Amelia Jay (buried 1918)

At a glance

At a glance
Surname: 
Jay
First name: 
Amelia
Other Christian names: 
Gender: 
Female
Children: 
No
Burial number: 
924
Born: 
0/0/1848
Died: 
03/11/1918
Buried: 
08/11/1918
Occupation: 
Dance Teacher
Distinction: 
Dance Teacher
Heene Hallmark: 
No
Commonwealth War Grave: 
No

The Grave

The grave
Cemetery area: 
EB
Cemetery row: 
2
Cemetery plot: 
24
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Burial remains: 
Unknown
The headstone
Headstone description: 
None Found - Listed in Heene Cemetery Index of Graves
Headstone inscription: 
None Found - Listed in Heene Cemetery Index of Graves

Life story

Life story

Amelia Jay 1848 -1918 Dance Teacher Amelia Jay was born in the summer of 1848 to Dance Master, Alexander Jay and his wife Catherine Hinton from Chichester. Alexander had been a specialist in Italian dance and was from the London borough of Becontree. Amelia was born in Homerton, Hackney and had two sisters, Isabella Caroline (1842) and Laura (1844).

In 1871, Amelia was an assistant in her mother's ladies dancing school along with her sister Laura. They lived in Leighton Grove, St. Pancras. By 1881, Amelia's mother was widowed and running a dance school in Ealing Essex with Amelia as a teacher. In 1891, Laura, Amelia's sister had rejoined the family in Leighton Grove and was also a dance teacher and their mother was living on independent means.

1901 sees Amelia and Laura living in Arlington Road, Ealing after their mother's death in 1898. The sisters retired to Hinton Cottage, Harrow Road, Worthing and in 1911 lived on private means with a servant. Laura died on 16 March 1915 and was buried in Heene Cemetery. Amelia died 3 years later.

Burial researcher: 
Pat Brownbill

Further information

Birth
Date born: 
00/00/1848

Death

Death (details)
Date of death: 
03/11/1918
Age (at time of death): 
70
Cause of death: 
Unknown
Address at time of death: 
Hinton Cottage, Harrow Road, Worthing, Sussex, England
Personal effects
Probate pounds: 
£2,090

Census and miscellaneous information

Census information
1871 census: 

Living at 18 Leighton Grove St. Pancras, London: Alexander Joy (57), Catherine Joy (54), Laura Joy (27), Amelia Joy (23)

1881 census: 

Living at 2 Noel Villas, Ealing London,  Catherine Joy (63), Amelia ( 32) and Louisa Ward (34) servant.

1891 census: 

Living at 2 Noel Villas, Ealing London,  Catherine Joy (75),  Laura Jay (47) , Amelia ( 42) and Sarah Rawling (26) servant.

1901 census: 

Living at 4 Arlington Road, Ealing, London: Laura Jay (57), Amelia Jay (52) and Bertha Turner, servant ( 33).

1911 census: 

Living at Hinton Cottage, Harrow Road, Worthing, Sussex: Laura Jay (67) , Amelia Jay (62) and servant Bertha Turner (43)

Miscellaneous information

Brighton Gazette 26th September 1872

Advert for Dancing Lessons

Dancing, To the Nobility and Gentry and Principals of High Class Schools. (Under distinguished Patronage.) The Misses Jay, daughters of the eminent Mons. Alexander Jay (late of the Italian Opera), have the honour to announce that their classes for dancing, presentation and calisthenic exercises for Ladies will resume as usual.