Name: Arthur Ashling
Burial Number: 0752
Gender: Male
Occupation: Builder and Contractor
Born: 00/00/1859
Died: 00/00/1914
Buried: 13/08/1914
Story
Arthur Ashling was born in Thorney, near Peterborough about 1859, son of John Thomas and Betsy Ashling. John (baptised in Thorney in 1833) and Betsy (who was born in Bedfordshire) were married in Thorney in 1855 and went on to have seven children.
In 1891 Arthur, now married to Emily Harriet, who was from Chelsea, was living at 14 Milton Street, a Builder and Contractor, with 3 daughters, all Worthing born.
(Brother Henry was also a Builder – in Cobden Road in 1889.)
In 1901 Betsy, ‘Widow of a Builder’, was living, with daughter Ethel, at Kingsdale in Tarring Road. Ethel was a Teacher of Music, then 22. She married in 1903.
Arthur and Emily lived at Karos in Rowlands Road by 1901. He was a Builder/Employer and they had three daughters and a son. Elsie Clara and Mabel Violet were both listed as Domestic Helps in 1911, and they had been joined by Emily’s 78 year-old widowed mother, Sarah Honess, from Dorset.
They had 5 children, 4 living by 1911, and there is also a Cyril Victor Ashling, in the Cemetery, buried in 1900, aged 5 months. He may be the lost child.
Sadly, Arthur filed for bankruptcy in October 1911 – maybe the building bubble had burst!
John Thomas died in 1898, Betsy in 1911. Arthur died in 1914, daughter Elsie Clara in 1918, aged only 32, and Emily in 1934 – then living in Thorn Road. They are all in the Cemetery.
Sarah Honess was buried in the Cemetery in 1922.
Researcher: Liz Lane
The Grave
Location in Cemetery
Area: SWS Row: 2 Plot: 2
Exact Location (what3words): asleep.pads.times
Ashes or Urn: Unknown
Headstone
Description:
None Found - Listed in Heene Cemetery Index of Graves
Inscription:
None Found - Listed in Heene Cemetery Index of Graves
Further Information
Birth
Name: Arthur Ashling
Gender: Male
Born: 00/00/1859
Town: Peterborough
County: Cambridgeshire
Country: England
Marriage
Maiden Name: Not applicable
Marriage Date: 13/09/1882
Spouse First Name: Emily
Spouse Second Name: Harriett
Spouse Last Name: Short
Town of Marriage: Worthing
County of Marriage: Sussex
Country of Marriage: England
Information at Death
Date of Death: 00/00/1914
Cause of death: Unknown
Town: Unknown
County: Unknown
Country: Unknown
Obituary
No obituary has been entered.
Personal Effects
Money left to others: No value recorded
Current value of effects: Not calculated
Census Information
1861
Living at Thorney, Cambridgeshire – John T Ashling 27yrs, Bricklayer; Betsy Ashling 25yrs; Henry E 3yrs; Arthur 1yr; Walter 2mths;
1871
Living at 4 Church Row, All Saints, Wandsworth – John T Ashling 37yrs, Bricklayer; Betsy Ashling, 35yrs; Henry E 13yrs, Bricklayers Apprentice; Arthur 11yrs; Mary 9yrs; Walter 7yrs; Emily 4yrs; Reginald 10mths;
1881
Living at 4 Western Road, Broadwater – John T Ashling 47yrs, Builder employing 22 men; Betsey 45yrs; Henry E 23yrs, Bricklayer; Arthur 21yrs, Bricklayer; Mary 19yrs, Emily 14yrs; Reginald 10yrs; Herbert 5yrs; Ethel 2yrs;
1891
Living at 14 Milton Street, Heene – Arthur Ashling 31yrs, Builder & Contractor; Emily H 30yr;, Ruby G 7yrs; Elsie 5 yrs; Mable V 1yr;
1901
Living at Karos, Rowlands Road, Heene – Arthur Ashling 41yrs, Builder Employer; Emily H 40yrs; Ruby Emily 17yrs; Elsie Clara 15yrs; Mable Violet 11yrs; Leonard A W 3yrs;
1911
Living at Karos, Rowlands Road, Worthing – Arthur Ashling 51yrs, Builder etc; Emily Harriet 50yrs; Elsie Clara 25yrs, Domestic Help; Mable Violet 21yrs, Domestic Help; Leonard Arthur 13yrs; Sarah Honess 78yrs, widow (wife’s mother);
