“A very rough life”
This is the tale of a family who went
through some desperate times. Much of the information has come from a few
contemporary files containing detailed accounts of the events in these people’s
lives. As each of these files is referred to several times, it was thought
preferable not to give each reference a different number. Thus all references
to these files are marked by standard library marks (* † § ¶ etc) while other
references have been numbered
“Woman
had very rough life” was the succinct comment made in 1911 by Arthur W
Goldthorpe, Assistant Clerk for Settlements for Lewisham Poor Law Union*.
He was referring to Ellen Bathe, wife of James Bathe,
when he was collecting evidence to show that the cost of James’s treatment at
Bexley Asylum should be borne by Bromley Poor Law Union and not by Lewisham.
Goldthorpe’s comment was an understatement; Ellen
Bathe had indeed had a very rough life, although it is doubtful if the clerk
knew all the details:
·
She lost her
father when she was aged six and, despite her mother remarrying, was sent to
the Sailors’ Orphan School in Hampstead, away from her brother, sister and her
half-siblings.
·
She became an
unmarried mother at 20 and had to have her baby in Lewisham Union Workhouse
(James was the father).
·
After she and
James married, he deserted her on more than one occasion, yet she bore him nine
children in all, of whom five died in infancy.
·
Over a period of
20 years, she was forced to seek parish relief in three different Poor Law
Unions; she took her children into a workhouse six times in all.
·
Then James was
found to be “of unsound mind” or, as Ellen put it, “not right in the head”.
The expression “not right in the head” was one Ellen
used several times while giving her evidence to Goldthorpe. She also mentioned
James’s attempted suicide in 1897, and his three short spells in prison.
* * *
Although sometimes styled Eleanor in later life, her
name at birth was registered as Ellen Hornsby[1]
and soon afterwards she was known as Ellen Eliza Hornsby. She was born in
Gosport in 1866, the eldest child of Edward Wright Hornsby, a painter, and
Ellen (nee Rogers) who had married on Christmas Day 1864[2].
At some point between 1868[3]
and 1870[4],
the family moved to Aldershot[5]
where Edward died in 1872[6].
Three years later, her mother married George Would[7], a
plasterer from Greenwich, and by 1880, the family were living in Lee, south
east London[8].
In 1881, however, Ellen was a pupil at the Sailors’ Orphan School in Hampstead[9].
* * *
James Bathe was the youngest of five sons of William
and Mary Bathe. He was born in Deptford on 5 September 1862 and baptised at St Paul,
Deptford, on 19 October[10].
When he was 17 years old, he took a job as a railway
porter earning 10 shillings a week, working for the London Brighton & South
Coast Railway at Brockley. That was on 23 October 1879. On 15 January 1881, he
was transferred from Brockley to London Bridge and his wages were increased to
14 shillings a week. A few weeks later, on 26 February, he was transferred
again – to Queens Road Peckham – and his wages raised to 16 shillings, but by
the end of the year he had left the railway company[11].
* * *
Ellen’s relationship with James had got off to a rocky
start: on 12 April 1887 she had to be admitted to Lewisham workhouse[12]
where a daughter was born on 20 June[13].
The child was registered and baptised as Winifred Bathe Hornsby so presumably
James acknowledged parentage[14].
Mother and daughter left the workhouse on 11 July[15],
but it was not until the following year that Ellen and James were married – on
18 September 1888 at the Church of the Ascension, Blackheath*.
After the marriage, the family was constantly on the
move. From January 1890 to November 1891 they were in Bexley Heath*,
Sutton-at-Hone[16]
and Crayford*, during which time two more children were born – Mary Bathe in
1890[17]
and James Edward Bathe in 1891[18]. By
then, James’s trade was as a brass finisher, and there were several brass
foundries in Dartford which would have been within easy reach of all three
places[19].
By the end of 1892, the family was back in Deptford but
was destitute. On 15 November, Ellen had to enter Greenwich Union Workhouse
with her two youngest children[20].
