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Etheldreda Annie Chapman (“Dreda”) 10 January 1885 to 22 March 1972
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context is in green.
1885
Etheldreda
Annie Chapman, daughter of Walter J Chapman (CHA00010) and Annie Mariah (nee
Byron) Chapman, was born on 10 January 1885 at 2 Denby Grove, Denby Road, Croydon,
Surrey and baptised on 1 March 1885..
Etheldreda
(Aethelthryth, Ediltrudis, Audrey) (d.679), was a queen, foundress and abbess
of Ely. She was the daughter of Anna, king of East Anglia, was born (probably)
at Exning, near Newmarket, Suffolk. In 660, for political reasons, she was
married to Egfrith, the young king of Northumbria who
was then only 15 years old, and several years younger than her. He agreed that
she should remain a virgin, as in her previous marriage, but 12 years later he
wished their marital relationship to be normal. Etheldreda, advised and aided
by Wilfred, bishop of Northumbria, refused. Egfrith
offered bribes in vain. Etheldreda left him and became a nun at Coldingham under her aunt Ebbe (672) and founded a double
monastery at Ely in 673. St Etheldreda's Feast Day
is 23rd June.
Margaret and Etheldreda Chapman in
1889
1891
1891 Census – 4 Stanton Road, Croydon
Walter
Chapman, 40, ironmonger
Annie
M Chapman, 36, schoolmistress (born Battersea)
Margaret
S Chapman, 8
Etheldreda
A Chapman, 6
Harold
B J Chapman, 2
Sophia
Chapman, 68
Servant
1901
1901 Census – Eversholt, Staton Road, Croydon
Walter
Chapman, 50, iron founder’s salesman
Annie
Chapman, 46, his wife, school teacher
Margaret
Chapman, 18, school teacher
Etheldreda
Chapman, 16
Harold
B J Chapman, 12
Reginald
Chapman, 8
Sophia
Chapman, mother, widow, 78
Etheldreda
Chapman
1911
1911 Census
– 20 Clarendon House, Marine Parade,
Worthing, Sussex
On 2 April 1911, she
lived at Worthing, Sussex. She was a boarding house
keeper at The Clarendon, The Steyne, Worthing.
1918
The Electoral Register
showed her living at 20 Marine Parade, Worthing.
1921
1921 Census
– 20 Marine Parade, Worthing, Sussex
Etheldreda W Chapman,
Proprietress Boarding House on own account, 36. Clarendon Hotel
22 people boarding
Etheldreda Chapman
1925
On 8 July 1925, Dreda
married Percy Robert Buckingham
(1891 to 1975) at Brighton, Sussex.
1928
Margaret
Anne Buckingham (1928 to 2012)(BUC00002) was born on 21 February 1928.
1939
1939 Register – Mill House, Findon, Sussex
Buckingham,
Percy R, born 23 January 1891, motor transport contractor
Buckingham
Etheldreda, born 10 January 1885, domestic duties
Buckingham
Margaret A, born 21 February 1928, student at school
Percy
was director of P R Buckingham Limited, a milk collection business in the Isle
of Wight.
1972
Dreda died, aged 87, at 1 Mill Road, Worthing,
Sussex in 1972.