1881
Dwelling:120 City Road
Census Place:Bristol St James & St Paul Out, Gloucester, England
Source:FHL Film 1341598 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 2486 Folio 72 Page 28
MarrAgeSexBirthplace
Alfred LAPHAMM38 MBristol City & County
Rel:Head
Occ:Salesman
Fanny B. LAPHAMM40 FPitchcombe, Gloucester, England
Rel:Wife
Alfred T. LAPHAM 8 MBristol City & County
Rel:Son
Occ:Scholar
Alice A. LAPHAM 4 FBristol City & County
Rel:Daur
Occ:Scholar

From the information someone else found you above, I looked at the
1851 Census - the following could be your Alfred.

BRISTOL, St. Peter 1851 Census
P.R.O. Reference # H.O. 107/1948
Narrow Wine Street
LAPHAM Elizabeth Widow/er 43 ? Waist coat Maker Carmarthen Wales
Elizabeth 17 Waistcots Bristol
Sarah 15 Waistcoats Bristol
Alfred 8 Scholar Bristol
Elizabeth 4 Scholar Bristol

I haven't got the 1841 Census to check the name of Alfred's father but
did find a possible marriage -
St Pauls, Bristol
12 May 1833 Thomas LAPHAM and Elizabeth SEYMOUR botp Banns

My mother told me of this so the family lived in Charlton ?

http://www.gloucestershirepubs.co.uk/pub%20list/list/CAINSCROSS.htm
>> CHARLTON, Nr. FILTON
Carpenters Arms
Demolished in the late 1940's with the rest of Charlton village to make way for the extension of the runway at Filton airfield. No other details at present.

Ill chesty in Thornbury Hospital May 1960 letter to Alison July 1960

lived in retirement
Grey West
Marsh Common
Pilning
Glos

similar address in 1881
Dwelling:Rougemont House Exeter Rd
Census Place:Westbury On Trym, Gloucester, England
Source:FHL Film 1341604 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 2503 Folio 117 Page 13
MarrAgeSexBirthplace
George T. BRIGHTM62 MExeter, Devon, England
Rel:Head
Occ:Iron Merchant
Susan BRIGHTM63 FAshburton, Devon, England
Rel:Wife
Phoebe SLADEU19 FLuxborough, Somerset, England
Rel:Serv
Occ:General Serv

Buried: Grave 64 Dark Blue AB , Canford Cemetery,
Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol
"AND MOTHER FINDS HER HOME AND HEAVENLY REST"


best man and witness

Dwelling:Hot Bath House
Census Place:Bath St Peter & St Paul, Somerset, England
Source:FHL Film 1341586 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 2436 Folio 36 Page 29
MarrAgeSexBirthplace
Martha CHAMPREYM50 FCompton Martin, Somerset, England
Rel:Head
Occ:Annuitant
Bessie CHAMPREYU18 FLpool, Lancashire, England
Rel:Dau
Occ:Milliner
Herbert CHAMPREY 9 MN Brit Subject, North America
Rel:Son
Occ:Scholar


B&AFHS 1891 Census Index
CHAMPNEY Herbert 20 1971 2 69
CHAMPNEY Martha 60 1971 2 69

Wrights 1901 Bristol Directory
CHAMPENY Herbert, 137 Cheltenham Road

RG13/2401 fo109 pa 20 sch 114 c Boarder George A Brewer s 43 Carrier's clerk Bristol


Residence

after selling his home in Filton to the Bristol Aircraft Company

Mr Lapham
The Cottage
Rectory Lane
Frampton Cotterell
[Gloucestershire]
from a book of
Common Prayer
Hymns A & M

my mother told me that her children got my grandmother out of the mental hospital and organised the bungalow for her
"Grey West"
March Common
Pilning
Gloucestershire

and then he moved in too to their annoyance

he was a good gardener and sold dahlias at the gate
and brewed his own cider from windfall apples
He had a wooden cider press in the shed by his greenhouse which had a large vine growing in it

he bred goldfish in a large pond

He told me that once he "stole" some sugar from the larder to add to his brew of cider - but it was baking soda ina sugar bag and ruined the lot.
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Letter from A.T. Lapham to Heather Lapham





Grey West

Pilning

Bristol

Nov. 10. ‘57.



