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Some Special Interests => Occupation Interests => Topic started by: LizzieL on Monday 27 May 24 14:59 BST (UK)
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Just came across this (as you do) when looking for something completely different
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nn7gew9zxo
I found J H Belville in 1841 and 1851, but he rather boringly lists his occupation as "Astronomer" and
"Civil service of the Royal Observatory". Not found the widow and daughter who took on the time selling business.
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Is this the daughter?
The Citizen Wednesday April, 4th 1945
Her Strange Job
Miss Elizabeth Ruth Belville of Plough Lane Beddington, Surrey, who for half a century took the Greenwich time to London business houses on a watch one hundred years old, left £189. She was 89
Elizabeth Ruth Belville, spinster
Probate to Lewes Hector Read, Miller
Died 07 Dec 1943
Probate Norwich 10 Feb 1945
Effects £186. 6s. 10d.
1921 Census Surrey
Ruth Belville b1856 Blackheath Kent
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Yes that looks like the daughter who took on the business after her mother and father
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Just found Elizabeth Ruth in 1901, living on own means, with 4 single male lodgers in their 20s.
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and possibly mother & daughter on 1871 & 1881 census
Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London & Kent, England
Maria E H Belville Head 1812 School mistress Lowestoft, Suffolk
Ruth Belville Daughter 1854 Annuitant Greenwich, Kent
plus boarders, servants
N 1 Ward, 44, Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London & Kent
Maria E Belville Head Widow 1812 School mistress Lowestoft, Suffolk
Ruth Belville Daughter 1855 Governess (sch) Greenwich, Kent
plus boarders & servant
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Found ER in 1939, a reference to time in her occupation!
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See FreeBMD Dec 1851 W London
John Henry BELVILLE married Maria Elizabeth LAST
Edit to add Marriage detail is on ancestry
John's occ Gentleman
Married 22 Dec 1851 Saint Andrew, Holborn
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See FreeBMD Dec 1851 W London
John Henry BELVILLE married Maria Elizabeth LAST
So Maria Last was his last wife ;D
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Burial of daughter there's a picture and info.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92752993/elizabeth-ruth_naomi-belville
Elizabeth Ruth Naomi Belville
Baptism Apr 1854 St Alphege, Greenwich
Father John Henry Belville, Gentleman Mother Maria Elizabeth
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Found ER in 1939, a reference to time in her occupation!
Check 1921 census
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Wow, that's not an occupation, that's an essay !
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Should we start a thread on the longest occupation description? ;D
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Found ER in 1939, a reference to time in her occupation!
It's hard to realise that in earlier centuries there were different time zones in Britain. Even when Greenwich Meantime was introduced.
It wasn't until the introduction of the railways that eventually the Great Western Railway (GWR) stopped quoting the local time in each town that clocks around the country all showed the same time.
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Well I've learned something new today
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It wasn't until the introduction of the railways that eventually the Great Western Railway (GWR) stopped quoting the local time in each town that clocks around the country all showed the same time.
To see the farcical way in which the French railways tried to cope with time differences, watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PELruSTO3qI