George & Ellen Janes

Abel 'George' Janes born 1841 in Speen was the son of Jacob & Hannah Janes

Ellen Stallwood born 1850 was the daughter of John & Sarah Stallwood

George and Ellen married in 1875. They lived in Lacey Green

George and Ellen's 7 children were as follows :

Leonard Janes born 1877 married Annie Harman. Click Leonard & Annie Janes.

Henry 'Harry' Janes born 1880 married and moved to High Wycombe

Emily Sarah Janes born 1882 married Lawrence Arthur Brown. Click Lawrence & Sarah Brown

George Janes born 1886 in Lacey Green married Elizabeth Griffin of Lacey Green Emigrated to USA

Ellen 'Nell' Janes born 1890 married Percival Taylor, who had been adopted by ? Trigg, postman

Frederick 'Wilfred' Janes born 189. Corporal, Cheshire Regiment, 16th Battalion. Killed in Action, April 1917, Flanders WW1. Click Families with Fallen WW1 for others killed in WW1

Alfred John Janes born 1895 Alfred, a butcher enlisted 2nd February 1917. October 1917, missing presumed dead, Flanders, WW1 Click Families with Fallen WW1 for others killed in WW1

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Death of Abel George Janes (head of family) 1896, aged 55

Ellen Stallwood's father was an agricultural Labourer at Smalldean Farm. She was born in 1850 at a cottage near Slough Pond on the Turnpike Road, not far from the farm. The family moved around quite frequently.

Widowed

Ellen did not remarry. She reared her children, the older ones already working to bring in wages.

In 1915 her daughter Emily and her husband Lawrence Brown took over the Crown Inn in Church Lane, Lacey Green. Lawrence was a brickmaker at Walters Ash. Ellen moved in with them and helped Emily run the pub. click Public House. The Crown.

Death Ellen died in 1926.