Jane Freeth was the tenth child of William Freeth & Sarah Gutteridge born January 8th, 1851 & christened February 9th, 1851 at Smethwick, Staffs.
Jane was still at home at 6 Roebuck Lane in 1861 with her parents & brothers & sister.
In 1871 Jane was still at Roebuck Lane, both her parents having died. Head of the household was her brother John, a glass flattener, & also there was sister Sarah, a screw turner, nephew Leonard Freeth & niece Mary Blackman (both children of sister Hannah). Jane was working as a housemaid.
Jane married George Whitehouse on September 15th, 1872 at West Bromwich. George was born November 29th, 1847 at West Bromwich, the son of Mary & William Whitehouse, an iron worker.
In 1881 Jane & George were living at 69 Elsley Rd, Battersea, Surrey & George was a glass packer. They had 4 children at this time – Ada J (8), George W (6), Albert E (4) & Frank E (1). Also with them was a niece Clara Whitehouse (18), an unemployed domestic servant.
Jane & George (Whetstone in Ancestry.co.uk index) were living at 58 Eversleigh Rd, Battersea in 1891 & George was still a glass packer. There were 8 children at home – Ada, George William, a print reader, Albert Edward, a telegraph messenger, Frank Edward, Samuel Henry (9), Frederick (5), Lillian (3) & Edith (1).
Son Albert Edward was listed in the Royal Navy records in 1895 as a telegraph messenger. He married Florence Ellen (nee Clarke) in 1911 & became a chief petty officer in the Royal Navy. Albert & his wife were living in Twickenham in 1939 & he was a civil servant in the Ministry of Labour.
In 1899 son George William, a journalist, married Mildred White Bowen Barnes in Wandsworth. His brother Frank was a witness at the wedding (also sister ethel Talbot Barnes). Sadly Mildred died in January 1900 & George married Mildred’s sister, Ethel Talbot Barnes. In 1911 they were living in Lavender Hill, Battersea with 2 daughters & a son.
By 1901 George & Jane were at 17 Elsley Rd, Battersea with children Ada, Frank, a draughtsman, Samuel, a solicitor’s clerk, Frederick, an insurance clerk, Lillian, Edith & Arthur (8).
Son Frank married Elizabeth Morrison Vass in 1908/9 in Wandsworth.
George & Jane were still living at 17 Elsley Rd in 1911. Their address on the census shows the road to be in Lavender Hill, New Wandsworth. George was still a glass packer with a lead & glass manufacturer. At home were Ada, described as mother’s help, Samuel Henry, a law clerk, Lillian & Edith, both dressmakers & Arthur, a mechanical engineer. It was noted on the census that they had had 10 children, only 9 of whom were still living.
Living at 61 Elsley Rd in 1911 was son Frederick & his wife Jessie Maud (nee Chesterman) & their 2 year old son Frederick A. Frederick was a storekeeper electrical engineer.
Son Samuel Henry married May McMullon in 1912 in Wandsworth. Daughter Lillian also married in 1912. She married Alfred H Piggott in Wandsworth. In 1939 Lillian & Alfred, an East India Merchant clerk were living in Sutton & Cheam, Surrey with their son Jeffrey A, a fruit clerk.
Daughter Edith emigrated to USA on September 30th, 1913 sailing to Boston on the SS Laconia. On October 10th of that year she married Henry Crawford Hallock in Boston, Massachusetts. She was aged 24 & a dressmaker & Henry was an electrician. The 1930 US census shows Henry (41) & Edith living in Beverly, Boston where Henry was a proprietor of a battery station. They had 3 children with them – Henry R (15), Lillian (19) & Arthur (7).
Jane died on November 24th, 1918 in Battersea, Surrey.
George died on August 9th, 1929 in Battersea, Surrey.
The 1939 register shows daughter Ada living with her brother Arthur, a fitter’s engineer & his wife Violet Irene (nee Spicer) at 17 Elsley Rd, Clapham Junction, Battersea.
The children of Jane Freeth & George Whitehouse were:
fh.4.6.1.4.10.1 Ada Jane Whitehouse born Jan-March 1873 at West Bromwich,
Staffs; died April-June 1949 at Kensington, London
fh.4.6.1.4.10.2 George William Whitehouse born July-September 1874 at Battersea,
Surrey; died December 23rd, 1934 at Brompton Hospital, Middlesex
fh.4.6.1.4.10.3 Albert Edward Whitehouse born January 18th, 1877 at Battersea,
Surrey; died November 13th, 1955 at West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth
fh.4.6.1.4.10.4 Frank Ernest Whitehouse born April-June 1879 at Battersea,
Surrey; died August 16th 1961 at Bolingbroke Hospital, Battersea
fh.4.6.1.4.10.5 Samuel Henry Whitehouse born September 9th, 1881 at Battersea,
Surrey
fh.4.6.1.4.10.6 Frederick Whitehouse born Oct-December 1883 at Battersea, Surrey; buried April 23rd, 1885 at Hanwell Cemetery, Westminster
fh.4.6.1.4.10.7 Frederick Whitehouse born July-September 1885 at Battersea,
Surrey; Surrey; died <1937
fh.4.6.1.4.10.8 Lillian Whitehouse born March 18th, 1888 at Battersea, Surrey; died 1964 in Bournemouth, Hampshire
fh.4.6.1.4.10.9 Edith Whitehouse born July 1st, 1889 at Battersea, Surrey; died January 30th, 1974 at Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts
fh.4.6.1.4.10.10 Arthur Whitehouse born April 21st, 1892 at Battersea, Surrey; died January 5th, 1946 at Battersea