William Jennings (1840/1–93)

Irish-born butler and publican. Employed by the Isherwood family, 105 Eaton Place, London, 1871; by Gertrude Susan Astley, 33 Prince’s Gardens, London, 1881. Married Eliza Keen (1840/1–1930) at St Aloysius’s Roman Catholic chapel, London, in 1879. Publican at the Builders’ Arms, 68 West Street, Portsmouth, from at least 1883.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/114/71/5), 1881 (RG11/121/21/37, RG11/1157/42/34), 1891 (RG12/870/54/23), 1901 (RG13/1005/29/5)

certificate of birth, William George Jennings, 17 January 1883, Portsea Island (General Register Office, England)

certificate of marriage, William Jennings to Eliza Keen, 1 March 1879, St Pancras, Middlesex (General Register Office, England)