Biography:
Louisa Sophia Bristow
22/02/1874 –04-1926
Louisa Sophia Bristow
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Unmarked grave Louisa Sophia Bristow (née Avery) (1874-1926)
Louisa was born 22 February 1874 at 14, Bath Grove, Bethnal Green, to William Henry Avery, a warehouseman, and Sophia (née Powell). She was baptised 12 April at St Thomas’s, Bethnal Green. Louisa was the ninth of their children and her mother died following her birth.
At the time of the 1881 census Sophia and her father were living alone at 6, Buckingham Road, Bethnal Green. Ten years later, aged 17, she was a live-in general servant at the home of George and Mary Hughes in Forest Gate. Mr Hughes was manager of an ostrich feather manufactory and, as Louisa’s father was described as “feather sorter” on her wedding certificate, that connection may have been how she got the job.
On the 24 December 1899 at St Thomas’s church, Edmonton, she married Corporal Robert Bristow of the Royal Berkshire regiment, based in Aldershot. Robert was marrying without his commanding officer’s consent, possibly because he knew he was about to be posted to Gibraltar on 28 January 1900.
Robert returned from Gibraltar in 1902 and their son Robert jnr was born the following year. In November 1906 Robert was posted to India. Louisa accompanied him and their daughters Lillian Louisa and Edith Mary were born there. She seems not to have gone with him initially, unless he was posted to Ireland en route, as their daughter Eileen Eliza was born in Dublin in 1907.
The family returned to England in April 1914 when Robert was discharged at his own request after serving for 19 years. He was 39.
The family first appears in Berkhamsted in the 1919 electoral register at “House at the Nook”, Lower King’s Road. Robert was employed as a decorator and he also signed up for the Territorial Army.
The family remained in Berkhamsted until at least April 1926 when Louisa died in West Herts hospital. She was buried here on 29 April aged 52.
Robert died 18 February 1934 at 17, Wellhouse Lane, Barnet aged 59. He was buried in the same grave as Louisa, 22 February.
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Unmarked grave Louisa Sophia Bristow (née Avery) (1874-1926)
Louisa was born 22 February 1874 at 14, Bath Grove, Bethnal Green, to William Henry Avery, a warehouseman, and Sophia (née Powell). She was baptised 12 April at St Thomas’s, Bethnal Green. Louisa was the ninth of their children and her mother died following her birth.
At the time of the 1881 census Sophia and her father were living alone at 6, Buckingham Road, Bethnal Green. Ten years later, aged 17, she was a live-in general servant at the home of George and Mary Hughes in Forest Gate. Mr Hughes was manager of an ostrich feather manufactory and, as Louisa’s father was described as “feather sorter” on her wedding certificate, that connection may have been how she got the job.
On the 24 December 1899 at St Thomas’s church, Edmonton, she married Corporal Robert Bristow of the Royal Berkshire regiment, based in Aldershot. Robert was marrying without his commanding officer’s consent, possibly because he knew he was about to be posted to Gibraltar on 28 January 1900.
Robert returned from Gibraltar in 1902 and their son Robert jnr was born the following year. In November 1906 Robert was posted to India. Louisa accompanied him and their daughters Lillian Louisa and Edith Mary were born there. She seems not to have gone with him initially, unless he was posted to Ireland en route, as their daughter Eileen Eliza was born in Dublin in 1907.
The family returned to England in April 1914 when Robert was discharged at his own request after serving for 19 years. He was 39.
The family first appears in Berkhamsted in the 1919 electoral register at “House at the Nook”, Lower King’s Road. Robert was employed as a decorator and he also signed up for the Territorial Army.
The family remained in Berkhamsted until at least April 1926 when Louisa died in West Herts hospital. She was buried here on 29 April aged 52.
Robert died 18 February 1934 at 17, Wellhouse Lane, Barnet aged 59. He was buried in the same grave as Louisa, 22 February.
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