| Name |
Albert CARD |
| Birth |
3 Aug 1851 |
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK  |
- England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
ALBERT CARD
Birth year 1851 Birth quarter 3 District Tonbridge County Kent Country England
Volume 5 Page 576
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| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
1861 |
1 Moores Yard, Addiscombe Rd, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK |
- 1861 census 1, Moores Yard, Addiscombe Road, Croydon Surrey
RG number: RG09 Piece: 449 Folio: 128 Page: 3
George CARD, Head Married M 48 1813 Plumber Labourer Tunbridge Wells Kent
Elizabeth CARD, Wife Married F 45 1816 Newbury Berkshire
Fredrick CARD, Son M 12 1849 Tunbridge Wells Kent
Albert CARD, Son M 9 1852 Scholar Tunbridge Wells Kent
Alfred CARD, Son M 7 1854 Scholar Tunbridge Wells Kent
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| Census |
1871 |
Parson's Mead, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK |
- 1871 census for Parson's Mead, Croydon Surrey
RG number: RG10 Piece: 842 Folio: 26 Page: 45
George CARD, Head M 54 1817 Kent
Elizabeth CARD, Wife F 50 1821 Berkshire
Albert CARD, Son M 19 1852 Kent
Alfred CARD, Son M 17 1854 Kent
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| Occupation |
1871 |
| Paper hanger and painter |
| Residence |
Sep 1889 |
Alma Terrace, St Leonard's, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Residence |
1895 |
Wallsend, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Occupation |
1882-1903 |
| Conveyancer |
| Census |
1911 |
99 Selhurst Rd, South Norwood, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK |
- 1911 census for 99 Selhurst Road South Norwood Croydon Surrey
RG number: RG14 Piece: 3382 Reference: RG14PN3382 RG78PN127 RD39 SD4 ED15 SN6
Annie Montague POWELL, Head Widow F 46 1865 Clairvoyants And Chierosophist Croydon Surrey
Albert CARD, Uncle# Married 29 years* M 59 1852 Phrenologist And Chierosophist Tunbridge Wells Kent
Rhoda CARD, Mother Widow F 76 1835 Old Age Pensioner Chalfront Bucks
Edith Emily CARD, Cousin Single F 26 1885 Chierosophist And Phrenologist Croydon Surrey
#Yet to establish relationship. Strange that a Madam Montague is named as the person with whom Albert is found to be in an adulterous relationship with. The 1891 census (below) of Annie's family with her father being a Charles Card, also being born in Tunbridge Wells. Staying with them presumably Annie's future husband James Powell.
1891 census for 84, Southbridge Road, Croydon Surrey
RG number: RG12 Piece: 587 Folio: 60 Page: 7
Charles CARD, Head Married M 47 1844 Decorater Tunbridge Wells Kent
Roda CARD, Wife Married F 52 1839 Chalfont Buckinghamshire
Annie Montague CARD, Daughter Single F 25 1866 Exhibitors Assistant Croydon Surrey
Edith Emily CARD, Daughter Single F 7 1884 Scholar Croydon Surrey
James POWELL, James Visitor Single M 25 1866 Iron Mongers Assistant Peplow Shropshire
*Married in Australia in 1882 to Emily Florence Coker and divorced in 1912
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| Occupation |
1911 |
| Phrenologist |
| Census |
1921 |
Fairlie, Preston, Paignton, Devon, England, UK |
- Fairlie, Preston, Paignton, Devon, England
First name(s) Last name Relationship to head Sex Birth year Age in years Birth place Occupation Employer
Albert Card Head Male 1850 70 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England Chierosophist & Phrenologist Own Account
Gerald Turner Visitor Male 1887 34 Leeds, Yorkshire, England Grocer Retired Own Account
Dorothy Mary Turner Visitor Female 1893 28 Bradninch, Devon, England Domestic Duties -
Note: There is an entry that indicates he conducted his "business" from the Paignton Pier.
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| Occupation |
1921 |
| Phrenologist |
| Census |
1939 |
32 Shelley Crescent, Mount Pleasant, Southall, Middlesex, England, UK |
- 32 Shelley Crescent, Ealing, Southall, Middlesex, England
First name(s) Last name(s) Birth date Sex Occupation Marital status Schedule Schedule sub number
Annie E King 26 Dec 1875 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Widowed 140 1
Ralph M King 05 Apr 1901 Male Ships Steward Cocktail Bar Keeper Single 140 2
Albert Card 03 Aug 1851 Male Old Age Pensioner Physically infirm Married (living apart) 140 3
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| Death |
12 Nov 1940 |
32 Shelley Crescent, Mount Pleasant, Southall, Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK |
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name Albert Card Death Age 90 Birth Date abt 1850 Registration Date Oct. 1940 [Nov. 1940] [Dec. 1940] Registration Quarter Oct-Nov-Dec Registration district Uxbridge Inferred County Middlesex Volume 3a Page 303
6 Nov 1940, 32 Shelley Crescent, Norwood, Southall, Albert Card, male, 90 years, retired Australian barrister. Cause of death: Arterio sclerosis, senility. Informant A.E.King, present at the death.
The letter that follows was found in his son Harold's war record. It was written by Albert's ex-wife Florence.
3 York St, North Perth, March 20th 1922
Major McLean
Dear Sir,
Some time ago you wrote asking me if my husband was alive. He committed suicide* in England some twelve months ago.
When my son left for the front he willed everything to me as my husband left Australia sixteen years ago and left both of us totally unprovided for.
