Individual Details
William (Will) HUSSEY
(5 Dec 1866 - 27 Feb 1939)
Will's baptismal sponsors were Joannus Lejeune and Maria Florence Berry.
Will attended St. Edmund's school for Roman Catholic boys outside Ware in Hertfordshire. He enjoyed cricket, and for many years after leaving school was an annual visitor to St. Edmund's as a member of the Zouave Cricket Club which was recruited largely from Old Edmundians.
Will became a builder, like his father. There is a nice story, with a link to Will's business, that people might find interesting:
For many years there was a manhole cover with Will's name on it at the front of Brook Green Catholic Church, the local parish church for generations of Husseys. Many, many years after Will had died, his grandniece, Sheila Hussey (1927-2003), who lived in Ireland but who had long had her eye on the manhole cover, asked the Westminster Diocese if she could have it. They said 'yes' (also saying that it was the strangest request they had ever received!) and shortly thereafter it was transported to Dublin and installed in Sheila's driveway on Cedarmount Road in Mount Merrion. It may now be long gone but it read:
William Hussey
Builder
Albert Hall Mansions SW
Albert Hall Mansions had been built by Will's father's building company and it appears that William lived there as London telephone directories from 1914 and 1922 list his address as 32 Albert Hall Mansions (and give an office number too at Albert Hall Mansions).
Will and his wife, Kitty, appear to have separated as they lived at different addresses in the final years of Will's life. According to his obituary in 'The Edmundian' (the magazine published by his old school, St. Edmund's), Will lived in Tilehurst, Berkshire for the last 20 years of his life, and the 1924 telephone directory gives his address in that year as Park Farm, Tilehurst. However, his will gives his address at Mill Cottage, Calcot, Berkshire, close to Tilehurst and where it is known Kitty was living after Will's death. In the last three years or so of his life, Will also appears to have lived, part-time least, at 18A Marloes Road, Kensington, the residence of his sisters Elizabeth and Kate.
Note that The Edmundian obituary tells us that Will was survived by his wife and son, one brother [which would have been Edmund] and two sisters [which would have been Elizabeth and Kate].
Will attended St. Edmund's school for Roman Catholic boys outside Ware in Hertfordshire. He enjoyed cricket, and for many years after leaving school was an annual visitor to St. Edmund's as a member of the Zouave Cricket Club which was recruited largely from Old Edmundians.
Will became a builder, like his father. There is a nice story, with a link to Will's business, that people might find interesting:
For many years there was a manhole cover with Will's name on it at the front of Brook Green Catholic Church, the local parish church for generations of Husseys. Many, many years after Will had died, his grandniece, Sheila Hussey (1927-2003), who lived in Ireland but who had long had her eye on the manhole cover, asked the Westminster Diocese if she could have it. They said 'yes' (also saying that it was the strangest request they had ever received!) and shortly thereafter it was transported to Dublin and installed in Sheila's driveway on Cedarmount Road in Mount Merrion. It may now be long gone but it read:
William Hussey
Builder
Albert Hall Mansions SW
Albert Hall Mansions had been built by Will's father's building company and it appears that William lived there as London telephone directories from 1914 and 1922 list his address as 32 Albert Hall Mansions (and give an office number too at Albert Hall Mansions).
Will and his wife, Kitty, appear to have separated as they lived at different addresses in the final years of Will's life. According to his obituary in 'The Edmundian' (the magazine published by his old school, St. Edmund's), Will lived in Tilehurst, Berkshire for the last 20 years of his life, and the 1924 telephone directory gives his address in that year as Park Farm, Tilehurst. However, his will gives his address at Mill Cottage, Calcot, Berkshire, close to Tilehurst and where it is known Kitty was living after Will's death. In the last three years or so of his life, Will also appears to have lived, part-time least, at 18A Marloes Road, Kensington, the residence of his sisters Elizabeth and Kate.
Note that The Edmundian obituary tells us that Will was survived by his wife and son, one brother [which would have been Edmund] and two sisters [which would have been Elizabeth and Kate].
Events
| Birth | 5 Dec 1866 | 9 Mayfield Place, Kensington, London | |||
| Christen | 30 Dec 1866 | Our Lady of Victories, High St., Kensington | |||
| Marriage | 1902 | London - Catherine (Kitty) Frances Mary ROONEY | |||
| Death | 27 Feb 1939 | Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire |
Families
| Spouse | Catherine (Kitty) Frances Mary ROONEY (1880 - 1960) |
| Child | Valentine (Val) William HUSSEY (1909 - 1943) |
| Father | Thomas HUSSEY (1834 - 1919) |
| Mother | Agnes DEVINE (1834 - 1913) |
| Sibling | Agnes Ellen HUSSEY (1858 - 1860) |
| Sibling | William HUSSEY (1860 - 1866) |
| Sibling | Agnes HUSSEY (1861 - 1935) |
| Sibling | James/Thomas Joseph HUSSEY (1863 - 1863) |
| Sibling | Thomas Aloysius HUSSEY (1864 - 1916) |
| Sibling | James HUSSEY (1865 - 1936) |
| Sibling | John (Jack) Thomas HUSSEY (1867 - 1922) |
| Sibling | Alfred HUSSEY (1869 - 1899) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Josephine Mary HUSSEY (1871 - 1941) |
| Sibling | Henry (Harry) Aloysius HUSSEY (1872 - 1916) |
| Sibling | Edmund HUSSEY (1874 - 1955) |
| Sibling | Catherine (Kate) HUSSEY (1875 - 1944) |