📜Edward Walter Haines & daughter Clara Frances📚

I bought this touching photo from the Shoreham Postcard Fair back in December. When I first saw it, my first thought was that the Father and daughter looked sad—it was their eyes.

Father & daughter were obviously very close.

I started a family tree on Ancestry with Edward Walter Haines and a daughter Clara Frances Haines.

Excellent to have both names written on the back.

It didn’t take me too long to find the correct family.

Edward & Catherine’s marriage certificate 1867.

Edward Walter Haines was born on 30 September 1835 to parents Edward and Eliza. He married Catherine Rice on 21 August 1867 in the Holy Trinity Church, Kilburn. Edward had followed in his father’s footsteps becoming a Solicitor. The couple had two daughters during their marriage, firstly Catherine Rice Haines born in June 1868 then a second daughter Frances Clara Haines born in September 1870. He died on 13 October 1917 aged 82 years.

Catherine Rice was born in 1835 in Bangladesh, her parents were Samuel and Catherine.

Catherine died on 23 September 1870 in Kilburn, Middlesex, at the age of 35 just a few days after her daughter Frances Clara was born on 18 September 1870.

Mother Catherine’s cause of death was Uterine Phlebitis.

‘Uterine phlebitis, specifically septic pelvic thrombophlebitis (SPT), is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition characterized by inflammation and blood clot formation in the pelvic veins, often occurring after childbirth or surgery‘. In this case it was as a result of childbirth.

The Haines household on the 1871 census after mother Catherine had died.

As you can see Edward Walter is listed and his eldest daughter Catherine Rice Haines two years old, was born in June 1868. But there was a bit of a mixup as Frances Clara was entered as firstly a Daughter, then a Son but should actually have been a Daughter. I have checked everything thoroughly and there was definitely no son born that I can find, so the name Frances was misheard maybe as Thomas, and entered as Thomas C instead of Frances C. The age of six months is correct. Also in the household is Edward’s mother in law named Catherine Duker Rice, she is a widow as her husband Samuel died in 1867. She is helping to take care of her daughters’ children after her death.

They also have a Nurse, a Cook and a Housemaid at number 2 Priory Road, Hampstead.

The family had another tragedy to come in 1878 as Edward and Catherine’s eldest daughter Catherine contracted Diptheria and died six days later, she was just 9 years old.

As you can see on the digital death certificate Edward and his family had moved after the 1871 census to St John’s Wood.

Before his daughter Catherine’s death, Edward had both of his girls baptised at home (Private) on May 20 1878 the day she died.

Baptism record of the family living at 125 Alexandra Road, St John’s Wood.

The following year Edward’s mother-in-law Catherine Duker Rice also died, as you can see she was still living with the family.

So now there was just Edward and his daughter Frances Clara, I wonder if this was around the time that the old photo I found was taken, they must have been very close.

Frances Clara Haines was born on 18 September 1870 in Hampstead, Middlesex. She married Charles Edgar Pettman on 5 July 1898, Charles was a Music Publisher, Organist, and Arranger. The couple welcomed Twins to the family in 1899, a boy Walter and a girl Hilda.

After their marriage Frances and Charles and their two children continued to live at her family home in St John’s Wood with her father, but by 1911 Charles was living in a boarding house, while Frances and their daughter were still living with her father. Frances and Charles’s son Walter was at a private boarding school in Kent.

Children: Walter Edgar Charles Pettman and his twin sister Hilda Frances Aimee were born on 27 May 1899. Walter married Margaret Joan Mark in January 1933 in Towcester, Northamptonshire. Walter and Margaret had no children. Walter went into the Army Royal Engineers and became a Lieutenant Colonel. He died on 1 May 1988 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire at the age of 88, and was buried in Curry Rivel, Somerset as was his wife.

Hilda Frances Aimee never married, in 1921 she was a student in 1921 and in 1939 living with her mother Frances Clara who was incapacitated, she was an Non-Conformist Minister (Congregational). Frances Clara died on 23 April 1957 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, at the age of 86.

Her daughter Hilda died on 22 Nov 1992 in Hastings, Sussex, she was 92. That was the end of this branch of the family as there were no descendants of Edward Walter and Catherine beyond this.