Your respectfully F.Card
My son's name George Harold Blanchard Card No 2299 43rd Batt. Left 31st Oct 1916 Killed in action Aug 22nd 1918
P.S. You wrote regarding war medals
*Note: This was not the case as later information reveals. Albert Card lived to 89 and died in 1940. Perhaps his ex-wife was told of the attempted suicide in 1919 and was convinced he was dead. It may even have been that Albert had someone else write to her and tell her that he was dead.
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| Notes |
- This appears to be him in a report that appeared in the Western Times South West, England 13/05/1919
At Paignton Police Court on Friday, Albert Card, palmist on the Pier, was committed for trial to the Assizes, bail being refused, on a charge of attempted suicide.
Albert Card, a Paignton palmist, was committed for trial for attempted suicide* on May 7th. The man had been ill, and told Beach Inspector Braund that if he was not about on Thursday morning to tell Mrs. Card. On Thursday morning he was not about and three constables going to his office on the pier found him lying there unconscious. He had taken poison. In his diary was note. "Finish to-night"
On the 1921 census, Albert gives his age as 70 years and 10 months and describes himself as "married but no wife". This entry is scratched out and "widowed" is written above. He gives his occupaton as Chierosophist and Phrenologist, meaning that he subscribed to fortune telling and to be able to tell someone's personality traits by their skull shape.
*His wife back in Australia believed he had died by his own hand in 1921however, Albert Card continued to advertise his "business" in newspapers and appears to have died in 1940 in Southall. There is an advertisement for his services in The West Middlesex Gazette 16 Feb 1929 at 32 Shelley Crescent, Mount Pleasant, Southall. He is found there on the 1939 Register, aged 90. He states he is married but living apart. He is described as an old age pensioner, physically infirm. He gives his birth year as 1850 but the record that fits him shows he was born in fourth quarter 1851, which makes him 89 in 1939.
Western Times 12 June 1919, p. 2.
Albert Card, 67, a palmist, was indicted for attempted suicide at Paignton on May 7th. He pleaded guilty, and Mr Percival Clarke, who prosecuted, said Card was a married man, and practised palmistry in a room on Paignton Pier.
He had suffered from pneumonia, and in the afternoon of 7th May he was noticed by a Council inspector to be in a dejected condition.
He said to the Inspector, "I am bad, and if I am not about at 10.30 to-morrow morning will you go and tell my wife."
That afternoon he locked himself in his room, and took quite an ounce of chloral hydrate.
It was wonderful that he lived.
While the poison was working he wrote a pathetic letter to his wife.
He had since told the doctor that he would not make such an attempt again.
There was no doubt that the man had been very ill before the attempt, and there had been differences between him and his wife.
Mr J.E.Y.Radcliffe, for the accused, said it was quite true that the man had suffered serious illness, and he had not been living with his wife lately owing to differences.
He asked his Lordship to act upon an understanding which a Salvation Army captain had given to look after the man.
The officer was not now in Court, but had said he would attend.
His Lordship said one knew how loyal the Salvation Army officials were to their promises, and what strong efforts they made to do what they said they would do.
He would accept Captain Watkin's undertaking to befriend the man.
Accused promised his Lordship not do such a foolish thing again, and he was bound over in five pounds to come up for judgment if required in six months' time.
- CARD-WATSON. On December 27th, 1918, at the Registrar's Office, Croydon, Albert Card, of the Pier, Paignton, to Ellen Jane Watson, of 43, Torbay-road, Paignton, the hon. secretary of the local Ladies' Swimming Club.
The Western Times Tue, 17 June 1919 ?Page 1
Albert was 67 when he remarried; Ellen Jane Watson was 37. Note that by 1921 census, Ellen Jane Card is not living with Albert but rather with an Elizabeth Watson, aged 80, who presumably has some family connection. She is also working as an assistant for A.H. Watson, outfitter in Torquay. Again, presumably a family connection.
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| Person ID |
I2977 |
Warren Nunn's family tree |
| Last Modified |
25 Apr 2025 |
| Family |
Emily Florence COKER, b. 16 Jan 1862, Limehouse, London, England, UK d. 22 Aug 1946, North Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia (Age 84 years) |
| Marriage |
6 May 1882 |
North Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia |
- 1882 marriages solemnized in the district of Westwood in the colony of Queensland.
No 4, 6 Apr 1882, North Rockhampton, Westwood district between Albert Card, bachelor, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, law clerk, aged 30, of North Rockhampton, son of George Card (fly master proprietor*) and Elizabeth Blanchard and Emily Florence Coker, spinster, born Stepney, Middlesex, England, domestic servant, 20 years, dau of James Thomas Coker (accountant) and Emily Leigh#. Married in the bride's father house North Rockhampton according to the rites of the Baptist Church. Witnesses: Emily Coker, Ada Coker.
Margin note: This marriage was dissolved by the decree of the Supreme Court of Western Australia Matrimonial Cause jurisdiction on the 8th October 1912. Petitioner: Emily Florence Card. Respondent: Albert Card.
*A fly is one horse, two-wheeled light carriage. A Fly Proprietor/Master employed fly drivers for hire and usually owned the flys.) However, on the 1861 census, George Card's occupation is given as plumber's labourer and on 1871 census he is a stable man.
#Lee is correct spelling.
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| Children |
| | 1. Harold George Blanchard CARD, b. 27 Mar 1892, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia d. 22 Aug 1918, Villers-Bretonneux, France (Age 26 years) |
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| Family ID |
F826 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
12 Jan 2026 |
1851 - 1940 (89 years)
