Attilio Regolos is the third and youngest son of Cristoforo Setacci and Lucy Isles. He is the younger brother of Lavinio and Adriano. ( where does this name Attilio Regolus come from – it sounds very Roman like the name of an emperor)
Interestingly Attilio does not find his final career until he is almost 30. In 1885 at age 14 he is listed as a boy-copyist at the Post Office Savings Bank. Later he is listed in the censuses as being a London Community Council Assistant. But by 1899 at age 28 we know he has registered at the Poly Institute on Regent Street and studying to become a dentist.
And by 1903 he has become a Licensed Dentist and is living on Riffel Road in Willesden area in Northern London.
In the midst of studying to become a Dentist he also gets married towards the end of 1902. He marries Helene Nachmann of Germany. The marriage is listed in the English & Wales Marriage Registration, but to date we have no record of where it took place exactly.
Who is Helene Nachmann?
It is interesting that she is listed right below Attilio in the 1901 census living with the extended Setacci family at Harrington Road. She is listed as a Visitor and a German foreign subject. Besides that we don’t know much about her. Was she already the girl friend of Attilio in 1901? Or was she a visitor with some kind of connection to Attilio’s parents Cristoforo and Lucy? Perhaps some connection to Cristoforo during his years as an exile? And as a visitor she and Atillio developed a romantic relationship? At this point we just don’t know. How or why did Helene Nachmann of Germany come to be living in London England with the Setacci family near Regent Park ? Another mystery to be solved.
Around 1905 Attilio and Helene make a surprising move. I say surprising because the Setacci family is very rooted in London. They always live very close to each other – always living nearby in the same neighbourhoods. But Attilio and Helene move north to Aberdeen, Scotland for a few years. We find Attilio and Helene listed in the Aberdeenshire electoral register between 1906 and 1908 and living at 221 Great Western Road in Aberdeen Scotland.
Maybe it was a good idea for a rookie Dentist to practice initially in a different town! Seriously, we have no idea why the move to Scotland. It is interesting too that while in Scotland Attilio Regolos registers himself as Attilio Regolos. This is about to change. Maybe it isn’t fashionable to be visibly of Italian heritage in the United Kingdom any more. Maybe it is not good for your Dental Practice? Or maybe it is time to try to fit into the higher classes of British Society, and the names Setacci, and Attilio and Regolos just don’t cut it.
Attilio and Helene return to London and purchase a nice new home just outside the gates of the famous Wimbledon Park at 31 Home Park Road. The very Italian/Roman name Attilio Regolos now magically metamorphizes to become the very upper class British sounding name Arthur Royston Stacey.
31 Home Park Road shown below, as it looks now, will become both the family home and the Dental Practice home of Arthur Royston and wife Helene Stacey.
Attilio (Arthur) and Helene have no kids of their own, Arthur however becomes a role model for his nephew, your great great grandfather Claud. For in 1911 Claud is living with Arthur Royston Stacey and practicing with him until he himself also locates his practice in the Wimbledon area as well.
Arthur Royston/Atillio Regolos passes awy at age 66 at Stanton- Wesbury Road New Malden, Surrey on August 17, 1937.
Helena Nachmann Stacey then lives with her niece Gertrude in Worthing Sussex on the south coast of England. Helene passes away in 1944.