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London Gazette 27/04/1877

The Bankruptcy Act, 1869.
In the London Bankruptcy Court.
In tbe Matter of Proceedings for Liquidation by Arrangement or Composition with Creditors, instituted by
Alfred Howell, of No. 140, Houndsditch, in the city of
London, Wholesale Sheffield and Birmingham Ware
houseman.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a First General Meeting
of the creditors of the above-named person has been
summoned to be held at the London Warehousemen's
Association, No. I l l, Cheapside, in the city of London, on
the 14th day of May, 1877, at two o'clock in the afternoon
precisely.—Dated this 18th day of April, 1877.
GOWING and MANDALE, 19A, Coleman-street,
E.C., Solicitors for the said Debtor.

Just a quickie while I'm on my lunchbreak (this case has really got to me!!).

I've found a newspaper article (too long to type out in full) from 1878 where a Mr Alfred Howell, wholesale Sheffield and Birmingham warehouseman, who conducted business in London was bankrupt. He had petioned for liquidation in 1877.

The case was primarily about how aspects of the case had been handled, no personal stuff.

Now, wasn't Catherine/Kate/Julia Holyoake/Ward/Maitland from the West Midlands area?

Will look into it further tonight, unless anyone else fancies a delve?

Hope Rosie checks back .....

EDIT: Found another similar article from 1877 where it says he is of 143 Houndsditch

Robert Hopke Reed's first marriage

parents: Thomas Reed
spouse: Anne Louisa Bandeira
groom's name: Robert Hopk'E Reed
bride's name: Anne Louisa Bandeira
marriage date: 20 Feb 1856
marriage place: Saint James,Westminster,London,England
groom's father's name: Thomas Reed
bride's father's name: Joacquim Bandeira

I think this was her death as they were living in Penge which comes under Croydon
Deaths Mar 1870 (>99%)
Reed Annie Louisa 37 Croydon 2a 154

Marriage in 1871 to Louisa Kemp/Maitland
Marriages Mar 1871 (>99%)
Bruen Adriana McWhorter Kensington 1a 19
Cockran Sutton Fraser Kensington 1a 19
>>Maitland Louise Adelaide H Kensington 1a 19
>>Reed Robert Hopke Kensington 1a 19

By 1881 he was a widower again
Name: Arabella D. Reed
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Robert Hopke Reed
Gender: Female
Where born: Penge, Surrey, England
Civil parish: Lambeth
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street Address: 46 Colby Rd
Education:

Employment status:

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Registration district: Lambeth
Sub-registration district: Norwood
ED, institution, or vessel: 26
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 630
Folio: 14
Page Number: 22
Household Members:
Name Age
Robert Hopke Reed 51
Arabella D. Reed 20
Mary Reed 8
Reginald Reed 9
Ann Branderia 76
Minnie Cresa 18

Possible death of Louisa Adelaide

Deaths Sep 1873 (>99%)
Reed Louisa 35 Lambeth 1d 331 They were living in Lambeth in 1881 and the age fits.

All about Captain Robert Marsh Westmacott

http://www.uow.edu.au/~morgan/rmw1.html

There is also some of his work if you Google his name and click on Images

I looked again at the 1855 marriage and think that you could be right and it says John Maitland for her father.

Not sure about her dad on that 1855 marriage, I do think it says John. However, she's elevated his status to "gentleman".

I don't think Alfred Howell (Maitland) did die, I think he's lurking somewhere.

Must off to bed now!

When she 'married' Major Robert Westmacott she gave her fathers name as Chas Maitland which it obviously wasn't.

Name: Julia Holyoake Maitland
Spouse Name: Robert Westmacott
Spouse Age: Full Age
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 19 Sep 1855
Parish: Greenwich St Alphege
Borough: Greenwich
Spouse Father Name: Richard Westmacott
Register Type: Parish Register

Witnesses:- Eliza Blanch Bowden and James Bowden going by the above census Julia would have been 34.

Isn't this odd, was she trying to repent her sins?

England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

name: Catherine Julia Ward Holyoake
gender: Female
baptism/christening date: 17 Jun 1852
baptism/christening place: St. Andrews, Bordesley, Warwick, England
birth date:
birthplace:
death date:
name note:
race:
father's name: John James Holyoake
father's birthplace:
father's age:
mother's name: Charlotte Holyoake
mother's birthplace:
mother's age:
indexing project (batch) number: I02373-6
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 1545603
reference number: 63

Source Citation
"England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NF62-1N5 : accessed 25 June 2012), Catherine Julia Ward Holyoake, 1852.
_______________________________________________________

She'd already been baptised once:

England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

name: Catherine Holyoake
gender: Female
baptism/christening date: 05 Aug 1820
baptism/christening place: Stafford, England
birth date:
birthplace:
death date:
name note:
race:
father's name: John Holyoake
father's birthplace:
father's age:
mother's name: Charlotte Holyoake
mother's birthplace:
mother's age:
indexing project (batch) number: I03887-0
system origin: England-ODM
source film number: 350476

Here's the charming Catherine with her family in 1851, gives a better idea of her real age:

HOLYOAKE, John Head Married M 51 1800 Traveller In Needles & Hooks Redditch, Worcestershire
HOLYOAKE, Charlotte Wife Married F 50 1801 Redditch, Worcestershire
WARD, Catherine Daughter Married F 30 1821 Redditch, Worcestershire
HOLYOAKE, John Son Married M 29 1822 Needle Maker Redditch, Worcestershire
HOLYOAKE, Mary A Daughter Unmarried F 19 1832 Redditch, Worcestershire
HOLYOAKE, Eliza Daughter Unmarried F 16 1835 Redditch, Worcestershire
PLAYDON, Mary Servant Unmarried F 21 1830 General Serv Pershore, Worcestershire

Piece: 2049 Folio: 206 Page: 39
Registration District: Kings Norton
Civil Parish: Edgbaston

Address: Lee Bank Road, Edgbaston County: Worcestershire

(Had been hoping that Howell/Maitland was with her)

Well done Christina it has really been bugging me that I could not find Albert Howell Maitland anywhere else. So.....was he already married when he married Louisa Kemp in 1860?

