Tottman Family History
Catherine Ellen (aka Alice) Savery
(b. 3 September 1877)
Catherine Ellen Savery was born in Camberwell on 3 September 1877.
 Catherine's Birth Certificate |
Though it was by the name Alice that she was more commonly known.
Whether this has any connection with her mother's middle name is unclear. On some documents Alice
uses Catherine as her middle name along with variations of Ellen, but always with Alice as her forename.
Age 13 on the 1891 Census.
 Alice and Family on the 1891 Census |
On Christmas Day 1898 she married Joseph Thring Windaybank in Fulham.
 Alice and Joseph's Marriage Certificate |
Joseph had a half brother Joseph William (known as William) whose mother died just a few months after giving birth.
 William's Birth Certificate |
 Joseph's Parents' Marriage Certificate |
Photos below by kind permission of Trudy Messingham.
 Joseph's half brother William and wife Annie Bosher |
 William and Annie's son Joseph and wife Lilian Grace c. 1953 |
The following year they had a daughter, Violet Helena J. Windaybank, and were listed on the 1901 Census at 150 Blythe Road in Hammersmith.
 Alice and Family on the 1901 Census |
They subsequently had Arthur Joseph T. (in 1900), Lilian Susan (1902), and Frederick Charles in 1903. However, Joseph, an electrical wireman, then became ill and passed away at just 27 years of age in March 1904.
 Joseph's Death Certificate |
Alice subsequently met Isaac Tottman and they had their first child, Reuben, in 1906.
 On son Reuben's Birth Certificate |
They later decided to get married, tieing the knot on 25th July 1909 in Kensington.
 Isaac and Alice's Marriage Certificate |
 Alice and Isaac (c. 1925) |
Below, Isaac and Alice are pictured with their daughter Alice May and members of the Windaybank family in the early 1930s.
 Isaac, Alice and family |
And in 1934 were listed among the mourners at Florrie's funeral.
 Listed among the aunts and uncles on Florrie's Obituary |
Around that same time, from left to right, Elsie Childs (later to be Elsie Windaybank, best school friend and future sister-in-law of Alice May), Ernest Tippell, Alice May and her mother, Alice.
 Elsie, Ernest, May and Alice |
Alice and Isaac.
 Isaac enjoys a pint with Alice |
 Isaac, Alice and May at the Seaside |
Still in the swing of things...
 Gran, 1949 |
...with granddaughter, Diane, in Moffat Park, Scotland in 1949.
Alice passed away on 21 February 1963.
 Alice's Death Certificate |
Just for good measure, given two entries, one being the name she went by, Alice Catherine, the other, her birth name, Catherine Ellen.