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London and Middlesex / Re: Paul - a Huguenot Family in London
« on: Thursday 07 April 16 15:08 BST (UK)  »
Just to add that my husband's family are called Paul and are of Huguenot descent. In the first half of the twentieth century they lived in the Wimbledon area of South West London (Tooting perhaps.) I found a reference to what appears to be the same family, coming to the UK in I think, the 1 18th century and settling in Scotland (Sutherland) where they worked as weavers. This is harder to research because of restricted access to Scottish archives but they seem to have specialised in weaving fine wool. Why they should move to a relatively poor and underpopulated area of the UK I do not know. They married into a Scottish family called Darling. John Paul married Isabella Darling  on 13th August 1839 in London. I do not know when they moved to London of if they left family behind in Scotland (maybe he was a younger son?) They had a large family including Christian (b 1840) Janet (b 1841) Isabella (b1843) James Alexander (b1844) Emily (b1846) John (b1848) William George (b1850) Albert (b 1852) Henry Robert  (1854) Harriet (b 1857). My husband is descended from Albert Paul. I cannot find anyone called Charles in the family tree.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Emily Hannah Jackson b1862 Islington domestic servant?
« on: Saturday 06 October 12 08:52 BST (UK)  »
My brother and I are trying to find out more about our great grandmother Emily (Hannah) Jackson who was born in Fulham in 1862/3. She is recorded in the 1881 census living at home with her parents Alexander Matthew and Louisa Jackson at 65 Hampden Road Islington. No occupation is given. Alexander was a tailor.

By 1891 census she was married to Job Jenkins and  still living locally but we know nothing about her life between 1874 and 1888. She does not seems to have had any sort of skill so we assume she was in service, or some other lowly occupation locally, in Islington, from the age of about 14 (1874) up till her marriage to Job Jenkins (c 1888).

 A man called Wilfrid seems to have figured in her life during this period and finding out if he was a local tradesman or employer is also something we should like to explore. Would there be any other ways of finding out if she was employed locally, during these years, maybe as a domestic servant - trade directories, rate books etc?

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) Lookup Requests / Re: THOMAS JACKSON, BARMBY MOOR
« on: Monday 24 October 11 17:26 BST (UK)  »
He was also my gx3 grandfather or uncle - want to compare notes?

hazelmary

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