NameArthur PONDER
Birth26 Dec 1865, Stepney, London (Mile End Old Town)3,8
Death13 Jan 1947, Hove Hospital, Sussex15 Age: 81
Burialcremated at Brighton Crematorium4
Baptism20 Jan 1866, St Peters Stepney33 Age: <1
OccupationBookseller’s Assistant (W.H.Smith)
Homes
12 Albion St. Stepney
6 38 Oaklands Road, Bexleyheath, Kent.
“Timaru”, Grinstead Lane,Lancing Sussex
33Information
Gladys says his father James paid 6p a week for him and his brother Harry to go to school, but not Eliza so she was not so literate.
On marriage cert he is a bookseller’s assistant, living at 12 Albion St stepney. Witnesses were James Ponder, Eliza Ponder, Emma Ling and Arthur John Downe
His Aunt Lydia married Hannah's uncle Thomas Flegg which is how they met.
He worked first as a tea merchant, then at W.H.Smiths.
On death cert he is bookseller’s sub-manager.
Land at Oaklands Park Estate ws sold to Arthur on 7 Nov 1896 for £65 , £6;10s paid as deposit. (copy of agreement J/i/28 - original held by Rosemary)
1901 census “Carlton” Oaklands Rd Bexleyheath RG13/696/28 page 3
Arthur Ponder 35 Bookseller’s assistant b London Mile End
Hannah wife 35
William son 2 b Bexleyheath
Arthur son 1 b Bexleyheath
1911 Census Carlton 38 Oaklands Road Bexleyheath
Arthur Ponder 45 Mar Bookseller’s Clerk born Mile End
Hannah Letitia Ponder wife 45 Present marriage 13 years, 5 children born alive, 5 still living, born Theberton Suffolk
William Jamers Ponder son 12 school born Bexleyheath
Arthur Harry Ponder Son 11 school born Bexleyheath
Gladys Lettie Ponder daughter 6 school born Bexleyheath
Harry Ponder son 4 school born Bexleyheath
6 rooms
(daughter Winifred Mary Ponder staying at Stratford St Andrews Suffolk with her uncle William Thomas Flegg)
He lived at “Carlton”, 38 Oaklands Rd, Bexleyheath, then moved on retirement to a bungalow which was built for his wife and him: “Timaru” on Grinstead Lane, Lancing, Sussex. His son Arthur was already living in Lancing, and they wanted to move there. They bought a plot of land and had the bungalow built by a builder they already knew. Gladys helped her mother to do the flower garden at the front and back. Behind that was a rustic fence and behind that was where her father grew vegetables. Arthur only ‘worked’ in the garden in the morning and went down to the sea or to watch the bowls in the afternoon.
Gladys says her father was more responsible for disciplining the boys, when they were young.
Spouses
Birth26 Nov 1865, Leiston Suffolk
Death10 Jul 1958, St. Michael’s Nurs. Ho. Hindes Rd Harrow15 Age: 92
Burialashes scattered at Brighton Crematorium4
Baptism17 Jul 1870, Leiston33 Age: 4
OccupationNursemaid
Homes
Carlton Suffolk
6 Bexleyheath, Kent. Lancing,Sussex
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Hannah was engaged at 17 or 18, to an older man, but his family disapproved and it was broken off. Head nurse at Leiston for the family who owned the steel works, then went to nurse for a family called Edwards at Eltham, where she met her future husband again. When she visited Arthur in Stepney before her marriage, she would be collected from the station by the Edwards’ trap. They had met 12 years before because her uncle Thomas Flegg was married to his aunt Lydia Ponder. Also worked as a nursemaid for a family called Levi. When they married lived at 'Carlton' 38 Oaklands Road Bexleyheath then moved to 'Timaru' Grinstead Lane, Lancing, then, after her husband died, the bungalow was sold and she stayed with my Gladys, Win and occasionally Arthur. She had a mastectomy about 1901, reason not known.
1871 census Leiston William Flegg age 43 ag lab
Mary Flegg age 43 born Friston
William T son age 11 errand boy born Middleton
Henry H son age 9 scholar born Theberton
Anna M daughter age 7 born Sproughton
Hannah L daughter age 5 born Middleton
1881 Census-staying at Tar Row, Boughton, Notts. age 15, occupation-lady's maid. (parents down the road)
visiting Rose Lumby,age 22, Teacher of National School.[?] Piece 3371 Folio 17 Page 27
1891 census Carlton Green Kelsale Suffolk (transcribed as FLIGG) RG12/1482/12 p 13
William FLEGG 63 Carpenter b Theberton
Mary Flegg wife 63 b. Friston
Anna Maria daur S 27 b. Sproughton
Hannah L daur S 25 b. Middleton
In will made 1847 she left an estate of £1895..18s..5d
Marriage22 Jun 1897, Trinity Church, Stepney6