_James HUMPHRIES ____________+ | (1828 - 1891) m 1851 _Alfred James HUMPHRIES _| | (1852 - 1901) m 1870 | | |_Sarah SPREDBURY ____________+ | (1834 - ....) m 1851 | |--Archibald HUMPHRIES | (1880 - 1954) | _Thomas KALEY _______________+ | | (1815 - ....) m 1852 |_Hannah Mary KALEY ______| (1852 - 1907) m 1870 | |_Sarah Elizabeth SUMMERHAYS _+ (1836 - 1875) m 1852
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Note 1: Anecdote from Marc Humphries (email 2012): "A few years before my mother (Greta Cabassi) and father (Derek Humphries) met, my mother used to walk home from school each day through Embankment Gardens and chat with a blind man (Archibald "Jock" Humphries), who would be sitting on a bench whilst out for his afternoon walk, this of course turned out to be Jock, and I always loved this story".
Note 2: At the 1891 Census, Archibald Humphries was living with his uncle and aunt, Stephen and Sarah (nee Kaley) Symons, at 6 Lawes Cottages, Creeks Mouth, Barking, Essex, and recorded as their son. With Stephen and Sarah apparently otherwise childless and Archibald with 8 siblings at home in Fulham , this seems to be a hard-headed family solution to economic reality and also perhaps to the heartbreak of childlessness.
[2170] death:GRO ref. Westminster Sept. Qtr. 5C 280
[5271] marr:GRO ref. Kensington June Qtr. 1a 259