Caroline Davey – Sussex People

Part of the Ingram-Green family tree (Great-great-grandmother)

Family background and early life

Caroline Davey was born in Ilford, Essex in about 1823. She was the second of three daughters born to George (1794–1878) and Sarah Davey (1797–1855). There are no records available confirming the date of Caroline’s birth or baptism.

George Davey married Sarah Wright at Christ Church, Spitalfields on 27 April 1817. The couple had three daughters born alive over a period of 16years:

Sarah, born about 1818, Caroline, born about 1823, and Emma, born in 1834.

In 1838, George Davey was a beerhouse keeper, when he applied for a full licence for the Beehive Inn, in Beehive Lane, Barkingside. His application was successful and he continued as licensee until about the time his wife died in January 1855.

At the first national census in June 1841, George and Sarh Davey were living at the Beehive, with their two youngest daughters.

Marriage and children

On 19 June 1842, Caroline Davey married 19-year old Lionel Bull Ingram married Caroline Davey, at St Margaret of Antioch Church, Barking. Lionel was the son of a farmer, from nearby Clayhall Farm.

At the time of the marriage, Caroline already had a son, William, born in October 1841; the child was registered as William Davey, but on his baptism on 14 August 1844, at Holy Trinity Church, Barkingside, Lionel was recorded as the father.

Soon after the wedding, Lionel became the licensee of the Maypole in Barkingside.

After the couple were married, they had 14 more children:

George Henry: born 3 December 1842, baptised 1 January 1843

Mary Ann: born 20 July 1842, baptised 14 August 1844

Alfred James: born 14 November 1845, baptised 17 December 1845

Lionel Bull: born 3 November 1846, baptised 2 December 1846

Charles: born 5 March 1848, baptised 29 March 1848

Sarah Harriet: born 23 May 1849, baptised 13 June 1849

Henry: born 4 July 1850, baptised 31 July 1850

Emma: born 27 January 1852, baptised 17 March 1852

Caroline: born 31 March 1853, baptised 27 April 1853

Arthur: born 21 April 1854, baptised 17 May 1854

Edith: born 30 August 1855, baptised 19 September 1855

James: born 10 February 1858, baptised 17 March 1858

Amelia: born 20 December 1859, baptised 25 January 1860

Edgar Frederick: born 8 January 1866, baptised 7 February 1866

All the children were baptised at The Church of the Holy Trinity, which had been consecrated in July 1840.

Sadly, two of the daughters died as infants: Sarah Harriet was buried at Holy Trinity on 20 August 1849, at just 3 months old, while Emma had only lived for just 15 months, when she was buried on 28 April 1853.

Hedgeman’s Farm

In about 1850, Lionel left the Maypole Inn and returned to his previous career as a farmer, taking a lease on the farm adjacent to Clayhall, known as Hedgeman’s. The farm was to remain with the family until the death of his son, James in 1924.

At the census in March 1851, Lionel and Caroline were recorded at Hedgeman’s with five sons, and two domestic servants.

Lionel continued at Hedgeman’s with his growing family, until his death, aged 53, in November 1875. After Lionel’s death, Caroline remained at Hedgeman’s for several years; at the 1881 census, aged 58, she was living alone at Hedgeman’s and gave her occupation as a “farmer of 270 acres, employing 20 men, 3 boys and 1 woman”.

10 years later she was still at Hedgeman’s where her son James was now the farmer, living with his wife and eight children. At the following census, Caroline was living a short distance away at Mossford Geen.

Death

Caroline Ingram died in Barkingside on 10 August 1910, aged 87 and was buried alongside her husband at Holy Trinity Church.

Sources

Ancestry.co.uk:

1841 England Census

1851 England Census

1861 England Census

1871 England Census

1881 England Census

1891 England Census

1901 England Census

Essex, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1918