Reeves, William Edward

Summary

Father: Edward William REEVES
Mother: Emily PHILLIPS

Birth: Baptised 2 Jan 1876 at The Parish Church of St Mary, Southampton
Birth Source: Parish Register

Death: 1952
Death Source: GRO Index 1952, June quarter

Spouse1: Fanny Louisa REEVES

Narrative

William Edward was born in Southampton, the eldest child of Edward William Reeves and his wife Emily (nee PHILLIPS). He was baptised at the Parish Church of St Mary Southampton in January 1876. He appears with his parents on 1881 & 1891 census in Battersea and subsequently Lambeth, aged 5 and 16 respectively.

He married his first cousin Fanny Louisa Reeves the daughter of Samuel Reeves in 1898 in Southampton. Eight years later in 1906 his younger brother George Henry was to marry Fanny's younger sister Annie Reeves.

Known children of William Edward Reeves and Fanny Louisa (nee Reeves) are

1. Louisa Caroline Matilda Reeves, born 1899
2. Edward George Reeves , born c1901
3. William Samuel Reeves, born 1903
4. Dora Blanche Reeves, born July 1905

All four births are registered in the Wandsworth Registration District of London.

By the time of the 1901 census, William Edward (aged 25) along with his wife and eldest two children are found in Battersea, London. He is recorded as being a Locomotive Engine Fitter.

It is believed he and his family moved back to Hampshire following the transfer of work from the Nine Elms Locomotive Works to the newly opened Eastleigh Locomotive Works around 1910.

On the 1911 census, William is living on Priory Road in the St Deny district of Southampton. He claims he is 35 years old and born in Southampton. He is employed as a Locomotive Engine Fitter by the London and South Western Railway Company. In addition to William the household comprises his wife Fanny Louisa listed as Louisa Fanny, and their four children Louisa Caroline, Edward (listed as Edward Samuel), William (as William George) and Dora Blanche. William and Fanny have been married for 13 years and they have four children, all surviving. William's younger brother Sidney Charles Reeves completes the household.

Research Notes

(1) From family sources it is known he remained in the Southampton/Eastleigh area the rest of his life, dying in 1952, aged 76.

Sources

Birth:       
Baptism:  St Mary Southampton Parish Register for 1876, Page 325 Entry Reference 2594
                 FamilySearch https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NDQD-74D
Marriage: FreeBMD 1898, 2q, Southampton Registration District, vol 2c page 37
Death:      GRO Index 1952, 2q, Southampton Registration District, vol 6b page 581 Age 76
                 
1881 Census: RG11, Piece 0653, Folio 81 reverse, Page 14 and continued on Folio 82 face, Page 15
1891 Census: RG12, Piece 0400, Folio 190 face, Page 9 and continued on Folio 190 reverse, Page 10
1901 Census: RG13, Piece 0445, Folio 7 reverse, Page 6
1911 Census: RG14, Piece 5939, Registration District 99 (Southampton), Enumeration District 5, Schedule 291
                      NB Some of the given names on this 1911 schedule seem to be mixed up.