The next day James joined them[21].
Despite two attempts to restart their lives, it was not until 29 December that
they were discharged[22].
While they were in the workhouse, the youngest child – James Edward Bathe, who
was just a year old – had to spend a week in the infirmary[23].
Winifred had been with her maternal uncle in Deptford in
1891[24] while
the rest of the family were living in Sutton-at-Hone. When Ellen and her other
children had to seek parish relief, Winifred was not with them – perhaps she
was still with her uncle. On 13 March 1893, the family was living in Lee and Ellen
had to take Winifred to Lewisham Infirmary[25]. Winifred
died there on 21 March[26],
when she was not quite six years old. She was buried at Lee Cemetery[27].
The family was still in Lee when another child – William
Horace Charles Bathe – was born in July 1894*[28]. However,
in the October of that year, when the oldest two children were admitted to
Lucas Street School, their address was given as that of their Bathe grandparents
– 45 Oscar Street, Deptford[29].
After the death of James’s parents (his mother died in
1894[30]
and his father in 1896[31]),
the family lived in various houses in the north Deptford area.
James was a joint executor of the will of his father
William and when probate was proved on 16 April 1896, James’s address was given
as 17 Czar Street[32].
However, when Patience Bathe was baptised on 2 July that year, the family’s
address was given as 17 Trim Street[33]. There
was another brass foundry in Deptford and it is possible this was where James
found work – his father and older brothers had worked there several years
before.
William Bathe’s will, written on 13 November 1895,
bequeathed two clocks – one to a friend and one to a sister – but “as to all
the residue of my property not hereinbefore disposed of I give devise and
bequeath the same unto and equally between my son James Bathe and his wife
Eleanor Bathe or such of them as shall survive me.”
The will opened with the bequest: “I give to my
grandson William Bathe son of my son James Bathe the Presentation chair given
me by the congregation of Saint John’s Church Lewisham High Road after forty
years’ service.”
James and Ellen did not inherit a lot of money: the
gross value of the whole estate was just £57 19s 6d.
Patience Bathe, born in the summer of 1896, died
before the end of the year[34]
and the following summer James tried to commit suicide. He was treated first in
the Miller Hospital, then in the lunatic ward at Greenwich Union Infirmary, before
spending a week in jail (attempted suicide was a crime) and finally, on 18
October, after another three weeks on the lunatic ward, was released on a
magistrate’s order to the care of his wife. Ellen’s address at this time was 16
Edward Street[35].
A few months later, the family was in Lewisham, at 18
Court Hill Road, when the two boys were registered at Hither Green School[36]
and Mary at Lewisham Bridge School[37].
The following summer, 1898, James deserted Ellen and
the three surviving children, who then had to go into Lewisham Union Workhouse[38].
The Board of Guardians applied to the magistrates’ court as James was legally
liable for Ellen and her infant children. James was unable to pay maintenance and
was jailed for seven days†.
Ellen described this period when she wrote to Bromley
Union Guardians about six years later†:
“My husband
[is] a thoroug bad man. He has brought me to this place under false pretences.
He belongs to Lewisham but he is afraid that the guardians will make him work
hard there for they had to put him in prison for deserting me and 3 children
and while he was in prison I found out he lived with another woman a widow and
when he robbed her of all she was worth he came back to me and I forgave him
thinking he would be better but he has been worse still… He has never been a
father to my children for he spend the best part of his wages in drink and
other women.”
Ellen and the children were in Lewisham Workhouse for
just four days in 1898[39]
and when they left they had to find a new home in Catford. Ellen was to have
another child – Esther Margaret Bathe – early the next year[40]
but, once again, the family became destitute and Ellen had to take the children
– including the baby – back into the workhouse for six days in May 1899[41].
Later the same year, the baby Esther died[42].
At the beginning of 1900, Ellen and the surviving
children were once again in the workhouse – but only for four days[43].