Wendy

Her first marriage:

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
Name: Edward Ward, bachelor - merchant clerk
Age: Full Age
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844
Spouse Name: Catherine Holyoake, spinster
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 2 Sep 1844
Parish: St Pancras Parish Chapel
Borough: Camden
Father Name: William Ward - Gent
Spouse Father Name: John Holyoake - Needlemaker
Register Type: Parish Register

Both lived Fitzroy Square.

Witnesses Robt J Lettin and Charlotte Holyoake.

Note: Written across the record is "The parties had previously married in New York"

Looks like she was fibbing about her age on the 1861 census!

Definitely up to no good. And if Alfred was old enough to have an affair with a married woman in 1849, he was certainly very much older than his child bride Louisa.

Wonder if he made up his title 'Captain' as well?

Catherine - that is fantastic!! You've found the missing link.

Moreover, when you look again at the witnesses on the 1860 marriage the name that people on here thought was "Kate ......... Maitland" I think could be "Julie Holycake Maitland".

Now, if she was Alfred Howell's lover why was she a witness at his marriage? I think they were up to no good ........

Found this article. It's about Julia K Maitland. She may well have been one of the witnesses to the marriage of Alfred Howell Maitland to Louisa Kemp, as Kate Julia Maitland??

Also states that Alfred was just Alfred Howell originally and assumed the name Maitland.

It looks like she was Alfred's lover, so was the marriage to Louisa a scam??


Trewman's Exeter Flying Post or Plymouth and Cornish Advertiser (Exeter, England), Wednesday, November 2, 1870; Issue 5446.


Mr Edward Ward last week asked the Birmingham Magistrates to rescind a protection order which had been granted a year ago to a woman who styled herself Catherine Julia Ward, and swore that she had been deserted by her husband. The circumstances of the case, stated by Mr Ward, were that in September 1844, Catherine Holycake, spinster, was married to him at St Pancras Church, London. They lived together until August 1849, when he, with the full knowledge and consent of his wife, went for six weeks trip up the Rhine with some friends. On his return he found that his wife had been unfaithful, and she ultimately left him and went to live with one Alfred Howell. Howell changed his name to Maitland, and put forth to the world that he was the brother of Mrs Ward, who assumed the name of Julia Maitland. In September 1855, Mrs Ward, describing herself as Julia Holycake Maitland, spinster, went through the marriage ceremony with a Major Westmacott, who called himself a widower, but who really had a wife and family living. The ceremony took place at Greenwich, and the witnesses to the marriage were Eliza Bowden, sister to the bride, and her husband, both of whom were present at Mrs Ward,s first marriage, and who knew Mr Ward was alive at the time of the second. In 1869, Mrs Ward, calling herself Catherine Julia Ward, applied to the Birmingham Magistrates for an order protecting her earnings, which was granted. Mr Morris said it was intended to prosecute the Bowdens, Westmacott, and other parties for conspiracy, but it was necessary to get the protection order rescinded first. Mrs Ward had been served with a notice to appear, but instead of obeying it she had written a letter admitting her guilt. She would be called as Queens's evidence in the prosecution. The bench rescinded the order.

Thank you MarieCeleste for the newspaper site link, I will have a look now.

Wendy

PS the Mackay website is my fellow researcher for our Kemps - thanks for that anyway x

Hi - had to close yesterday evening so just reading all the posts that I missed. Thank you so much everyone for such alot of info on my mysterious Alfred Howell Maitland - I will now take a closer look at everything and hopefully we can piece things together.

I have had a quick look on the Perry's Bankrupt Gazette site but cant get access to info - do you have to subscribe to view?

I think that Thomas Reginald Kemp like alot of his family members and in laws have lots of skeletons in their cupboards - interesting research anyway!

Thanks again and if anything else of interest crops up please let me know

Kind regards Rosie :-D

Hi Wendy, I have a sub to the British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

You can buy credits too.

I believe people who have a platinum sub here on Genes can also get the BNA as an add-on.

This family tree gives a lot about the family of Thomas Reginald Kemp and says that Louise married a second time after the death of her first husband but doesn't offer any proof

http://www.mackayresearch.com/kemp-family2.html

Hi MarieCeleste,

Please can you tell me which site you use to look for newspaper articles and advertisements as this may help me with my lost ancestors. I think that maybe Rosie need to get the certificate for the one and onle death for Alfred Maitland in 1860, if only to rule him out.

Wendy

In various newspaper articles, and on his marriage certificate, Alfred Howell Maitland's address is Blackfriar's Road.

Haven't found him yet in 1861 but did find this lady:

MAITLAND, Julia K Head Married F 28 1833 House Holder Redditch, Worcestershire
DOWLING, Alice Servant Unmarried F 43 1818 Domestic Cook Ireland
ANDREWS, Eliza Servant Unmarried F 20 1841 House Maid ..., Middlesex

RG number: RG09 Piece: 312 Folio: 11 Page: 29
Sub District: 1 Christchurch

Address: 75, Blackfriars Road, Christchurch County: London, Surrey

Who is her husband and where is he?