OTHER
SINGLE-PARENT CHILDREN
Earlier in the year an essay titled Orphans
and Single-Parent children was posted in Family History Updates. This shows a
dynastic line in which one or both parents died leaving young children The
essay attempts to show how the children recovered from the painful loss of
their parent(s) and were brought up and educated by the surviving parent and/or
relations who gave them long-term tender loving care, and financial support.
Scattered through the family tree there are other examples where young children
lost a father or mother, and two examples where great-grandchildren received
legacies in trust with the ‘interest and dividends thereon’ being paid out for
their ‘maintenance, education and upbringing’ until they ‘attained the age of
twenty-one years’ when they ‘respectively on attaining said age’ received their
share of the principal and accrued interest and dividends. These were the
descendants of:
Thomas Barcham
Bathsheba
Barcham, was eight when her
father Thomas Barcham died in 1798
aged 39. Thomas was the youngest son of Sarah
(née Dybal) and William Barcham (Jnr).
Bathsheba’s mother Ann probably
looked after the young girl but she died on 1 January 1807 aged 16. At present,
nothing more is known about them except that Thomas, Ann (d. 1831, aged 77) and
Bathsheba are buried at Worstead Baptist Chapel, Meeting Hill.
John Juler
There were two descendants of Hannah (née Dyball) and John Juler
of
Mary
Juler
and William Lound’s
family and two subsequent generations had families in which one or more
children under the age of sixteen lost either their father or mother.
Mary (née Juler) died in 1837. She left her estate to her
two children:
Mary
Ann
was then aged 11. She married her cousin John
Lound, an auctioneer and estate agent in Kensington,
Henry, aged 7 when his
mother died, used his legacy to emigrate to
Frederick
Silby Lound (b. 1867) was 18 when his mother died. He
married single-parent child, Marguerite
Helen D’Arcy Dashwood. Marguerite was the youngest of the five children
of Eliza Mary Glenister
and Henry Edward D’Arcy Dashwood. She was two years old when her father died in
1868. Marguerite and
Vera Lound, aged 15;
Florence Margery Lound, aged 14.
Jane and
William
Herbert Juler (b. 1872) aged 13;
Ethel
Evelyn Juler (b. 1874) aged 11;
Percy
Edwin Juler (b. 1877) aged 8;
Louisa
Elizabeth (b. 1880) aged 5.
William
Bryce Lound (b. 1895, in NSW) was a grandson of Jane and Henry Lound. He
married Pearl Matilda Agnes Young.
Their three children were under 16 when their mother died at
William Bryce Lound (b. 1920) aged 14;
Edgar D’Arcy Lound (b. 1922) aged 12;
Sibley Lound.
It is not known how these children coped
with the loss of their parent; nor the support they received from the surviving
parent and relatives.
Among the descendants of Alice (née Nailer) and William
Juler of Burnham, it was traumatic for Ernest
Herbert Juler when his wife Amelia died in February 1881, aged 23, leaving two children:
Ernest
Henry Herbert Juler, then aged 30 months, was sent to live with his widowed
grandmother Elizabeth Ladd in Southwold,
Esther
Dora Juler (b. 1880) was an infant when her mother died. It is not known if
she predeceased her mother, or if she survived and eventually married her
cousin Walter Edward Juler (b. 1868),
the natural born son of Alice Juler.
John Barcham
Elizabeth Helsdon (b. 1752), wife of John Barcham, was a young child when
her father Samuel Helsdon
(b.1726, at Suffield) died [the date of his death is not known] Elizabeth was raised by her devout
mother Thomasine (née Hedge).
Children of Isabel (née Green) and
Arthur Robertson Browning
Isabel, the daughter of Emma (née Crandall) and John
Barcham Green, of
Charles
Stewart Browning (b.1891 d.1916), aged 10 when his father was killed, was at a
boarding school in Folkestone. Later, he became a
cadet at the
Isabel
Norah
(b.1895 d.1963) was 6 when her father was killed. She and her younger sister
were living with their widowed grandmother Emma (nee Crandell)
Barcham. She went to
Isabel Mary (b.1897 d.1969) was 4 when her father died.
She did not marry.
Benjamin Barcham
There are six families in which descendants
of Mary (née
Banfather) and Benjamin Barcham where
one or more children lost a parent:
Benjamin Barcham left ₤100 to each of
his great-grandchildren (names not known) after their mother Sarah Ann (née Fuller), wife of Revd Richard Daniel of
Caister, died sometime before 1839.
Georgiana
Barcham
(b. 1818) was 3 when her father James died. In her grandfather’s will she received a bequest of ₤500 after the death of her
grandmother Mary (nee Banfather) Barcham, to be held in trust until she was 21.
However, Mary lived until 1845, one year after
Georgiana had married.
Mabel
(née Barcham) wife of John Anderson,
was 31 when she died giving birth to her second child in 1851, who survived.
The two children were raised by their widowed grandmother, Mabel (née Harland) Barcham who left both of them bequests of
one-quarter of the proceeds of the sale of her estate when she died in 1876:
Mabel
Harland Anderson (b. 1849) was 2 when her mother died. She lived with her
grandmother at Mattishall,
John
Barcham Anderson (b.1851) lived with his sister and grandmother. He moved to
Rosina
Jemima Bell, who married James Connor
Barcham in 1884, appears to have been an orphan. She was born in Bethnal Green,
Frank Edward Augustine Barcham, a grandson of Susan Ann (née James) and James Barcham, survived WWI in France
but his young wife Sarah (née
Hamilton) died in 1928, aged 36, leaving three young children to grieve
their loss :
Frank Charles Barcham was 15 when his mother died. He
served in the army during WWII, and married when he was almost 41.
Leonard
John Barcham, aged 13 when his
mother died, was a pupil at
Doreen
Alice Barcham, was 2 years and six
months old when her mother died. During WWII, she served in the Women’s Land
Army and was an Auxiliary Nurse. She was 20 when she married a Royal Navy Petty
Officer.
At the time of Sarah’s death, the family’s
home was in Chadwell Heath,
Nathan
John Barcham, son of Jocelyn and
Kenneth John Barcham, a descendant of Maria
(née Sunman) and Barcham
Barcham, was chief radiologist at Blue Mountains
Hospital in Sydney before he died of leukaemia at the
age of 36, leaving three young children
aged 12, 9 and 3 in the care of his widow Rebecca. Fortunately they have loving
grandparents and other relations living nearby