henry hawkes mallandaine + lucy ann new
Henry was born in Hildenborough near Shipbourne in Kent on 29 May 1836 and baptised at the parish church on the same day. He was the second child of John West Mallandaine and his third wife, Cecilia Hawkes. Soon after his birth, Henry’s family moved to France and he spent his childhood in Normandy and Brittany in a busy household that included four half-siblings and seven full brothers and sisters. He was educated at the local school and spoke fluent French.
When Henry was fifteen, he left school, his family and France and returned to England where he obtained his ticket as an apprentice in the Merchant Navy. It is not clear whether he desired to go to sea or whether his father encouraged this course and used his connections in England to get him into the merchant navy. His seaman's record only lists one voyage in 1851 so perhaps he was not as fond of the idea of a life at sea as was his father.
In 1856, Henry followed in his brother Edward’s footsteps and sailed to Australia to try his luck in the gold fields. He sailed to Melbourne on the Tory and then travelled by cart to the centre of the gold rush at Ballarat, about 75 miles west of Melbourne. He returned home in the spring of 1857 but whether he returned richer or poorer is not known. Following his return to England, Henry apprenticed as an accountant and spent most of his career as a tax collector with Inland Revenue.
Henry married Lucy Ann New on 2 October 1860 at St John in Hackney. Lucy was born in 1835, the daughter of Frederick New and his wife Ann Shiells. She was christened on 28 June 1835 at St Botolph without Aldgate in London.
Henry and Lucy were still living in London when their first two children were born; Amy Beatrice was born on 3 July 1861 in Dalston and Florence Cecilia was born in Hackney in 1863 but baptised later that year at St Mary in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. But over the next 20 years, Henry’s career in the civil service took the family to numerous parts of England, including Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Sussex, Yorkshire, Dorset and Wiltshire.
The young family left London for the market town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire to the north of London. The town was known primarily as a centre for the wool trade and as a staging post for coaches travelling to and from London but the arrival of the railway in the mid 18th century transformed the town into an important centre for the grain trade.
Their next three children were all born in Hitchin; Henry Lucien, known as Harry, was born on 1 January 1865 followed by Lucy Ann on 11 January 1867 and Agnes Mary on 4 July 1868. Not long after Agnes’ birth, the family moved to Luton in Bedfordshire and were living at Farley Hill when their son Frederick Shiells was born on 8 March 1870.
But by 1871, the family had moved from Luton to the sea side town of Hastings on the south coast. Henry, Lucy and their six young children lived at East Hill Place in Hastings along with Lucy’s mother Ann and a 14 year old nurse maid. Henry’s occupation was recorded as Civil Service Surveyor of Taxes in the 1871 Census.
Shortly after the census was taken, their seventh child, John Fulcher, was born on 2 July 1871 in Hastings. After two years in Hastings, the family was on the move again to Fordington near Dorchester in the county of Dorset. Catherine Blanche, known as Katie, was born at Greenhill House in Fordington on 18 July 1873.
In 1875, Henry appeared in the Fordington Post Office Directory at South Street as a stamp distributor and surveyor of taxes. Francis Herbert was born on 30 July 1875 followed by Constance Maud, known as Connie, on 16 January 1877. The family spent five years in Dorset before Henry’s career forced them to move once again to Salisbury in Winchester where daughter Margaret Gertrude Bessie was born on 23 August 1878; she was baptised on 14 September 1879 at St Martin in Salisbury. Two years later, their twelfth and last child, Arthur Duncan, was born on 16 July 1880 at 39 Brown Street and baptised at St Martin on 3 August.
The family was still living on Brown Street a year later when the 1881 Census was taken and all but two of their children were still at home. Florence was working as a teacher in Warminster and Fred was boarding at Christ’s Hospital school in Newgate. At the time of the census, Lucy Ann was visiting her mother Ann New who was living at the Ladies Mercies Alms Houses in Ratcliffe, London. Ann, aged 76 years, was listed as a widow and her occupation as Annuitant. After twenty years of marriage, Henry and Lucy had twelve children but the census records that they employed only one female servant. They may have had day staff that assisted with the household duties and childcare but it is equally possible that most of these duties fell to Lucy and her eldest children. Only months after the cenus, their daughter Bessie died aged two years and three months and she was buried on 9 July in St Martin's church yard.
