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Duke of Norfolk, Stepney, E1. Image: Ewan Munro Some rights reserved |
Yet another pub in the family: Alfred James Lynch, son of John Lynch and Ann Willsher, married Sarah Green, daughter of publicans, Edward Green and Eliza Goodman, at the church of St Thomas that had stood in Arbour Square, Stepney, on 5 Jun 1871. The bridegroom's father, John Lynch, had been a butcher with, presumably a shop, at 143 High Street, Shadwell in 1861. In 1871, Alfred James Lynch was living with his widowed mother, Ann, in Sidney Street.
We find the couple, in 1881, at the Duke of Norfolk, Norfolk Street, Mile End Old Town, with their four children, a general servant and the mother-in-law, Eliza Green. A thorough search of the GRO records demystified the cryptic initials used on that census return to identify the names of the children as:
- Alfred Arthur Lynch born 1873
- Albert William Lynch born 1874
- George Edward Lynch born 1876
- Sarah Eliza Lynch born 1879
- Ada Lynch born 1881