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Hi Ambly,

I've only just found your edited message from earlier this year. Thanks so much for correcting the entry. I've not had chance to revisit Clara & Charles for a while and not likely to for some time as I'm busy on another Uni course but this will be added to the 'to do' list for over the Xmas hols :-)

Many thanks Val. 

Hi to all,

please can someone with access to The Pallots Marriage Index kindly look for a marriage for me in London? If so, the couple are as follows:

William HUTCHINSON = Maria ?unknown.  Yr abt 1818 +/-  10 yrs

The first 6 children were baptised in St Mary Magdalene's, Woolwich, Kent which I understand now comes under London. I've checked the IGI and there is no marriage listed, I understand the coverage of Woolwich is very good so if it's not in the IGI it's likely they didn't marry there???

William was originally from Leicestershire and was in the London area as he was serving in the British Army until 1828. I've tried the IGI for Leicestershire and no luck with a marriage to date.

Many thanks for any help you can kindly offer.

Regards Val. 

Thanks for looking Ambly,

she married Charles Goldsmith at St Clement Danes in Jan 1893, he would be listed as a soldier in the 1891 census.

Kind regards Val.

PS Healy may be spelt incorrectly but she's not the Clara Heeley b/p Bermondsey in the census working as a hat trimmer, we had her tucked away in the files for a yr before discovering the error, lol. Thanks!

Hi Meliora,

thank you so much for all your hard work, most appreciated. Unfortunately the info you've posted looks to be a different family. Late last night I dug out the WW1 pension records for my hubby's Gt-grandfather Charles Goldsmith and it states he was discharged to his sister Mrs M.A Chadwick's home at Digby Walk, Bethnal Green. A little bit of researching and her marriage entry led me to this family living at Digby Walk back in the 1881 census with both a Charles & Mary Ann as children:

Joseph G. GOLDSMITH   37      Bethnal Green      Labourer      
 Eliza           " Wife    34      Shoreditch      Brush Drawer      
 
some info & children removed so as not to infringe copyright
          
 Charles GOLDSMITH      Son            Male      2      Bethnal Green            
 Mary A. GOLDSMITH      Dau            Female 2 m  Bethnal Green

Just waiting on Charles Goldsmith's marr cert to hubby's Gt-grandmother Clara Jane Healy to see if this is the correct family with him as a child. When I requested the lookup's for Mary Ann I was hoping to try and find a poss family by locating Mary Ann as there were just too many Charles Goldsmith's, this 1881 has entry has hopefully done that.

I don't think I'll manage to catch Charles in the 1891 as he may be in the army then (1891- 1899).

Thank you so much again Meliora for the time you took to do the lookup, such a nice gesture and a lot of work.

Best wishes, Val.

Hi again Carole,

not to worry, Ancestry has Daniel down as David Charles something or other in one of the census, I think it was the 1871, it took me ages to track him down, lol.

Thanks for looking in the 1851, I did a search myself last night but couldn't see any possible matches popping up, he may of emigrated or returned to Ireland. My his age I would guess he's the eldest child and when their father Charles died he probably inherited from him and returned back to the family home.

I love a challenge but don't you hate it when you keep coming up against that darn brick wall time after time? :-)

Thanks so much!