Family of Charles James Teevan and Mary Louisa Ball

Husband: Charles James Teevan

Wife: Mary Louisa Ball

Child 1: Alice Geraldine Mary Teevan

Child 2: Ada Constance W Teevan

Child 3: Winifred Teevan

Child 4: Mary Violet F G Teevan

Child 5: Willamenia Teevan

Child 6: Roma Teevan

Note on Marriage

There is a Court of Appeal case in England, Teevan v Smith, on 20th of May 1882 involving this family. This revolved around the will of W. S. Watton. On the 9th of May 1879, Charles James Teevan had assigned his reversionary interest under the will to Morton Smith and C. Alison as a mortgage for £6000. Shortly thereafter, he gave a second mortgage to the trustees of the will for £7200. After the interest on the first mortgage fell into arrears, the defendants advertised the reversion for sale. Charles then tried to pay back what was owed and asked for the reversion to be transferred to Mr. Harrison, but the defendants refused. He brought out an injunction to stop the sale.

In 1881 the family lived at 89 Kings Road, Brighton, Sussex. Charles was a "BA Ship Owner, Nav Service On Shore". Strangely, not all of the children were at home - Alice and Ada were not there. The family had two nurses living in their service, and had the follwing visitors:

Annie McAuliffe - 42 - brewers widow - born in Co Cork

Ducant - 60 - gentleman - born in Pyrenees BRR, France

P. Ducant - 23 - gentleman - born in Paris, France

Sali Cohen - 30 - gentleman - born in Paris, France

This gives an indication of the type of life they led. However all was not well - Charles was subject of an adjudication at Brighton Court on 13th September 1884. He was still described as a gentleman, and his address at the time was Shermanbury, Sussex. An order under s108 was made.

Charles was thus adjudicated a bankrupt. Articles consequently appeared in the London Gazette in the next few years. In 1887 his bankruptcy officially closed, after all of his property was divided up among his creditors.

By 1891 the family stayed at 66 Hereford Road, Paddington, London. Charles was "living on own means" and with the yougnest child being 10 years old, they had no need for nurses any more. Instead they had just one general domestic servant. They also had another visitor - a dressmaker named Annie Ward, age 37. Charles' father in law, William J Ball, was also staying with them.

In 1901 Charles and Mary were living with only one daughter, Violet. By this time they had moved to St Helier, Jersey, where Charles was still "living on own means".