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From: Anne Chambers <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] MALLERY Family
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 19:50:57 +0930
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There's a Thomas Mallery with father Essex in the Ancestry.com LMA database, who might belong in this family
Marriages Stoke Newington St Matthias
12 Oct 1863
Thomas Mallery age 50 bachelor, Cordwainer father Essex Mallery, Sweep
Amelia Francis age 40, spinster, father Willm. Francis, Labourer
both of 60 Howard Road
He signed (very good handwriting), she made her mark
Witnesses: Joseph Francis, A??? Francis
Anne
South Australia
Gerry Newnham wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Thank you so much for your comments. It does seem likely that this family would have used the canal and
> Thames barges to cross to Kent. I don't expect there are any surviving records - if indeed there ever were
> - of sailings. It is interesting that Frances' brother George married in Chatham in 1833 but was back at
> The Wharf, Springfield at the time of the 1841 census. He later abandoned his wife and set up home with a
> girl from Essex but then moved around a lot, including Bethnal Green and Plaxtol (in Kent).
>
> George and his father, Essex, where both tinkers/tinmen and similar occupations until the settled in Kent
> when they took up whatever jobs they could find. I suppose the barge owners and operators needed their pots
> and pans repaired the same as everyone else so perhaps they worked their passage that way as well as
> helping out with the working of the boat. Sounds as if it might be worthwhile checking the parishes along
> the line of the canal.
>
>> From what I have discovered of the family they had a base in London and then moved between Northampton,
>> Bedford, Potton (Beds), Fordham (Cambs), Springfield and Chatham. But I can't be sure that they didn't go
>> elsewhere. Still, this is progress!
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Gerry
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