Soon afterwards, another baby – Eleanor – was born but she lived only a short
while[44].
By then, James had become a general labourer, although
sometimes he still gave his trade as brass finisher.
In 1901, James took the family into Bromley where they
became caretakers for a firm of Bromley estate agents, Baker Payne & Lepper*,
although it would appear that it was Ellen who looked after the properties
while James became a house painter. Over the next ten years they lived in a
number of different houses in Bromley, Chislehurst and St Mary Cray.
The Old Bakery,
Chislehurst, with coach house on right - Photo courtesy of Abigail Aish
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Ellen gave birth to yet another child – on 1 May 1902,
so the baby was named May – in Chislehurst[45]
but a few months later – on 4 August – James was involved in a fracas and
jailed for assault[46].
He had had an argument with Stanley Mitchell, the 22-year-old son
of his landlord, James Mitchell, who was also the village baker. Under the
headline “Chislehurst Shopkeeper Assaulted”,
a newspaper report of the time states[47]:
James Bathe,
the occupier of some rooms off High Street, Chislehurst, pleaded justification
for assaulting Stanley Mitchell, shopkeeper, High Street, Chislehurst, on
Monday evening. – Prosecutor stated that prisoner occupied some rooms over his
coachhouse, and as his conduct on Bank Holiday night occasioned annoyance to
people in the shop prosecutor spoke to him, and in return received some
threats, followed by two blows in the face. – A witness who was in the shop
corroborated. – Prisoner admitted the assault, and was fined 10s. and costs, or
seven days’.
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The Mitchell
family c 1902 with, circled in the back row, Stanley Mitchell who was
assaulted by James Bathe, and circled seated, James Mitchell, the landlord
Photo courtesy of Abigail Aish |
James was beginning to show signs of mental problems
and on 20 November 1903, he was admitted to the Locksbottom Workhouse Infirmary◊.
The records seem to indicate that Ellen was admitted to the infirmary as well while
the four children went into the workhouse itself. However, the admissions entry
may have been wrong regarding Ellen – the entry already had one error: it gave
her name as Mary.
In her evidence to Goldthorpe in 1911, Ellen said that
while he was in Locksbottom Infirmary, James was diagnosed with “an abscess on
the brain”*. However, his case notes when at Barming Heath Lunatic Asylum at
the end of 1911 recorded that he had had the abscess on the brain since
childhood and that it originated from measles§.
Ellen and the two girls left the workhouse at
Locksbottom on 2 February 1904 – presumably Ellen was looking for work, but had
to return that evening◊.
In June, there was some correspondence between Ellen
and the Guardians and between James and the Matron. It would appear that Ellen
wanted to take the children to a farm in St Mary Cray, but James wanted the
family to stay in the Workhouse.
Some of Ellen’s letter has already been quoted, but it
is worth repeating it in full† [Pea-Bee’s note: the letters have been
punctuated to make them more intelligible but the spelling is as written]
Farnborough Kent
Dear Sir
I am writing to you in respect to a man
named Bathe an inmate of the Union. He is my husband but a thoroug bad man. He
has brought me to this place under false pretences. He belongs to Lewisham but
he is afraid that the guardians will make him work hard there for they had to
put him in prison for deserting me and 3 children and while he was in prison I
found out he lived with another woman a widow and when he robbed her of all she
was worth he came back to me and I forgave him thinking he would be better but
he has been worse still.
He has been ill in Lewisham Union 3
times. We have only been in Bromley 3 years. He has never been a father to my
children for he spend the best part of his wages in drink and other women. He
has even tried to decoy a young woman in here to go out with him named Mary
Saunders and I do not wish to live with him any longer.
I have asked him to go out and look for
work but he says he has got hardened to the place and don’t care what becomes
of us.
He has been in prison for knocking my
Landlord son about and got us turned out of doors in Bromley so I am going to
see the magistrate this morning.
