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cannot see Elias 1911

Thank you, thank you thank hank you. I think Elias had chosen to vanish for a while. I know I read a newspaper report where him and his brother Stephen were sent for hard labour - 7 days for both for being drunk in charge of a horse and cart and he received a further 7 days for having a fight with the man who was supposedly buying rags from them in Cherry Orchard Lane in Eastwood.

Sound like such charming people. I know my grandfather hated his father as his mother had left them with him and when he died they never even put a stone on his grave. Says quite a lot really. I remember as a child being taken to the family graveyard in Essex and his grave being pointed out to me at the edge of the graveyard under a tree and just told somewhere over there. Must have been a cruel man to make his child think such little of him.

1911 census - household transcription
Person: STONE, Louisa
Address: Potlyn Lane Eastwood
STONE, Stephen Head Married M 71 1840 General Dealer Kent Littingbourne VIEW
STONE, Matilda Wife Married
44 years F 60 1851 Hawker London St Pancras VIEW
STONE, Mary Daughter Single F 20 1891 Essex Eastwood VIEW
STONE, Louisa Daughter Single F 18 1893 Essex Eastwood VIEW
STONE, Elias Grandson M 5 1906 Essex Leigh

I wonder if this is the birth for Betty?

Births Mar 1914 (>99%)
LOVERIDGE Elizabeth A Loveridge Swindon 5a 9



It is humbling when we see the poverty and hard lives of our ancestors.