Charles Allen Du Val

Gordon Henry Worley 1847-1908

Gordon Henry Worley was born in 1847 at Iver in Buckinghamshire, the son of William Worley 1822-1873 and his wife nee Mary Elizabeth Gurney 1815-1879.

He married Eliza Annetts in 1869. She was born in 1844 at Heaverham, Kemsing in Kent, the daughter of Eliza Annetts born there in 1818.

39 Bedford Road

The family were living at Iver Heath when the 1871 Census was taken, but by 1876 had moved to Wraysbury in Buckinghamshire. Shortly before the Census was taken in 1881 they had moved to a cottage at Kingsdown, Dartford in Kent. They moved again by 1888 to 6 Factory Yard at Hanwell in Middlesex, but by 1892 were living at 39 Bedford Road in neighbouring Ealing, Middlesex. He was a gardener, and would have been employed in the extensive Middlesex market gardens then a prominent feature of the still largely rural Hanwell and Ealing.

They had the following children:

William Worley. He was born in 1868 at Iver, and baptised there on 12 June 1870.

Florence Worley. She was born in 1870 at Iver. She was married to Herbert Edward Brown 1868-1931. She died in 1937.

George Whitfield Worley. He was born in 1874 at Iver, and married Annie Harriett Plumridge on 30 October 1897 at St John's church in Ealing (1). Both were aged 23 years. She was the daughter of Thomas Plumridge, a night watchman, who was deceased by the date of the wedding. The witnesses were Gordon Henry Worley and Ruth Worley. George Whitfield Worley died on 12 April 1951 aged 75 years at 47 Marmion Road, Adrington, Hove in Sussex.

Gertrude Annetts Worley. She was born in 1875 and died in 1876.

Ruth Worley. She was born in 1876 at Wraysbury in Buckinghamshire.

Arthur Gordon Worley. He was born in 1880 at Wraysbury.

Minnie Worley. She was born in 1881 at Kingsdown in Kent.

Brooke Harcourt Worley. He born on 16 November 1887 at Hanwell in Middlesex, and baptised on 6 April 1888 at St Mark's church, Hanwell (2). He married Rose Annie Bown on 3 October 1910 at St John's church in Ealing.

Mabel Elizabeth Worley. She was born in 1888 at Hanwell.

Their father Gordon Henry Worley died in 1908 aged 61 years.

(1) The district was then called Ealing Dean or Northfields, but is now known as West Ealing and is within the Metropolitan Borough of Ealing in London.
(2) St Mark's church in Hanwell was then still new, having been built only in 1879.