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6 October 2006

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Dr G.M.W.Mann.      Baytrees

Burnhams Rd,    Lt.Bookham

Surrey, U.K.           KT23 3AU

geoff.mann@btinternet.com

 

 

 

 

 

2 Leah Dingwall JUSTICE 1871-1947

 

 

m Frederick W STEVENSON 1896

 

 

 

 

Leah was born in 1871 at 100 Cowley Rd, Shadwell where her parents had moved a few years previously to be near the docks.  Her father was a first class engineer sailing regularly from London to Canada on the "Medway" but was home for her birth and again at the end of March when he registered the birth.

 

By the age of 10, the family had moved to Bromley Hall Rd, Poplar, and her father was now sailing from London to the Cape on Castle Line steamers.  When she was about 20, she entered one of the new teacher's training colleges, which she left at the end of 1892 to start teaching at nearby Woolmore St school.

 

Leah continued teaching until she was 60, being appointed head teacher of Janet St school in Milwall in 1916, and then head teacher of a large school for mentally defective children near Old Kent Rd in 1922.

 

In 1896 while still teaching at Woolmore St school, she married Frederick STEVENSON, who lived in a nearby street and was also a teacher at a local boy's school.  A son Ronald was born a year later, but in April 1898 she miscarried twins.  Roderick was born in 1901 when they were living at Manor Park, but shortly after, they moved to 112 Browning Rd East Ham.  In the next road lived Leah's sister Christina, married to Roderick Morrison, a marine engineer.

 

After the war, Leah’s son Ronald became a seaman, and Roderick emigrated to Canada.  Ronald was attacked at Marseille, returned home, but died from his injuries in 1926.  Roderick lost his right hand in a factory accident in the USA and also returned home.  He married in 1933, but his wife did not get on with Leah.

 

Some time after they both retired, Leah and Fred moved to Leigh where Fred died in 1943.  For a while Leah tried to live with her son Roderick, but could not get on with her daughter-in-law, and returned to Leigh where she lived with her neice Nellie Ker.  She died in 1947 at the age of 76.

 

Jean remembers her as a strong-willed but fun-loving woman, who liked her and took an interest in her reading and writing.  She did not want Jean to call her grandma, instead chose the name "Meezie" – origin unknown.  She had black hair and a dark complexion, which she said could pass as jewish - a useful asset in the East End.

 

 

 

 

EVENTS

 

 

           age

   DATE   LJ FS

 

                       EVENT

 5Feb1871     

 2Apr1871  0  

 3Apr1881 10  

 5Apr1891 20  

  Dec1892 21  

16Mar1893 22  

 1Apr1894 23  

 2Apr1896 25 29

     1897 26 30

  Apr1898 27 31

  Nov1898 27 31

  Dec1898 27 31

  Feb1899 28 32

  Mar1899 28 32

 9Apr1899 28 32

31Mar1901 30 34

 9Oct1901 30 34

 2Sep1904 33 37

20Nov1906 35 39

     1916 45 49

 5Mar1920 49 53

     1922 51 55

     1926 55 59

     1931 60 64

25Dec1933 62 66

?             

12Jul1943 72 76

?    1944 73  

              

18Aug1947 76  

born at 100 Cowley Rd, Shadwell

with family at 100 Cowley St

scholar with family at 10 Bromley Hall Rd, Poplar

census not found; family not at 10 Bromley Hall Rd

left teacher training college

began probationary teaching at Woolmore St School at 50/-

permanent appointment at 90/ - Woolmore St School "on receipt of parchment"

m to Frederick STEVENSON at parish church, Bromley St Leonard

son Ronald George born

absent from school 11 days for haemorrhage; twins miscarried?

absent 5 days because of measles in family

absent 5 days with bronchial catarrh

absent 9 days with bronchial catarrh

absent 4 days with influenza

left Woolmore St for Ricardo St school

living at 6 Park Rd with husband and son, sister-in-law and a servant; Leah was an asst schoolmistress

son Roderick William born at 6 Park St, Manor Park

father died of a stroke at his home in Manor Park

living at 112 Browning Rd, East Ham (Frederick made will)

appointed head of Janet St school, Milwall

mother died at her home in Manor Park

appointed head of Marlborough St school, Old Kent Rd, for mentally defective girls

son Ronald died

retired from teaching

son Roderick married; living at 112 Browning Rd

moved to 27 Marguerite Drive, Leigh-on-Sea

Frederick died at Southend Hospital from heart failure; Leah made last will

lived for a short while with son Roderick at 33 Ulster Avenue Shoeburyness;

returned to Marguerite Drive

died at Rochford Hospital, of septicaemia & heart failure

 

 

 

PRINCIPAL RECORDS

b=born  m=married  d=died

C=Christened       B=Buried

BIRTH

certificate

 

b 5Feb1871 Leah Dingwall, female, at 100 Cowley Rd

father:David Justice engine driver in steamboat; mother:Helen Justice nee Dingwall

r 28Mar1871 by father David Justice of 100 Cowley Street, St George in East at St Paul, St George East, MDX

 

MARRIAGE

certificate

 

Frederick William Stevenson bch 29 teacher, Bromley & Leah Dingwall Justice spr 24, Bromley

fathers: George Ogilvie Stevenson engineer; David Justice, engineer

witness: Charles G Trillo, Isabella Stevenson

m 2Apr1896 after banns at parish church, Bromley St Leonard

 

DESCENDANTS

 

