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This page draws mostly upon material from documents supplied by Mr. John Bathurst of Quebec from his Collection of Genealogical, Biographical and Historical Records of the Family of Bathurst, and appears here by his kind permission. The John Bathurst Collection [JBC] assigns to each individual Bathurst a unique four-digit reference number prefixed by a #.
Joseph Samuel (1) Bathurst [JBC: #4441] was born in 1857 illegitimately of mother Delia Diana Bathurst. He was registered as Joseph Wilkins Bathurst [Birth Index: Bethnal Green 1c 282, 1857 (Dec)]. It is plausible that his natural father was Joseph Wilkins who was baptized at St. Leonard, Shoreditch in May 1825 of parents Samuel Wilkins and his wife Ann. A descendant reports that Joseph Samuel (1) was born on September 18th 1857.
After his mother's marriage to John (2) Cheese he became known as Joseph Cheese, but around 1892 he adopted his mother's maiden surname and thereafter was variously known as Joseph Bathurst or Joseph Samuel Bathurst.
The 1871 Census finds him at age 13 living with his mother and step-father at 11, Northampton Street in Bethnal Green, occupied as a bookbinder.
The 1881 Census finds him at age 23 living with his mother and step-father at 54, Cleveland Street in Mile End Old Town, occupied as a stationer.
In 1884 he married Mary Wood [Marriage Index: Bethnal Green 1c 438, 1884 (June)]. Mary was born around 1861 in South Hackney.
The 1891 Census finds him at age 33 occupied as a stationer's assistant and living with his family at 5, Bovill Terrace in Lewisham, Forest Hill SE23.
The 1901 Census finds him at age "42" again occupied as a stationer's assistant and living with his family at 15, Coopers Road (today's Cooper Road) in Willesden.
In 1910 he was a printer, in 1919 he was a stationer and in 1921 he was both.
The 1911 Census finds him at age "53" occupied as a stationer's and printer's assistant and still living at 15, Cooper(s) Road. The form claims in error that by his marriage to Mary he had by this time produced six children, rather than seven.
Mary died aged 69 at Willesden Road in 1930 [Death Index: Willesden 3a 236, 1930 (Sept)]. Joseph died aged 77 at the National Temperance Hospital, St. Pancras in 1935 [Death Index: Pancras 1b 18, 1935 (Sept)]. He had been living at 15, Cooper Road in Willesden, NW10, being a retired stationer's foreman. The cause of death was bronchopneumonia, uraemia and adenoma of the prostate. The informant was his son Joseph Samuel (2).
The 1901 Census finds Joseph Samuel (2) aged "15" serving on a Royal Navy vessel "Ganges" at Harwick in Essex.
James John may have died in childhood, as he was not with his parents in the 1901 Census, though he was with them in 1891.
Willam James probably died in infancy, as he was not with his parents in the 1891 Census.
The John Bathurst Collection contains much further information about these children.