William Charles HEATH
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Name William Charles HEATH [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Born 26 Apr 1871 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 
[1, 4, 5, 10] Gender Male Baptism 18 Oct 1880 St James Church, Bristol, Avon, England [10] Address 1881 17 Upper Montague Street, Bristol, Avon, England [1, 7] Address:
Green Grocers ShopOccupation 1881 [1] Scholar Address 1889 33 Cardross Street, Hammersmith, London, England [11] Occupation 1889 [7, 11] Steward Address 1891 21 Little Marylebone Street, Marylebone, London, England [4] Occupation 1891 [4] Greengrocer's Carman Address 1892 34 Brindley Street, St Mary Paddington, London, England [7, 9] Occupation 1892 [2, 9, 11] Ship Steward Address 1901 2 Olveston Road, Bristol, Avon England [5, 12] Occupation 1901 [5, 12] Cycle Agent Address 1904 3 Bromley Road, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England [8] Occupation 1904 [8, 12] Cycle Agent 
HEATH WWJ 1904 Birth Certificate Address 1906 116 Gloucester Road, Bristol, Avon, England [12] Address 1907 338 Gloucester Road, Horfield, Bristol, England [12] Emigration 19 Jul 1912 Liverpool, Lancashire, England [3, 7] Sailed on the "Virginian" Immigration Aft 19 Jul 1912 Montréal, Quebec, Canada [3, 7] Address Aug 1912 123 Donald Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [13] Address:
Lodger?Address Sep 1912 Deerhorn, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [13] Address:
Homestead Sec:17; Township:21; Range:5; WAddress 1914 Deerhorn, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [13] Occupation 1918 [6] Chauffer Person ID I54 My Genealogy Last Modified 27 Aug 2018
Father John Charles HEATH, b. 18 Feb 1851, Broadmead, St. James', Bristol, England , d. 1906, Paddington, London, England (Age 54 years) Relationship natural Mother Matilda Alice MABBETT, b. 1 Jul 1850, 6 Harford Street, St. James, Bristol, England Relationship natural Married 26 Jul 1868 St Lukes Church, Barton Hill, Bristol, Avon, England [14, 15] Notes - 07/06
John married Matilda Mabbett on 26/07/1868 at St. Luke Parish Church Bristol after banns, in the presence of Samuel Wiltshire and Eliza Ann Wiltshire. (John Charles, 18, bachelor, tailor, his father was John Charles Heath, shoemaker - Matilda, 18, spinster, her father was William Mabbett, glass cutter. Residence given was Barrow Lane for both participants)
Family ID F84 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Mary BEATON, b. 24 Jun 1870, St Giles, Bloomsbury, London, England , d. 16 Mar 1930, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, Avon, England (Age 59 years) Married 28 Jan 1889 St John the Evangelist, Hammersmith, London [7, 11] 
St John the Evangelist Church Hammersmith London.jpg Notes - 07/06
William married Mary Beaton (b.24/06/1870), St.Giles, Bloomsbury, Middlesex - Res. 3 Market St. Bloomsbury) on 28/01/1889 at St.John's, in Hammersmith, London., after Banns and witnessed by Fred John Manders and Louisa Groombridge.
