Chislett family

Rob Forsyth

There are numeous references to the Chislett family on this website. These can best be found by entering the name in the search box at the head of the page; however the following links may help find the more important ones. 

Census data - James first appears living in The Market Place in 1861. He is recorded as an Apprentice- presumably to Alban Samman - and the Chislett's then appear in every census up to and including 1911.

The Shop  is an Estate Agents today

More images of the old shop can be seen HERE 

Courtesy of the DoL Gallery. Click on all images to enlarge 

James married Alban's daughter, Emily. They moved into Laurel House  on the SW corner of the Bull Ring which was the house in which Alban had lived. They were tenants of the new owner, George Coggins. 

James became Alban's partner and their second eldest son was called Henry Samman (b.1876). 

They had a large family. The 1891 census lists the following children (birth year derived from census in brackets): Kate (1874), Henry  (1876), Agnes (1880), Margaret (1882), William (1883), Alban (1884), Norman (1886), John (1888), Joseph Arthur (1890).

Their eldest son James (1873) was 18 at the time of the census so not included. He had joined the army and was in the Rifle Brigade (Service No.2399). He was in India when he died there in 1904. The image (l) is a note of his effects. He is recorded on Alban and Emily's grave stone along with his two infant children.

Norman and Arthur both served in WWI and both were killed at different times during the Battle of Passchendaele. Their names and brief details are included in A Parish at War (p.24) and they are included in the BBC Oxford Radio and TV programmes broadcast in 2017 from Deddington on the 100^th anniversary of the battle.

More about the history of Laurel House,  its occupants - including an intriguing discovery when renovations were being carried out - and the shop can be found HERE 

James died young in 1897 aged 54. Kelly's 1911 Directory records Emily his wife as living in the Laurels (c.f. p.2 Residents) where she died in 1914. Their grave No.276 is on the east side of the church - c.f. graveyard plan E to locate it near the shed.

The Banbury Guardian carried a notice of the transfer of ownership of William's shop on the High Street in 1916