1881 Census West Ham

[Indaloman]

Hi Newfy,

West Ham is where my father and myself were born, Dad was was living in Canning Town and went to school there. My Grandfather Benjamin Edwin Knight was in the Royal Navy and met my Grandmother Margaret C. Stokes there. Why they got married in St Giles I don't know. My mother tells me that the Stokes were from Ireland, but I don't think they were Irish.

[Necromancer]

Cheers for that - seems pretty logical then.

There may have been a 'family connection' to St Giles I guess. My g*2 Grandparents were in Walthamstow, but both his marriages were in Bow ... and it wasnt the brides home either ?

[Valda]

From The National Archives

Description Name  Knight, Benjamin Edwin
Official Number:  160990
Place of Birth:  Southampton, Hampshire
 
Date 08 August 1875
Catalogue reference ADM 188/236 
Dept Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
Series Admiralty: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services
Piece 160501 - 161000

Regards

Valda

[Indaloman]

Brilliant Valda, I'll be able to get his records. Dad told me he served on the Camperdown, a cruiser, when in 1893 Rear Admiral Tryon (an unfortunate name in the circumstances), ordered his Captain to form the fleet into two columns, dispite being told that the vessels were only 6 cable lengths apart and 8 were needed, Tryon insisted the order be carried out and his flag ship was run down by Camperdown, he went down with his ship!!!!!!!

[casalguidi]

In case it is of interest, there is mention of a John STOKES (Met) police constable 313 H stationed at Shadwell (The Times 30 Jan 1907) ............. as a witness.

Casalguidi

[Indaloman]

Thanks I'll look into it

[Scooter Girl]

Can I just say the Stokes family in the 1881 census at the beginning of this thread is nothing to do with Margaret Celia Stokes.
Margaret (from that census) daughter of Henry & Charlotte Stokes married George Wallis.
Henry & Charlotte Stokes are my G-G-Grandparents