He has detained my children from coming
with me to try and get a little home together again. If I do not succede I
shall come before you tomorrow to ask you for my children. I have got good
characters to shew you I have worked for all my children.
The master & matron persuade him to
stop because he is painting thire apartments. They give him tobacco and good
food. He would never take me out they seem to take his part.
He sent me a note to go out and try and
get some money off my lady were I have worked last Monday. He wanted to take me
to a lodging house for 2 nights and get my neighbours to mind the children but
I got work instead and that is why he is upset.
I hope I shall meet with your favour
from Yours Humbly, Mrs Bathe
James’s
response to this was¶:
Mr Bathe respectfully to the Matron
Madam
I beg that
you will pardon the liberty I have taken of writing to humbly ask your advice
as to how I can act with regard My Wife’s proposal especially as I feel that my
daughter Mary could not be in better hands as regards care and training. My
Wife informs me that she intends discharging herself and the four children for
Monday. She informed me that she had got work on a Farm at the Cray as also a
home for the children on the farm I feel that this is a mistake and the home
consists of a Shed with straw for sleeping. I have wrote to her on the matter
failing to get a satisfactory reply. I lay the Matter before you as also my
wife’s note to me. I had better state that I thought you would not let her take
the children the word She means you in her reply, as I am strongly
against my children being brought to fruit picking and Farm work. I humbly ask
as a parent that you will kindly help me in this matter. I feel quite quite
upset at My Wife’s action and order the four children to remain here with me
until I as their father can see better prospects open up for them and me,
especially my youngest baby who I am dearly fond of I feel that out door life
would soon compleete our case of trouble trusting you will kindly help me in
this matter
I am, Dear
Madam, Yours obediently, Mr J Bathe, Inmate
Ellen discharged herself on Monday 13 June 1904◊. The
next day, all four children were discharged to her care◊. Two days later, James
discharged himself◊, but did not, it would appear, join his family.
In his report of 1911, Goldthorpe wrote that “on his
leaving the Workhouse he did not rejoin his wife and family outside but went
away for 9 months”*. Goldthorpe noted that it was possible that James was again
cohabiting with another woman.
When he eventually returned to the family, Ellen took James
back yet again, and on 11 September 1906, their ninth child – Elsie – was born
at 3 Beech Tree Row, St Mary Cray[48].
James was then described as a journeyman house
painter. Like so many of their other children, Elsie died in infancy, in 1907[49].
* * *
On 3 July 1911, James “was found wandering at Brockley
by Police” on the day “he had run way from home after being in bed, queer, a
week. Was undoubtedly wrong in his head & has been for many years,”
according to Goldthorpe’s report*. The Police took him to Lewisham Infirmary where
he was detained for 14 days for assessment before being sent to Bexley Asylum‡.
Lawson Elder, PC CID, of Brockley Road Police Station
said‡: “He was found wandering in
Brockley Road with his coat off. He was very excited and stated that two men
were following him with long knives to kill him. He could not give any account
of himself. He appeared quite lost. He mumbled continually and was in a very
weak state of health.”
When Goldthorpe questioned Ellen about where the
family had lived – specifically to find out where James was in the years prior
to his admission to the lunatic asylum – she was “rather hazy”.
It was from the family home at 26 Nichol Lane,
Bromley, that James had wandered, and they had been there since at least the
previous April when the census was taken[50],
and Ellen gave a figure of six months (ie since January) for Goldthorpe’s
report form*.
Their eldest daughter, Mary, had got married at the
summer of 1910[51]
and she and her husband went to live at 18 Nichol Lane about the same time[52].
Before Nichol Lane the family had been “18 months” at
8A Howard Road, Bromley, taking the dating back to Summer 1909.
Ellen said their previous home had been 2 Addison
Road, Bromley Common, where they had “half a house under the Jarrads”, a family
that later moved to Barming. The Bathe family were there for “2 or 3 years”
bringing the dating back to 1906 or 1907. Certainly Ellen was in St Mary Cray
in 1906 when Elsie was born.
