Nurthen Families originating in England


Frederick William Nurthen-173 [Parents] was born on 28 Jun 1864 in Bath, Somerset, England. He died on 28 Jul 1940 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He married Lydia Florence Bowen-550 on 3 Sep 1901 in Bristol, Somerset, England.

BIRTH from Sheila Saxton, she has the certificate, at 24 Monmouth Street.

LISTED in his father's will (1896) as joint executor. He was also a chemist.

NOTE London Post Office Directory 1898 (Streets & Commercial page 1332) lists Frederick Wm and Co., Chemists 390 the Strand, W.C. This matches the address in his father's will.

CENSUS 1901 (per favour of Janet White, email sept 2002). age 36, born Bath, living Bromley Kent,. a chemist and Druggist.

MARRIAGE from Sheila Saxton, at the Primitive Methodist Church Stapleton Roade, Eastville, Bristol. She has the certificate.

DEATH from Sheila Saxton.

Lydia Florence Bowen-550 was born in 1883. She died on 12 Jun 1964. She married Frederick William Nurthen-173 on 3 Sep 1901 in Bristol, Somerset, England.

BIRTH and death dates from chart from Michael Nurthen (email Sept 2002).

MARRIAGE from Sheila Saxton, who has the certificate.

They had the following children:

  M i Frederick Gordon Nurthen-598 was born on 8 Apr 1903. He died on 24 Jan 1995.

KNOWN from chart from Michael Nurthen (email Sept 2002). He was married but wife is unknown. Roch Nurthen sent me a family tree that gave a son of Michael John Nurthen (this report came from a Michael Nurthn).

Henry Dudfield Nurthen-115 [Parents] was born on 4 Aug 1868 in Strand, London, England. He died in 1947 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He married Annie Moorhouse-551 on 17 May 1885 in St Mary, Princes Rd, Lambeth, London,England.

Other marriages:
Ryan, Ellen Mary

BIRTH from IGI. no information on origin of record. Date and place from Sheila Saxton who has the certificate.

MARRIAGE (1885). Full date and place from Sheila Saxton (family group sheet received August 2002). The IGI says St Martins, Strand, London, but it gives the bride merely as Mrs Hurthen!

NOTE Sheila says le left London on the SS Hong Koong on 17 Sept 1886 and arrived in Melbourne 7 Nov 1886.

NOTE listed as still living in his father's will of 1896, but in Australia.

MARRIAGE (1897) from Victorian records, but listed as in London. no. 30334.of 1897, probably registed in Victoria after arrival there. Sheila Saxton says it was at 442 Queen St, Melbourne & Presbyterian Church, but

NOTE Sheils Saxton says that he was a chemist's assistant in London and a driber/labourer while in Australia.. The marriage certificate of his son William Henry in 1906 lists him as a chemist's assistant but deceased, which is incorrect.

DEATH from Victorian records, no. 13321 of 1947. Mother's maiden name listed but not first name.

Annie Moorhouse-551 [Parents] was born about Feb 1863 in Lambeth, Surrey, England. She died on 26 Jan 1919 in Battersea, London, England. She married Henry Dudfield Nurthen-115 on 17 May 1885 in St Mary, Princes Rd, Lambeth, London,England.

Other marriages:
Unknown
Walker, George

BIRTH in first quarter according to Sheila Saxton (group sheet Aug 2002).

CENSUS 1881 from CD at 4 Arden St, Battersea, Surrey, England. Source:FHL Film 1341151, PRO Ref RG11, Piece 0652, Folio 113, Page 5. Age 18, listed as Annie here.

NOTE Sheila stated had one child in 1880 (no father on the certificate), and had five more children after Henry had left her and England. She gave these children the Nurthen surname but named no father on the certificate.

CENSUS 1891, at 153 New Road Battersea, RG12/426, enumerator 33, folio 73, page 24 , schedule 141, age 28, listed as unmarried with no occupation.

DEATH from Sheila Saxton, at St James Infirmary, Ousley Road, Battersea. She has the certificate, she lists the place of residence at time of death as 70 Natal Road, Streatham.

NOTE Sheila has noted places of recidence from 1880 to her death in 1919. They are all either Battersea or Wandsworth but 10 different addresses, though sometimes the move was within the same street.

They had the following children:

  M i William Henry Dudfield Nurthen-76

William Henry Dudfield Nurthen-76 [Parents] was born on 4 Oct 1885 in Battersea, London, England. He died on 5 Mar 1929 in Tooting, Surrey, England. He married Annie Elizabeth Berry-77 on 1 Sep 1906 in Wandsworth, London, England.

