Alfred Willingale

1843 - 1934  (91 years)

• Name	Alfred Willingale
  Birth	1843	Loughton, Essex
  Christening	18 Jun 1843	St. John's Church, Loughton, Essex
  Gender	Male
  Census	1851	Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex
  Census	1861	Goldings Hill, Loughton, Essex
  Census	1871	Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex
  Occupation	1871
  	Bricklayer
  Census	1881	Prospect Cottages, Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex
  Census	1891	Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex
  Census	1901	Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex
  Occupation	1903
  	General labourer
  Census	1911	19 Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex
  Residence	10 Oct 1934	19 Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex
  Death	10 Oct 1934	Loughton, Essex
  Burial	15 Oct 1934	St. John's Church, Loughton, Essex
  		St Johns Church, Loughton
  Notes	In the Census of 1851 Alfred was recorded as living with his parents at Baldwins Hill Loughton. In the Census of 1861 he was recorded as living with his by now widowed mother at Goldings Hill Loughton and he recorded his occupation as an Agricultural Labourer. In 1871 at Goldings Hill, Loughton, Essex, Ref RG10/1638/18/page 28 HUGHES, Sarah Lodger F 66 1805 Essex WILLINGALE, Alfred Head M 27 1844 Essex WILLINGALE, Fanny Wife F 21 1850 Essex WILLINGALE, Jessie Daughter F 0 1871 Essex In 1881 at Prospect Cottages, Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex RG11/1735/9 p12 WILLINGALE, Alfred Head Married M 36 1845 General Laborer Loughton WILLINGALE, Fanny Wife Married F 33 1848 Loughton WILLINGALE, Jessie Daughter Single F 10 1871 Scholar Loughton WILLINGALE, Florence Daughter Single F 7 1874 Scholar Loughton WILLINGALE, Edith Daughter Single F 6 1875 Scholar Loughton WILLINGALE, Alfred Son Single M 1 1880 Loughton 1891 census - Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex Rg12/1362/83 p44 WILLINGALE, Alfred Head Married M 46 1845 General Labourer Loughton WILLINGALE, Fanny Wife Married F 42 1849 Loughton WILLINGALE, Alfred Son M 11 1880 Loughton WILLINGALE, Rebecca Daughter F 4 1887 Loughton In 1901 at Baldwins Hill Loughton Essex RG13/1639/6 p3 WILLINGALE, Alfred Head Married M 57 1844 General Labourer Loughton WILLINGALE, Fanny Wife Married F 53 1848 Loughton WILLINGALE, Edith Daughter Single F 25 1876 LaundressLoughton WILLINGALE, Rebecca Daughter Single F 14 1887 Loughton In 1911 - 19 Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex RG14/9775 WILLINGDALE, Alfred Head Widower M 67 1844 Labours Nursey Loughton Essex CURTIS, Jessie Daughter Widow F 40 1871 Charwomen Loughton Essex CURTIS, Florence Granddaughter F 12 1899 Plaistow CURTIS, George Grandson M 9 1902 Plaistow
  Person ID	I0205	Willingale One Name Study
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2014

  
  

