Jonas Ellingham
1857 – 1918
Relationship with the Hatfield and St Albans branch:
- Stationmaster at St Albans (later St Albans London Road), 1899 – 1918.
Life Highlights:
- Born in 1857 at Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, of Thomas and Maria Ellingham.
- Baptised on 13th September 1857 at Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire.
- Married Eliza Feaver on 15th November 1880, in St George, Hanover Square, London.
- Murdered by his wife on Friday 16th August 1918, at the Station House, Great Northern Railway, St Albans, Hertfordshire.
- Buried in an unmarked grave in Hatfield Road Cemetery, Fleetville, St Albans, Hertfordshire.
- Probate granted to Jonas Ellingham, printer’s clerk, and Constance Lavina Ellingham, spinster, on 3rd October 1918: effects £1,000.6.1.
Homes included:
- Luton Road, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire.
- Pickford Mills, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire.
- High Street, Woodhouse Terrace, Corby, Lincolnshire.
- 9 Grove Place, Western Road, Wood Green, N, Middlesex.
- 53 Clarendon Road, Hornsey, Middlesex.
- Station House, Great Northern Railway, St Albans, Hertfordshire.
He, his parents, 1 sister and 3 brothers are at Road to Luton, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, in the 1861 census: Scholar.
He, his parents, 1 sister and 3 brothers are at Pickford Mills, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, in the 1871 census: Scholar.
He and his wife are at High Street, Woodhouse Terrace, Corby, Lincolnshire, in the 1881 census: Railway Clerk.
He, his wife, 4 daughters, 3 sons, 1 sister-in-law and 1 cousin are at 53 Clarendon Road, Hornsey, Middlesex, in the 1891 census: Rail Clerk (GNRy).
He, his wife, 4 daughters and 1 son are at G.N. Station House, St Albans, Hertfordshire, in the 1901 census: Station Master.
He, his wife, 4 daughters and 1 son are at G.N. R. House, Station, St Albans, Hertfordshire, in the 1911 census: Railway Station Master.
Information gathered from:
- The Roger Taylor archive.
- Census returns.
- Christening record.
- Marriage Index.
- Deaths Index.
- Wills Index.
- London Overseer records, 1886/7.
- Newspaper article
- Family tree in ancestry.co.uk.