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BLEWETT BLEWITT BLUET genealogy
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21 October 2008 |
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Dr Geoffrey Mann |
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1 Amy Janet BLEWETT 1899-1988
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m Herbert Henry MANN 1926 |
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click here for photographs of Amy Blewett
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Amy was born in Limehouse and always claimed to be a cockney as
this was within sound of Bow bells.
Her father had recently left the sea and claimed to be a “general
dealer” on her birth certificate. He mainly
collected rag & bones, but his business prospered and Amy moved with him
and his family first to Leytonstone then to Southend-on-Sea and finally to a
large house on the sea front at Thorpe Bay. Meanwhile she had trained as a shorthand typist, and from
Southend she travelled daily to the city working for companies including the
Mazawattee Tea Company and the LCC. The family attended the Pleasant Rd Methodist church in
Southend, and here she met Bert Mann, a widower twelve years older than
herself, and recently returned from Canada.
Bert was a builder in his father’s firm, which built a new house
“Kynance” at Thorpe Bay for Amy’s father. It was from Kynance that Amy, now 27, and Bert married in
1926. For a year or so they lived
with Bert’s family until their new house named “Wendon” was ready in Church
Rd., Shoebury. Bert’s father, brother
and sister moved next door and the pair of houses shared a large garden. Four children were born at Wendon between 1928 and 1935. Bert’s building firm prospered in the
1930s building many houses in Shoebury and making enough profit to run two
cars and employ a gardener, handyman/chauffeur and a nursemaid and to sen the
children to private school. The
Shoebury Methodist church was important to Amy where she became a Sunday
School teacher. The outbreak of war in 1939 ended the prosperous years, as no
building was possible at this time or in the austerity post-war years. Amy and the children were evacuated to
Ashbourne in Derbyshire from 1939 until 1942. Safe from air-raids,
Amy suffered migraine attacks probably from the stress of living in
cramped rented accommodation with her four children now 5 to 11 years
old. Bert remained in Shoebury as an
air-raid warden. After the war, Amy and Bert remained at Wendon until 1953 when
Bert’s sister died and they moved into the now empty house next door. Wendon was given to the Methodist
church. Bert was a disappointed man,
as little building was possible and his dreams of making a fortune
disappeared. Their eldest son Robin
became a Methodist missionary, while I, second son, went to University. Bert’s firm was sold and he died in
1958. Everything was left to Amy, still only 59, and it provided
enough for her for the rest of her life. She was now able to visit her
relations in Canada, and for a while went to live with her eldest son, a
missionary, in Kenya. Often
holidaying with her sister Lena, she corresponded with a large circle of
friends. She remained active in the
church, serving as circuit secretary for some years. Amy died of cancer in 1987 aged 88. I remember her as a wonderful mother, always kind, patient,
supportive and generous. As a child,
cuts and tears were wiped away with the calm reassurance that everything will
be all right. She was not noted for a
tidy house or for punctuality! As
children we were allowed to treat the furniture as a playground - and I was
allowed to treat the kitchen as a chemistry laboratory. We were always late for church, causing
maximum disturbance as four children tried to squeeze along a pew. Amy liked to play games especially with her children and
grandchildren and could play a good game of scrabble right to the end. Before she died, her family had grown to
