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ID:878

Florence May Whiting (Tomlinson,Byatt) 1887-1964?

 

 

Relationship:

Lisas 2nd Great Aunt

 

 

 

 

 

 

Birth:

4 MAY 1887 Little Bowden, Northamptonshire

 

 

Death:

Poss 1964 Poss. Bromley, Kent

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mother:

Hannah Marshall (b.1862) /ID:434

 

 

Father:

William Charles Whiting (b.1862)/ID:897

 

 

Siblings 

William Isaac Whiting (b.1882) /ID:894

 

 

 

Elizabeth A Whiting (b.1885) /ID:874

 

 

 

Florence M Whiting (b.1888) /ID:878

 

 

 

Frederick Charles Whiting (b.1889) /ID:879

 

 

 

Harold Whiting (b.1892) /ID:880

 

 

 

Arthur Edward Whiting (b.1896) /ID:870

 

 

 

Dorothy Whiting (b.1899) /ID:873

 

 

 

Ernest Whiting (b.1899) /ID:877

 

 

 

Hilda Eva Whiting (b.1900) /ID:882

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spouse:  

Rowland Charles Tomlinson (b.1886)

 

 

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Spouse

Albert Byatt (b.1884)

 

 

Children

Kathleen Dorothy Tomlinson (b.1910)/ID:1584

 

 

 

Violet Byatt (b.1914)/ID:1754

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1887

4 May 1887 - Birth of Florence May Whiting

1891

5th April 1891 - 1891 Census for '12, Buckley Square, Ardwick, Lancs'

 

 

Name          

Relationship

Age   

Est YOB

Gender  

Birth County            

Occupation

William Whiting

Head         

29    

1862    

Male

Boltoph Claydon, Bucks

Foreman Stay Maker

Hannah Whiting

Wife

29

1862

Female

Wallbrook, Staffs

 

William Whiting

Son

8

1883

Male

Great Bowden, Leics

Scholar

Elizabeth Whiting

Daughter

6

1885

Female

Great Bowden, Leics

Scholar

Florence Whiting

Daughter

3

1888

Female  

Little Bowden, Northants

 

Frederick Whiting

Son

1

1890

Male

Little Bowden, Northants

 

 

By 1891, the family had moved to Ardwick, in Lancashire. Their address on the census is 12, Buckley Square. Hannahs husband William, 29,  was a Foreman Stay Maker in the Corset Factory. 

1901

31st March 1901 - 1901 Census for '18, The Green, Great Bowden'

 

 

Name             

Relationship

Age   

Est YOB

Gender  

Birth County         

Occupation                   

William Whiting 

Head         

38     

1863    

Male   

Claydon, Berkshire

Foreman in Corset Stay Factory

Hannah Whiting

Wife

38

1863

Female

Hallbrook, Staffs

 

Elizabeth A Whiting

Daughter

16

1885

Female

Great Bowden, Leics

Eyeletter in Corset Stay Factory

Florence M Whiting

Daughter

13

1888

Female

Little Bowden, Leics

 

Harold Whiting

Son

9

1892

Male     

Timperley, Cheshire

 

Arthur E M Whiting

Son

4

1897

Male     

Great Bowden, Leics

 

Dorothy Whiting

Daughter

2

1899

Female

Great Bowden, Leics

 

Ernest Whiting

Son

2

1899

Male     

Great Bowden, Leics

 

Hilda E Whiting

Daughter

3 mths

1901

Female

Great Bowden, Leics

 

 

1903

1903 Death of brother, Ernest

1906

1st March 1906 - Marriage to Rowland Charles Tomlinson 

March 1906 to September 1907

Florence and Rowland live at various addresses in Rotherham including 73, Pembroke Street and 63 , Pembroke Street

September 1907

Florence and Rowland move to 90 High Street Barrow in Furness where Rowland commences a business as a Green Grocer.

 

January 3rd 1908 - The couple seperate

Rowlands business failed and on 3rd January 1908 he returned to Rotherham but Florence refused to join him and the couple seperated. We believe she returned to her parents home in Great Bowden.

In March 1912, Rowland filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery by Florence with Albert Byatt, although the couple were already seperated and were estranged before she began a relationship with Albert .

The divorce papers tell us that Rowland was a Wagon Builder and lived at 45 Pembroke Street, Rotherham in February 1912.

