Isabella Place in Waltham – formerly part of Ensors Road. Named after Isabella Maria Ensor, née Le Fleming, (1830?-1900) Isabella Ensor was the wife of Edmund Henry Ensor (1840-1884). Their daughter, also named Isabella, died aged 7 months in 1865. Named in 1975.
A small amount of information from the library website. Papers Past had an article in 1975 where it is mentioned that the street was going to be Isabel Place but the council realised that they had the wrong name for Mrs Ensor. This street was created by the Ensors Rd deviation. I checked old maps and Ensors Rd used to end at Ferry Rd opposite the Edmonds Factory. Ensors Rd now aligns with Aldwins Rd. Papers Past mostly had ads and a few death notices. Isabella Place at the Ferry Rd end is blocked off and there is a couple of businesses this end. There is also some very modern houses this end. The houses are only on one side of the street as there is a reserve on the other side of the street. There is a house dating from 1880 but it is in poor condition. There was a lovely house from 1910. In the reserve there is a Llew Summers sculpture called Joy of Eternal Spring.
I got rather sidetracked researching Isabella Ensor on ancestry website. Papers Past didn’t help by having a Lady Isabella Le Fleming. The various family trees on Ancestry also didn’t help as there were so many mistakes. Isabella who married Edmund Henry Ensor was born Isabella Maria Fleming and her father was Richard Fleming. Lady Isabella Le Fleming was possibly Isabella Ensor’s sister-in-law. Very complicated family history. Isabella Ensor’s father possibly became a baronet or the various people researching the family have mixed up ancestors with similar names.
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