Children 1. Frank William HEATH, b. 27 Jan 1890, St Mary's Marylebone, London, England , d. UNKNOWN [natural]2. Annie May HEATH, b. 26 May 1892, 34 Brindley Street, St Mary Paddington, London, England , d. 28 Nov 1986, Saffron House, Prospect Place, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England (Age 94 years) [natural]3. Albert Samuel HEATH, b. Dec 1894, Bedminster, Somerset, England , d. 1971 (Age ~ 76 years) [natural]4. Lilian Mary HEATH, b. 30 Jul 1896, Southville, Bedminster, Bristol, England , d. 9 May 1981, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England (Age 84 years) [natural]5. Edith Florence HEATH, b. 10 May 1899, Southville, Bedminster, Bristol, England , d. 7 Aug 1981, Hounslow, Middlesex, England (Age 82 years) [natural]6. Mabel Doris HEATH, b. 28 Nov 1903, Horfield, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England , d. 15 Jun 1975, Newton Abbott, Devon, England (Age 71 years) [natural]7. Walter William John HEATH, b. 2 Mar 1904, 3 Bromley Road, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England , d. 3 Aug 1974, Ham Green Hospital, Pill, Bristol, England (Age 70 years) [natural]8. Herbert Sidney HEATH, b. 18 Feb 1907, Bedminster, Somerset, England , d. 24 Oct 1980, Frenchay, Gloucestershire, England (Age 73 years) [natural]Last Modified 27 Aug 2018 Family ID F27 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 ? ? Children 1. ? HEATH [natural] 2. ? HEATH [natural] 3. Living 4. ? HEATH, b. Jan 1913, Canada , d. 1913 [natural]Last Modified 27 Aug 2018 Family ID F376 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - 26 Apr 1871 - Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 
Emigration - Sailed on the "Virginian" - 19 Jul 1912 - Liverpool, Lancashire, England 
Immigration - Aft 19 Jul 1912 - Montréal, Quebec, Canada = Link to Google Earth
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Photos William Charles Heath Portrait
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Notes - 07/15
Ancestry.com has record for a William Charles HEATH; b1871; French Polisher; a boarder in St Marylebone. Listed as born Clapham, London; Single. This is the only "William Charles HEATH" in the 1911 census of the correct age. However, given that he may have been keen to hide his tracks as he had left the family, perhaps this is a red herring and he is not listed on the census at all.
Ancestry.com has census record for 1916 in Manitoba which match Birth year and location based on other records for William Charles. Spouse is listed as "Thresa". Potential children as "Louise" and "William":
1916 Canada Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta 1910s
NAME: William Heath
SPOUSE: Thresa Heath
OTHER: Louise
[William]
BIRTH: 1871 - location
1916 Canada Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta 1910s
NAME: William Heath
BIRTH: 1872 - location
ARRIVAL: year
RESIDENCE: township, city, Brandon, Manitoba
10/15
Notes in RG STANTON papers (General Information/ HEATH) suggest that when Bert was born in 1907 the family were running a fruit and fish shop in Mill Lane Bristol. They then moved to London c1907 when Bert was about 6 weeks old, possibly living at Long Lane in East Finchley, where William Charles drove a Napier car for a job.
Edith HEATH's marriage certificate (1918) lists her father William Charles as a Chauffer. However, we know by this time he was actually in Canada and no longer a chauffer. Perhaps this is his last known occupation before the family lost touch with him (prior to 1918).
04/10
Found the following land grant record at http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/western-land-grants/001007-119.01-e.php?sisn_id_nbr=12363
Western Land Grants (1870-1930)
Introduction: This speciality database relates exclusively to Letters Patent issued by the Lands Patent Branch of the Department of the Interior. The records refer to grants issued in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the railway belt of British Columbia, c. 1870-1930.
Land patents contain only the name of the grantee, the description of the land and the date granted. They do not contain other personal information. Homestead applications and files, which are more detailed, are held at the provincial archives.
"Legal Land Description
Part - SE
Section - 17
Township - 21
Range - 5
Meridian - W1
Reference:
Volume - 758
Folio - 463
Microfilm reel number - C-6544
Names - William Charles Heath"
Further research required to understand whether relevant...
Western Land Grants (1870-1930)
Introduction
This speciality database relates exclusively to Letters Patent issued by the Lands Patent Branch of the Department of the Interior. The records refer to grants issued in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the railway belt of British Columbia, c. 1870-1930.
Land patents contain only the name of the grantee, the description of the land and the date granted. They do not contain other personal information. Homestead applications and files, which are more detailed, are held at the provincial archives.
Apparently according to Annie May, William was a heavy drinker who worked as a Ships Steward on Campbells White Funnel Fleet Services serving ports on the Bristol Channel, and treated his wife and his older children extremely severely at times. There was also a story of one Christmas or New Year when his family were visiting his brother, Samuel Charles's family (probably in Essex Street, Bedminster), when he received news (goodness knows how) that his house (and maybe the cycle shop) in Gloucester Road was on fire. It was suggested he ran all the way home to deal with it!
