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20 August 2006

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Dr G.M.W.Mann.      Baytrees

Burnhams Rd,    Lt.Bookham

Surrey, U.K.           KT23 3AU

geoff.mann@btinternet.com

 

 

 

 

 

1 Nellie Deborah SHORT 1908-1993

 

 

1m R.W.STEVENSON 1933  2m E.L.HAYNS c1960

 

 

 

 

 

NELLIE was born in 1908 in Limehouse where her parents managed an oil and colour shop in Salmons Lane market.  The family lived over the shop during the first world war and Nellie went to the infants (1912-1915) and girls school in Dalgleish St just behind Salmons Lane.

 

She left school in 1923 aged 14 and was apprenticed to Hitchcock and Williams, a clothing and furrier firm near St Pauls Cathedral to learn dress making at 5/- a month.  She moved with her family to Manor Park in 1925.  Went to work via tram to Aldgate and then walked. Apprenticeship finished about 1928 but there was no work at the end of it and she was employed in a clothing shop in East Ham.

 

She met Roderick STEVENSON at a Methodist Church and married him in 1933.  For a while they lived in Halley Rd in a house owned by her parents-in-law and their daughter Jean was born there the next year.  For a while they lived with the Rodericks parents, but relations between them deteriorated and they moved to another house in London with her sister Alice, to Southend and then to Shoebury around 1935 Soon after, they rented a new house in Ulster Avenue, Shoebury, and Nellie began to take boarders for seaside holidays and continued dress-making at home.

 

After the war, they were about to move to a new bungalow in the adjacent road when Roderick died of lung cancer.  Nellie moved to the new house and began work as a machinist in a clothes factory in Leigh.  Near there she met Edward HAYNS a widower, who she married at Shoebury about 1960.  Edward died in 1988 and Nellie lived alone for a further five years before she died of pneumonia in hospital after a short illness, aged 84.

 

Nellie was a very forceful character who liked to get her own way, and she generally did, insensitive to other's needs.  Not for nothing was she nicknamed "Bullock" in her younger days.  She tended to see those around her in black or white - angels or devils - and they often progressed from the first category to the last.  This included her siblings with whom all connections were broken at the time of her mother's death.  She had long rowed with her nearest sister Rose whom she despised for "putting on airs and graces".  She had a hard time during the depression years when her husband had difficulty in finding work; her best times were just after world war-2 when, with her husband's inheritance, they were among the very few in the road to have a car and television, which neighbours came in the evening to watch.  A favourite story is that in her last year, she was moved from hospital to a nursing home, where she stood on a table with a knife in hand and tried to lead the others to escape!

 

 

 

 

EVENTS

 

           age

    DATE  NS RS

 

                       EVENT

21Dec1908     

 3Jun1912  3  

29Mar1915  6  

     1923 14  

     1925 16  

     1928 19  

25Dec1933 25 32

 4Nov1934 25 33

c.   1936 27 35

c.   1938 29 37

26Mar1955 46 54

 1Oct1957 48 56

     1958 49  

   c.1960 51  

     1961 52  

28Nov1988 79  

23Jan1993 84  

born at 22 Dixon St, Limehouse; parents Thomas, manager of oilshop, & Alice

admitted to Dalgleish St infants school

admitted to Dalgleish St girls school

left school and began apprenticeship in London

family moved to Manor Park

finished apprenticeship and worked in East ham clothes shop

mar. R.W.STEVENSON at Manor Park Methodist

dau Jean born at 275 Halley Rd, Manor Park

moved to Pentland Avenue Shoeburyness, Essex

rented new house at 33 Ulster Avenue, Shoeburyness

dau Jean married at Shoebury

husband R.W.STEVENSON died

moved to 58 Waterford Rd Shoeburyness

mar. E.L.HAYNS

parents died

husband E.L.HAYNS died

died of pneumonia in Runwell hospital

 

 

PRINCIPAL RECORDS

                                                                                                                                            b=born  m=married  d=died

                                                                                                                                            C=Christened       B=Buried

BIRTH

 

b 21Dec1908 Nellie Deborah SHORT at 22 Dixon St; dau of Thomas William SHORT oilmans manager & Alice SHORT formerly MANSFIELD;

r 28Jan1909 by T.W.SHORT father, of 22 Dixon St Limehouse at Limehouse, Stepney, London

 

MARRIAGE

certificate

m 25Dec1933 at Manor Park Methodist Church, Romford Rd, West Ham, Essex

Roderick William STEVENSON bch 32 commercial traveller, 112 Browning Rd, Manor Park

& Nellie Deborah SHORT spr 25 machinist, 49 Durham Rd, Manor Park

f: Frederick William STEVENSON, schoolmaster (retired), Thomas SHORT, oil shop manager w: Thomas William SHORT, Ivy E SHORT

 

personal knowledge

m c.1960 Edwin Leonard HAYNS wdr & Nellie Deborah STEVENSON wid at South Shoebury

 

DESCENDANTS

 

Jean Helen Leah STEVENSON girl b 2Nov1934 at 275 Halley Road

father: Roderick William STEVENSON, commercial traveller; mother: Nellie Deborah STEVENSON, formerly SHORT

r 14Nov1934 at West Ham by father R W STEVENSON of 275 Halley Rd, Manor Park

 

DEATH

 

Roderick William STEVENSON male age 55 of 21 Ulster Avenue, Shoeburyness, Southend-on-Sea, storekeeper (Ministry of Supply)

d 1Oct1957 at Rochford General Hospital of heart failure & chronic bronchitis

r 3Oct1957 at Rochford, ESS, by N D STEVENSON widow of deceased, of 21 Ulster Avenue, Shoeburyness ESS,

 

{NOTE: 33 Ulster Ave was sold while RWS was in hospital, but he never lived at 21 Ulster Ave)

 

Edward Leonard HAYNS male B 12May1907 at Bromley by Bow, college lecturer (retired) of 58 Waterford Rd, Shoeburyness

d 28Nov1988 at 58 Waterford Rd, Shoeburyness of heart disease

r 29Nov1988 at Southend-on-Sea ESS, by Nellie Deborah HAYNS widow of deceased, of 58 Waterford Rd, Shoeburyness, ESS

 

Nellie Deborah HAYNS female B 21Dec1908 at Stepney, dressmaker (retired) of 58 Waterford Rd, Shoeburyness, ESS

d 23Jan1993 at Runwell Hospital of broncho-pneumonia

r 26Jan1993 at Chelmsford ESS, by Jean MANN daughter, of Bay Trees, Burnhams Rd, Bookham SRY,

OTHER

School Records

 

Dalgleish St Infants (1911-1923 records at GLRO)

 

Name          No.  Admitted  Father   last school    Left      To/Reason

 

Nellie SHORT  2069  3Jun1912 Thomas    none       26May1915   Girl's Dept

 

 

Dalgleish St Girls (1894 - 1924 records at GLRO)

 

Name          No.  Admitted  Parent                     d.o.b    last school  left  To

 

Nellie SHORT  3688 29Mar1915 Thomas 148a Salmon Lane   21Dec1908   infants    ---------