Nancy Seed

Nancy Seed 

Born: 22 October 1858, Preston 

Baptised: 12 December 1858, Preston 

Father: Richard Seed (b. 1818)

Mother: Margaret Seed (b. 1818)

Brothers: John Seed (b. 1846), Robert Seed (b. 1849), William Seed (b. 1857)

Sisters: Margaret Ann Seed (b. 1856)

Half-sisters: Alice Eccleston (b. 1837), Mary Eccleston (b. 1843), Elizabeth Eccleston (b. 1845)

Marriage:        8 May 1883, Preston 

Husband:         Charles Henry Chaffer

                        b. 1858

                        Jeweller 

Issue – 

#1 Henrietta Margaret Chaffer (b. 1886)

#2 Richard Chaffer (b. 1887)

#3 Elsie Chaffer (b. 1891)

#4 Charles Chaffer (b. 1895)

In 1861 – 

She is at 7 London Road, Preston. Her father is listed as ‘Shoemaker’. Her brother, John, is listed as ‘Cotton Piecer’. Her brother, Robert, is listed as ‘Cotton Creeler’. Her half-sisters (Alice, Mary and Elizabeth) are unlisted. Nancy, her mother and her siblings (William and Margaret) are unlisted. 

In 1871 – 

She is at London Road Shoe Shop, Preston, Lancashire. Her father is listed as ‘Boot Shoe Maker’. Her brother, Robert, is listed as ‘Leather Currier’. Nancy is listed as ‘Pupil Teacher’. Her half-sister, Elizabeth, is listed as ‘Shoe Shop Woman’. 

In 1891 –

She is at Hamstead Road, Handsworth. Her husband is listed as ‘Jeweller’. Nancy and her children (Henrietta, Richard and Elsie) are unlisted. Annie Stevenson (b. 1864), a boarder, is listed as ‘Living on Her Own Means’. Thomas Stevenson (b. 1865), a boarder, is listed as ‘Jeweller’. There is a servant, Sarah Latham (b. 1862).  

In 04/99 – 

Address is Lansdowne Hall Road Avenue, Handsworth, Birmingham. 

In 1901 – 

She is at 2 Hall Road Avenue, Handsworth. Her husband is listed as ‘Jeweller’. Nancy and her children (Henrietta, Richard, Elsie and Charles) are unlisted. There is a servant, Nellie Lloyd (b. 1880). 

In 1911 – 

She is at Westfield Street, Bernards Road, Olton. Her husband is listed as ‘Manufacturing Jeweller’. Her sons, Richard and Charles, are listed as ‘Worker Jeweller’. Nancy, her daughters (Henrietta and Elsie) and Gladys Jarvis (b. 1892), a visitor, are unlisted. There is a servant, Clara Francies (b. 1883).

In 1939 – 

She is at ‘Bec-en-Hent’, Bickwell Valley, Sidmouth, Devon. Henry Chares Stubbings (b. 1860) is listed as ‘School Master Retired’. Constance Stubbings (b. 1904) is listed as ‘Part Time Secretarial Work’. Edna May Hiscocks (b. 1922) is listed as ‘Housemaid’. Gertrude Stubbings (b. 1873) and Nancy are unlisted.

d.         1 April 1948, Devon 

CHAFFER, Nancy of Havendene, Hermosa Road, Teignmouth, Devonshire, widow died 1 April 1948. Administration Exeter 5 June to Henrietta Margaret Bradley (wife of Arthur Bradley). Effects £1488, 13s, 6d.