"This apparently happened to Grandma Nan's family when her father had a shop at 116, Gloucester Road in Horfield, Bristol (it amused her to recall that that part of the road at the time was locally referred to as 'Pigsty Hill'), where her father was a 'cycle agent'. In my early days of research, Cousin Doris Fletcher had said that her mother (Edith Florence Heath) told her this had happened, so the story started as a 'family legend'. Later on, on searching through Wright's Bristol Directory, an annual publication, in Bristol Central Library, I found in 1906 a 'William Heath, cycle agent' recorded at 386 Gloucester Road, and in 1907 the Directory recorded William Charles Heath at 116 Gloucester Road. (Auntie Edie had also told Doris she remembered a motor-cycle displayed on the pavement in front of the shop where her father sold cycles - (a motor-cycle that far back in time would have been unusual enough to attract attention) - and she went on to say that the family were celebrating Christmas with William Charles' brother, Samuel and his wife Deborah in Bedminster, when 'news came through' (exactly 'how' is not clear) that there was a fire at their place in Gloucester Road, and apparently William Charles ran all the way home - but nothing was saved - the business and all belongings were gone. This 'family legend' may be (or may not be?) confirmed by the fact that the 1908 publication of Wright's Bristol Directory recorded neither a 'William Charles Heath' nor the existence of a '116 Gloucester Road' ! Nan knew that their place in Gloucester Road was burnt down but she never said very much to me about it; I somehow have a feeling she may have sensed there might have been something a bit shady (perhaps insurance-wise?) about it, and it's best not to say too much! Incidentally since researching this some years ago, the 1901 Census had revealed that William C. Heath, aged 30, Cycle Agent, was living with his family at 2, Olveston Road, Horfield, Bristol, which is higher up Gloucester Road, on the opposite side from where the shops were, so he had to commute to his shop premises; the Census shows Nan aged 8 and Edith aged 1. I also calculated that it was around May 1907 that William Charles decided to take his wife and family off to live in London."
Apparently his whole family went to live in London (where he drove one of the first trams) and then became a chauffeur of an early Bentley or Daimler or something, before, around 1910 or so, sometime after Bert was born, he decided to abandon his family altogether and he moved off to Canada (possibly Winnipeg, Manitoba), where he made a new life for himself. His family never talked very much about him to us after that! Though there is of course only anecdotal evidence of this, we know it did leave the eldest daughter Annie May to go into service to put toward the upkeep of the family. (See notes on Annie May HEATH).
07/06
1881 census: William Charles Heath living with his grandmother, Jane, who by then was re-married to William Yard (greengrocer) in 17 Upper Montague St. St.James, Bristol.
1881 Census - 71 Upper Montague St. [Green Grocers Shop],Bristol St.James In, Gloucester, England.- shows:
William Yard, 54, born Westhatch, Som. [Haulier and Greengrocer];
Jane Yard, 56, born Wellington, Som., [wife];
Robert Yard, 21, son, born Bristol, Gloucester, [Tailors Cutter];
Mary Yard, 17, daur.,born Bristol,Gloucs. [Tailoress];
WILLIAM HEATH, 10, born Bristol, grandson, scholar; + 1 lodger.)
(N.B. William was now living with his grand-mother and her new family)
At their marriage both William Charles and Mary were aged 19 and resident at 33,Cardross Street, Hammersmith.
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Sources - [S7] 1881 Census, YARD, William; bc1827; & family; RG11 piece 2475 folio 28 page 15.
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Disability Where Born
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YARD, William Head Married M 54 1827 Haulier & Greengrocer West Hatch Somerset
YARD, Jane Wife Married F 56 1825 Wellington Somerset
YARD, Robert Son Single M 21 1860 Tailors Cutter Bristol Gloucestershire
YARD, Mary Daughter Single F 17 1864 Tailoress Bristol Gloucestershire
HEATH, William Grand Son Single M 10 1871 Scholar Bristol Gloucestershire
REDLER, Thomas Lodger Married M 43 1838 Carpenter Bristol Gloucestershire
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Piece: 2475
Folio: 28
Page: 15
Registration District: Bristol
Civil Parish: Bristol St James (In)
Municipal Borough:
Address: 17, (Green Grocers Shop), Upper Montague St, Bristol St James (In)
County: Gloucestershire - [S9] Birth Certificate, HEATH, Annie May; 1892.
- [S47] Email, HEATH, Roger; 2007 06 26;.
Hello Mark,
I imagine that your underquoted message was automated. I am family, and believe we met briefly at your Grandfather Ronald's thanksgiving service. Certainly your father knows me. My father was Herbert Heath, sister of Annie Heath. Coincidentally, I mailed your Uncle Mervyn. yesterday im:
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I did a search of Passenger Lists and think I traced our mutual grandfather's departure from UK. A William Heath (middle names not given) sailed aboard "Virginian" from Liverpool for Montreal on 19th July 1912 aged 41 (which ties in with DOB 1871). Now it will mean trying to find further details from Montreal which I will follow up in my usual swift manner!
