Following the families move to London, George was employed as a 'carman' driving the horse-drawn carts, or Vans, that the railway companies used to distribute the many and varied goods that poured into the large Somers Town railway yards beside St Pancras Station.
The photograph on the right is of George & Ellen in later life with their son, George Stephen (my Great-Grandfather) and daughter Lucy Caroline ( also shown below). George Stephen junior was at one time an engraver in a small Engineering company in Camden Town.
The young George Stephen married Hannah Maria Pugh around 1910 and they went on to have five children. The first child was my Grandfather George Stephen Lewis Favell, born on 1st April 1911. His brothers and sister were Leonard, May, Sidney and Reginald.
The young family lived with George's parents George and Ellen, and Sister Lucy Caroline in a small cottage in Bayham Place, tucked into a small yard behind a piano factory. At one point they were joined by George senior's brother Albert, while one of his Sisters, Lucy Jane, lived around the corner in Bayham Street.
George died of TB in the early 1920's when my Grandfather was only eleven years old. Hannah was left to bring up the children, assisted by Lucy Caroline who became known to all as Aunt Sis.
In the picture below, my Grandfather Stephen Lewis is the young boy in the sailor suit. He is pushing the small cart containing his Grandfather and assisted by his Father. So here we have 3 Georges, born in 1859, 1886 and 1911.
Copyright Steve Favell - April 2006