Birth: 16 July 1857 Southwark St John Horsleydown, Surrey, UK
Father: Joshua Challis c1811-1891
Mother: Mary Jane Rogers c1812-1868
Christening: 16 August 1857 St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Surrey, UK
Death: March 1869 3 Elizabeth Terrace, St James Road, Bermondsey, Surrey, UK
Buried: 29 March 1869 All Saints, Nunhead, St Giles Camberwell, Surrey, UK
Birth of Louisa Emily Challis in FreeBMD in July-September 1857 in St Olave S (1d 41).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 for Louisa Emily Challis baptised on 16 August 1857 in St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Surrey, parents Joshua and Mary Jane Challis.
Two entries in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1917 for Louisa Emily Challis baptised on 16 August 1857 in Bermondsey St Mary Magdalene, Southwark, parents Joshua and Mary Jane Challis. "Page 206 Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of Bermondsey in the County of Surrey in the Year 1857 [...] 1857 16th August No. 1645 Louisa Emily, parents Joshua, an accountant, and Mary Jane Challis of St John Southk" and "1857 July 16 Louisa Emily Joshus & Mary Jane Challis St John Southw Accountant".
In the 1861 census as Louisa E Challis aged 3, born in St John's Horselydown, Surrey, and living with her parents (Joshua and Mary J), four brothers (Edmund, James, John R and Willm H) and three sisters (Charlotte, Maria A and Mary J) at 2 Church Row, St John Horsleydown, Southwark, Surrey. Another family lived at the same address.
Her mother died in Bermondsey in 1868
Death of Louisa Emily Challis in FreeBMD in January-March 1869 aged 11 in Bermondsey (1d 69).
Entry in Ancestry England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 for Louisa Emily Challis buried on 29 March 1869 aged 11 at St. Giles, Camberwell, Surrey.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 for Louisa Emily Challis buried on 29 March 1969 aged 11 at Nunhead Cemetery, Linden Grove, Southwark. "Page 262 Burials in the London Cemetery Company's South London Cemetery of All Saints', Nunhead, in the Parish of St Giles', Camberwell, in the County of Surrey, in the Year 1869 Louisa Emily Challis No. 24601 of 3 Elizabeth Terrace, ? Road, St James Road, Bermondsey on March 29 aged 11 years".
Southwark St John Horsleydown was a small parish on the south bank of the River Thames in London, opposite the Tower of London. The name Horsleydown, apparently derived from the "horse lie-down" next to the river, is no longer used. The parish was created by splitting St Olave's parish in 1733. Horselydown Lane is parallel to and SW of the southern approach to Tower Bridge.
Louisa Emily Challis was the sister of Frederick William Challis, husband of Marion Annie Davis, my first cousin once removed.
Return to Challis Gendex.
Return to Main Gendex.
Return to Croucher Home Page.