Helena Downes

Married - James Edward Boon at St Patrick's, Woolwich, London on 8 April 1901

Children - James Martin b. 1902 June qtr
Helena Amelia b. 30 December 1905
Alfred John b. 26 May 1910
William Charles b. 1912

Addresses - 1881 North Camp, Farnborough, Hampshire
1891 Lynchford Road, Farnborough, Hampshire
31 March 1901 10 Downs Street, Plumstead
8 April 1901 - 1938 65 Elm Street, Plumstead

From the notes of Alfred John Boon: My mother was of Irish extraction. She was born in 1876. Her father, Martin Downes, was a Corporal in the Army Medical Corps. He was born about 1840 and died prior to 1901. My Grandmother, I think, was Bridget. Bridget lived with her daughter Ann in Crescent Road, Plumstead. She would visit each of her locally based children, who would each give her a shilling a week. Her pension must have been small (did she have an Army pension?) She died about 1920. I was there when she died, and I can remember the death smell. I smelled it many times after.