Birth: January-March 1866 Wonersh, Surrey, UK
Father: William Messenger 1822-1877
Mother: Ellen Newman 1823-1916
Christening: 17 June 1866 Wonersh, Surrey, UK
Marriage: 25 September 1901 Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill, Lambeth, London, UK
Husband: Stephen Arthur Chalcraft 1862-1942
Death: 19 March 1943 Newlands Nursing Home, Rake, Hampshire, UK
None known
Birth of Bertha Messenger in FreeBMD in January-March 1866 in Hambledon (2a 123) which included Wonersh.
Christening of Bertha Messenger in the IGI on 17 June 1866 in Wonersh, Surrey, parents William and Ellen Messenger.
In the 1871 census as Bertha Messenger aged 5, born in Wonersh, Surrey and living with her parents (William and Ellen), three brothers (Robert, Walter J and William Harry), two sisters (Adelaide and Mary Jane), two visitors (George E Bradford aged 6 and born in Bradfield, Berkshire, and Warner S Sherwin aged 24, born in Petworth, Sussex, married and a bank clerk), and three servants (Harriet Mitchell aged 14, born in Dunsfold, Surrey and a nursemaid, Charlotte Newman aged 25, born in Midhurst, Sussex and a cook, and Jane Taphouse aged 22, born in Basing, Hampshire and a housemaid, all single) at Woodhill, Wonersh, Surrey
Her father died in Hambledon in 1877.
In the 1881 census as Bertha Messenger aged 15, born in Guildford, Surrey, and living with her widowed mother (Ellen), two brothers (Frederick B and Walter), sister (Rosa) and a servant (Alice Baker aged 22, born in Liphook, Hampshire and single) in Castledine Road, Penge, Surrey.
In the 1891 census as Bertha Messenger aged 25, born in Wonersh, Surrey, single, no stated employment and living with her widowed mother (Ellen), brother (Walter J), sister (Adelaide), and a servant (Fanny Collins aged 24, born in Binstead, Hampshire and single) at 8 Genoa Road, Penge, London.
In the 1901 census as Bertha Messenger aged 35, born in Wonersh, Surrey, single and living with her cousin (sic -in the index, companion on the original) Ann F Hough (aged 77, born in Stansor, Cumberland, single and living on her own means) and a servant (Annie T Weldon aged 26, born in Navar, Ireland and single) at 55 Crown Road, Twickenham, Middlesex.
Marriage of Bertha Messenger and Stephen Arthur Chalcraft in FreeBMD in July-September 1901 in Lambeth (1d 819).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Bertha Messenger aged 35, father William Messenger, and Stephen Arthur Chaberaft aged 39, father Edward Chaberaft, on 25 September 1901 at Tulse Hill Holy Trinity, Lambeth. "1901 Marriage solemnized at Holy Trinity Tulse Hill in the Parish of Lambeth in the County of London No. 4 Sept 25th 1901 Stephen Arthur Chalcraft aged 39, a bachelor, employed as a corn merchant of Manor House, Farnham, father Edward Chalcraft (deceased), a farmer, and Bertha Messenger aged 35, a spinster of 30 Rownola? Road, father William Messenger (deceased), an estate agent. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church by Licence" .
In the 1911 census as Bertha Chalcraft aged 45, born in Wonersh, Surrey, married for nine years, no children, and living with her husband (Stephen Arthur Chalcraft) in 5 rooms at 40 York Road, Forest Gate, E, West Ham, Essex.
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Bertha Chalcraft living at 141 Barcombe Avenue SW2 Wandsworth in 1918. Stephen Arthur Chalcraft (husband?) was living at the same address.
Her husband died at 105 The Causeway Petersfield on 12 January 1942 and left £258 14s. 11d to his widow Bertha Chalcraft."
Death of Bertha Chalcroft (sic - on the typed original) in FreeBMD in January-March 1943 aged 77 in Petersfield (2c 214).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Bertha Chalcraft died on 19 March 1943 in Hampshire, probate granted 5 August in Llandudno. "Chalcraft Bertha of 105 The Causeway Petersfield Hampshire widow died 19 March 1943 at Newlands Nursing Home Rake Hampshire Probate Llandudno 5 August to Mary Goldsmith widow. Effects £1715 6s. 5d."
There are four entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Bertha Louisa Messenger born in Wonersh or Hamledon, Surrey in 1866, parents William and Ellen Messenger, and in three her marriage to George Alfred Horwood. These are obviously confusing her with Bertha Louisa Messenger born in Kensington in 1861.
Bertha Messenger was the wife of Stephen Arthur Chalcraft, my sixth cousin once removed.
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