Individual Details
Agnes DEVINE
(Abt 1834 - 17 Apr 1913)
According to the 1851 census, 17-year-old Agnes was a shoebinder.
Agnes and her husband Thomas lived in various parts of Kensington after their marriage. Known addresses are:
1860, 1871: 9 Mayfield Place
1881: 96 Kensington High St.
1884: 14 Church St.
1891, 1913: 23 St. Mary Abbots Terrace
Agnes and Thomas had been married for 55 years when Agnes died at the age of 79. According to her death record she died of bronchitis and "exhaustion".
Notes:
1. Regarding the birthplace of our Agnes, there is some confusion: according to the 1851 census she was born in St. Giles, London; the 1861 census tells us she was born in Bloomsbury, London (Bloomsbury and St. Giles seem to be interchangeable); in the 1881 census, her birthplace appears to be "Hobham", Middlesex (which does not exist - it has been suggested that Hobham should read Holborn); according to the 1901 census, she was born in Kensington and the 1911 census tells us she was born in Soho! Given that St. Giles, Bloomsbury, Holborn and Soho are all in the same general area, it seems most likely she was born in that area rather than in Kensington.
2. Mayfield Place, Kensington, the address for Agnes and her family for many years, no longer exists, although most of the buildings are still relatively intact. From an Ordnance Survey map dated 1872 we know that Mayfield Place comprised a terrace of nine buildings on the north side of Kensington High St. to the south of Church Court, the same stretch of the High St. where the family's subsequent address, 96 Kensington High St., appears to have been located. Research carried out by Hussey researcher Ursula Staszynski has shown that the two addresses were right next door to the old town hall (demolished in 1983) and are therefore the same building, so 9 Mayfield Place became 96 High St. in the early 1870s. However, no. 96 High St. is now no. 94, which is puzzling. An old photo of the current nos. 92 and 94 (which now serve as an HSBC bank) shows an entrance - no longer is existence - to a basement between the doors to the current nos. 92 and 94. One possibility is that the basement was the original no. 94 and when when the entrance to it was closed off no. 96 became the new 94.
Agnes and her husband Thomas lived in various parts of Kensington after their marriage. Known addresses are:
1860, 1871: 9 Mayfield Place
1881: 96 Kensington High St.
1884: 14 Church St.
1891, 1913: 23 St. Mary Abbots Terrace
Agnes and Thomas had been married for 55 years when Agnes died at the age of 79. According to her death record she died of bronchitis and "exhaustion".
Notes:
1. Regarding the birthplace of our Agnes, there is some confusion: according to the 1851 census she was born in St. Giles, London; the 1861 census tells us she was born in Bloomsbury, London (Bloomsbury and St. Giles seem to be interchangeable); in the 1881 census, her birthplace appears to be "Hobham", Middlesex (which does not exist - it has been suggested that Hobham should read Holborn); according to the 1901 census, she was born in Kensington and the 1911 census tells us she was born in Soho! Given that St. Giles, Bloomsbury, Holborn and Soho are all in the same general area, it seems most likely she was born in that area rather than in Kensington.
2. Mayfield Place, Kensington, the address for Agnes and her family for many years, no longer exists, although most of the buildings are still relatively intact. From an Ordnance Survey map dated 1872 we know that Mayfield Place comprised a terrace of nine buildings on the north side of Kensington High St. to the south of Church Court, the same stretch of the High St. where the family's subsequent address, 96 Kensington High St., appears to have been located. Research carried out by Hussey researcher Ursula Staszynski has shown that the two addresses were right next door to the old town hall (demolished in 1983) and are therefore the same building, so 9 Mayfield Place became 96 High St. in the early 1870s. However, no. 96 High St. is now no. 94, which is puzzling. An old photo of the current nos. 92 and 94 (which now serve as an HSBC bank) shows an entrance - no longer is existence - to a basement between the doors to the current nos. 92 and 94. One possibility is that the basement was the original no. 94 and when when the entrance to it was closed off no. 96 became the new 94.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1834 | St. Giles, London | |||
| Marriage | 14 Sep 1857 | Catholic Chapel, Holland St., Kensington - Thomas HUSSEY | |||
| Death | 17 Apr 1913 | 23 St. Mary Abbots Terrace, Kensington, London | |||
| Burial | 21 Apr 1913 | St. Mary's Cemetery, Kensal Green, London (grave no. 3282) |
Families
| Spouse | Thomas HUSSEY (1834 - 1919) |
| Child | Agnes Ellen HUSSEY (1858 - 1860) |
| Child | William HUSSEY (1860 - 1866) |
| Child | Agnes HUSSEY (1861 - 1935) |
| Child | James/Thomas Joseph HUSSEY (1863 - 1863) |
| Child | Thomas Aloysius HUSSEY (1864 - 1916) |
| Child | James HUSSEY (1865 - 1936) |
| Child | William (Will) HUSSEY (1866 - 1939) |
| Child | John (Jack) Thomas HUSSEY (1867 - 1922) |
| Child | Alfred HUSSEY (1869 - 1899) |
| Child | Elizabeth Josephine Mary HUSSEY (1871 - 1941) |
| Child | Henry (Harry) Aloysius HUSSEY (1872 - 1916) |
| Child | Edmund HUSSEY (1874 - 1955) |
| Child | Catherine (Kate) HUSSEY (1875 - 1944) |
| Father | Michael DEVINE (1797 - 1851) |
| Mother | Catherine JONES (1798 - 1874) |
| Sibling | Daniel DEVINE (1822 - 1854) |
| Sibling | Michael DEVINE (1829 - 1873) |
| Sibling | John DEVINE (1832 - 1877) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth DEVINE (1839 - 1852) |