Birth: January-March 1840 13 Danvers Street, Chelsea, Middlesex, UK
Father: Thomas Penington Abberley (Abbley, Ably) 1804-1879
Mother: Sarah ? c1802-1887
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: October-December 1901 Croydon, Surrey, UK
Father unknown
William Abberley 1863-1937
Stillborn 1866
Edward Abberly 1869-1869
Birth of Rosina Abbley in FreeBMD in January-March 1840 in Kensington (3 220).
In the 1841 census as Rose Abberley (sic - on the original) aged 1, born in Middlesex, and living with Thos and Sarah (parents?), and George, James and Thomas (brothers?) at 13 Danvers Street, Chelsea, Middlesex.
Her sister was born on 27 June 1845 and registered in July-September 1845 in Chelsea.In the 1851 census as Rose Abberly (sic - on the original) aged 11, born in Chelsea, Middlesex, and living with her parents (Thomas and Sarah), three brothers (George, James and Thomas), sister (Sarah), and two lodgers (William Atkinson aged 22, born in Paddington, Middlesex and a bricklayer, and his wife Mary aged 22 and born in Kennington, Surrey) at 5 Bridge Road, Battersea, Surrey.
Her sister was baptised on 22 January 1854 at St Mary, Battersea when they were living in Battesea.
In the 1861 cenesus as Rose Abberley aged 21, born in Chelsea., Middlesex, single, no stated employment, and living with her parents (Thomas and Sarah) and brother (George) at 5 Culmstock Place, Battersea, Surrey.
Her son was registered in April-June 1863 in Wandsworth with surname Abberley.
There was a stillborn on 7 April 1866 at Battersea Workhouse.
Her son was registered and died in October-Decemmber 1869 in Wandsworth, surname Abberly.
I cannot locate her in the 1871 census but she was not living with her parents or son.
Her father died on 18 January 1879 at the Wandsworth Clapham Union Workhouse and was buried on 28 January 1879 aged 75 at St Mary, Battersea.
In the 1881 census, as Rosina Abbley aged 38, born in Chelsea, Middlesex, single, a general domestic servant, and living with her widowed mother (Mrs) and nephew? (William Abbley) at 26 Radstock Street, Battersea, London. Two other families lived at the same address.
In the 1891 census as Rose Abberley aged 50, born in Chelsea, London, and a servant living with William Coleman (aged 59, born in Lower Shatton, Wiltshire, and a corn dealer and employer), his wife (Caroline aged 59 and born in Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire), three sons (Arthur G aged 21 and a corn dealers assistant, Harry J aged 18 and a corn dealers assistant, John agd 23 and a law solicitors clerk, all born in Clapham Yorkshire (sic - in the index, Surrey on the original) and single) and a grandson (Sidney T aged 8 and born in Brixton, London) at 420 Wandsworth Road, Clapham, London.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Poor Law Hospital Admissions and Discharges, 1842-1918 for Rose Abberby, a cook of 34 Churchill Road, Somerton admitted 1 October 1896 aged 55 to Ladbroke Grove Infirmary (later St Charles Hospital), St Marylebone, Westminster.
There are about 100 entries in Ancestry London, England, Poor Law Hospital Admissions and Discharges, 1842-1918 for Rose Abberby/Abberley/Abberly born circa 1841, a cook and admitted to Grays Inn Road Workhouse from 1896 to 1899.
In the 1901 census as R Abberley aged 62, widowed, a cook and a patient at the London County Lunatic Asylum, Cane Hill, Coulsdon, Surrey.
Death of Rose Abberley in FreeBMD in October-December 1901 aged 62 in Croydon (2A 168).There are thirty four entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Rose Abberley, adding William, Stillborn and Edward as children.
Note that Kensington included Chelsea from 1838 to 1841.
Rosina Abbley was the great grandaunt of George David Hearne, father of David G Hearne, husband of Karan Deanne Wolchover, wife of Keith Andrew Pulver, husband of Joanna A Kanawka, wife of Steven Stuart Prendergast, husband of Elaine Booker, my half third cousin three times removed.
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