Birth: 4 February 1847 Shalford, Surrey, UK
Father: James Peto Buckmaster 1817-1886
Mother: Olive Watson 1819-1885
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 1 January 1867 St Peter, Walworth, Newington St Mary, Southwark, Surrey, UK
Husband: George Mansell 1844-1903
Death: April-June 1924 Guildford, Surrey, UK
Ellen Mansell 1872-1954
Emily Eliza Mansell 1872-1954
George Mansell 1873-1942
Edith Amy Mansell [Oliver] 1879-1955
Birth of Ellen Buckmaster in FreeBMD in January-March 1847 in Hambledon (4 215). Note however that the family used the surname Peto in the census entries.
On a copy of the Entry of Birth number 496 in 1847 in Cranley in the County of Surrey for Ellen Buckmaster on Fourth February 1847 at Shalford, parents James Peto Buckmaster, a bricklayer, and Olive Buckmaster formerly Watson who was the informant and made her mark.
Her brother was born in Guildford in 1850.
In the 1851 census as Ellen Peto (sic - Peto is the surname throughout) aged 4, born in Shalford, Surrey, and living with her parents (James ansd Olive), three brothers (George, James and William), and a visitor (Mary Grantham aged 13 and born in Ewhurst, Surrey) at 7 School House Lane, South Street, Guildford Holy Trinity, Surrey.
In the 1861 census as Ellen Peto (sic - Peto is the surname throughout) aged 14, born in Shalford, Surrey, and living with her parents (James ansd Olive), three brothers (George, James and Wilm), and two sisters (Emily and Jane) at 18 School House Lane, Guildford Holy Trinity, Surrey.
Marriage of Ellen Peto Buckmaster and George Mansell in FreeBMD in January-March 1867 in Newington (1d 271).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Ellen Peto Buckmaster aged 21, father James Peto Buckmaster and George Mansell aged 23, father John Mansell, on 1 January 1867 at Walworth St Peter, Southwark. "Entry 420 in 1857 at St Peter Church Walworth in the Parish of St Mary Newington in the County of Surrey on 1st January 1867 Ellen Peto Buckmaster aged 21, a spinster living in Royal Road, father James Peto Buckmaster, a bricklayer, and George Mansell aged 23, a bachelor and a joiner living in Royal Road, father John Mansell, a wheelwright, by banns witnessed by A W Smith and Eliza Hains".
In the 1871 census as Ellen Mansell aged 24, born in Shalford, Surrey and living with her husband (George), daughter (Ellen), and two lodgers (Mary Ann Bone aged 68, born in Witley, Surrey, widowed and an annuitant, and her son Absalom aged 23, born in Monshill, Surrey, single and a carpenter) at 143 Railway Esplanade, Guildford St Nicholas, Surrey.
In the 1881 census as Ellen Mansell aged 34, born in Guildford, Surrey and living with her husband (George), son (George), and three daughters (Ellen, Edith and Emily) at 4 Babington Place, Guildford Holy Trinity, Surrey.
In the 1891 census as Ellen Mansell aged 44, born in Shalford, Surrey, and living with her husband (George), son (George) and three daughters (Edith A, Ellen and Emily E) at 4 Park Road, Stoke, Surrey.
In the 1901 census as Ellen Mansell aged 54, born in Guildford, Surrey, and living with her husband (George), son (George), two daughters (Edith A and Emily E) and a visitor (Herbert Solman aged 1 and born in Guildford, Surrey - her grandson), at Preston Villa, Macklesfield Road, Stoke Within, Surrey.
Her husband died in Guildford in 1903.
In the 1911 census as Ellen Mansell aged 64, born in Shalford, of independent means, widowed, and living with her son (George), daughter in law (Annie), granddaughter (Annie Dorothy), daughter (Emily), and grandson (Herbert Solomon) in Farnham, Surrey.
Death of Ellen Mansell in FreeBMD in April-June 1924 aged 77 in Farnham (2a 168).
There is an entry in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Ellen Peto Buckmaster born on 4 February 1847 in Cranley, Surrey. parents James Peto Buckmaster and Olive Watson, her marriage to George Mansell on 1 January 1867 in Southwark, Middlesex, and her four children. There are two similar entries for Ellen Buckmaster Peto.
The spelling of Cranley was changed by the Post Office to Cranleigh in the 1860s to avoid confusion with Crawley.
Ellen Peto Buckmaster was the wife of George Mansell, my ninth cousin twice removed.
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