Ronald George STEVENSON    b 4q 1897 registered at West Ham

Roderick William STEVENSON b9Oct1901 at 6 Park Rd, West Ham

certificate

Roderick William STEVENSON boy B 9Oct1901 at 6 Park Rd, West Ham

father: Frederick William STEVENSON, schoolmaster; mother: Leah Dingwall STEVENSON, formerly JUSTICE

r 18Nov1901 by father F W STEVENSON of 6 Park Rd, West Ham at Plaistow, West Ham

 

DEATH

certificates

Leah Dingwall STEVENSON female age 76 of 27 Marguerite Drive, Southend-on-Sea, widow of Frederick William STEVENSON, retired schoolmaster

d 118Aug1947 at Southend Municipal Hospital, Rochford RD of septicaemia & heart failure

r  20Aug1947 at Rochford ESS by R W STEVENSON son, of 33 Ulster Avenue, Shoeburyness, Essex

 

Frederick William STEVENSON male age 76 of 27 Marguerite Drive, Southend-on-Sea, schoolmaster retired

d 12Jul1943 at Southend Municipal Hospital, Rochford RD of dropsy & cardiac failure

r 12Jul1943 at Rochford ESS by R STEVENSON son, of 33 Ulster Avenue, Shoeburyness, Essex

 

will of Leah Dingwall STEVENSON of 27 Marguerite Drive, Leigh s Jul1943 d 18Aug1947 at Rochford Hospital. £5279.  Everything in trust for Roderick William STEVENSON.  If he predeceases me, then £500 to Nellie Deborah STEVENSON, the rest on trust to any children in equal shares when 21 or on marriage. Barclays Bank appointed trustee and executor. Codicil 1944: £200 to erect and maintain headstones for husband and self for 21 years.

 

CENSUS

1871 100 Cowley St           RG10/534 f75

 

David      JUSTICE     he mar 35  1835    steamship engineer                              Scotland

Helen      JUSTICE     wi mar 32  1838                                                    Scotland

Christina  JUSTICE     da     11  1859    scholar                                         Scotland

David      JUSTICE     so     9   1861    scholar                                         Scotland

Helen      JUSTICE     da     7   1863    scholar                                         Scotland

Margaret   JUSTICE     da     2   1868                                                    St George in East MDX

Leah       JUSTICE     da     1m  1871                                                    St George in East MDX

 

1881 10 Bromley Hall Rd, Bromley St Leonards, Poplar            RG11/502 f105

 

Ellen      JUSTICE     he mar 42  1838                                                    Scotland

Christina  JUSTICE     da unm 21  1859    dressmaker                                      Scotland

David      JUSTICE     so unm 19  1861    engineer E & M                                  Scotland

Ellen      JUSTICE     da unm 17  1863    scholar                                         Scotland

Margaret   JUSTICE     da unm 12  1868    scholar                                         Shadwell MDX

Leah       JUSTICE     da unm 10  1870    scholar                                         Shadwell MDX

 

1891 239 East India Rd

 

1901 West Ham, 6 Park Rd   RG13/1569  f 119

 

Frederick W  STEVENSON he mar 34 Board Schoolmaster (assist)             worker       SCT Aberdeen

Leah D       STEVENSON wi mar 29 Board Schoolmistress (assist)    worker       LND St George in the East

Ronald S     STEVENSON so      3                                                West Ham

Ada S        STEVENSON si sin 19 milliner                         worker       Poplar

Violet M     STEVENSON se sin 25 servant domestic                 worker       West Ham

 

 

 

OTHER

 

Teachers records 1893-4     School Board for London, Minutes of Proceedings; Met Archives

 

16Mar1893 Woolmore St School; Miss L Justice (vice Miss Darling) [substituting for] status AG.  50/- to date from time of commencing work.  On probation for 1 year.  This teacher who left training college in December last is to be considered as on supply until the result of the Teacher's examination on the second year's paper at the Certificate examination in December last shall be known.  The continuance of the appointment will then depend upon the Teacher having passed that examination not lower than the second division.  [these are standard words applied to all probationary teachers]

 

4Oct1894 Woolmore St School; Miss L Justice status AG grade 4 85/- increase to 90/- grade 5 from 1Apr1894.  reason: receipt of parchment

 

Teachers records 1894-9     London School Board Teachers Salary Register Tower Hamlets Div. SBL1913: Met. Archives

 

Woolmore St (girls)

 

Miss L JUSTICE (crossed through); Mrs L STEVENSON 4/96

Column A      B       C    D           {A Board Minutes}

 4.10.94    1.4.94    P    90          {B Date Commence or Increase}

30. 7.96    1.4.96    S   100          {C Condition of appointment}

30. 9.97    1.4.97    S   103          {D Salary (shillings)}

 6.10.98    1.4.98    S   106          will leave 9.4.99

 

Record of Absence:

haemorrhage       25/4  - 27/ 4/98; 29/4 - 6/5/98 11 days mc {medical cert}

measles in family 31/10 -  4/11/98  5 days mc

bronch. catrh     28/11 -  2/12/98  5 days mc

bronch. catrh      9/2  - 17/ 2/99  9 days mc

influenza          7/3  - 10/ 3/99  4 days mc

 

Ricardo St (girls)

Mrs L Stevenson (from Woolmore St)

Board Minute of 20.1.99  Commence  Salary 106

 

Teachers records 1916-31      ref:  LCC year-books at Met.Archives

 

Janet St, Millwall, Poplar E, accomodates 65   10 temporary; 2 assistants

Mrs L STEVENSON head from 1916 to 1922

 

Marlborough Rd, Old Kent Rd SE1 school for mentally defective opened June 1920, 144 elder girls, 5 assistants, 3 instructresses

Mrs L STEVENSON head from 1922 to 1931; post vacant in 1932

 

 

 

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