I (and Leila) both met Uncle Albert and his daughter Pat sometime before we were married (in 1958). Pat was unmarried, quite a bit older than I, and had a large purple patch on her face. They told us that they lived in Maidstone and we tried to trace them when we moved to London, but no joy.
I've had a look at Stantonetal and must complement Mark. The shot 0f Richmond Terrace surprised me; I wondered how anyone recalled that Leila and I lived there (1958-62 in No. 4 on the same floor as your mother) - what a coincidence. - [S14] 1891 Census, HEATH, William Charles; & family; RG12 piece 92 folio 14 page 22.
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Disability Where Born
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HEATH, William Chas Head Married M 20 1871 Greengrocers Carman Bristol
HEATH, Mary Wife Married F 20 1871 Laundress Bloomsbury London
HEATH, Frank W Son Single M 1 1890 Bloomsbury London
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RG number: RG12
Piece: 92
Folio: 14
Page: 22
Registration District: Marylebone
Sub District: Cavendish Square
Enumeration District: 1
Ecclesiastical Parish: The Rectory
Civil Parish: St Marylebone
Municipal Borough:
Address: 21, Little Marylebone Street, St Marylebone
County: London - [S2] 1901 Census, HEATH, William Charles; & family; RG13 piece 2398 folio 70 page 6.
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Disability Where Born
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HEATH, William C Head Married M 30 1871 Cycle Agent Bristol Gloucestershire
HEATH, Mary Wife Married F 30 1871 Bloomsbury London
HEATH, Annie M Daughter Single F 8 1893 Paddington London
HEATH, Albert S Son Single M 6 1895 Bedminster Bristol Gloucestershire
HEATH, Lillian M Daughter Single F 4 1897 Bedminster Bristol Gloucestershire
HEATH, Edith F Daughter Single F 1 1900 Bedminster Bristol Gloucestershire
WILDING, Florence L Boarder Single F 19 1882 Boot Machinest Bristol Gloucestershire
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RG number: RG13
Piece: 2398
Folio: 70
Page: 6
Registration District: Bristol
Sub District: Ashley
Enumeration District: 4
Ecclesiastical Parish: Horfield Holy Trinity
Civil Parish: Bristol
Municipal Borough:
Address: 2, (Or Olveston), Alveston Road, Bristol
County: Gloucestershire - [S12] Marriage Certificate, FLETCHER, Arthur Frederick; & HEATH, Edith Florence; 1918.
- [S34] Papers - STANTON, Ronald Geoffrey, Ronald Stanton, General Information.
Includes:
ALLEN
HEATH
THORNE
FLETCHER
Early Trees
Old Address Book (undated) (unscanned) - [S9] Birth Certificate, HEATH, Walter William John; b1904; Birth Certificate.
- [S120] London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), HEATH, Annie May; b1892; Baptism;.
Name: Annie Mary Heath Record Type: Baptism Baptism Date: 24 Jul 1892 Father's Name: William Charles Heath Mother's Name: Mary Heath Parish or Poor Law Union: Paddington St Paul Borough: Westminster Register Type: Parish Registers - [S11] IGI, HEATH, William Charles; 1880;.
Mervyn has a copy of a Family Search record of Williams Christening and Birth: Source: FHL Film 1596535 Dates: 1860 - 1888.
Birth Date 26 April 1871.
Christening Date 18 Oct. 1880. Recorded in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
(Collection: St. James.
Father: John Charles Heath
Mother: Matilda - [S12] Marriage Certificate, HEATH, William Charles; & BEATON, Mary; 1889;.
Mervyn has a photo-copy of the Marriage Certificate, No. 340, issued in the Parish of St. John the Evangelist, Hammersmith, Middlesex, on 28 January, 1889, recording Marriage, after Banns, between :
William Charles HEATH, 19, Bachelor, (Ship's) Steward, 33 Cardross Street, Father John Charles HEATH,
and
Mary BEATON, 19, Spinster, - 33 Cardross Street, Father John George BEATON.
(Witnessed in the presence of Fred John Manders and Louisa Groombridge).