My dear Heidi,



Thank your Mother, Howard and Susie for your letters. Regarding our geneological tree, I am afraid there are not many branches but I will give you a faint outline as far as I can remember. My dear Mother’s name was Fanny Bartley Ball and her sister Anne Phipps Ball. Their Father was Thomas Ball and her Mother Betsy Ball. They were a Gloucester family. Thomas Ball my Grandfather was a watchmaker on his own account and used to make watches and sell them to sea captains that used to trade from Gloucester across the different seas. Ann Phipps Ball was a Court Dressmaker

And lived at 62 Lancaster Rd., Bayswater, London. I remember my mother taking me there when I may have been about four or five years old, that is eighty years ago. She was a spinster lady and used to say when I got older and had a bother with a girlfriend

‘Never mind Alfie. Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.’ Now for my Father’s forbears. His name was Alfred Lapham and his Father was a Cutler and had a shop in Broadmead Bristol which is all rebuilt now your Mother went through it when she was here. I really forget his Christian name but you can call him any pretty name you like. I remember giving Alison a card case scotch plaid green I think with some letters what he engraved but I don’t think she particularly valued it so perhaps my lady would like to give it to you or let you see it. My Mother was a dear little sewing maid to a Mrs. Darton a Quaker lady wife of Darton’s the book publishers and she used to say to Mother ‘ Now thee do it this way or thee do it’s that...’(?) and when Mother came home to see her people, she could not get out of the way of saying ‘thee’ and ‘thou’. God bless her I say. The same as I say to all of you. Your Daddy as read about cleaning a vine so I enclose ‘Adam the Gardener’ way which is correct tell him to give it to his neighbour. Tell Miss Factor I am glad to hear she is priming up the factors she must not worry and I think she may be a bit slow in the take up but it will come to her as she wakes up and thinks a bit. I have no doubt but what she will make a clever girl and perhaps pass her sister I wonder how? And thinking of wondering, I was wondering where poor old Daddy gets all his money from for you to go travelling about to Birmingham. Then there was my dear little Midge your darling Mum going to Austria, why poor old Grandpa cannot go to Severn Beach – out to the front gate is as far as I go now. But I shall be glad to get my long ride. I heard a wonderful talk on the wireless tonight on the life hereafter. I am getting tired it’s after 9 p.m and I am usually in bed trying to sleep long before this. Never mind, love I have plenty of time to sleep. Please excuse the scribble and the ink is running out. God bless. God bless you all. Try to get Daddy to get confirmed. He will think of my wish when I am gone.

With all my love to you all,



Grandpa xxxx

• Event: Single 23 DEC 1897 in St Barnabas Church, Ashley Road Barton R Dec 1897 6a 185
• Married: 1897 in By Rev T J Wright
• Event: Address (Marriage Pg) 1897 in 53 Grosvenor Road Parish St Barnabas
• Event: Witness 1897 in Robert Henry Norgate
• Event: Witness 1897 in Herbert Champenny
• Event: Witness 1897 in Mary Elizabeth Norgate

1. Norman Reginald Lapham b: 21 NOV 1898 in AML BB 132 Cheltenham Road
2. Howard Bartley Lapham b: 12 SEP 1900 in AML BB Births Dec 1900 Bristol 6a 214
3. Norah Gwendoline Lapham b: 4 MAR 1903 in Births Jun 1903 Barton R. 6a 261
4. Evelyn May Lapham b: 17 AUG 1905 in Filton GLO AML BB Chipping Births Dec 1905 S. 6a 233
5. Alison Mary Lapham b: 16 MAY 1908 in Rostellan House, Filton, Gloucestershire UK Chipping Sodbury, Births Sep 1908 6a 223
6. Alfred George (Dick) Lapham b: 19 OCT 1912 in AML BB Reg Winterbourne Chipping Sodbury
7. Sheila Lapham b: 2 APR 1915 in AML BB Filton Glos.

1. Title: Alfred Thomas Lapham * October 15, 1872 + July 30, 1961