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Family History Beginners Board / Re: WM. LANGHAM, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
« on: Sunday 14 June 20 13:59 BST (UK)  »
Well, here I am, four years later, and still no wiser as to William's death.
As mentioned before,  he seems to have taken to drink after his mother died.  Thankfully, his wife and children escaped from him (in 1871) and moved to Chelsea where, as has already been noted, poor Annie found herself in the workhouse.  :'(     
But she got out again!    :)

I have found the occasional sighting of a William Langham in various workhouses not too far from Woolwich and I can only assume that it is 'my' William.   No doubt he ended up in a ditch, possibly with no identity.    Serves him right.    His wife was a hard working woman and a very good mother.   He didn't deserve her.   And she certainly didn't deserve the frequent beatings that he gave her.

Thank you all for trying to help solve this conundrum.   What a kind and generous lot you are.    ;D

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: WM. LANGHAM, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
« on: Monday 02 July 12 12:40 BST (UK)  »
Well, that's true, Nick.   But, as well as the census returns,  they had children pretty regularly and I can tell where they were by where the children were born and who registered  them.   That nails them down to a certain extent and its how I can say with such certainty that the last sighting of William is on 31st May 1867, in Romford , when he registered his youngest child's birth.   By the time of the 1871 census, he has disappeared.

His wife was born in Romford too and she was from a large family who always seemed to stay close to each other.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: WM. LANGHAM, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
« on: Monday 02 July 12 07:33 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for your input.
I believe I have every other aspect of William Langham's life tracked.  It's just his death that I can't find.
His home was really Romford, Essex.  He was born there and most of his children were born there too.     The whole family was there.  He married at St. Mary Magdalene, Woolwich and one child was born at Plumstead.
It's odd that, in one census return, his wife describes herself as 'widowed' and, in the  next she says she is 'separated'.   I wonder if, having come into some property,  he just upped and left.
None of the suggestions above have borne fruit, I'm afraid.


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Family History Beginners Board / WM. LANGHAM, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
« on: Thursday 17 May 12 13:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi!  I'm a new girl.   I've come to a full-stop and can't think where to try next.
I should be so grateful if anyone can get me kick started again.
My query concerns my husband's great grandfather, William Langham, born 1828 at Romford, Essex. William was a ships carpenter at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.   I have details of his parents, his wife and five children but William himself seems to have disappeared at some time between 31st May 1867 (when he, personally,  registered the birth of his fifth child) and 3rd April 1871 (Census day) when his wife calls herself a widow.
In the 1881 census, she refers to herself as separated.
There is no record of William's death in UK and I can find nothing to suggest that he emigrated although some of his siblings had already emigrated to Australia.
It may be significant that he had recently inherited some property, in Essex,  from his mother.
There are, apparently, no surviving records of Royal Arsenal employees.
Ideas/suggestions anybody?   PLEASE??

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