NOTE originall information from family group sheet sent by Sheila Saxton (Aug 2002). Birth at 165 New Road, Battersea. Marriage in 3rd qu, 1906 in Wandsworth registration district. Death at 32 Coverton Road, Tooting at age 43.

CENSUS 1891, at 153 New Road Battersea, RG12/426, enumerator 33, folio 73, page 24 , schedule 141, age 5. Living with mother and grandmother in London. His father was in Australia by this time.

NOTE mentioned in his grandfather's will in 1897.

MARRIAGE from civil certificate of the Registry Office of Wandsworth no. 140 (thanks to Michael Nurthern, who does not know of him). A 21 year old bachelor, a journeyman plumber of 67 Leverson Street Steatham. The Dudfield name is not listed here, but it matches otherwise.

Annie Elizabeth Berry-77 [Parents] was born about 1885 in Wandsworth, London, England. She married William Henry Dudfield Nurthen-76 on 1 Sep 1906 in Wandsworth, London, England.

CENSUS 1891 at 28 Orchard Street, Wandsworth, London, ref RG12/447, enumerator 12, folio 16, page23, schedule 148. age 3 but hard to be sure. Three older brothers are listed here and one sister aged 2 weeks. All but the first had been born in Wandsworth.

MARRIAGE (1906) from civil certificate of the Registry Office of Wandsworth no. 140 (thanks to Michael Nurther, who does no know of her). A 19 year old spinster, a Tailoress of 28 Orchard Street Wandsworth.

They had the following children:

  M i Living

George Moorhouse-561 was born about 1835 in Doncaster,,England. He married Eliza-556.

NOTE name from Peter Wolsetnbolme (email Sept 2010) who says hge was a carpenter born in Doncaster. As far as he can tell he deseted his wife around 1880 and emerged in Chicago as an aucioneer with a Gernam wife and three sons.

Eliza-556 was born about 1836 in Rotherhithe, Surrey, England. She died on 29 Jul 1912 in Streatham, London, England. She married George Moorhouse-561.

CENSUS 1881 from CD at 4 Arden St, Battersea, Surrey, England. Source:FHL Film 1341151, PRO Ref RG11, Piece 0652, Folio 113, Page 5. Age 44, head of house, listed as married but no husband so he may have deserted her.

NOTE (1897) information from Sheila Saxton (Aug 2002). She was a servant to Frederick Richard Nurthen the father of her daughter's husband. She was to receive twenty pounds in his will if she was still in his employ when he died.

CENSUS 1891, at 153 New Road Battersea, RG12/426, enumerator 33, folio 73, page 24 , schedule 141, age 54, a widow, head of the house, no occupation listed.

DEATH date noted by Sheila in list of addresses for her daughter.

They had the following children:

  M i William Hardy Moorhouse-562 was born about 1859 in Lambeth, Surrey, England.

CENSUS 1881 from CD at 4 Arden St, Battersea, Surrey, England. Source:FHL Film 1341151, PRO Ref RG11, Piece 0652, Folio 113, Page 5. Age 21, a "casting trimmer (iron)" living with mother.

CENSUS 1891, at 153 New Road Battersea, RG12/426, enumerator 33, folio 73, page 24 , schedule 141 , age 31, an iron dresser, middle name from this record.
  M ii Frank Moorhouse-563 was born about 1861 in St James, Middlesex, England.

CENSUS 1881 from CD at 4 Arden St, Battersea, Surrey, England. Source:FHL Film 1341151, PRO Ref RG11, Piece 0652, Folio 113, Page 5. Age 19, a carman, living with mother.
  F iii Annie Moorhouse-551
  M iv Charles Moorhouse-564 was born about 1870 in Lambeth, Surrey, England.

CENSUS 1881 from CD at 4 Arden St, Battersea, Surrey, England. Source:FHL Film 1341151, PRO Ref RG11, Piece 0652, Folio 113, Page 5. Age 10, a scholar.

Eames-558. married Emma Barbet-557.

KNOWN only from remarriage of his widow.

Emma Barbet-557 [Parents] was born about 1854 in Shoreditch, London, England. She married Eames-558.

Other marriages:
Nurthen, Charles
Lanton, William

MARRIAGE (1889) from civil certificate, a 35 year old widow of 6 Clifton Place,

CENSUS 1891 RG12-242, enumerator 4, folio 67, page 17, schedule 154.) 6 Clifton Place, Shoreditch, Moorfields, Hoxton. aged 36.

