Line in Record @I72@ (RIN 282393) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
CAUS bronchitis lasting one monthLine in Record @I72@ (RIN 282393) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
OCCU a chimney sweep
At his baptism in 1827 he was named William. At the time of his marriage he had adopted (like his father before him) the middle name Alexander and even went to the measure of naming one of his sons William Alexander. Other than on these occasions he doesn't use Alexander. It does not appear in census returns, on his second marriage certificate or on his death certificate.In the 1851 census William was living at 31 Webber Row, Waterloo, London with his wife, Sarah, and his daughter Harriet.
By the time of the 1861 census the family had moved a matter of a few yards to 10 Spillers Court, Webber Street and William is shown as being there with Sarah and their children Mary, William & Robert.
In the 1871 census the family was still at 10 Spillers Court. Shown there are William, Sarah and their six 6 children Harriet, Mary, William, Robert, Ann & Elizabeth.
William's cause of death was bronchitis lasting one month, not surprising for a chimney sweep; his widow Mary Ann Ripper was present at his death.
Sarah was living in the New Cut, Waterloo at the time of her marriage. She signed her marriage with an X, whereupon she is shown as a minor & a spinster.
At subsequent censuses she is shown as being born in St George's (Southwark) 1851, St Saviour's (Southwark) 1861, & Norwich 1871.
Her death certificate records her as being 42 the wife of William Ripper (sweep); their daughter Harriet was present at her death.
Searching for Sarah's baptism has proved fruitless so far. She would have been born in the period 1827 - 1834 to comply with the status of 'minor' on her marriage certificate, which also gives her father's name as Robert. She is supposedly 42 upon her death in 1873 but her given age is somewhat suspect as evidenced in the censuses. If this is to be believed she was born around 1831.
In the registers of St Mary Lambeth is the baptism of:
Sarah Harvey, 29 Jul 1832, daughter of Edmund & Catherine.In the St Saviour registers are the baptisms of:
Sarah Harvey (29 Aug 1828) and Thomas Francis Harvey (7 May 1826) the children of Thomas Francis Harvey and his wife Ann, nee Taylor, who were married at Lambeth 27 Aug 1822.In the registers of North Shields, Union Street Primitive, Northumberland is the baptism of:
Sarah Harvey, 16 Apr 1832, daughter of Robert Harvey and Sarah (nee Ledger).A letter from Ann Sturgess of 63 Percy Road, Leicester LE2 8FQ (01533 831647), dated 13 Aug 1994:
"Thank you for your phone call re the Harvey name, which I am trying to follow through. My gt gt grandfather was a Richard Thomas Harvey who was a soldier, where he came from, how old etc I do not know. I only know his name from my gt grandparent's marriage certificate. My aunt who is now 94, says the Harveys come from Devon & Cornwall."My great grandparents were a Richard Thomas Harvey and Eliza Kirk nee Bignell they were married on 15 Oct 1854 at St John's Church Waterloo London, they had both been married before but whether they had any previous family I don't know..from the second marriage they had at least seven children, they lived in the Wandsworth or Clapham or Battersea area of London, my aunt went to St Faith's school in the Wandsworth area.
"Their children were:
"James married twice, one son Harry went to Canada;
"Fred married to a Polly was a big boozer according to my aunt;
"Joe? \ Sid? \ Wally? \ Bert?...she can't remember his name thinks it may be one of these; "Lilian Rosina born about 1865 married Brian Capewell; I still have contact with this branch of the family;
"Selina;
"Alice? \ Sarah? \ Emily? or something;
"Eliza Isabel born about 1878 - my grandmother; married H J Rogers;
"R.T. Harvey the younger worked at the Nine Elms Gas Works as a labourer I think. His wife and their daughters were dressmakers and milliners."I don't know if you tie in at all to any of these people if so drop me a line. Thanks for the call.
"Yours sincerely,
"Ann Sturgess"The family lived in Waterloo and impressions of the life in the area at the time have been captured in verse and prose, as shown by the following extracts:
WATERLOO ... (by William Blake who lived at 23 Hercules Road, Lambeth)
"I wander thro' each chartered street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice; in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appals,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down the Palace walls
But most thro' midnight streets
I hear How the youthful
Harlots curse
Blasts the new born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the
Marriage hearse"
Extracts from 'On Lambeth Marsh' by Graham Gibberd:"When housing was built on the low areas between 1800 and 1830 it was all cheap and ill drained and very quickly became a a centre of raging cholera epidemics. During four months of 1849 in just two streets, 544 died of cholera and 90 of diarrhoea and out of Lambeth's population of 139,000, mostly in Lambeth Marsh, the annual average death rate was 1,690, more than 1:100.
