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WICKS, Ethel Gazelle Lamarchent
1877 - 1949 (71 years) Has 9 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1850 - 1932 (81 years)-
Name WICKS, Ethel Gazelle Lamarchent Birth 20 Dec 1877 Truro, Cornwall, England 
Gender Female Death 6 May 1949 Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada Person ID I3165 Edgoose Last Modified 6 Feb 2026
Father WICKS, Charles William, b. 26 Apr 1850, Truro, Cornwall, England d. 6 Mar 1932, Truro Registration District, Cornwall (Age 81 years) Mother MINORS, Louisa Woodworth, b. 18 Aug 1851, Truro, Cornwall, England d. 28 Dec 1936, Truro Registration District, Cornwall (Age 85 years) Marriage 31 Aug 1874 Truro St. Paul, Cornwall Family ID F714 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MCALLISTER d. Yes, date unknown Marriage UNKNOWN Canada Family ID F1568 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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ETHEL GAZELLE LAMARCHENT WICKS 1877-1949
The birth of Ethel Gazelle L. WICKS was registered in 1878.
(GRO March 1878 Truro 5c 159)
According to her grandson Kenneth Haward Walker she was born at Truro, Cornwall, on 20 December 1877 and died at Ridgetown, Ontario, Canada, on 6 May 1949.
The 1881 census return for Pydar Street, Truro St. Mary Cornwall:
Charles WICKS, head, aged 30, bookbinder, born at Truro, Cornwall;
Louisa WICKS, wife, aged 30, bookbinder's wife, born at Truro;
Arthur WICKS, son, aged 6, scholar, born at Truro;
Claude WICKS, son, aged 5, scholar, born at Truro;
*Ethel WICKS, daughter, aged 4, scholar, born at Truro;
Bertie WICKS, son, aged 3, scholar, born at Truro;
Sydney WICKS, son, aged 1, born at Truro, Cornwall.
(RG11/2311/65/16)
The 1891 census of 70 Pydar Street, Truro, Cornwall:
Charles WICKS, head, aged 39, bookbinder, born at Truro;
Louisa WICKS, wife, aged 39, born at Truro;
Arthur WICKS, son, aged 15, printer compositor, born at Truro;
Claude WICKS, son, aged 14, tailor's apprentice, born at Truro;
*Ethel WICKS, daughter, aged 13, scholar, born ay Truro;
Bertie WICKS, son, aged 12, scholar, born at Truro;
Gwendoline WICKS, daughter, aged 9, scholar, born at Truro;
Cora WICKS, daughter, aged 7, scholar, born at Truro;
Christable (sic) WICKS, daughter, aged 2, born at Truro;
Sidney WICKS, son, aged 10 months, born at Truro.
(RG12/1829/159/5)
She married Thomas Henry ROSCORDA (sic) at St.Mary's, Truro, Cornwall, on 24 October 1895.
(GRO December Q 1895 Truro 5c 255)
(www.cornwalleng.com)
From the 1901 census of 6 Vine Street, St. John, Lambeth, London:
*Thomas H. ROSCORLA, head, aged 30, hairdresser's assistant, born at Helston, Cornwall;
Ethel ROSCORLA, wife, aged 24, born in Truro, Corwall;
Charles ROSCORLA, son, aged 1, born in Lambeth, London.
(RG13/404/44/29)
Their daughter Irene was staying with her grandparents.
The 1911 census of 13 Richmond Hill, Truro, Cornwall:
Bertram WICKS, head, aged 32, single, traveller in hardware, worker, born in Truro;
Charles Wicks, father, aged 59, married 35 years, bookbinder, worker, born in Truro;
Louisa WICKS, mother, aged 59, married, 10 children of whom 8 living; born in Truro;
Chrissie WICKS, sister, aged 22, single, born in Truro;
*Ethel ROSCORLA, sister, aged 33, married 16 years, 4 children of whom 3 living, born in Truro;
Melville CRISPIN, nephew, aged 4, born in Truro.
(RG14/13855)
In 1911 census her eleven year old son Charles appears to have been in the Dr. Barnado's Home Norwood Branch at 145 Portland Road, South Norwood. Neither his date of birth nor his place of birth was known.
(RG14/3375)
Kenneth Haward WALKER wrote in April 2007 that his mother Audrey Louise WALKER née ROSCORLA always believed that her father died in Helston in 1908.
He said that his "widow" Ethel Gazelle Lamarchant ROSCORLA née WICKS emigrated to Canada in 1911 to be a "lady's companion". She lived in the area near Ridgetown, Ontario, and later brought Audrey and Irene to Canada to be with her. Apparently Charles died as he was preparing to join them. She remarried and had a second family.
(reklaw7@hotmail.com)
Ethel ROSCORLA left Liverpool on the s.s Lake Chaplain on 28 April 1911 bound for Montreal via Quebec. Ethel reported that she was aged 32, married, heading for Palmira, Ontario, as a domestic servant.
NOTES & QUERIES:
According to an e-mail from Kenneth WALKER dated 7 October 2012, Ethel WICKS was born on 25 October 1877.
(revised 03.09.2012)