Ambrose Bacon

Ambrose Bacon was born at Selston Common, Nottinghamshire, and was the son of William and Emily Bacon (née Elliott). His father William was born in 1839 at St Martin's, London, the son of Henry and Hannah Bacon. His mother Emily Elliott was born in 1843 at Spalding, Lincolnshire. They were married at Nottingham St Mary in March 1867 and probably had at least nine children: Martha Hannah birth registered 1868 (J/F/M) d. 1868 and Hannah Matilda b. Selston 1869, Minne b. Castle Donington 1870 and Charles Henry b. 1872, Parthinia b. 1875, Alice b. 1877, William birth registered 1879 (J/F/M), John James b. 1883 and Ambrose b. 1886 who were all born in Selston. All the birth registrations recorded the mother's maiden name, Elliott. In 1871, four years after their marriage, William and Emily were living in Underwood, Selston, with their daughter Minnie (5m), while on the night of the census their eldest surviving daughter, Hannah (2), was in the Selston home of her paternal grandparents, Henry, a farmer, and his wife Hannah. Ten years later William, a labourer, and Emily with their six children Hannah, Minnie, Charles, Parthinia, Alice and William, were living with William senior's widowed father Henry in Selston; Henry was recorded as a farmer of 13 acres. In 1891 William, a general labourer, and Emily, a hawker, with children Charles, a general labourer, Parthinia, Alice, William, John and Ambrose (5), were living at what was described on the census as a 'caravan in Sand Hill', Sand Hill Street, Worksop. By 1901 the couple together with their two youngest sons, John and Ambrose, were living at a 'caravan in Dump Lane', Kegworth, Leicestershire. William and his two sons were linoleum hawkers. William and Emily and most of their children have not yet been traced on the 1911 Census, although William jnr. was living at Watson's Yard, Hawthorn Street, Meadows, and working as a scrap dealer (employer), and Charles, a scrap iron dealer (employer) was living in West Bridgford. There is also a record of an Ambrose Bacon (25 b. Selston abt. 1886), a general dealer, who in 1911 was living in the Market Place, Belton, Loughborough, with his wife of two years, Alice. Both were boarders in the household of John Kerry, a general dealer, and his wife. No record has yet been traced of the marriage of Ambrose and Alice, and only Ambrose's parents are named on the CWGC record. At the time this was compiled, William and Emily were living in the Meadows, Nottingham.