Birth: 21 June 1874 Gray's Inn, Middlesex, UK
Father: Henry William Beale 1842-1918
Mother: Emma Louisa Penry 1844-1905
Christening: 7 March 1882 St Jude, Gray's Inn, Middlesex, UK
Marriage: 7 May 1899 St James, Pentonville, Clerkenwell, London, UK
Husband: Arthur Kenny 1870-1900
Marriage: 9 September 1906 St Mary, Islington, London, UK
Husband: George Wood 1879-1950
Death: January-March 1925 Marylebone, London, UK
By Arthur
Arthur Henry Kenny 1900-1900
By George
Gladys Wood 1907-1907
Gladys Ada Wood 1910-1911
Birth of Ada Elizabeth Kenny in FreeBMD in July-September 1874 in Holborn (1b 625).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 for Ada Elizabeth Beale baptised on 7 March 1882 at Gray´s Inn Road, St Jude, parents Henry and Emma Beale. "Page 338 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of St Jude Gray's Inn Road in the County of Middlesex in the Year 1882 [...] March 7 No 3101 Ada Elizabeth [parents] Henry, [a] horse keeper, [and] Emma Beale [of] 133 Derby Buildings, born June 21 1874." Her brother (Henry) and three sisters (Catherine Magdeline, Ellen Maria and Rosina Elmina) were christened at the same time.
In the 1881 census as Ada Beale aged 7, born in Bloomsbury, Middlesex, and living with her parents (Henry and Emma), brother (Henry A) and two sisters (Helen and Rosina), at 134 Derby Buildings, Gray's Inn Lane, St Pancras, London.
In the 1891 census as Ada Beale aged 17, born in Bloomsbury WC, Middlesex, single, and a laundry maid at the Foundling Hospital for the Maintenance of Exposed and Deserted Young Children in Guildford Street, St Pancras, London WC. There some 35 other entries.
Marriage of Ada Elizabeth Beale and Arthur Kenny in FreeBMD in April-June 1899 in Holborn (1b 1327).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Ada Elizabeth Beale aged 24, father Henry Beale, and Arthur Kenny on 7 May 1899 at Clerkenwell St James. "Page 116 1899 Marriage solemnized at St James Pentonville in the Parish of Clerkenwell in the County of London [No.] 231 May 7th 1899 Arthur Kenny [aged] 27, [a] bachelor [and] servant [of] 45 Penton Place, [father] William Kenny (deceased), [a] soldier, [and] Ada Elizabeth Beale [aged] 24, [a] spinster [of] 45 Penton Place, [father] Henry Beale, [an] ostler. Married in the Church aforesaid according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of Henry Beale, Rose Beale [and] Edward Hasell.
Her son was born and died in 1900, and husband died in 1900 at 45 Penton Place, Clerkenwell.
I cannot find her in the 1901 census.
Marriage of Ada Elizabeth Kenny and George Wood in FreeBMD in July-September 1906 in Islington (1b 562).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Ada Elizabeth Kenny and George Wood banns on 2 September 1906 at Islington St Mary "(The Year 1906) [...] No. 1773 Banns of Marriage between George Wood bachelor and Ada Elizabeth Kenny widow both of this parish were published on the Three Sundays underwritten; That is to say 1st on Sunday 19th August, 2d on Sunday the 26th, 3d on Sunday the 2nd September", and another for Ada Elizabeth Kenny aged 28, father Henry Beale, and Geroge Wood on 9 September 1906 in Islington St Mary. "Page 179 [...] 1906 Marriage solemnized at The Parish Church in the Parish of Islington in the County of Middlesex [No.] 358 9th September 1906 George Wood [aged] 27, [a] bachelor [and] police constable, [of] 4 Fowler Road, [father] James Wood, [a] labourer, [and] Ada Elizabeth Kenny [aged] 28, [a] widow [of] 5 Harding Street, [father] Henry Beale, [a] Cabman Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the presence of Henry William Beale and Mary Dupuis.
She had a daughter who was born and died in 1907 in Islington, and another daughter born there in 1910.
In the 1911 census as Ada Wood aged 36, born in London, married for four years, two children one having died, and living with her husband (George Wood), daughter (Gladys), sister (Alice Beale), and nephew (Herbert Fox aged 6 and born in Dover, Kent) in three rooms at 40 Liverpool Buildings, Islington N, London.
Her second daughter died in Islington later that year.
Death of Ada Wood in FreeBMD in January-March 1925 aged 51 in Marylebone (1a 695).
Lelana Buckwater has an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Ada Elizabeth Beale born on 21 June 1874 in Bloomsbury, London, parents Henry Beale and Emma Louisa Penry, her marriage to Arthur Kenny and to George Wood, and her daughter. Another entry adds the date of her first marriage as 7 May 1899 at Clerkenwell St James, her marriage to George Wood in Islington in 1906, and her daughter. Colin Webber adds "Ada first married Arthur Kenny at Clerkenwell 7 May 1899. He died June Qtr 1900, aged 30, Holborn. Second marriage to George Wood, occ. Police Constable, on 9 Sep 1906 at Islington. In 1911 Census she has one daughter, Gladys, age 1, born Islington."
Ada Elizabeth Beale was the wife of George Wood, Felicity's third cousin three times removed.
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