower End junction of Carters Lane (right).Pub on left is The Chandos Arms. From Mabel Head ” Just further on, to the Left up the slope was The (Old) Crown Public House .This was where Louisa started work when she left school.” ie C1887 if left at 14yrs.
Copyright Bucks County Council
Louisa as a child supplied by grand daughter Mabel Head
From the 19th Century Database of London Photographers the career of Frederick William Wood
Born 1870. Died 1947.
Biography
Wood, Frederick William
Born in Bermondsey 1870.
2 brothers & 3 sisters.
Md Laura (b Paddington 1870).
1 daughter.
STUDIOS: 1. 22 Bishops Road, Paddington 1894 – 1909. Successors to Frank & Marie Joyce-Barrett.
2. 347 Edgware Road, Paddington 1906 – 1907. Successors to Frederick Wood.
3. 347a Edgware Road, Paddington 1907 – 1930.
4. 349 Edgware Road, Paddington 1913 – 1920.
5. 88 Edgware Road, Paddington 1927 – 1928. Acquired by P Becher 1905.
1891: photographer living at Board School, 29 Campbell Street, Paddington.
1901: photographer & artist living at 19 Carlton Vale, Paddington.
Limited company registered March 3 1905.
Started with Elliott & Fry.
Died in Greenwich 1947.
Occupations
Photographer [List all] 1891
Another photo of Louisa supplied by Jonah Blincoe’s granddaughter Doris Beaty nee Hill. This was likely taken about the time she was in Service with her sister Ada in Willesden C1901 From the 19th Century Database of London Photographers the career of John Charles Gray Born 1865. Died 1913. Biography Gray, John Charles Born in Rotherhithe 1865. 2 brothers. STUDIOS: 1. 512 Harrow Road, Paddington 1899 – 1908. Successors to Morten Hope. 2. 124 High Road, Kilburn, Hampstead 1902 – 1903. 1901: house decorator living in Camberwell. Died in St Pancras 1913. Occupations Photographer [List all] 1899 House Decorator [List all] 1901
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.
19 Exeter Row Kilburn
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.
Ada and her two daughters with sisters Lily and Fanny.
Photo probably taken about 1920 in London
Marriage Certificate
1911 Census Signature of Jonah Blincoe
1911 Census record
On the right Louisa Smith in her 30’s with her sister Fanny Hill 9 years her junior, who would have been married by this time and visting from Hendon, London Photo supplied by grand daughter Mabel Head who estimates photo taken C1935. Photo supplied by Mabel Head Great Grandaughter of Jonah Blincoe
From Mabel Head Left to Right. Thomas Smith (cut in Half) Eli Smith(brother) His daughter, her son in front. friend, Eva Smith, Albert White(my father) May Smith, friend, Louisa Smith, grooms brother, William Walker(Florence’s husband) Doris Walker(daughter) Florence Walker(nee Blincoe) Annie Walker(daughter) Seated Win Smith and husband Thomas Baker,,, Len and Bill (foster children.) Photo supplied by Mabel Head Great Grandaughter of Jonah Blincoe
From Mabel Head “Picture of playing cricket in the field out side Lower Green Farm, Chearsley. My Uncle was one of the players, I inherited this. Cricket was played here till 1949”.
Photo supplied by Mabel Head Great Grandaughter of Jonah Blincoe
Lower Green Farm Chearsley – From Mabel Head “Lower Green Farm where Jonah with daughter Louisa moved to from Long Crendon in 1908. My cousin has given permission to used this as he lives there today. Louisa and Thomas lived there until 1951, when he decided to retire and they bought a house in the village. We have some wonderful memories of the family get togethers.” Photograph of May Smith Blincoe standing in front of the Farm House C1918
Mabel Head writes “Tree Tops, Chearsley, where Louisa and Thomas moved to in 1953 and spent the rest of their days. It had a large garden which grampy grew vegatables until a few days before he died. You should have seen him picking apples off the tree at the top of a ladder. He wouldn’t climb down to move the ladder he swung it from the top. We were just awestruck.”
Photo supplied by Mabel Head Great Grandaughter of Jonah Blincoe