"The Lambeth Vestry (the epitome of self interests) were one of the last in London to implement Dr Snow's findings that connected foul drinking water with sewage as the cause of cholera epidemics. The deputation of 1849 squarely blamed the Commissioners of Sewers, and stated that £14,000 of sewer rates were collected but only £2,000 spent."
"In the nineteenth century the population of Lambeth Marsh had risen to thirty thousand or more and burying the dead had become a serious problem. The London Necropolis Railway, an independent private [railway] line running to the Necropolis Cemetery at Brookwood, Woking, provided the answer in 1870. The funeral cortege arrived through the arch at road level [at Waterloo Station] and the coffin was lifted to the platform, where rest rooms were provided. The wealthy could hire the whole train but normally as many as fifty a day from all classes used the regular service, the bereaved returning to London at the end of the ceremony." {Taken from Living London by George R Sims}.
"Lambeth Marsh was an integrated hive of industry. Waste tips were lived on by gangs of urchins recycling everything on the heap; coke or coal sieved from ash for reburning or, if too fine, ground down as blacking, the pure white ash being used for cement or mixing with builder's lime; bones were sold to the soap factories in Carlisle Lane and elsewhere, giving a stench of rotten meat to the whole area; rags or material went to make paper or were sold to clothe the poor; and even dogs' excrement ('pure') was collected for use in leather tanning in Southwark." {Taken from Mayhew's London by Henry Mayhew (1851)}
Webber Row was built on part of a site previously known as St George's Fields. "Most of the area was claimed and administered by the Bridge House Estate. The fields were not common land but for centuries had been used as such, and in the 1780's the matter was taken to court. The fields were ill drained and marshy, being even lower than Lambeth Marsh without any higher sand-banks. ... With the pressure for new building created by the Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges, many tenants were building and sub-letting without permission.
"I wish that I had a more savory (sic) locality to take you to than the New Cut. I acknowledge frankly that I don't like it...It is not picturesque, it isn't quaint, it isn't curious. It has not even the questionable merit of being old. It is simply Low. It is sordid, squalid, and, the truth must out, disreputable... It is horrible, dreadful, we know, to have such a place: but then consider - the population of London is fast advancing towards three millions, and wicked people must
live somewhere - under a strictly constitutional government. There is a despot, now, over the water, who would make very short work of the New Cut. He would see at a glance the capacities of the place: in the twinkling of a decree the rotten tenements would be doomed to destruction; trees would be planted along the pavement; and the Boulevard de Lambeth would be one of the stateliest avenues in the metropolis. But Britons never will be slaves, and we must submit to thorns (known as vested interests) in the constitutional rose, and pay somewhat dear for our liberty as well as for our whistle." {Taken from Twice Around the Clock by George Augustus Sala (1858)}."There are many gradations of rank among the frequenters of the Victoria Theatre [now the Old Vic]. Many of the occupants of the boxes sat last night in the pit, and will tomorrow in the gallery, according to the fluctuation of their finances; nay, spirited denizens of the New Cut will not infrequently, say on a Monday evening, when the week's wages have not been irremediably dipped into, pay their half-crown like men, and occupy seats in the private box next the stage. And the same equality and fraternity are manifest when the audience pour forth at half-price [the interval] to take their beer. There may be a few cheap dandies, indeed - Cornwall Road exquisites and Elephant-and-Castle bucks - who prefer to do the 'grand' in the saloon attached to the theatre; there may be some dozens of couples sweethearting, who are content to consume oranges, ginger beer and Abernathy biscuits within the walls of the house; but the great pressure outwards, and the great gulf
stream of this human ocean flow towards a gigantic 'public' [house] opposite the Victoria, and which continually drives a roaring trade." {Sala in Twice Around the Clock (1858)}.
Mary Ann was born at 9:00am but the workhouse record shows the birthdate as 23 December 1849, whereas the registration of birth shows 25 December 1849.
The 1850 workhouse register shows that they re-entered the house for the baptism of Mary Ann on 11th January 1850.
Mary Ann is not shown as being with parents at time of 1851 census. Given that there are further children in this family named Mary Ann, she is presumed deceased by that time.
Line in Record @I43366@ (RIN 43359) from GEDCOM file not recognized:
RESI
DATE 14 DEC 1836
PLAC Henry County, Indiana, Duck Creek MM.
From records of Annis and Mayme Bales. Springfield MM, Wayne Co., IN.
p. 110, in "Abstracts of the records ofthe Society of Friends in Indiana, part 2", by Willard Heiss.
From records of Annis and Mayme Bales. Springfield MM, Wayne Co., IN.
p. 110, in "Abstracts of the records ofthe Society of Friends in Indiana, part 2", by Willard Heiss.
From records of Annis and Mayme Bales.
From records of Annis and Mayme Bales.
From records of Annis and Mayme Bales.