Maitland House, Clapham Common: 1881 Census

Maitland House, Clapham Common in the 1881 Census

Census returns, maintained by The National Archives, can be viewed at the Ancestry family history website.

Name and relation to
Head of household 		Marital
Status		 Age Occupation Birth Place
1881 census – Maitland House, Clapham Common     Reference: RG11/646 (folio 14, p. 10)
Richard B Beddome Head Widower 85 Retired solicitor Bermondsey
Martha A Beddome Daughter Unmarried 47   Clapham, Surrey
A M Charlesworth Grand-
  daughter 		Unmarried 21   Limpsfield, Surrey
Maud E Charlesworth Grand-
  daughter 		Unmarried 14 Scholar India
Mary Hendon Nurse Widow 49 Servant London
Sarah Devenish Cook Unmarried 54 Servant Maldon, Essex
Caroline Muckle Parlourmaid Unmarried 45 Servant Greenwich
Frances E Massey Housemaid Unmarried 24 Servant Clapham
William Corker Page Unmarried 14 Servant Limehouse, London
Note: It appears most certain that William Corker was the same Arthur William Corker, son of the watchmaker Edward Samuel Corker. The Corker family in the 1871 census can be viewed.

Clapham is a district of London south of the River Thames. Maitland House, Clapham Common, now 60 Clapham Common North Side, is on the heritage list as a Grade II Listed Building (Historic England ).

At Holy Trinity Church, Clapham, on 13 October 1857, Maria Amelia Beddome, the daughter of Richard Boswell Beddome, married Samuel Beddome Charlesworth, rector of Limpsfield, Surrey, the son of John Charlesworth, rector of St Mildred’s Church, Bread Street, London (London Marriages, London Metropolitan Archives, Ancestry database).

Richard Boswell Beddome of Maitland House was buried 15 September 1881 (FamilySearch online). Just two months later, on 12 November 1881, his daughter Maria Amelia Charlesworth, aged 55, was buried at St Peter’s Church, Limpsfield, Surrey (Surrey History Centre parish registers, Ancestry database). In 1882 Maria’s husband wrote an account of her life, dedicated to their children Annie Maria Charlesworth, Florence Louisa Barclay, and Maud Elizabeth Charlesworth:

Maria Amelia Charlesworth was born at Clapham the 8th May, 1826. Her father, Richard Boswell Beddome, was for sixty years an eminent solicitor in the City [London]. Maria Amelia was the eldest of seven children. Her home was one in which the influence of Christian parents was felt in the daily life of every inmate. Her father, from the first commencement of his marred life, as the master of a household, made the resolution of Joshua his own rule of conduct in every particular: "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
    Though he had to leave home early – before nine o'clock – family morning prayer was never omitted.
(Samuel Beddome Charlesworth, Memorials of a blessed life: a brief record of the work of Mrs Maria Amelia Charlesworth in the parishes of Limpsfield and Limehouse, London, 1882, p. 1, Google eBook ).

A memorial to Maria Amelia Charlesworth was installed in St Anne’s Church, Limehouse:

In the vestibule, at the west end, through which entrance is gained to the church, is a monument surmounted by a female figure with the right hand pointing upwards, in memory of Maria Amelia Charlesworth, wife of the Rev Samuel Beddome Charlesworth, twelve years Rector of Limehouse, and previously Rector of Limpsfield, Surrey. She died, aged fifty five, in 1881, and was buried in Limpsfield Churchyard. "Her whole life from early childhood," says her epitaph, "was consecrated to the service of God, as the friend and loving instructor of the poor and their children, and in seeking to lead sinners to the Lord Jesus Christ as God their Saviour."
(Alfred Ernest Daniell, London Riverside Churches, Westminster, 1897, p. 276, Google eBook ).

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