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The Family of Charles Thomas Macadam

Continuing the family lineage:

Charles Thomas married Marianne Louisa Phillips.   For details of Charles Thomas, go back here   Marianne Louisa Philips was born 21st December 1841 in Bishop's Stortford, Essex, and died 9th February  1921. Marianne's parents were Edwin Phillips and Susan Patmore, and she was the second child of three. Her elder sister, Elizabeth Susan Phillips, was christened on 27th October 1835, and her brother Thomas Edwin Phillips on 22nd June 1847. They were all christened at St Michael's Church, Bishop's Stortford.   Charles Thomas and Marianne Louisa were married 0n 17th October 1865 at St Peter's Church, de Beauvoir Square, Southgate Road, Islington, Middlesex.   Their marriage certificate describes him as a Secretary, living in Lewisham, Kent, and in which her name is Mariann (sic). Her birth certificate spells it Mariane.   They had the following family: Charles Leslie Bernard Macadam,  Born:  27th July 1866 at 3.00 pm in Brixton, London Christened:  28th August 1866 in St Mark's Church, Kennington, London He was called by the family 'Leslie'. Died:  7th March 1955 In July 1911 his address was given as The Dargle, Sherwood Park Road, Sutton, Surrey He married Kate Sophia Tabrum on the 16th July 1898 at Wanstead, Essex,  (Ref: West Ham 4a 387 0r 687). Kate was born on 15th December 1868, and christened on 17th February 1869 in the church of St John the Evangelist, Lambeth, Surrey. She died in 1952, and was called by the family 'Kits'. Their children were: Douglas Leslie Dehane Macadam Born: 1st October 1899 He was called by the family 'Douglas'. Died: 4th December 1984 He married Amy Etlon on 11th July 1938 at . . . Amy was born 9th August 1904 at ... and died 10th January 1989 at ... . She wa an artist, being trained at the Royal Academy Schools, London.   Their children were: Sarah Dehane Macadam b. 17th July 1939, d. 31st October 1939 Stephen Dehane Macadam b. 23rd July 1940, d. 15th March 1941 Deborah Jane Macadam, (adopted) b. 13 February 1942 John Dehane Macadam b. 7th August 1946.   Margaret Kate Macadam Born: 14th July 1902 Called by the family 'Biddy'. Died: 24th March 1991. She trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London 1924-1927 She married Herbert Maynard Francis Lutyens Beast on 6th May 1936.   There were no children from this marriage.   Herbert Edwin Macadam Born:  5th October 1867 at 4.05 am in Brixton, London Died:  sometime after 1911 He married Gertrude Emily Corbin in the September Qtr. of 1898 in Lambeth (Ref: 1d 597),     Cheveley Odams Macadam  Born:  17th October 1870 Cheveley's second wife was my paternal Grandmother For further details about him and his family, see below   Rosalie Marianne Macadam,  (sometimes spelled as Mariane),  Born:  2nd June 1872 in Brixton, London Died:  1955 She was known to the family as Rosie. In July 1911 her address was given as The Grange, Westcliffe, Bournemouth   Edith Helen Macadam,  (sometimes referred to as Helen Edith) Born:  19th June 1874 in Brixton, London Died:  ? She married Edward Bagehot Kite on 28th April 1904.  Edward was born in 1877 and died in 1949 In July 1911 their address was given as Haines Hill Lodge, Taunton, Devon, England. For details of their family, see here The entry in the 1881 census, when they were living at Sussex House, Brixton Rise, Lambeth, reads:

Charles T. MACADAM *** Head  M Male  48  Scotland  General Manager to Chemical Manure Manuf.  Company  Louisa M. MACADAM    Wife M Female  39 Bps Stortford, Hertford, England    Charles L. B.MACADAM    Son   Male  14 Brixton, Surrey, England  Scholar  Herbert E. MACADAM    Son   Male 13 Brixton, Surrey, England  Scholar Cheneley D. MACADAM    Son   Male 10 Brixton, Surrey, England  Scholar  Rosalie M. MACADAM    Dau   Female 8 Brixton, Surrey, England  Scholar  Edith H. MACADAM    Dau   Female 6 Brixton, Surrey, England  Scholar ***  The links shown go directly to the IGI site of the Church of the Latter Day Saints, 1881 Census.

Despite the inaccuracy of the transcription, 'Cheneley D Macadam'  is quite definitely Cheveley O[dams] Macadam, born in 1870. See below.

The Family of Cheveley Odams Macadam   Cheveley Odams Macadam,  (sometimes spelled Chevely and/or pronounced Chevey)   See above for details of parents etc Born: 17th October 1870 Died: 24th February 1952, and buried in Bexhill-on-Sea Cemetery. Rubber Planter in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) In July 1911 his address in Ceylon was given as Culloden, Neboda      Tapping rubber trees in a plantation   He married:   just before he turned 38, Evelyn Maud Chew, aged 37, on 8th October 1908 [marriage cert] in the Parish Church of All Saints, Woodford Wells, Essex. Evelyn died 14th September 1917. She was called by the family 'Eva'. Their daughter was Evelyn de Cheveley Macadam, b. 12th August 1909. She was called by the family 'Eve' or 'Evie'.   when he was aged  50/51,  Elma Alexandra Laming (my Grandmother, and her second marriage) on 8th October 1907, at St Mary's Church, Kippington, Sevenoaks, Kent. Elma had been born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on 11th July 1844, and died in Hindhead, Surrey in about 1967.   There was no issue from this marriage, but my father Miles Frederick Ledger, her son by her former marriage to Frederick John Ledger (who previously was F J Heseltine, having taken his step-father's name)  took the new family name, and also that of his mother,  upon this second marriage, becoming Miles Frederick Laming Macadam.   Miles had been born on 8th March 1909, a few months before Evelyn, and the combined family of four (Cheveley, Elma, Miles and Evelyn) lived at Crowborough, in Sussex, for some years, and then at "Westwood", Lower Bourne, Farnham, Surrey, (now believed to be Westwood Country House B&B, Pinewood Drive at Lower Bourne)  until Cheveley, or "Grandpa Mac" as I knew him, died on 24th February 1952.   Miles married Eileen Muriel Dalby Hobson (b 26th June 1913, d       ) at St Nicholas Parish Church, Sevenoaks, Kent, on 2nd September 1939, having brought forward the date of the wedding by a fortnight to the day before WWII broke out, and almost immediately was called up to serve at Bletchley Park, using his knowledge of languages in decoding Luftwaffe messages, before being transferred to the Japanese section in Hut 10.   They had one son: Edwin Miles Laming Macadam Born: 17th March 1944 Married Gillian Sally Mary Walsh on 10th August 1968 in St Laurence's Church, Lechlade, Gloucestershire. Their children are: Duncan Richard Laming Macadam, and Nicola Juliette Laming Macadam