Henry was known to be a strict disciplinarian and the Anglican Church was held in high regard in the home but the family also enjoyed music and taking part in theatrical productions and as the playbill shows, with such a large family, they were capable of producing their own productions. After twenty years in the south of England, Henry was transferred to the industrial town of Wolverhampton near Birmingham and the family was living at 71 Waterloo Road North in 1891. The domestic burden was eased as both a general servant and a cook were employed and Lucy’s mother Ann was again living with the family. But their stay in the midlands was short lived as Henry took his final posting in Leeds. In 1894, he was listed in White’s Directory of Leeds & the Clothing District 1894 at 9 Lifton Place and was once again listed as a Surveyor of Taxes.
While in Leeds, Henry and Lucy enrolled their two youngest sons, Francis and Arthur, in the Leeds Grammar School. Francis remained at the school until 1895 and a further entry in the Admissions Book of the Leeds Grammar School notes that Francis joined the Bechuanaland Police after leaving school and died of fever in South Africa on 7 May 1899. The family received very little information regarding the circumstances of his death and two of his sisters later travelled to South Africa to try to find our more information on how he died and where he was buried.
Lucy’s mother, Ann New, died in Leeds in late 1896, aged 86 years and several years later, Henry retired and the family returned to Salisbury where they were recorded in the 1901 Census at White House in the village of Laverstock on the outskirts of Salisbury. Henry’s occupation was listed as Retired Inland Revenue Surveyor of Taxes and four of their children were still living at home — Amy, Katie, Connie and youngest son, Arthur Duncan. In a letter to his brother Edward, dated 9 November 1903, Henry wrote that he was ‘fairly well for his age, and after a period of forty years in the dull routine of a public official have settled here to care for a few flowers and vegetables.’
But even in retirement, Henry was not destined to stay in one place for too long as he and Lucy made one final move to Chandler’s Ford near Eastleigh in Hampshire and they moved into a house called Fairlawn on Brownhill Road. In 1905, Henry signed the visitor’s book at St Mary’s Church in Yaxley, Suffolk and he likely travelled there to visit his sisters Sarah and Mary.
Henry died at Chandler’s Ford on 18 June 1907 and was buried at the local church yard. He left an estate valued at just under £800 and his son Henry Lucien and daughter Connie acted as executors. Henry directed that his property be sold and the funds paid into a trust for the benefit of his wife for her lifetime. Upon her death, the remaining funds were to be divided equally among his surviving daughters.
In 1911, Lucy appeared in the census at Park Road, Chandlers Ford along with her daughters Lucy Ann and Amy. The house contained ten rooms but only one servant appears in the household with them however they likely employed day servants to help with the running of the household. Lucy Ann remained in Chandler’s Ford until her death on 19 June 1922; she was buried at St Thomas in Salisbury. A brief obituary appeared in The Times on 21 June — ‘On 19th June, at Chandler’s Ford, Hants, Lucy Ann, wife of the late Henry Hawkes Mallandaine, in her 87th year.’
Their eldest daughter Amy never married and lived with her parents for most of her adult life; she died on 17 September 1930 at Walmersley House in Bury, Lancashire and left her estate valued at £376 to her sister Agnes.
Agnes worked as a teacher and in 1901, she was employed as a Lady Superintendent at a girl’s school in Croydon. She is also listed in Kelly’s London Suburban Directory 1901 as the Lady Superintendent of the Training Home for Young Servants at 4 Morland Road. In 1911, she was in Shenfield, Essex running the St Alban’s Diocesan Union for Preventive, Rescue and Penitentiary Work which was a home for wayward girls and later served as the female Probation Officer for the Chelmsford area. Agnes never married and died at Westbury on Trym in Bristol on 13 June 1939. Her will extract lists her previous residence as the St Monica Home of Rest and she left the residue of her estate to her sister, Lucy Ann.
Connie never married and also lived with her parents for most of her adult life. In 1911, thirty four year old Connie was working as an English teacher at Wincham Hall, a girl’s school near Northwich in Cheshire. She remained in the north west until her death at the Auxiliary Hospital in Withington, Manchester on 15 October 1929. Prior to her death, she was living at 21 Stanhope Street, Levenshulme in Greater Manchester.