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The Tite family Tree

Benjamin Tite, born about 1786 in Weston Underwood, Bucks.,Vil man (old name meaning farm hand), died 1852. He was married to Elizabeth Dawkes, born 1792, Ravenstone, Bucks.They were married on 8th August 1816 in Ravenstone. There was also a very large Tite family at the next village west, 8 miles away, called Stoke Bruerne, this included Anthony Tite, born before 1668, Mary, born 1681, and Benjamin Tite born 1717. The link to our family seems likely, but as yet unconfirmed.

Progeny:

Mary (Baptism: 7 Sep 1817 Saint Andrew, Holborn, died 1871,Shoreditch, Middx.), Benjamin (baptised 11 Jul 1819 Saint Andrew, Holborn , died 1892, West Ham, Essex) Elizabeth (born 30th September, baptised, 24 Sep 1822 in Holborn, died 1895, Ashby De La Zouch (needs cert), Sarah, born 29 Oct 1820, died 1895, Atherstone, Leics.[NC]. Baptised 20th October 1822 Saint Andrew, Holborn), Henry (born 2 Oct 1824, baptised 7th November in Holborn), William David, born 7 May 1829, baptised 7 Jun 1829 Saint Andrew in Holborn

Benjamin (junior) born 1819, died at West Ham, Essex, 1892, first quarter (baptised 11 Jul 1819) married (1st, in 1846) Ann Osborn born 12 Feb 1820 in Dunstable, her parents being George Osborn, born 1788, Woburn, and Elizabeth Esther Brice, born 1798 in Stoke Goldington, Bucks

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Benjamin (1849) George Osborn Tite, born 1853, died 1893, Atherstone, Leics [NC], Joseph (1852/3, Middx.)

Benjamin married (2nd marriage) Lydia Cooper, (born about 1822 in Finsbury Middx., died 1906, at Hackney, London Middx.[NC])

married Jun Qtr 1854 (Benjamin, junior, coal merchant)

progeny-

Lydia Mary (1858-06), Herbert (1860- March 1903 at Hackney), Arthur (1862), John H Tite (1863)

Joseph Tite (1852/3, Holborn) married Alice (1852 at Hackney)

living with parents in 1871, had already started work as a coal merchant

coal merchant, had married Alive before 1881, then lived at 121 Stamford Hill, Hackney, 1881;

at 17 Larwick Road, Hackney in 1901

no known children

Lydia Mary Tite (5.1.58-25.7.06) married Arthur Henry Caesar (25.5.56-1916),

Chartered Accountant of 7 Highbury New Park.

[progeny- see Caesar Tree]

Arthur Tite, born 1862, Cambridge Heath, Hackney, “Ironmonger’s assistant”, aged 19 in 1881 at Stamford Hill with when then living with Joseph and Alice.

He married Elizabeth (born 1862, Hawkhurst, Kent); they lived at 71 High Road, Kilburn, 1871, then an ironmonger; in 1901 had become valuer’s assistant, and they lived at 2 Byron Road, Harrow on the Hill.

[progeny: Frank W Tite (W not too clear) (born 1890 at Kilburn)]

Frederick Tite (born at Cambridge Heath, Hackney,1857), married Henrietta Harriett (born,1861 at Islington). Harriet Tite, born about 1852, died at Wellingborough, Beds., March 1906.

Frederick had started work as (his father’s) coal merchant’s clerk by 1871, then titled “Coal merchant” in 1881 still then with parents. Fred was a coal merchant, at Hackney, 1891, then at 69 Cazenove road, Hackney in 1901

[progeny:Frederick Norman Tite (born June 1885, Hackney, Middx.)]

John Henry Tite (1863, Middx.) married Mary Lucy (1864, Middx.). We find the coal merchant, and his wife Mary Lucy, at 29 Arlingford Road, Lambeth 1891 then in 1901 as coal merchant at 40 Beechdale Road, Lambeth, (and then moving to Brixton, presumably establishing the branch at Brixton Station, see phone books below). There is a Middlesex baptism record which confirms Eric as born to John Henry and Mary Lucy Tite. The 1901 census shows John Henry and Mary Lucy as living in Brixton, in the Parish of Lambeth. See also 1885 advertisement and brochure.

[progeny: Eric (1892-1967, born at Brixton, Surrey), Marjorie (1895, Brixton, Surrey)]

In 1939, in the telephone directory, we find two addresses for Benjamin M Tite and Sons, Coal Merchants, one branch for the LNER Railway (a most prosperous contract) at Stoke Newington Station, Stamford Hill, N.16, and another at 10 Station Approach, Ilford.

(This was discovered on searching for the address of Eric, of which there is one listed as “Silverick” Highwold, Chipstead, in 1939.)

In 1945 there are entries for BM Tite and sons as above, still at Stoke Newington and Ilford, but also at Brixton, we find J H Tite and Co at Brixton Station. (Eric and Marjorie were born at Brixton.) Eric was still at the same address as above and also in the phone book for 1946, 1953, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 64 and last phone book entry at Ringwood, Hants., 1967. We know that this is the same Eric Tite as at Chipstead, since he has called his house there also - “Silveryk”.He moved to Hampshire, presumably upon retirement, between 1953 and 1957.

Eric seems likely to have spent a period after WWI in America, and appears on passenger lists for different dates, between England and New York (more detail is available, but I have not accessed it). He returned before 1938 because he was married to “Yellen”, April-June 1938, Kensington, Middx. Then he appears in the telephone bookat Chipstead, and after 1953 at Ringwood. There is also a war pension record that shows Eric swore his oath of allegiance on 11th October 1915, upon joining the army service corps.

Eric died 1967, his death appears in the list for July-September 1967, registered at Bournemouth.

notes: [NC] means that this date needs a death or birth cert to ensure that it is the same person, as entries in the All England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915, do not contain sufficient detail.

Photo Shows Lydia Mary Tite and her youngest children and family