t Re: TRURO - Saunders - 1840's
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hi again
Who was John S Ducks mother? ... Elizabeth Ann, Ellen, Fanny or Mary Ann Saunders....
birth:
1st Q 1881 West Ham , Essex, Greater London
John Saunders DUCK
vol 4a p 16
In 1901 he is with Grace Lane as her nephew but says he was born in Stratford, London. Which census did you see that he was born in Cornwall?
deb
now you really ARE asking!
two of them were still single and living with their father, William Saunders who was a widower and living, I think, in that area. He was still a compositor. One of his two daughters was a baby gown maker. Being handy was a family trait.
I think Ellen and Fanny were the two living with him.
However at the next census, one of them married and had a son who became a naval captain, but I do not know anything more than that, and that she turned up at her neice's wedding in 1921 in Southwark.
I do not think this was the DUCK. So, I think it more likely that it was either Elizabeth Ann or Mary Ann.
I know that the family must have moved by 1861 because the enumerator finds them in Canterbury, Kent, much closer to London and Southwark, and West Ham, Essex.
Grace Saunders married, I think a Henry Lane who hailed from Ridlington??? Hall in Norfolk where I think he was a carpenter or such like - I am hazy on these details as I am trying to read the words on the censuses. The reason for his death was a tragic road accident, and the eldest son then had to find work aged 12, to help keep his mother and family.
William Lane was the boy, and he went into the Post Office.
I cannot find the details of his WIFE though, as her details and her parents' details have hitherto been impossible to ascertain.
The family story was that their surname was changed from the Welsh name Vaughan/Vaughn to MORRIS and that they came to London.
The man was the son of a Welsh lord but his father did not like the girl he wanted to marry so cut him off without a penny. The pair left Wales to come to live in London, and their daughter, EMMA MORRIS, married William Lane. I do not know ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT EMMA MORRIS'S parents but I do know that she was an only child.
I am so grateful to you
best wishes
Imison
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