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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: Southwark death around 1854
« on: Sunday 23 August 09 12:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi Valda

Yes this is the family.

Thank you so much for looking into this for me and all the useful information and leads.  I will definitely obtain a copy of Matilda's birth certificate (if the birth was registered) and then take it from there.  It looks as if I should go back and spend some more time in the Southwark Local Studies Library (haven't been there for some years since I moved to Leicestershire).

Re Nunhead cemetery - what a fascinating cemetery it is, I spent a couple of hours walking around there about three years ago.

Many thanks again

Southwark Susan

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: Southwark death around 1854
« on: Saturday 22 August 09 16:01 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your reply Ermy.  I have obtained certificates for the deaths of the three Childs that you listed and none of them are my ggg-Grandfather.

I am basing the dates on the fact that he must have died between the birth of his last child (or before) and the date when his wife re-married in 1860 (stating that she was a widow).  The family lived in Southwark throughout the whole of the 1800's, appearing in successive census returns in the same street so I think it was unlikely that Thomas (who was a porter) moved around and died elsewhere.

I am really at a loss as to where to look next.

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Southwark death around 1854
« on: Saturday 22 August 09 14:47 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone help me, I am trying to find out when and why my ggg-Grandfather Thomas Shearman Childs died in Southwark somewhere between 1853 and 1860.  I have searched and searched and still cannot find this information.  I have read that because of the huge number of deaths from cholera in Southwark around 1844 not all deaths were recorded, is this true ?

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Occupation Interests / Re: Framework Knitters, Leicestershire
« on: Monday 12 December 05 06:51 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Keith

My family were also Framework Knitters in Leicestershire.  There is a Framework Knitters Museum in Wigston, Leics that you would find really interesting.  All the knitting Frames are still there in their orignal condition, it is like walking into a time capsule from the past.  It is well worth a visit if you ever have the time.

Susan

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Family History Beginners Board / Childs Family - Southwark & Bermondsey, London
« on: Saturday 29 October 05 08:15 BST (UK)  »
I would like to hear from anyone who is researching the CHILDS family in the Southwark, Bermondsey area of London.

1851 Census - Southwark

Thomas Childs - Head  age 29  Porter     70 Ann Street, Southwark  1851  originally born in Reading  -  (he had two brothers who had also moved to Southwark from Reading  and were living in the next street  -  Charles Childs  age 32    8 Castle Street, Southwark    and    John Childs age 31   18 Castle Street Southwark)

Susan Childs - Wife  age  29
Thomas Childs  age 6
Elizabeth Childs  age 4
William Childs age 2
Susan Childs   6 months

Cannot find anything regarding the marriage of Thomas Childs and Susan Childs (nee Mansfield)

In the 1861 Census Thomas Childs has disappeared and Susan Childs has re-married James Benfield.  I cannot find anything about Thomas Childs death between 1856 and 1861

1861 Census shows

James Benfield  -  Head age 31    Coal dealer    14 Etham Street, Southwark, London
Susan Benfield   age   35  (she could have lied about her age as she was 29 in 1851)
Thomas Childs   age 16   Floor Cloth Printers Boy
Elizabeth Childs   age 14 
William Childs     age 12
Susan Childs   age 10
Emma Childs   age 8
Matilda Childs   age 5
Mary Benfield    10 months

There are a few mysteries in the family but for the moment just wanted to know if there is anyone out there who might be researching the same family.

Southwark Susan

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