Biography of Nelson James CONSTANT (1879-1949)
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Biography of Nelson James CONSTANT (1879-1949)
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Nelson James Constant was was born on 12 February 1879 in the Royal Artillery Barracks at Tower of London in the City of London, the first child of Nelson and Madeline Constant. He was baptised in the Tower of London on 4 May the same year. The census of 1881 shows the family living at Ferry House in Ferry Lane, Walton in Suffolk.
By the time the census was taken in census of 1891, they were living at 14 Overy Street in Dartford, Kent. An entry for Nelson in the 1901 census hs not been found. Reference has been found to a conviction for rape that Nelson received at Kent assizes on 28 November 1902 and was sentenced to 6 months hard labour in prison.
On 6 March 1906, Nelson married Dora Madeline Smith, daughter of the late John and Jessie Smith formerly of Bexleyheath. They had both been living in Baldwins Road on the Maypole Estate in Dartford, Nelson at number 31 and Dora at number 6. His occupation at that time was a domestic coachman. Son Nelson James was born in 1907 and daughter Violet Madeline in 1909. On 21 October that same year, Nelson was sentenced to one month hard labour upon conviction of stealing 3s 2d from Frank Gibbons of Crayford on 14 September.
Son George Henry was born in 1911, one month before the census was taken that year. At that time the family were living at 5 Swan Row in Dartford, Kent. Nelson was employed as a night watchman for a road contactor. The census also informs that Nelson had been a cripple for seven years and it is believed that he had lost a leg therefore would have been in that condition when he married.
Daughter Edith Ann was born in 1913, Elsie May in 1916 and Hilda Jane in 1918. The 1921 census records the family and shows Nelson as a general labourer but out of work. His son Nelson is also shown as out of work.
The electoral register for 1937 shows Nelson and his family living at 12 Valley Road in Dartford. The 1939 register records Nelson living in Broadway Hostel at 4 Broadway in Bexley, Kent at which time his employment was a general labourer foreman.
Nelson had been living at 7 Maxim Road in Crayford, Kent prior to his death from respiratory failure in Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent on Christmas Day in 1949. He was buried in Southwark in the City of London on 2 January 1950.