  Father	John Willingale           b. 1800, Stanford Rivers, Essex           d. 1852, Loughton, Essex (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Susanna Males           b. 1805, Barnet, Hertfordshire           d. 1865, Loughton, Essex (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F0064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Fanny Hughes           b. 1848, Loughton, Essex           d. 10 Aug 1907, Loughton, Essex (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	2 Oct 1869	St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Jessie Willingale           b. 18 Aug 1870, Loughton, Essex           d. 1943, Essex S W (Age 72 years) + 2. Florence Willingale           b. 23 Sep 1873, Loughton, Essex           d. 1959, Epping, Essex (Age 85 years) + 3. Edith Willingale           b. 12 Jun 1875, Loughton, Essex           d. 6 Jan 1960, Loughton, Essex (Age 84 years)   4. Clement Willingale           b. 14 May 1877, Loughton, Essex           d. 1878, Loughton, Essex (Age 0 years)  [Natural] + 5. Alfred Willingale           b. 11 Dec 1879, Loughton, Essex           d. 1956, Essex S W (Age 76 years)   6. Edward Willingale           b. 19 Feb 1881, Epping, Essex           d. 20 Feb 1881, Loughton, Essex (Age 0 years)   7. Fanny Willingale           b. 19 Feb 1881, Epping, Essex           d. 21 Feb 1881, Loughton, Essex (Age 0 years)   8. Ellen Willingale           b. 23 May 1883, Loughton, Essex           d. 1883, Loughton, Essex  [Natural]   9. Henry Willingale           b. 23 May 1883, Loughton, Essex           d. 1883, Loughton, Essex  [Natural]   10. Rebecca Willingale           b. 27 Aug 1884, Loughton, Essex           d. 1885, Loughton, Essex (Age 0 years)  [Natural] + 11. Rebecca Willingale           b. 21 Jun 1886, Loughton, Essex           d. 1959, Croydon, Surrey (Age 72 years)
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2016
  Family ID	F0095	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Birth - 1843 - Loughton, Essex Christening - 18 Jun 1843 - St. John's Church, Loughton, Essex Census - 1851 - Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex Census - 1861 - Goldings Hill, Loughton, Essex Marriage - 2 Oct 1869 - St Leonards Church, Shoreditch, London Child - Jessie Willingale - 18 Aug 1870 - Loughton, Essex Census - 1871 - Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex Child - Florence Willingale - 23 Sep 1873 - Loughton, Essex Child - Edith Willingale - 12 Jun 1875 - Loughton, Essex Child - Clement Willingale - 14 May 1877 - Loughton, Essex Child - Alfred Willingale - 11 Dec 1879 - Loughton, Essex Census - 1881 - Prospect Cottages, Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex Child - Edward Willingale - 19 Feb 1881 - Epping, Essex Child - Fanny Willingale - 19 Feb 1881 - Epping, Essex Child - Ellen Willingale - 23 May 1883 - Loughton, Essex Child - Henry Willingale - 23 May 1883 - Loughton, Essex Child - Rebecca Willingale - 27 Aug 1884 - Loughton, Essex Child - Rebecca Willingale - 21 Jun 1886 - Loughton, Essex Census - 1891 - Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex Census - 1901 - Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex Census - 1911 - 19 Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex Residence - 10 Oct 1934 - 19 Baldwins Hill, Loughton, Essex Death - 10 Oct 1934 - Loughton, Essex Burial - 15 Oct 1934 - St. John's Church, Loughton, Essex  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos		Alfred Willingale - One of the 'Loppers'. There is some confusion over who is in this picture Repository: Essex Record Office Level: Category Illustrations Level: Fonds MINT PORTRAITS Level: Item Photograph of Tom Willingale, "The Last of The Loppers" Level: Item Reference Code I/Pb 23/28 Graham Richards confirmed on 02/09/2009 the following: Handwritten on the back, in pencil, is 'Tom Willingale The last of the Loppers'. Then in blue Biro someone else has written 'Jnr'. The only other mark is an 'Essex Record Office Stamp' , apparently an old version indicating that the photo has been in the ERO's possession for some years. The photo is in a large box type album along with other photo's in alphabetical order, each in a plastic wallet. The numbers in the 'Item Reference Code' are 'Alphabet Letter/Photo Number. So our photo is Letter number 23 (W)/28th photo of that letter. The Album I had was for letters S-Z. All these albums are of photo's collected by the Record Office over time and are of 'unknown sources'. So no provenance I'm afraid. I took with me prints of Alfred (2) and Thomas, with the names blanked out and discussed them with a couple of archivists and both tended to agree that two (Alfred) were of the same person, with the one shown with a branch over his shoulder being earlier than the other, one suggested maybe late 19th/early 20th century. One archivist then spotted that in the photo is a Barbed Wire fence (it's clearer on the ERO copy) so we Googled 'Barbed Wire - History of' and found that it was invented around 1870's in the USA. At this point another archivist joined in and he said that he actually visited the Barbed Wire Museum in the USA last year and remembers that Barbed Wire was invented around the Civil War but the history says that it was patented in 1873/4 which would make it too late to be around when Thomas was alive. Steven Willingale has a page from an unidentified book with this photo captioned Thomas Willingale Jnr. EFDC Museum uses this picture next to an article for Thomas Willingale Snr, but from the caption of the photo (Thomas Willingale Aged 77 in 1920) its obvious its Thomas Jnr. The WFS have had this photo dated, report as follows: The first paragraph relating to the Thomas photograph also applies here to some extent. This picture again looks to me much like a late 19th or early 20th century photograph, though it appears well-composed and of decent quality, so it may well be a professional portrait, taken outdoors, rather than an amateur ‘snapshot’. This is perhaps also suggested by the greyish, wide-framed mount, which in colour and style is typical of early-20th century card-mounted professional photographs. This elderly man is also clearly at home in the woodland setting, though I cannot tell whether he is carrying that large branch on his shoulder, or simply resting underneath it. His attire differs to that of ‘Thomas’ above, this outfit being more formal, if a little shabby and shapeless. Essentially he is wearing a dark lounge suit of uncertain date: basic ‘lounging’ jackets similar to this were first worn c.1860 and lounge jackets still form part of the standard male suit today. He also sports a black neck cloth or cravat, an accessory which was fashionable daywear around the mid-19th century, though a dark or coloured knotted scarf or cravat continued to be worn casually by many manual workers until the early 20th century. His hat is less easy to identify and date precisely than the cloth cap in the previous photograph, but various types of hard felt hat similar to this, lower in the crown than a top hat, were developing by the 1860s. The evidence of the man’s dress, then, offers an unhelpfully broad date – conceivably anywhere from the 1860s to the early-20th century. It is best described as a ‘timeless’ and rather eccentric style, not seen in formal studio photographs and not really suitable for fashionable wear about town, but no doubt completely acceptable for country wear, especially amongst poorer folk and/or an older generation. Nothing seen here absolutely rules out the possibility that this man could be Thomas Willingale himself. However, as mentioned above, this does not have the ‘look’ of a 1860s photograph, and may be considerably later, again perhaps early 1900s, in which case the man could well be, as you suggest, one of Thomas’s sons or nephews. Because the date here is a little less conclusive, I wonder whether there are any other visual clues in the picture? For example perhaps some kind of fencing specialist could have a stab at roughly identifying/dating the wire fence with its wooden posts? The WFS note that the fence is made of barbed wire, this was invented in the USA around 1867, although further patents were made in 1874 it was 1876 before mass production took off. Therefore this is very unlikely to be Thomas Snr Ken Hoy, FOEF has not seen this photo before in his research. Yet the image we have is called Alfred Willingale - unfortunately how the we came to have this photo is not recorded
  		Alfred Willingale One of the Loppers

