18th July 2004
Contact: Hilary Cook, Worthing, Sussex
hillehahn @ ntlworld.com
Surname interests: HAHN (German); CHALLIS; HOLLOWAY and ALDERMAN (Hants connection); VILLAS / VILLA / CHRISTOFF (Italian immigrant origin); SPACKMAN; SCHOLPLE (German); MANSER (French polisher/ cabinetmakers connection, poss. Holloway Road); SHIRVILLE (Brentford); WEST (orig. Oxford); FINAL or FINALL (Brentford Union Workshouse); CIMELLI; RATCLIFFE
HAHN:
4 brothers all from Gehlweiler, Germany to London circa 1895:
"Henrich (possible aka Jakob)", Fredrich, Peter, Adam (possible surname change to "ADAMS") All bakers in St. Pancras area (1901 census at Hampstead Road).
Fredrich, 1900 m: m. Elizabeth CHALLIS issue:
* 1901 Frederick Adam (1924 surname change to CHALLIS) m Alice Sarah VILLAS (see below)
* 1907 Hector
* Albert
* Edwin Peter
* William - no issue
* 1914 Freda
CHALLIS (Camden/ St. Pancras area)
Edwin CHALLIS (b. 1845, Dartford) m. Sarah HOLLOWAY(1850, Hants) (coffee house keeper, 81, Pratt Street, Camden)
Father: Robert Challis m. Elizabeth SPACKMAN (Dartford)
Issue:
* 1877 Elizabeth (m. Fredrich HAHN, 1900)
* c.1879 Edwin c.1879
* c.1880 Ada Elizabeth - daughter: Alice Selena m. Michael GLAZIER c.1925
(late of Morden, Surrey)
* Emily m ? SCHOLPLE
* George Spackman CHALLIS 1887, (child of Elizabeth Horsecraft, below)
HORSECRAFT
Elizabeth Mary, c. 1860 - married: 1) Edwin Challis (above); 2) Charles ALDERMAN
Issue:
* George Spackman Challis, c.1887 (above)
* Elizabeth Alderman, c.1890
VILLAS/ MANSER (Brentford district)
c.1880 Francis John VILLAS, (recorded 1881 as Richard Villa CHRISTOFF) M. Sarah MANSER, (1900, St James, Gunnersbury - witness: John CIMELLI (1901 census lived Clerkenwell/ "Little Italy", father Pietro CIMELLI)
Father: Christoff VILLA (recorded 1881 census as Xuar VILLA, organ-grinder) m: Emily WEST (see West below), (recorded in 1881 census as Emily CHRISTOFF (Christoff and Emily married 1887!)
Siblings: (Brentford / Ealing district)
c.1878 Rose Ann aka Rosina CHRISTOFF (married 1898 using surname VILLAS) to James PEARCE
c.1882-3 Louisa CHRISTOFF, (married using surname VILLA) to either Sydney FLETCHER or Charles Frederick SHIRVILLE
NB: Francis John VILLAS, (died October 1918, aged 38 (dec'd Chelsea Hospital, WW1 camp hospital. Death recorded in Rochford, Essex district)
Francis and Sarah issue:
1902 Alice Sarah VILLAS (m: Frederick HAHN)
c.1905 James Alexander VILLAS
c.190? Emily VILLAS m. HENESEY
c.1909 Louisa VILLAS m Ernest TROTT - son: Norman (surname change to RATCLIFFE); daughters: Maureen, Avril.
c.19?? John Villas - daughter Norma
c.1915 Henry Francis VILLAS - son: Den[n]is; daughter: Lyn
1918 Sidney VILLAS m Olive - daughters: Jacqueline, Jocelyn + son.
WEST
c.1823 Richard WEST, orig from Cuddesden [sic], Oxford m: 1) Ann BUCKLAND, 2) Maria FINAL (born Brentford Union Workhouse c.1840) nb: miscribed in 1901 census as "Ufaria"
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