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| Nazareth Gardens, Peckham Rye cc-by-sa/2.0 - © David Anstiss - geograph.org.uk/p/2620932 In 1878 Gordon Road Workhouse was built in the grounds of Nazareth House |
The first mention of Ann Wilton, daughter of Stephen Wilton and Elizabeth Hankin, is on the 1841 census, living with her mother at Lewers Cottages, Royston. There she's listed as being 20, but subsequent records suggest she was a couple of years older than her sister Sarah and thus born in 1817.
Thirty years later, in 1871, Ann Wilton (54), Needlewoman, 'wife's sister' was living in the household of her sister Sarah and her husband, Thomas Clark, in Camberwell. Living there also, listed as nephew and niece to the head of the household, were Stephen Wilton (18) and Martha Wilton (10).
Having checked the birth registrations for both of these children, they are illegitimate births and, by elimination, must therefore be Ann's children:
- Stephen Wilton born 1848 in Southwark
- Martha Wilton born 1860 in Camberwell
With her brother-in-law, Thomas Clark, having died in 1877 and sister, Sarah then lodging with her own daughter, options must have run out for Ann, because in 1881, Ann Wilton (64), was listed as an inmate at the Workhouse Gordon Road, Camberwell. As in 1891, in 1901 and for the rest of her life.
Martha Wilton (21), in 1881, was a General Servant in the household of John Newlands (61) Warehouseman Fancy Goods, at 16, Talfourd Road, Camberwell. It appears that Martha married James Wevell in 1884.
Ann Wilton died, in Camberwell, in 1909, aged around 90-92.