Ellen was particularly “hazy as to dates” when it came
to their homes before Addison Road. Goldthorpe believed that it was from
Addison Road that the family had entered the workhouse, but that was several
years earlier – and there was also the nine months gap during James’s desertion
of his family.
Earlier, they had been “not long” at a house called Ferndale,
in Cobden Road, Farnborough, but before that, Ellen said, they had been caretakers
for Baxter Payne & Lepper “for about 10 years” including over a year at
Abbey Lodge, Lubbock Road, Chislehurst and before that a period at Bromley
House, Broadway, Bromley. That appears to be all she could remember, and
Goldthorpe noted she was “mixed up here” and he would see if a list of
addresses had been kept by BPL. Unfortunately the firm did not keep lists of
caretakers and the clerk who would have had dealings with the Bathe family had
left the firm and nobody currently working there knew anything about them*.
Some clue as to the Bathe’s work for BPL can be gained
from the history of Abbey Lodge. This five-storey mansion had been occupied by
Colonel Hugh Adams Silver but the family had moved away in 1903 and it seems
the house lay vacant for many years[53].
Before then, at the time of the
1901 census, the family were at 82 Beckenham Lane, Bromley[54].
* * *
After James was assessed as being of unsound mind on 5
July 1911‡, he remained at Lewisham Infirmary until 18 July when he was
admitted to the London County Asylum at Bexley Heath, where his niece, Ada
Esther Bathe, was also a patient[55].
In August it was decided that the cost of his care
should be paid for by Bromley Poor Law Union rather than Lewisham* and on 7
October, he was transferred to the Kent County Asylum at Barming Heath‡. His
case notes begin by noting: “Mother, aunt & nieces insane”.
Ø James’s mother was suffering from aphasia – that is,
had problems with speaking and understanding other people – when she died, aged 72[56]. Any damage to the language
areas of the brain can result in aphasia, including strokes, trauma, tumours
and dementia. Her death was certified by the local GP, Dr Alfred Kirby. He gave
the death as aphasia and senectus, or old
age, a catch-all description which some doctors used because, although they
believed there may have been some underlying condition, the patient was too
frail for further investigation.
Ø James’s niece Ada Bathe was
first declared insane on 28 February 1902[57].
She was excited, restless, inclined to be hysterical, and saw visions. She was sent to the London County Asylum at Cane Hill
but was later discharged. She was certified again in 1904[58]
and again on 28 January 1905[59]
after which she was confined at Bexley Heath until her death in 1918[60].
Her symptoms would suggest that she was suffering from schizophrenia.
Ø As to the aunt and any other nieces, nothing is known:
there were four paternal aunts, three maternal aunts and five other nieces –
but there is no evidence that any of them suffered insanity.
James’s case notes§ continued by saying he had had
painter’s colic and venereal disease. “Painter’s colic”, a form of chronic lead
poisoning, could produce short-term memory loss, depression, nausea, abdominal
pain, loss of coordination, and numbness and tingling in the extremities as
well as fatigue, problems with sleep, headaches, stupor, slurred speech, and anaemia.
However, his mental problems were more likely to have
been associated with the abscess on his brain that he had had since childhood,
as the result of an attack of measles. The measles virus can give rise to
various conditions of the brain, including, for example, encephalitis, which in turn can also
lead to memory loss, epilepsy, personality and behavioural changes, problems
with attention, concentration, planning and problem solving, and fatigue.
James’s mental state when he arrived at Barming Heath
in October 1911 was assessed by Norman Walters Stevens, a young medical officer
at the Asylum. He said§: “Patient talks
sensibly & answers questions put to him readily & well. Tells me he was
taken to Bexley Heath Asylum, because he was found wandering about in a dazed
condition by the Police. They afterwards told him that he said that two men
were following him with long knives. He attributed this confused state to worry
from being out of work & want of food. Says that he has not had a fit since
he was admitted into Bexley Heath Asylum. He has not had a fit since he was
admitted here. He is very civil & polite.”