CENSUS 1901 (as reported by Sandra Fordham Sep 2002), at 109 Spencer Rd, Stoke Newington (St Matthews parish, Hornsey) London. Age 47, birthplace listed as Thosetan.

They had the following children:

  F i Lizzie Eames-571 was born about 1878 in Finsbury, Middlesex, England.

CENSUS 1891 RG12-242, enumerator 4, folio 67, page 17, schedule 154. 6 Clifton Place, Shoreditch, Moorfields, Hoxton. aged 12, a scholar.
  F ii Minnie Eames-572 was born about 1881 in Finsbury, Middlesex, England.

CENSUS 1891 RG12-242, enumerator 4, folio 67, page 17, schedule 154. 6 Clifton Place, Shoreditch, Moorfields, Hoxton. aged 9, a scholar.


!CENSUS 1901 (as reported by Sandra Fordham Sep 2002), at 109 Spencer Rd, Stoke Newington (St Matthews parish, Hornsey) London. Age 19, listed as Minnie Nurthen, occupation listed as " feather Quill". Born Hoxton.
  F iii Emma Eames-573 was born about 1883 in Finsbury, Middlesex, England.

CENSUS 1891 RG12-242, enumerator 4, folio 67, page 17, schedule 154. 6 Clifton Place, Shoreditch, Moorfields, Hoxton. aged 7, a scholar.


!CENSUS 1901 (as reported by Sandra Fordham Sep 2002), at 109 Spencer Rd, Stoke Newington (St Matthews parish, Hornsey) London. Age 16, occupation "Feather Quill", listed as Emmie Nurthen.
  F iv Alfred Eames-574 was born about 1886 in Finsbury, Middlesex, England.

CENSUS 1891 RG12-242, enumerator 4, folio 67, page 17, schedule 154. 6 Clifton Place, Shoreditch, Moorfields, Hoxton. aged 4, a scholar.

CENSUS 1901 (as reported by Sandra Fordham Sep 2002), at 109 Spencer Rd, Stoke Newington (St Matthews parish, Hornsey) London. Age 14, listed as Alfred Nurthen.

George Nurthen-20 [Parents] was born on 14 May 1886 in Somers Town, Middlesex, England. He died about 1952 in Hackney, London, England. He married Minnie Clara Bartlett-559 on 2 Aug 1913 in Haggerston, London, England.

BIRTH from civil certificate, born at home at 23 Barclay Street, Pancras.

CENSUS 1891 RG12-242, enumerator 4, folio 67, page 17, schedule 154. 6 Clifton Place, Shoreditch, Moorfields, Hoxton. aged 5, a scholar, birthplace given as Finsbury.

CENSUS 1901 (per favour of Janet White, email sept 2002). age 12, born Euston living Stoke Newington, if this is him.

CENSUS 1901 (as reported by Sandra Fordham Sep 2002), at 109 Spencer Rd, Stoke Newington (St Matthews parish, Hornsey) London. Age 12, birthplace given as Euston.

MARRIAGE from civil certificate. at St Stephen's church. a 26 year old bachelor and labourer of 11 Ada Place.

Minnie Clara Bartlett-559 [Parents] was born about 1892 in , , England. She married George Nurthen-20 on 2 Aug 1913 in Haggerston, London, England.

Other marriages:
Nurthen, Francis

MARRIAGE from civil certificate., aged 21 a sopinster of 11 Ada Place. One of the witnesses was Albert Bartlett.


Francis Nurthen-22 [Parents] was born on 17 Sep 1884 in Somerstown, London, England. He died in Apr 1962. He married Minnie Clara Bartlett-559.

Other marriages:
Ince, Alice Emily

INFORMATION first from Sandra Fordham of Billericay in Essex, then from her cousin Doreen Estall. This is her grand-father, he had three daughters, the middle one was her mother. Presumably his wife died when the third daughter was born. Worked at Whitbread Brewery (in or near Duffering street) as a woung man. She gives the birth place as 23 Barclay Street.

CENSUS 1891 RG12-242, enumerator 4, folio 67, page 17, schedule 154. 6 Clifton Place, Shoreditch, Moorfields, Hoxton. aged 7, a scholar, named as Frank, birthplace given as Clerkenwell.

CENSUS 1901 (as reported by Sandra Fordham Sep 2002), at 109 Spencer Rd, Stoke Newington (St Matthews parish, Hornsey) London. Age 18, birthplace given as Euston .occupation listed as "Diken Arapias Porter".

