Birth: October-December 1863 Shoreham, Sussex, UK
Father: William Young 1835-1924
Mother: Emma Winchester 1840-1925
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: April-June 1892 Steyning, Sussex.
Wife: Luke Tester 1866-1941
Death: October-December 1956 Hove, East Sussex, UK
Bessie Tester 1894-1985
BDorthy Tester [Chapman] 1895-1987
Birth of Catherine Ellen Young in FreeBMD in October-December 1863 in Steyning (2b 235) which included New Shoreham.
In the 1871 census as Kate Young aged 7, born in Shoreham, and living with her parents (William and Emma), brother (William) and two sisters (Bessie and Sarah) in Commercial Terrace, New Shoreham, Sussex.
In the 1881 census as Catherine Young aged 17, born in Shoreham, Sussex, single and a domestic housemaid living with James F. Briggs (aged 40, born in Reigate, Surrey and a gardener), his wife (Eliza aged 41 and born in Brightlingsea, Essex), a visitor (James Briggs aged 84, born in Rygate, Surrey, widowed and a Nurseryman), a friend (Katherine Elwall - could be Stuart - aged 28, born in London, Middlesex, married and no profession), her daughter (Julia M Stuart aged 9 and born in Sunbury, Middlesex) and son (Alexander Stuart aged 6 and born in Romford, Essex), a visitor (Annie Baneman aged 16 and born in Poplar), and three servants (Sarah Mardle aged 24, born in Walkern, Hertfordshire, and a medical nurse, Annie Langley aged 23, born in Brighton, Sussex and a cook, and John Langley aged 18, born in Brighton, Sussex and a footman, all single) at Ferndale Cottages, Keymer, Sussex.
In the 1891 census as Catherine Ellen Young aged 27, born in Shoreham, Sussex, single and a housemaid and living with Elphinstone Barchard (aged 64, born in St Ann's Lewes, Sussex and living on his own means), his wife (Katherine Louisa Susan aged 54 and born in Fetcham, Surrey), his three sons (Frances aged 28, born in Hove, Sussex, and a barrister at law, Gerard Elphinstone aged 24, born in London, Middlesex and no stated employment, and Arthur Elphinstone aged 22, born in Maresfield, Sussex, and a lieutenant in the second West Riding Regiment, all single), daughter (Ada aged 26, born in London, Middlesex, single and no stated employment), and five other servants (Jane Hammond aged 50, born in Lewes, Sussex and a Lady's maid, Rachel Penney aged 45, born in Chardstock, Dorset and a cook, Alice Mannie Williams aged 27, born in Brighton, Sussex, and a parlour maid, Annesley Osborne aged 16, born in Maresfield, Sussex and a house maid, and Julia Sarah Ridley aged 15, born in Maresfield, Sussex and a kitchen maid, all single), at Duddeswell Mansion, Maresfield, Sussex.
Marriage of Catherine Ellen Young and Luke Tester in FreeBMD in April-June 1892 in Steyning (2b 556).
In the 1901 census as Catherine Lester (sic - in the index, Tester on the original), aged 37, born in Shoreham, Sussex and living with her husband (Luke), and two daughters (Bessie and Dorothy) in Barnesgate, Buxted, Sussex.
Both daughters were born in Uckfield in 1894 and 1895.
In the 1911 census as Catherine Tester aged 47 and living with Luke (husband?) and Bessie (daughter?) in Uckfield, Sussex.
Her husband died in Hove in 1941.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Catherine Tester in October-December 1956 aged 93 in Hove (5h 402).
There are two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Catherine born 1866 or 1867, married to Luke Tester and two daughters.
Catherine Ellen Young was the second cousin of Ellen, wife of Thomas Paine, my eighth cousin three times removed.
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