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« on: Saturday 14 May 05 10:12 BST (UK) »
Hi again Carol
No I know absolutely nothing about Harrow Weald - other than the name but I will have a look at the web site and find out more. I was born in 1945 west of London - Hillingdon - moving out to Buckinghamshire with my parents when I was 11 so what memories I have are of the old A40 corridor - Greenford, Hayes, Uxbridge, Acton & Ealing. Close
Thanks for your offer to help find my illusive Elizabeths'. I'm not even sure if Elizabeth Snr married Henry. In the 1871 she is down as being unmarried but then she had been widowed for 30 odd years so probably no longer considered herself a widow. It would be interesting to find them on the 1861. I do wonder if she was still living in the Camberwell area. I have found an Elizabeth Pennyfather having a son - Henry - in the Camberwell Workhouse in 1845. No father was mentioned on the birth certificate and it was 5 years after her husband's death. But was it her and did she name him after her dead husband? Aged 12 and with 7 previous convictions, a Henry Pennyfather was prosecuted for steeling 12lbs of horse hair and detained for four months in a house of correction and a further four years after that in a reformatory institution. If he was her son she wasn't too hot on the parental guidance was she? This woman is really intriguing me. I wish I knew what she looked like and what sort of life she led. From what I've read Camberwell was a rather salubrious place, full of gin palaces and whore houses so p'raps it's best I don't know.
Many thanks and kind regards
Jan
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