DANIEL, CLARKE, ANDREWS, CROISSETTE, WOHLMANN, WOODRUFF & RELATED FAMILIES
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Elizabeth Sarah Allen was John Christian Wohlmann's housekeeper and is mentioned in his will.
Discovering her birth was based on a hunch - she named her first son John Christian Gottlieb. Her baptism record is as follows: ELIZABETH SARAH GOTTLEIB Birth: 14 JUL 1802 Christening: 16 JAN 1803 Saint Luke Old Street, Finsbury, London, England. Father: EMANUEL GOTTLEIB Family Mother: ANN. This marriage has not been traced, nor any record for an Emanuel, perhaps because the Wohlmann has been omitted. It looks as though Elizabeth might have died just after the 1861 census. To check this out it would be necessary to search all the death certificates for that period. There is considerable debate in the family about why 'Ann Allen' who married Thomas Mansell should have passed down her own family some papers from the Wohlmann and Ward households. The Ann in question married in 1847 and can be seen living with Thomas Mansell, a 'hawker' age 34 at 2 Rose Square, St Luke Finsbury in the 1851 census. Ann was 29 and their child Elizabeth 2, born in St Luke. Ann was thus born c. 1821 or 1822. Someone has obtained a baptism certificate for an Ann Allen christened 2 April 1820 at St Lukes old church, father Samuel Allen and mother unknown Elizabeth. It is assumed this is our link and that Elizabeth was widowed and married William Ward once his grandfather had died. In the 1861 census, Thomas Mansell is now a Porter. They have added Caroline 7, Thomas 4 and Mary 3 months. They are living at 4 French Alley, Whitecross Street, St Luke, in a multi-occupancy terrace house. Ann is said to have been born in 1818 (this could also be 1817). In the 1871 census they are still in the same area, living at 9 New Court, Whitcross Street, St Luke Finsbury. Still at home are Caroline and Mary Ann. Ann now states she was born at 'Noble Street, St Lukes', and that she is 53 while Thomas George Mansell is 58 and now a 'horse hair worker'. This would indeed make her born in 1818. The following fits perfectly: ANN ALLEN - International Genealogical Index Birth: 31 AUG 1818 Christening: 02 APR 1820 Saint Luke Old Street, Finsbury to Samuel and Elizabeth Allen. She is the only child baptised there to this couple. One other baptism in this parish is recorded -- Samuel Allen, child of Samuel Allen and Elizabeth, again, this time son of Elizabeth Wohlmann and a different, perhaps related, Samuel Allen. If Samuel died, leaving Elizabeth widowed, she might have had the child Ann with her at the Wohlmann house. Ann would have made her own way by the 1841 census, by which time her mother and William Ward had moved across the river with their son John Christian Ward. Ann in the 1841 census proves hard to find as it does not give place of birth, merely Yes or No as to whether born in the county. Ann Allen Mansell therefore would not be part of the direct line of the Wohlmann family, but could well have cleared out her mother Elizabeth Sarah's belongings when she died and taken possession of the Ward and Wohlmann papers to pass down her own line. In 1861 hard to find. Could be widow age 57, working in a household at St Mary's Kensington as a servant at 27 Sussex Place. Her son might have been at 95 Dean Street, Westminster, staying with the family of a gilder. That would make sense. Deaths Sep 1861 Ward Elizabeth Sarah E. London 1c 21 |