The copy was one I received from a cousin whose mother was, like my Mum, a daughter of William Charles, so, as you say we have not much doubt about the authenticity of the record.
Copy from London Metropolitan Archives, P80/JN/A/02/003 attached:
NAME: Mary Beaton
ESTIMATED BIRTH YEAR: abt 1870
AGE: 19
SPOUSE: William Charles Heath
SPOUSE AGE: 19
RECORD TYPE: Marriage
EVENT DATE: 28 Jan 1889
PARISH: St John the Evangelist, Hammersmith
BOROUGH: Hammersmith and Fulham
FATHER NAME: John George Beaton
SPOUSE FATHER: John Charles Heath
REGISTER TYPE: Parish Register - [S51] Third Party Tree Documents and Histories, HEATH, Annie May;.
Document attached as described "HEATH Annie May Alveston Road memories from Mervyn 110706" - [S36] Manitoba Archives - Homestead File - WC HEATH, Archives of Manitoba.
- [S47] Email, QUARMBY, Adrienne; 2008 08 19;.
Hello Mark,
I hope you don't mind me contacting you but I have recently started researching my roots and I think I can answer a few of you queries. I have just looked at your tree on Rootsweb and started with Samuel Charles Heath, my grandfather. I have a copy of his birth certificate and he was born on 28th January 1869 not February. He married Elizabeth Ann Dunn and they had 5 children Edwin C (Charles I think) b 4.10.1985, Victor Emmanuel b 8.4.1898?, Sidney George b 22.5.1901, Dora Irene b 8.8.1905 and lastly, my father, Arthur William Samuel b. 25.12.08.
I know that you have had other queries over what happened to Matilda Mabbett who married John Charles Heath in 1868 but my mother said that she left John (or it could have been he left her). I don't think that she died in childbirth as was suggested but lived with or married a John Henry Carlile. They had 2 daughters Matilda and Arabella. The daughter Matilda is I think who was referred to as Aunt Tilly in my family and was in fact Samuel Heath's step sister because they both had the same mother. Arabella was their aunt and is why on the 1891 census they are in the same household as Isabella (Arabella) Bennett and down Samuel down as nephew and Matilda down as niece. Aunt Tilly (Matilda Carlile) later married Sidney H Bartlett. She came often to visit my father's family in Essex St, Bedminster, Bristol and appears on one of my uncle's wedding photographs and sent a photo of herself to Deborah.
I hope this makes sense. I have so much to sort out and verify with certificates.
Hoping I have a reply,
Adrienne nee Heath - [S47] Email, QUARMBY, Adrienne; 2008 09 05;.
Hello Mark,
I was delighted to have a reply from you and your great uncle's attachment. As his grandfather and my grandfather were brothers, I think that makes him my cousin, twice removed doesn't it? It is exciting to discover distant relatives.
Tell him that last month I went to the funeral of Brian Heath in Bristol, my Uncle Sid and Aunt Beatie's son. While there I visited the Bristol Record Office and it was this that got me hooked on seriously researching my family. Whilst there I found the reference to Matilda Mabbett and John Charles Heath and sent for their marriage certificate where her father is named as William Mabbett, glass cutter. I subsequently sent for Matilda's birth certifcate (born 1st July1850 at 6 Harford St, Bristol, only to find her father named as Matthew Mabbett. When Arabella's birth certificate arrived, her father was Richard Mabbett and she was born on 2nd Sept 1848 at 9 Harford St, Bristol. So began the quest trying to unravel the truth about the Mabbetts which is still on going!!
Matilda Mabbett's daughter by John Henry Carlile, had a lot of connection with my family, especially Deborah Elizabeth Ann and can be seen on some family photographs.
I have photographs of Uncle Vic (Victor Emmanuel in his Royal Marine Light Infantry Uniform and in his Royal Marine unifrom when it amalgamated. I am not sure if he was ever in the Merchant Navy.
I did know that Samuel Charles Heath was called Deborah Elizabeth Ann Dunn, it was just my haste in typing, leaving out the 'Deborah'.
I am so impressed by your website and will have to check people in my family now. If I can fill in any gaps I will contact you.
Looking forward to future contact.
Best wishes,
Adrienne
- [S7] 1881 Census, YARD, William; bc1827; & family; RG11 piece 2475 folio 28 page 15.