Descendants of Jesse CHITTY

Fourth Generation

21. Alfred CHITTY (Benjamin , John , Jesse ) was born in 1876 in Walthamstow, Essex. Alfred was counted in a census in 1891 in 1 Rosebank Cottages, St James St, Walthamstow, Essex. He was counted in a census in 1901 in 24 Diana Road, Walthamstow, Essex.

Source:

1881 Census, LDS Family Search
1901 census Occ: Dockyard Labourer

Alfred married Ada SCUDDER daughter of Edward SCUDDER and Sarah Jane BOSWELL on 16 Apr 1900 in Walthamstow, Essex. Ada was born about 1878 in Walthamstow, Essex.

They had the following children:

	38	F	i	Florence Mabel CHITTY
	39	F	ii	Elsie Olive CHITTY

22. Leonard CHITTY (Benjamin , John , Jesse ) was born about 1878 in Walthamstow, Essex. Leonard was counted in a census in 1891 in 1 Rosebank Cottages, St James St, Walthamstow, Essex.

At the time of their marriage Leonard was living at Diana Road and his trade was Porter.

Leonard married Elsie Emma SCUDDER daughter of Edward SCUDDER and Sarah Jane BOSWELL on 16 Sep 1905 in Parish Church, St John, Walthamstow, Essex. Elsie was born about 1882.

Source:
1891 Census

At the time of her marriage Elsie was living at Forest Road.

Leonard and Elsie had the following children:

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Leonard Edward Frederick CHITTY

24. Percy CHITTY (Benjamin , John , Jesse ) was born on 29 Aug 1881 in Walthamstow, Essex. He died on 26 May 1934 in Whipps Cross Hospital, Essex. The cause of death was Carcinoma of colon. Percy was counted in a census in 1891 in 1 Rosebank Cottages, St James St, Walthamstow, Essex. He was counted in a census in 1901 in 1 St James Park, Walthamstow, Essex.

1901 census Occ Coal Porter
At the time of their marriage Percy was living at 1 Railway Path and his trade was Coal Porter.
At time of death it was newsagent and tobacconist

Buried in the same plot as his wife Elizabeth ans sons Ronald and Frank.

Source:
Birth Certificate
Death certificate

Percy married Elizabeth Maud GANT daughter of William GANT on 22 Apr 1905 in Parish Church, Walthamstow, Essex. Elizabeth was born on 15 Mar 1882 in Tottenham, London. She died on 5 Apr 1970 in 37 Burton Road Walthamstow.

At the time of marriage Elizabeth was living at 7 Longfellow Road.

Source:
Death certificate

Percy and Elizabeth had the following children:

	41	M	i	Frederick Percy CHITTY "Sonny" was buried on 1 Jul 1935 in Queen's Road Cemetery, Walthamstow. Died aged 29 drowned at a place called Canvey Island, Essex
	42	F	ii	May Eleanor (Maisie) CHITTY
				May married Unknown.
	43	F	iii	Ivy Charlotte CHITTY was born on 8 Jul 1912 in 28 Buxton Road, Walthamstow. She died on 22 Jul 2002 in Basildon Hospital, Basildon, Essex. The cause of death was Chest infection, Ischaemic heart disease. She was buried in Great Bursted Church. Source: Birth Certificate Death certificate
				Ivy married Albert George GOODE son of Albert GOODE.
	44	M	iv	Ronald James CHITTY was born in 1921. He died on 30 Mar 1943. He was buried in Walthamstow (Queen's Road) Cemetary Sec B Grave 482A. 1 MILI N1
				Ronald married Unknown.
	45	M	v	Frank CHITTY

26. Lydia Lillian CHITTY (Alfred , John , Jesse ) was born on 16 Sep 1878 in 1 Prospect Terrace, Sylvester Rd, Walthamstow. She died in 1968.

Lillys mother died when she was 5yrs old, and she did not get on with her step mother. It appears likely that she grew up with her Chitty grandparents. She worked at Baths in Bournemouth before coming to Australia. Her daughter Margaret tells that her mother came to Australia partly on doctors advice that she seek a warmer climate when she was in her late 20's, making it sometime around 1905-1910.
In 1901 Lydia was a Dressmaker in Bournemouth.

Likely arrived to Victoria Nov 1912 on the ship Marathon

Sources:
Birth Certificate
1881 Census SAGHS, LDS Family Search
1901 PRO Census Online
Victorian Public Records Office: Index of Inward Passenger Lists for British, Foreign and New Zealand Ports 1852-1923 (Fiche 442, Pg 005)

Lydia married Robert STEWART [image] son of Peter STEWART and Agnes LISTON on 30 Jul 1914. Robert was born on 23 Mar 1876 in Tyrie, Aberdeen, Scotland. He died on 8 Aug 1966 in Sydney.

Born 36 Low St, New Pitsligo, Tyrie, Scotland.
Robert served in the British Highland Light Infantry for 11 years. He then worked in Woodilee Hospital, Lenzie, Dunbartonshire, a mental asylum for about a year till just after his mother died in 1905. Some time after this he came to Australia where he married Lilly. Their first child Mary was only 3 months old before Robert signed up for duty during WWI and served in the 56th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force in Europe. Robert was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. AIF No. 1742.
On his return Robert and Lilly had their other two children, Robert and Margaret, and shifted to Griffith where they took on a settlers block and grew oranges and mandarins till he left the farm in 1942 at age 66 and returned to Sydney.

Sources:

WWI Service Records
Birth certificate
Marriage Certificate
Glasgow Health Board Archives - Woodilee Asylum
Aberdeenshire & NE Scotland Family History Society

Robert and Lydia had the following children:

	46	F	i	Mary Isobel STEWART was born on 17 Nov 1915. She died in 1972.
				Mary married Ronald Sidney KUBANK son of Alfred Gustav KUBANK and Winifred Adelaide SINCLAIR.
	47	M	ii	Robert Gordon STEWART
				Robert married Patricia Alfhild MOE [image] daughter of Albert Marselius ANDREASSEN and Ethel May WILSON. Patricia was born on 21 Jan 1926 in Broken Hill. She died on 22 Aug 1968 in Adelaide, South Australia. She was buried in Centennial Park, Adelaide. Born at 674 Beryl St, Broken Hill During WW2 she was in the Womens Land Army Worked for chemists in BH and Sydney. Source Barrier Daily Truth birth notices 30/1/1926
	48	F	iii	Margaret Joyce STEWART
				Margaret married Victor COLEMAN.

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