It gives us an account of their relationship after they married :

'That after the said marriage your petitioner (Rowland) lived and co-habited with his said wife (Florence) at 73 Pembroke Street, Rotherham, aforesaid Wilton Lane, Rotherham, aforesaid, 63 Pembroke Street, Rotherham aforesaid, and 90 High Street, Barrow in Furness, and there is no issue of the said marriage.
That in or about the month of September 1907 your petitioner and his said wife went to Barrow in Furness and there your partitioner commenced business at 90 High Street as a Green Grocer which business failed, and on January 3rd 1908 your petitioner returned to Rotherham aforesaid to obtain employment but his said wife refused to return with him, and your petitioner has not seen her since, and was unable to trace her whereabouts until the month of February 1912.
That during the months of May, June and July 1909 the said Florence May Tomlinson committed adultery with Albert Byatt at Great Bowden near Market Harbourough.
That on 13th day of March 1910 the said Florence May Tomlinson  gave birth to a female child of which Albert Byatt is the putative father and he is contributing to its support.'

The decree nisi was granted on 15th October 1912 and became absolute on 16th June 1913.

In 1909 Florence began a relationship with future husband Albert Byatt.

1910 

13th March 1910 - Birth of daughter Kathleen Dorothy

1911

2 April 1911 - 1911 Census for '18, The Green, Great Bowden'

 

 

Name         

Relationship   

Age   

Est YOB

Gender   

Birth County           

Occupation                  

William Charles Whiting

Head         

49     

1862    

Male     

Boltoph Claydon, Bucks

Labourer at Rubber Works

Hannah Whiting

Wife

49

1862

Female

 

 

Florence May Tomlinson

Daughter

24

1887

Female

Little Bowden

Laundress

Frederick Charles Whiting

Son

21

1890

Male     

Little Bowden

Co-operative Asst in Shop

Harold Whiting

Son

19

1892

Male     

Timperley, Cheshire

Painter

Arthur Edward Whiting

Son

14

1897

Male     

Great Bowden

Stay Hand in Corset Factory

Dorothy Whiting

Daughter

12

1899

Female

Great Bowden

School

Hilda Whiting

Daughter

10

1901

Female

Great Bowden

School

Kathleen Dorothy Thomlinson

Granddaughter

1

1910

Female

Great Bowden

 

 

1913

27th March 1913 - Birth of daughter Violet Byatt .

1913 - 16th June - Florence's divorce becomes absolute.

1914

27th March 1914 - Birth of daughter, Violet Byatt in Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
S: England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008 / 1939 Registry

1915

10th December 1915 - Albert gets called up for Active Duty

From his service records we know that Albert got attestested to the army at the end of 1915. His profession is listed as Chaffeur, he is 31 years old. 
Their address is Main Street, Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire.

19th October 1916 - Albert is on Expeditionary force at Salonika (Macedonian Front)

1916 - 24th December - Florence & Albert marry.

1917

15 July 1917 - Baptism of daughter Kathleen Byatt,  at Little Easton, Essex.
Albert Byatts occupation is Chaffeur.
The familys residence is Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire.
S:Essex Baptisms

15 July 1917 - Baptism of daughter Violet Byatt, age 3,  at Little Easton, Essex.
Albert Byatts occupation is Chaffeur.
The familys residence is Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire.
S:Essex Baptisms

1919 -11th November 1919

Alberts ID Certifcate tells us he was a private in the RASC No: 222947. He was granted 28 days furlough on the 11/11/1919 exactly a year after it was declared that Germany had surrendered.

By 1939 Albert & Florence had moved to Cromer in Norfolk and had bought and were running a boarding house near the coast.
Albert was also a member of the RAF Observer Corps. Kathleen and Violet were both schoolteachers. There were five guests staying at the boarding house including Llewelyn Phillips, an electrical engineer, a retired lady Elizabeth Ann Goulder, Mary Victoria Danks and Minnie Kathleen Allen, both school teachers, and Arthur William Collis, a bank clerk and also a volunteer for the RAF Observers.

1939

29 September 1939 -  '1939 Registry for Shaftsbury, Cabell Road, Cromer, Norfolk'

 

Name                

Gender   

DOB        

Status     

Occupation               

Albert Byatt            

Male

20/04/1884   

Married

Boarding House Prop      

Florence May Byatt

Female  

04/05/1887

Married   

Boarding House Prop  

Kathleen Dorothy Byatt

Female

13/03/1910

Single

School Teacher

Violet Byatt

Female

27/03/1914

Single

School Teacher

 

We are still unsure of Florences death. There is a record for 1964 registered in Bromley, Kent which could be Florence but we cannot verify it.