Any information on HENRY KERRIDGE

[Meg7]

Hi Andy,

Not much extra except the third witness to Sophia Maria Snell Kerridge's wedding to Nathan Martindale was Eliza Susannah Kerridge so she was alive on the 10th of April 1825.  Emma is listed as Emma Jane.  (If you have a spare Eliza getting married please let me know.)  Nat. Burial Index gave Nathan's burial and his son at age five.  Found one for William Kerridge in 1816 at St Clement which probably fits but no obvious wife.  (Snell is a very common name in Ipswich, Suffolk.)

Meg.

[AndyK]

Meg
Actually this is the only Eliza Susannah I have in my files.  Sorry, can't help any more with her.  I note  on Sophia's marriage that her name is definitely written as Snell

I looked forward at the marriages after Sophia's up to and including 1840, in case Eliza S had witnessed other marriages.  She hadn't but Henry had ..

29 May 1831: Henry ALLAWY, otp, bach, & Mary SYMONDS, otp, spin, by banns, both signed.  Witnesses: Henry KERRIDGE & Elizabeth Johnson HUMBLE

Only one he witnessed

Andy

[JJ1801]

Hi, as a direct descendant of William Kerridge of Ipswich, father to Henry Gallant Kerridge 1772 to 1839 I have been researching this branch. Henry had 7 children,
Donald McDonald kerridge, William, Caroline, Emma Jane, Eliza Susannah, Edwin Moore and Charles Robert.
As a child I use to play with Donald's top hat and cane. He was manager at McDonald's Music Hall in1863.the hall lost its licence in1871 due to complaints by the police. It was sold and reopened in 1879 as a Quaker meeting house by William Isaac Palmer. Heir to the Huntly and Palmer biscuit family. It is now a youth theatre.
Donald's daughter Emma Letitia McDonald Kerridge was quite famous later as a vocalist / comedian.

If anyone has more information on Henry's father William or Catherine Bonds family, I would be most interested.

[Batter01]

Hi,
I am a direct descendant of Donald McDonald Kerridge. I haven't been tracing my family history for that long but do know that his parents were Henry Gallant Kerridge and Catherine Bond and that they were married at St Clement Danes Church. I also know quite a lot about Donald McDonalds career in the Music Hall business, along with his daughter Emma. So any information on Henry Gallant and Catherine would be very helpful, their parents and siblings. I am also looking for Donald McDonalds last resting place. He died in Islington in 1874 but have come up against a wall when finding out where he is buried. 
Any information is gratefully accepted,
Thanks

[AndyK]

You will find Donald McD buried in Abney Park Cemetery - check it out on the internet - there is a free index available and there are 14 Kerridge's (inc his wife, Letitia) buried there

Andy

[Batter01]

Thanks very much Andy. No wonder I couldn't find him as that cemetery is over in East London somewhere isn't it!. Should have guessed, though, as his wife is buried there. Do you have any info on Henry & Catherine? Or anything on Donald McDs daughter Emma? I have managed to find her on a music hall advert for 1864 but would love to find a picture. My nan talked about her grandfather being in the music hall business but I never really believed her until I started digging into the history. She also seemed to think that we were related to the Hartley jam people but she may have been getting confused as I believe Emma married a man called Hardesty.
Thanks for getting back to me
Alison

[AndyK]

Emma Letitia K probably married in 1876 Hackney Registration District to Horace Vincent HARDESTY.  They were in 1881 census of Islington (RG11/0055; Folio: 31; Page: 1) at 5 Rutland Rd…
Horace Hardesty   Hd M 39   Commercial Traveller      St John’s Wood
Emma Letitia Hardesty Wf M 32               Islington
Constance L. Hardesty Dau    4               Islington
Elisabeth Symonds    Serv U   28   GeneralServant      Marylebone

I have not found all the family in 1891, but Constance (the L was for Letitia) and what appears to be a sister, Ethel May, are aged 14 and 9, respectively and are pupils ata school in Kirkley, Suffolk (nr Lowestoft).  In 1901 the family are back in one place in Chiswick, no more children – however Horace’s birthplace is now Norwich, not St John’s Wood.  In 1911, Emma May is still with her parents, who now live at 89 Uxbridge Road, Ealing.  Horace was a manufacturer’s agent for preserves and confectionary, & were living in an 11-roomed house.    So there was a connection with preserves, and if you dig deeper you may find the company for whom he was working - might be Hartleys?  Would be difficult to track that down as he was an agent and could have been working at some distance from the manufacturing sites

I believe that Catherine was nee BOND, married Henry K in 1790 at London St Clement Dane, had possibly 12 children and then died in 1829.  Henry married secondly to Lucy POWELL a widow, and seems to have had 2 further children with her.  Henry was a ham dealer from at leats 1816-1829 and was a ward beadle for St Gregory by St Paul in 1833.  He died in 1839.  I have nothing on Henry's origins though

[Batter01]

Thanks very much for the info Andy. Got a few lines to look into.

[Meg7]

Hi Andy,

I struggled with the Suffolk records at our local Society yesterday but I did progress. Henry Gallant Kerridge was Chr 23.1.1772 St Stephen (no second given name recorded). It seems his aunt Sarah Kerridge born abt 1726/7 mar. Henry Gallant 31.3.1765. He subscribed to a history of Ipswich so I knew he existed. Seems no children. She was bur. 23.4.1793 aged 66 and he wid 23.5.1796 aged 65. both St Stephen. The father of Henry mar. Rebecca Mullinger 7.11.1754 St Clement. He a wid. His first wife Mary was bur. 11.10.1751. He and Rebecca and he and Mary were subject to settlements first 2.3.1744 no children mentioned so probably just married and 16.12.1756 with Rebecca with children Mary and Sarah to St Mary Tower so I guess he came from there. From his first marriage Mary Chr 25.9.1745 St Peter survived (James and William died as infants). Sarah was Chr 8 or 9 Jan 1756 St Clement (two entries under different spellings), William, 6.4.1758, James 13.8.1760 and Rebecca Dec 1761 (to Isabel but think it is a mistake as no other entries) who mar aged 18 28.2.1780 Kesgrave, John Moore aged 30. Her father listed as William. Think the Moore named used later is from this marriage so perhaps no children. I still don't know where Snell comes from but Ann Catherine born 23.11.1792 Chr 9 Dec. at St Lawrence Ispwich to Henry Kerridge and Catherine (late Bond) popped up. I will bet there is a Rebecca in there somewhere.

Was thinking about David Kerridge perhaps it was really Donald McDonald who would have been 19 in 1829. Perhaps he went on stage later on. So Hemming, Moore and Gallant accounted for but still have Snell and McDonald and Wood on Catherine's sister Rebecca line.  Given the Anna Maria, Sophia Maria and now Ann Catherine I wonder if the Bond mother was Ann or Anna?

There was a James and Sarah with dau Sarah settled in St Mary Tower in 1748 but not really much on them as a family but he could be a brother of William and Sarah. Two possible burials for William but no age listed on either. Nothing for Rebecca.

If any of it fits into your Kerridge database I would appreciate the information. If the PDF records were easier to use I would go back and try Rebecca's maiden name. Lots of Snells but no Kerridge marriage male or female there but it might be before 1754 which is the cut off date for the records they have made available. Printing is limited by the licence agreement which makes putting families together difficult. Fortunately William's first family is on Family Search.

Meg.