I'm getting nowhere fast!

[ec]

Thats interesting arabrab - of course, just my luck, not with family!!

ec

[Greensleeves]

Hi ec
Is the maiden name Ayres???
Oh yes, have just read back.... doh!

[O1dgobbo]

Hi

I just stumbled across Brighton Street in 1881.  No. 23 is occupied by two families, that of George Taylor and that of William H Stephenson.  No sign of little Jane Bryant. (RG11/192 7 p7 & 8 ).

All the best

Gobbo

[youngtug]

ayres is a travellers name

[hiraeth]

Hi ec

Have you considered the possibility that Henry BRYANT could have died and mother Sarah remarried prior to 1881?  Jane may have been recorded with stepfather's surname?

FreeBMD has the death of a Henry BRYANT age 31 Mar Q 1877 Pancras vol 1b/pge 39.

Heather

[O1dgobbo]

Hi ec

Folllowing a serious senior moment I misread Henry as William and searched for Jane, born in Pancras, daughter of William and Sarah.  Hiraeth's discovery may mean that this was an incredibly lucky error.  The 1881 census has the following family living at 6 Coopers Buildings, St Pancras (RG11/192 19 p32-33 )

William Boon, Head, marr, 44, Jobbing Labourer, b. Middlesex, Pancras
Sarah Boon, Wife, marr, 36, b. do do
Edward Boon, son, unm, 14, b. Middlesex, Pancras
Frederick do, son, 10, scholar, b. Middlesex, do
Elizabeth do, daur, 9, do, b. do do
Charles do, son, 8, do, b. do do
Jane do, daur, 5, do, b. do do
Alexander do, son, 2, b. do do
James do, Brother, 26, Auctioneers Porter, b. do do

I think that this lot are worth a closer look given that your other thread mentions Frederick Boon as a witness at Jane Bryant's wedding.

All the best

Gobbo

[O1dgobbo]

Hi ec

A bit more about the Boons: in 1871 the family was at 16 Brunswick Close, St Pancras (RG10/215 37 p67-68 ):

William Boon, Head, m, 31, Chair frame sawyer, b. Middlesex, S Pancras
Sophia do, wife, 33, Needlewoman, b. do do
Alfred do, son, 14, Boy at coal shop, b. do do
Charles do, son, 12, b. do do
William do, son, 10, b. do do
James do, son, 8, b. do do
Jane do, daur, 6, b. do do
Edward do, son, 3, b. do do
Frederick Boon, son, 2 months, b. Middlesex, S Pancras

It would sort things out nicely if I could find a death registration for Sophia Boon but unfortunately I cannot.  The two youngest children, Edward and Frederick, are about the right age to be the same pair found in the 1881 census so I am reasonably confident that this is the same William Boon.  While it is not unusual for ladies to age by less than ten years between censuses I do not think that Sophia (1871)  is the same person as Sarah (1881).  I note a Jane Moon, age 6, in 1871: if she had died in the following five years the family might have passed her name to the next daughter born after the death but I cannot find a Jane Boon death in the period either.  So it's all a bit dodgy but on balance if looks to me as if Henry Bryant's widow married the widower, William Boon and for 1881 little Jane was recorded as Boon in the census but recovered her Bryant name later in life.

All the best

Gobbo

[nickgc]

I think Gobbo has some excellent finds.  How about trying to find a William Boon marrying a Sarah ca 1875 -1881?  I'd try but I am way too tired...4:16am.

N

[trish1120]

William Boon
December 1875
Shoreditch
1c 367
On same page Sarah Ann GILDAY

Trish