include twelve grandchildren and she loved having any, or preferably all, of
them to her house. |
C=Christened
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age DATE
AB HM |
EVENT |
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11Mar1899 ?cAug1900 1 31Mar1901 2 ? c1905
5 ? c1914 14 ? c1915 15 ? 1925 25 ?3Nov1926 27 39 1926 27 39 c1927 28 39 13Jul1928 29 40 31Oct1930 31 43 30Mar1932 33 44 14May1935 36 47 1939 40 51 c1942 43 54 25Aug1953 54 65 1953 54 65 31Mar1955 56 67 13May1958 59 70 20Nov1987 88 |
Amy born at 64 Burgess
Rd, Limehouse, dau of Henry Michael and Helena moved with family to 7 Wallwood Rd Leytonstone with family at Wallwood Rd Leytonstone started at Kirkdale Rd school started at Clark’s College, Forest Gate typing and shorthand school moved with family to 49 Old Southend Rd travelled to London to work as typist/secretary to an Insurance
Company, Mazawattee tea company, LCC moved with family to Kynance, on Thorpe Bay sea front married HH Mann at
Christ Church, Thorpe Bay lived in 'Aintree', house on corner of West St & Church Rd with
husband’s parents moved to new house
'Wendon' Church Rd, Shoeburyness, Essex son Herbert Henry Robin
born at 'Wendon' son Geoffrey Michael
Wilfrid born at 'Wendon' son David Brian Dudley
born at 'Wendon' dau Rosemary Jessie born
at 'Wendon' Amy and children
evacuated to Ashbourne Derbyshire; HH an air raid warden Amy and children
returned to Shoebury sister Dora died next
door at 35 Church Rd moved next door into 35
Church Rd; Wendon (now no.33) given as a Methodist manse HH made last will,
everything to Amy HH died at General
Hospital Rochford from coronary thrombosis AJ died at Southend
Hospital |
b=born m=married d=died
C=Christened B=Buried
b
11Mar1899, Amy Janet, at 64 Burgess St
f:
Henry Michael BLEWETT general dealer; m: Helena Annie BLEWETT formerly
BROOKBANKS
r
21Apr1899 by H M BLEWETT, father, of 64 Burgess St, Limehouse at Limehouse,
Stepney London
m
3Nov1926 at Christ Church, Thorpe Bay ESX by licence
Herbert
Henry MANN wdr 39, builder of 'Aintree' Church Rd, Shoeburyness & Amy Janet
BLEWETT spr 27 of 'Kynance' Eastern Esplanade, Thorpe Bay
f:Herbert
Henry MANN builder; Henry Michael BLEWETT merchant; wit: H.L DUNLOP, H.M
BLEWETT, P.V.L Wa—ps
[H.L Dunlop was her sister
Henrietta Lillian, H.M was her father]
b
13Jul1928 Herbert Henry Robin
b
31Oct1930 Geoffrey Michael Wilfrid
b
30Mar1932 David Brian Dudley
b
14May1935 Rosemary Jessie
Herbert
Henry Robin MANN boy b 13Jul1928 at Wendon, Church Rd, Shoeburyness
f: H H
MANN, builder (house); m: Amy Janet MANN formerly BLEWETT
r
14Sep1928 at Great Wakering, Rochford, ESS by H H MANN, father, of Wendon,
Church Rd Shoeburyness
Geoffrey
Michael Wilfrid MANN boy b 31Oct1930 at Wendon, Church Rd, Shoeburyness
f: H H
MANN, house builder (master); m: Amy Janet MANN formerly BLEWETT
r
11Dec1930 at Great Wakering, Rochford, ESS by H H MANN, father, of Wendon,
Church Rd Shoeburyness,
d
13May1958 Herbert Henry MANN male 70, master builder retired, of 35 Church Rd,
Shoeburyness,
at General Hospital Rochford from
coronary thrombosis
r
14May1958 at Rochford, ESS by A.J MANN, widow of deceased, of 35 Church Rd,
Shoeburyness
d
20Nov1987 Amy Janet MANN female, b 11Mar1899 at Leyton, Waltham Forest, of 35
Church Rd, Shoeburyness,
at Rochford Hospital from
carcinoma, widow of Herbert Henry MANN, builder
r
23Nov1987 at Southend-on-Sea, ESS by Herbert Henry Robin MANN, son, of 1 Oberon
Place, Hartford, Huntingdon, Cambs
Henry BLEWETT he mar 35 1866 rag merchant own
act Stepney MDX
Helena
A BLEWETT wi mar 35 1866 Stepney
MDX
Helena
M BLEWETT da sin 14 1887 dress makers apprentice worker Stepney MDX
Elizabeth
BLEWETT da sin 12 1889 Stepney
MDX
Henry BLEWETT
so sin 10 1891 Limehouse
MDX
Henrietta
BLEWETT da 4 1897 Limehouse
MDX
Amy BLEWETT da 2 1899 Limehouse
MDX
Jane BLEWETT mo wid 63 1838 Penzance
Ernest JEARY
bo sin 24 1877 traveller (soap) worker London, Bow