MARRIAGE from civil certificate (a copy sent by Sandra Fordham), He was 27, a batchelor employed as a marman, living at 28 CRoss Street, Hatton Garden.

NOTE Doreen says that when his wife died, he had just returned from the war in France, and moved with his three girls with his sister Eleanor Elizabeth. He lived with that family until he remarried in about 1958. He was 75 years old then.

NOTE see Ourtew for more information.

Minnie Clara Bartlett-559 [Parents] was born about 1892 in , , England. She married Francis Nurthen-22.

Other marriages:
Nurthen, George

MARRIAGE from civil certificate., aged 21 a sopinster of 11 Ada Place. One of the witnesses was Albert Bartlett.


Thomas Alfred Holderness-560.Thomas married Vanda Nurthen-468 on 23 Dec 1866 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, London.

MARRIAGE from civil certificate., a bachelor of full are, an engineer of Charles Street.

Vanda Nurthen-468 [Parents] was born about 1842 in Paddington, London, England. She was christened on 18 Jan 1844 in Saint James, Paddington, London, England. She married Thomas Alfred Holderness-560 on 23 Dec 1866 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, London.

BIRTH IGI main file extracted record.

CENSUS 1851 at 19 Praed SXtreet, St Johns, Paddington, London. PRO ref HO107-1467, age 8, a scholar. Named as Vandy here.

MARRIAGE from civil certificate. of full age a spinster of Charles Street.


Annie Moorhouse-551 [Parents] was born about Feb 1863 in Lambeth, Surrey, England. She died on 26 Jan 1919 in Battersea, London, England. She was not married.

Other marriages:
Nurthen, Henry Dudfield
Walker, George

BIRTH in first quarter according to Sheila Saxton (group sheet Aug 2002).

CENSUS 1881 from CD at 4 Arden St, Battersea, Surrey, England. Source:FHL Film 1341151, PRO Ref RG11, Piece 0652, Folio 113, Page 5. Age 18, listed as Annie here.

NOTE Sheila stated had one child in 1880 (no father on the certificate), and had five more children after Henry had left her and England. She gave these children the Nurthen surname but named no father on the certificate.

CENSUS 1891, at 153 New Road Battersea, RG12/426, enumerator 33, folio 73, page 24 , schedule 141, age 28, listed as unmarried with no occupation.

DEATH from Sheila Saxton, at St James Infirmary, Ousley Road, Battersea. She has the certificate, she lists the place of residence at time of death as 70 Natal Road, Streatham.

NOTE Sheila has noted places of recidence from 1880 to her death in 1919. They are all either Battersea or Wandsworth but 10 different addresses, though sometimes the move was within the same street.

She had the following children:

  F i Frances Moorhouse-565 was born about Dec 1880 in Battersea, London, England.

CENSUS 1881 from CD at 4 Arden St, Battersea, Surrey, England. Source:FHL Film 1341151, PRO Ref RG11, Piece 0652, Folio 113, Page 5. Age 4 months. Listed as grand-daughter of Eliza, I am assuming that Annie was her mother.

Charles Nurthen-15 [Parents] was born about 1876 in Islington, Middlesex, England. He married Mary Ann Amelia Eady-566 on 24 Dec 1898 in Shoreditch, London, England.

CENSUS 1881 from LDS CD 23 Barclay St,St Pancras, London, Middlesex, England. Source:FHL Film 1341045 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 0204 Folio 35 Page 12. age 4. A Scholar

CENSUS 1891RG12-242, enumerator 4, folio 67, page 17, schedule 154. 6 Clifton Place, Shoreditch, Moorfields, Hoxton. aged 15, a van boy. Birth place listed as Clerkenwell.

MARRIAGE (1898) from civil certificate, a bachelor aged 22, a porter of 16 Hoxton Sq.

NOTE Dorothy Toussirot has a story of one of Elizabeth Rose's brothers (or brothers-in-law) who committed suicide. This happened after 1913, but possibly before 1815. If it was a brother then it must be Charles. He was more generous than his wife and helped the widowed Elizabeth Rose behind his wife's back.

Mary Ann Amelia Eady-566 [Parents] was born about 1875 in , , England. She married Charles Nurthen-15 on 24 Dec 1898 in Shoreditch, London, England.

MARRIAGE from civil certificate, spinster aged 23, of 1 Huntingdon St. Rose Anne Eady was a witness.

Home First Previous Next Last

Surname List | Name Index