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Wandsworth Common West Side cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Derek Harper - geograph.org.uk/p/4348207 |
Thursday, 28 April 2022
Cecil Arthur Day and Winifred Fanny Kingston
Thursday, 20 May 2021
James Hockley and Elizabeth Wilton
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St Mary, Great Dunmow cc-by-sa/2.0 - © John Salmon - geograph.org.uk/p/3988759 |
James Hockley, son of George Hockley and Eliza Crow, married Elizabeth Wilton, daughter of Richard Wilton and Catherine Byatt at St Mary the Virgin, Great Dunmow on 25 Dec 1870. The groom was 20, the bride claimed to be 19, but was 23. :) James' occupation, as well as that of both George and Richard is recorded as Labourer. We know from at least three sources (1841 census, his own marriage in 1843, as well as his death certificate) that Richard Wilton was a harness maker. As Richard had died in 1858, when Elizabeth was only around 11, she either didn't know or had forgotten (and probably couldn't read what was written anyway), so I can see how this error became perpetuated.
James and Elizabeth Hockley set about repopulating Essex:
- Alice Catherine Wilton born 12 Feb 1869 in Great Dunmow
- George James Hockley born 1871 in Great Dunmow,
bap. 30 Mar 1884 at St Andrew's Church, Hornchurch - Charles Stephen Hockley born 1874 in Poplar,
bap. 30 Mar 1884 at St Andrew's Church, Hornchurch - Eliza Ellen Hockley born 15 Apr 1876 in Romford,
bap. 28 Aug 1881 at St Andrew's Church, Hornchurch. - William Hockley born 1878 (died 1880, aged 1)
- John Harry Hockley born 25 Jul 1881,
bap. 28 Aug 1881 at St Andrew's Church, Hornchurch - Emily Hockley born 1884,
bap. 30 Mar 1884 at St Andrew's Church, Hornchurch - Frederick Hockley born 1886 (mother's maiden name as Wilson)
- Alfred Albert Hockley born 15 Apr 1888
- Joseph Hockley born 1892 (died 1892, aged 0)
- Florence Hockley born 1894
[1] Alice being listed with the surname Hockley on this census may NOT mean that she used it normally, nor does it infer that James Hockley is her father. It could just be the enumerator going mad with ditto marks, an assumption, or simply that it wasn't challenged.
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South Hall Farmhouse, Rainham cc-by-sa/2.0 - © David Anstiss - geograph.org.uk/p/3219637 |
Thursday, 8 October 2020
Job Sweeney and Eliza Louisa Tompson
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Cable Street, Stepney |
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Eliza Louisa Sweeney (née Tompson) with her granddaughter, Ivy, c. 1939. |
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