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Peelers Progress Mention of the Willingale case
  		Alfred Willingale obituary
  		Reviews of English Geographies 1600-1950 Historical Essays on English Customs, Cultures and Communities Mention of the Lopping Saga
  		The Willingales of Loughton - To Whom Do We Owe Epping Forest? Scan of article in the Essex Naturalist, from circa 1925
  		Loughton And District Historical Society Newsletter 190 Page 13, The Poors Piece Potato Ground
  		Another History of the right to Lop in Loughton

  
  

  Histories

  The Lopping Saga PDF with notes and photos on the Lopping saga, prepared for the 2008 WFS meeting at Loughton

  
  

  Folios

  The Willingales of Loughton, To Whom Do We Owe Epping Forest

  
  

  Books » Slide Show		Enclosure of Epping Forest From advert after page 76, 1865 edition
  		Thomas Willingale, Lopping Rights and the saving of Epping Forest In this research, I not only give a background of the forest’s history and details of the early forest court rolls, outline Thomas’s involvement up to his death, but go on to detail later events, including the Epping Forest Commissioners, the Epping Forest Acts of 1878 & 1880, the Corporation of London's eventual conservation of the forest, the Arbitrator’s findings and the construction of Lopping Hall, which was built to compensate the inhabitants of Loughton for the loss of their lopping rights. I also detail some of the later reporting of these events and the folklore surrounding Thomas, right up to the present day.
  		A View of Epping Forest By Nicholas Hagger Transcript of mentions of the Willingale family

  
  

  Press Cuttings » Slide Show		Alfred Willingale Obituary This appears to have a few factual errors in it, Samuel didn't die shortly after being released from prison, we have living until abt 1911! It would seem William Higgins died around 1870 so this could be where the confusion lies?
  		Protecting rural tradition immortalised family tree Article from Epping Forest Guardian on the Thomas/Lopping saga, first time we have seen these comments re Samuel
  		Parliamentary petition re Alfred Willingale, Samuel Willingale and William Higgins
  		Alfred Willingale - Death - Loughton Advertiser
  		Alfred Willingale - West Essex Gazette - Death
  		The Encroachments on Epping Forest
  		The Loughton Lopping Rights in the Forest
  		Lopping Rights Memorial
  		Loppers of Loughton Memorial unveiled
  		Willingale Memorial

  
  

• Sources

  [S22300] IGI.