Ogle, Miss Camilla, 7 Marine Parade, Budleigh Salterton
Catherine Camilla Ogle[1] (1846 – 1941) was the daughter of Nathaniel Ogle, gentleman, and his wife Helen, formerly Helen Acton. She was christened in the parish church of Twickenham on 21 Mar 1846. By the time of the 1851 census the family, including Camilla’s sister Helen and her brothers Harman and Walter, had moved to St Saviour’s, Jersey. Nathaniel was described as an annuitant. Nathaniel died in 1858. Camilla remained in Jersey with her mother until her mother died in 1879.
After their mother’s death in July 1879 Camilla and Helen made their home with their brother Harman who was by that time Head of Magdalen College School, Oxford and lived in one of the school’s boarding houses at 58 High Street, Oxford. Harman died in 1887 and Camilla and Helen moved out to Temple Cowley on the edge of Oxford. From 1891 their household also included their younger brother’s daughter, Catherine. Walter was a naval commander, and died in 1891 while serving abroad. Catherine married Reginald Couchman in Holywell, Oxford in 1906. The Rev. Reginald Couchman, was the Principal of the Exeter Diocesan Training College (St Luke’s).
The Ogle sisters seem to have moved to Budleigh Salterton, probably to be closer to Catherine, in the middle of 1910, when they first appear in the Exmouth Journal’s ‘Budleigh Salterton Directory’.[2] They lived first in St Mary’s, a seven-room house on Station Road, where they were listed in the 1911 census, together with a resident servant. Later they moved to 7 Marine Parade. There are a few references to their participation in town life, such as attending funerals, subscribing to the Navy League, and attending the annual meeting of the subscribers to the cottage hospital.[3]
The Budleigh Salterton branch of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) was formed in 1911 but the first reference to Miss C. Ogle is not until the Annual Meeting in February 1914 at which she presided and when she was elected to the Committee. She set the members the goal of trying to bring in at least one new member or ‘friend’ during the next three months.
During the First World War the Budleigh Salterton NUWSS branch initially remained active, engaged particularly in fund-raising. In the spring of 1915 Camilla Ogle is listed in Common Cause, as the Honorary Secretary of the branch.[4]
After the war the Ogle sisters moved away from Budleigh Salterton. Helen died in 1933. Camilla is listed on the 1939 Register as living with Catherine and Reginald at Manor Lodge, Vale of Health, Hampstead, London. She died on 23 March 1941, leaving effects valued at just over £500.
Entry created by Julia Neville, December 2018
[1] Family and census information from www.ancestry.co.uk
[2] Exmouth Journal, 2 July 1910.
[3] Devon and Exeter Gazette, 15 Jul 1910; 7 Jun 1910; 21 Jan 1913.
[4] Common Cause, 21 May 1915, 96.