James continued to be quiet, sensible and well behaved
and, from early December, was allowed out of the Asylum to work. On 5 January,
he left the Asylum on trial and a month later was discharged “recovered”§.
* * *
It is not known whether he returned to Ellen
immediately on his discharge from Barming Heath, but in the electoral rolls for
1918 and 1919, James and Ellen were at 18 Dacre Street, Lee – their son William
was still in the army and appeared at that address as an absent voter[61].
It would seem, however, that about this time, Ellen eventually
gave up on James and left him for good. From 1921 until his death in 1933,
James was a lodger at a house at 23 St John’s Road, Deptford, renting from a
widow called Charlotte Millman[62].
While it is not clear where Ellen was initially, by 1931 she was living in
Walthamstow[63]
with her daughter May and her husband Reginald Peacham who she had married in
1925 in Lewisham[64].
James died, aged 68, in the Greenwich Workhouse on
Woolwich Road on 30 January 1933, although his residence was given as 23 St
John’s Road. He was described as a retired cable hand. The cause of death was
certified as myocardial failure and arteriosclerosis[65].
In 1931[66], Ellen
sailed to Canada to visit her other daughter, Mary. Ellen stayed in Canada for
six or seven weeks and on her return took up residence again with May and
Reginald Peacham, initially in Finchley and later in Edmonton until about 1936[67].
The Peachams then moved down to Hollington, near
Hastings[68] –
where Reginald originally came from – and it is believed Ellen went with them.
She was buried at St Leonard’s, Hollington, on 11 June 1939[69],
although her death was registered in Walsingham, Norfolk[70].
* * *
Of
James and Ellen’s children who reached adulthood;
Ø Mary married Alec Robert Ince in 1910[71]
and had two sons before Alec emigrated to Canada in April 1914[72].
Mary sailed with the children to join him on 15 September 1914[73],
but within days of their arrival the younger child died of phosphorus poisoning[74].
The couple had at least two more children in Canada[75].
Ø James Edward Bathe married Margaret Alice Ledden
(1893-1982) at the end of 1913[76].
During the First World War, James served with a motor transport unit of the
Army Service Corps, reaching the rank of corporal[77],
and after the war became a motor mechanic, running the Picton House Garage in
Lee High Road from about 1922 until 1959[78].
He and Margaret had three children[79]
and he died in 1972[80].
Ø William Horace Charles Bathe also served in motor
transport with the ASC during the war[81].
He married Lilian Davies (1897-1985) in 1920[82]
and the couple had two children: the first, Christopher William J Bathe, was
born in October 1920 but died a year later[83].
Their second child, Eva Marjorie Bathe, was born a few weeks after her brother
died[84].
She was married in 1945 and died in 2002[85].
William died in the Brook Hospital on 13 April 1959[86].
Ø May, who married Reginald Peacham (1900-1977), had two
children[87] and
died in Hastings in 1987[88].
References:
* London
Metropolitan Archives: Lewisham Board of Guardians: Orders of Removal Outwards
1911. Ref: LEBG/183/31 (Ancestry images 314-328)
† London
Borough of Bromley Archives: Bromley Poor Law Union: In-letter Book, general. Ref:
846GBy/A/C/a/2/48
¶ London
Borough of Bromley Archives: Bromley Poor Law Union: In-letter Book, general.
Ref: 846GBy/A/C/a/2/49
◊ London Borough of Bromley Archives: Bromley Poor Law
Union: Admissions & Discharges Ref: 846GBy/W/R/a/14 (for 1902) and 846GBy/W/R/a/15 (for
1903/4)
§
Kent County Archives: Barming Heath Asylum: Case Notes, 1910-1913. Ref: MH/Md2/Ap25/61
‡
Kent County Archives: Barming Heath Asylum: Reception Order. Ref: MH/Md2/Ap28/217
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