Birth: 4 June 1879 Hastings, Sussex, UK
Father: Henry William Joy (White) 1843-1909
Mother: Celia (Cecilia) Eliza Rowe 1851-1931
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: January-March 1897 Thanet, Kent, UK
Husband: William Henry Miles 1879-1955
Death: April-June 1960 Dover, Kent, UK
Nellie Catherine Miles [Bartlett] 1898-1979
William H Miles 1899-1964
George Miles 1900-1954
Alfred Miles 1903-1978
Esther Catherine Miles [Pevy] 1907-1997
Kate Elizabeth Mile [Sheppard] 1910-1935
Thomas Miles 1912
Rose Miles 1916-1941
Two more unknown children died before 1911
Birth of Nellie Eliza White in FreeBMD in July-September 1879 in Hastings (2b 20).
In the 1881 census as Nellie White aged 2, born in Hastings, Sussex, and living with her parents (Henry William and Eliza), two brothers (Alfred and Herbert), and sister (Winnie) (all with surname White) at 6 Weston Cottages, Hastings All Saints, Sussex.
Her sister and three bothers were born in Margate from 1882 to 1890, all with the surnamee Joy.
In the 1891 census as Nellie Joy aged 12, born in Hastings, Sussex, and living with her parents (Henry and Elvia Joy), three brothers (Ernest, Henry and Herbert), and sister (Edith) (all with surname Joy) in four rooms at 5 Wheatleys Place, Margate, Kent.
Marriage of Nellie Joy and William Henry Miles in FreeBMD in January-March 1897 in Thanet (2a 1243).
In the 1901 census as Nellie Miles aged 21, born in Hastings, Sussex, and living with her husband (William H), two sons (George and William H), daughter (Nellie C) and mother (Catherine Lawrence) at 7 Charlotte Place, Margate, Kent
In the 1911 census as Nellie Miles aged 32, born in Hastings, Kent, a flower hawker, married for 14 years with 8 children, two having died, and living with her husband (William Henry) three sons (Alfred, George and William H), and two daughters (Esther Catherine and Katie Elizabeth) in four rooms at 5 Peter Street, Deal, Kent.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Nellie Miles born 4 June 1879, married, a shopkeeper florist, and living with William H Miles (husband?), George Miles (son?), Henry and Esther Perry (sic - in the index, Prevy on the original) and one other at 96 High Street, Deal, Kent.
Her husband died in Thanet in 1955.
Death of Nellie E Miles in FreeBMD in April-June 1960 aged 81 in Dover (5b 484).
Three entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Nellie Joy born in Hastings, Sussex in 1879, two adding her parents as Henry William Joy and Celia Eliza Roweher marriage to William Henry Miles on 27 March 1897 at St John The Baptist, Margate, Kent, seven children in one, six in the other two, ande her death in Diover, Kent in 1960.
Nellie White was the mother of Alfred Miles, husband of Florence Elsie Akhurst, grandneice of Sarah Jane Gill, wife of my great grandfather George William Payne.
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