DESCENDANTS OF JOHN CHRISTIAN WOHLMANN
AND RELATED FAMILIES – DE CROISETTES, DANIEL, ANDREWS, MARRIOTT, CLARKE
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Her exact birth date is now known and the only detail for place is 'Fore Street, London', which
we now believe was Fore Street, Edmonton. The registration district could have been Pancras,
Paddington, or Kensington. Fore Street London could mean Fore Street in EC2, by Moorgate tube
station, close to the Guildhall, but equally there is a Fore Street in Edmonton, and this is
the more likely if the 1861 census is to be believed. Her birth and baptism are on the IGI,
and these both match other details. Batch, C133432 St James, Paddington. The only one near
this so far on FreeBMD is this: Births Dec 1859 THOMPSON Emily Hackney 1b 350. Emily was the
only child born in the area to William and Mary. The other William was married to 'Ann', and
does not match any other particulars, including on age, place of birth, etc., occupation, place
of birth. Marriage registration: Dec 1890 Smith, Thomas, Edmonton, 3a, 470, Thompson Emily. On the marriage certificate for Thomas Smith and Emily Thompson, both were said to be 31, ie they had turned 31 that year, this being 19th October 1890. The original copy of the certificate in the family's possession is dated 1890, 19th October, ie the date of marriage, so this is a bona fide copy made the day of the marriage. It look place at the Parish Church of Tottenham, and was on page 100 in the book, no. 199. At their marriage, Emily was living at 10 Russell Road, Tottenham. Her father was given as William Thompson, greengrocer. Thomas Smith was living at Seven Sisters Road, Tottenham. Her father-in-law was given as John Dennis Smith, carpenter. Walter Smith and Maria Smith were witnesses. The marriage was by Banns, conducted by William Storey, Assistant Curate, who transcribed the copy of the registration entry. The stamp is a Victorian penny red. The couple only had one child, Ethel Mabel, born in Islington. Emily had been a cook in service in a London house. Thomas, known as Tom, was a house painter. They lived with their daughter Ethel and her husband in Winchmore Hill from 1926 until the late 1940s. Tom was 89 when he died in 1948. Emily became very forgetful in older age, and when her own daughter died so young and so tragically, with her son-in-law working, her grandson at college, she had to go into a home for the aged. Her death registration on 20th February 1952 at Wood Green stated she was 93 when she died the day before, pointing to 1859 or 1860 as her year of birth. The informant was a 'niece', C. M. Ovenden, of 74 St Mary's Road, London N8. This would have been, probably, the daughter of one of her Ovenden cousins. In the 1861 census, she is to be found with her parents, her father a 'mason', with her Butler grandparents in Marylebone. Again, the form is a muddle, so we are none the wiser about where she was born. Her grandfather Richard Butler came from Devon. In the 1871 census she was been hard to find, perhaps staying with a widowed aunt in Tower Hamlets, age 12. The enumerator has made a serious mess of the form. She is Emma ? Thompson, age 12, born in Kent [very dubious this whole set of entries]. In the 1881 census Alfred ATKINS Head M Male 65 Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England Physician Licentiate Of The Royal College Of Physicians Frances R. ATKINS Wife M Female 59 St Martin In Fields, Middlesex, England Elizabeth HOWE Serv U Female 23 Plymouth, Devon, England Housemaid (Domestic) Emily THOMPSON Serv U Female 22 E C, Middlesex, England Cook [EC is now taken to be ED, for Edmonton, and assumed as Fore St to be the City one of that name]. Source Information: Dwelling 91 New North Rd Census Place London, Middlesex, England In the 1891 census, Thomas and Emily are at 84 Plimsoll Road, Highbury, Islington. Both give their ages as 31, Emily's being the enumerator's error. He gives his occupation as 'Decorator'. He said he was born in Islington while she was born in the 'City'. As Pancras counted as London rather than Middlesex, this is possible, but more likely to the enumerator again taking it into his own hands to assume this was the central London city address. This is probably Emily in the 1901 census: Emily Smith 41 (born at) Fore Street Ldn, London, living in Islington. The family were living at 3 Chatterton Road, St Thomas, Highgate, Islington, in a house shared with the family of a hair dresser. |