Mitcham village doctor. In 1826 he modernised the White House which remained in his family until 1919.
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Emma Jane Bartley wrote reminiscences of old Mitcham: "", E. J. Bartley (1909).
Our colleague, Andrew Behan, states that Alfred Collett Bartley was born on 11 October 1786 in Red Cross Street, Bristol, the fourth of the nine children of William Bartley (1751-1807) and Mary Bartley née Windle (1755-1841). According to the Quakers Birth Register in Bristol his father was a distiller.
His eight siblings were: Onesiphorus Windle Bartley (1778-1818); Nehemiah Bartley (1782-1803); Ann Collett Bartley (1784-1786); Matilda Mary Bartley (1788-1803); Edwin Young Bartley (1790-1837); Emma Jane Bartley (1792-1814); Henry Simmons Bartley (1794-1803) and Issac William Bartley (1796-1796). (Onesiphorus is a name we'd not seen before. It is, as one might expect, from the bible.)
The Surrey Land Tax Records show that in 1826 he was occupying a house in Mitcham, Surrey (now Greater London) and that he was assessed to pay 18s-8d.
On 18 October 1831 he married Charlotte O'Hara Booth (1792-1872) in St Mary's Church, Old Basing, Hampshire, where in the marriage register he is shown as a bachelor, living in Mitcham, Surrey, whilst his wife was described as a spinster residing in Old Basing, Hampshire. They had two children: Charlotte Eliza Mawby Bartley (1836-1869) and Emma Jane Bartley (1837-1919).
Electoral registers from 1834 show him listed as a voter occupying a copyhold house in Lower Mitcham, Surrey. In Pigot's & Co's 1839 Directory of Surrey he was listed as one of two surgeons residing in Upper Mitcham.
In the census that was taken on 6 June 1841 he was shown as Alfred C. Bartley, a surgeon, residing in Lower Mitcham Green, Surrey, with his wife and their two daughters, together with one male and two female servants.
He died, aged 58 years, on 7 May 1845, and his death was registered in the Croydon Sub-Registration District, Surrey (now Greater London). His body was buried on 15 May 1845 in Mitcham.
He is shown as 'DR.A.C.BARTLEY' on the memorial plaque on The White House, 7 Cricket Green, Mitcham, CR4 4LB.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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