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According to the 1871 census, Elizabeth, Charles and Alice were born in Sandford, the second Mary was born in Ringwood, and Sarah and George were born in Crowe. The later censuses recorded the parish in which people were born, rather than hamlet, but the twins John and Jane were undoubtedly born at home at Crowe Cottages.
Elizabeth Kendall with her son George and his family (c.1903).
During the Sandford years, John worked as an Agricultural Labourer. By 1862, at the time of the death of the first Mary Ann, he was employed as a Railway Labourer and had moved his family to Ringwood. By 1866, and the birth of Harriett at Saint Johns Buildings in Southampton, he was employed as a General Labourer. By 1867, when Harriett died, they had moved to Crowe. John's mother Sarah lived with them after the death of her husband Stephen.
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John and Elizabeth lived at Crowe Cottages until they died, he in 1908 and she in 1915. They are buried at the Methodist Chapel (now Crowe Hill Methodist Church) shown above in the upper right corner.
In the 1911 census, women were asked the number of children, living or dead, that they had borne. Elizabeth reported eleven children, of whom five were dead. By that time, Charles, the first Mary, Harriett and Jane were dead. Elizabeth, the younger Mary, George and John were alive, living nearby in Crowe. Alice lived in Ringwood, and Sarah lived in Portsmouth. The eleventh child remains unaccounted for.
A detailed list of the records pertaining to John, Elizabeth and their family are here:
http://www.kendallfamily.org.uk/families/1827-John.html
Elizabeth was born in 1853 in Sandford. She moved to Crowe with her family in the late 1860s. She married Edward John Haines, a bricklayer, in 1872. They had eleven children.
Charles William Kendall was born in 1856 in Sandford. He had four wives and ten children, and died in 1910 aged 53. Click here for more.Alice was born in 1858 in Sandford. In 1880, she married Walter Bree, a soldier, and soon disappeared from the records. Alice and Walter reappeared in the 1911 census in Ringwood, having had - and lost - three children. Alice died in 1937.
Mary was born in early 1861 in Sandford. She died the same year, on December 4th, of measles and pneumonia.
Mary was born in 1863. She was named after her deceased sister, and was baptised in 1865 when she was 14 months old. Mary married Charles Samuel Henry Wiseman (a.k.a. Samuel White) in 1884. They had four children. Click here for more.Harriett was born in May 1866 in Southampton. She died the next year in Crowe, aged 9 months, and was buried at the new Ringwood Cemetery.
Sarah was born in 1868 in Crowe. She led a complicated life. By 1891, Sarah and her sister Jane were in the service of one John H. P. Topp in Quidhampton, Wiltshire. Sarah had with her a two-year-old son, Charles Frederick Kendall. By 1901, Jane was married and back in Ringwood, but Sarah and Mr. Topp were in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, she still in his service, but without her son. Click here for more.George was born in 1870 in Crowe. He married Frances Elizabeth Parker in 1897, and they had eight children. George worked as a railway labourer. He died in 1951, and was buried at the Crowe Hill Methodist Church.
John and his twin sister Jane were born in 1874 in Crowe. John lived there until he died. He married Caroline Humby in 1893, and they had eight children. John worked as a railway labourer. He died in 1959, and was buried at the Ringwood Cemetery.
Jane and her twin brother John were born in 1874 in Crowe. Jane married John Tanner, a horse dealer, in 1895. They had no children. She died in South Stoneham, Southampton in 1908, aged 34.
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