Biography:
Adelaide Clements
1861 –29/08/1931
Adelaide Clements
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Plot x549 Adelaide Clements (née Simkin) (1861-1931)
Adelaide was born 1861 in Newmarket to William Simpkin, a farm labourer and his wife Isabella (née Missen).
In 1881 she was working as a general domestic servant to a single lady in Kentish Town, London.
She married Arthur Charles Clements (who seems to have gone by the name Charles) from Mapledurham in Oxfordshire in 1887. They were to have seven children: Archibald (1888 Kentish Town), Gertrude (1890 Kentish Town), Ivy (1893 Kentish Town), Frank (1895 Kentish Town), James (1899 Kentish Town), Albert (1902 Henley-on-Thames), May (1902 Berkhamsted).
In the 1891 census they are recorded living in Vicar’s Road, Kentish Town and Charles was employed by a pianoforte maker. In the 19th century this part of London was a major centre for piano making and all its associated industries.
Charles was to have a radical change of occupation and by 1901 the family had moved to 6, Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames where he was a manager of a boot and shoe shop.
By 1902 they were living in Berkhamsted and the 1911 census places them at 123, High Street. Charles was a manager for a bootmaker and son Frank also worked in the trade
Their son James signed up in 1916, fought in France and was wounded in the head and shoulder in August 1917. Thankfully he survived the war.
In 1921 they were living in Farriers Hall in the High Street. (The site of the British Legion behind Boots.) Charles was manager of a boot shop, employed by P D Miller Boot & Shoe Makers and May, the only one of their children still at home, worked for Corby, Palmer & Stuart, costumiers in Lower Kings’ Road.
Charles died in November 1924 by which time they were living at 24, Clarence Road. He is buried here.
Adelaide died aged 70 and was buried here 2 September 1931 with Charles.
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Plot x549 Adelaide Clements (née Simkin) (1861-1931)
Adelaide was born 1861 in Newmarket to William Simpkin, a farm labourer and his wife Isabella (née Missen).
In 1881 she was working as a general domestic servant to a single lady in Kentish Town, London.
She married Arthur Charles Clements (who seems to have gone by the name Charles) from Mapledurham in Oxfordshire in 1887. They were to have seven children: Archibald (1888 Kentish Town), Gertrude (1890 Kentish Town), Ivy (1893 Kentish Town), Frank (1895 Kentish Town), James (1899 Kentish Town), Albert (1902 Henley-on-Thames), May (1902 Berkhamsted).
In the 1891 census they are recorded living in Vicar’s Road, Kentish Town and Charles was employed by a pianoforte maker. In the 19th century this part of London was a major centre for piano making and all its associated industries.
Charles was to have a radical change of occupation and by 1901 the family had moved to 6, Bell Street, Henley-on-Thames where he was a manager of a boot and shoe shop.
By 1902 they were living in Berkhamsted and the 1911 census places them at 123, High Street. Charles was a manager for a bootmaker and son Frank also worked in the trade
Their son James signed up in 1916, fought in France and was wounded in the head and shoulder in August 1917. Thankfully he survived the war.
In 1921 they were living in Farriers Hall in the High Street. (The site of the British Legion behind Boots.) Charles was manager of a boot shop, employed by P D Miller Boot & Shoe Makers and May, the only one of their children still at home, worked for Corby, Palmer & Stuart, costumiers in Lower Kings’ Road.
Charles died in November 1924 by which time they were living at 24, Clarence Road. He is buried here.
Adelaide died aged 70 and was buried here 2 September 1931 with Charles.
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