Saturday, December 27, 2025

Theresa Jane Sleaper

So far not much more has been found on our lone Nazareth House inmate.  1911 Census (via FindMyPast) does not list her as disabled, but she is in a Nazareth House.  This time in Hammersmith, London. 



Whilst it does not list her with any disability as on the 1939 Register, we are given her birth location of Woolwich.

I find it interesting the Nazareth Houses so far spell her name Teresa, no h. Yet her name as registered at birth spells it as Theresa.  Since it's on the birth record, that's how I've listed her in the Ancestry research tree: Sleaper Theresa Jane

To recap from the last post, the 1939 Register has Theresa residing at Nazareth House in Southend-on-Sea.


Birth registration from the General Register Office (GRO) states her mother's maiden name to be Kelly.  
Yay, another name.  I suppose I may need to spend the $ to gain a forename for Kelly and hopefully the father and his profession...  Before that though, I think a death registration might be in order here to bookend her life.  New search parameters through FindMyPast.com and we get:


Darn, smack dab in the middle of the no digital download records from the GRO.  So this be it for now.  Probably still at Nazareth House Southend-on-Sea.  But, now we know she lived until 1974.

Digital copy of the birth record gives us father, Frederick Sleaper, manual labourer; mother, Ellen Kelly Sleaper.  Birth location appears to be 94 Sandy Firth Road, Plumstead, Woolwich.


Now this raises a question or two... Frederick.  We have a Frederick Sleeper in our London Sleepers Tree who is a commercial traveler.  His death report in The Sunday People in 1893 states he has a widow, no children mentioned but that does not mean there were not any.  


Also of interest in 1882 his Britten Workhouse record states he is a Roman Catholic. Nazareth House Asylums were for those of RC faith at the time. 


To confirm we've got the same people, I need a marriage document between Ellen Kelly and Frederick Sleeper/Sleaper.  Roman Catholic...

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