Emma who?

[croxia]

Can anyone decipher the surname of the informant on the death certificate? I read it as Nealby, but having searched the 1841 census and BMD's, including variants on the name, I cannot establish who she is. The death certificate is for Nicholas Jenkins, correct spelling Jenking, who died of consumption at the King and Queen Dock Rotherhithe September 8 1841. He was 35 and a Shipwright.

Thank you
Croxia

[Mike in Cumbria]

Is the third word perhaps laundress?

[josey]

It's fourteen.

Looks like Nealby to me too. Are there any other capital Ns on the certificate?

There are Nealbys in Rotherhithe [baptism of a William in 1811 son of John & Ann] also Nielbys in Southwark on 1841 census; can't find an Emma.

Josey

[croxia]

Thank you Mike and Josey....the third word is "fourteenth", which is the date of the death registration. Yes there is another N on the cert. for Nicholas. I will try and post that section, bear with me as I am not very good at this copying and pasting business! Will do it later when under supervision of my son.

Croxia

[veeblevort]

The letter that looks like an 'l' is short enough to be a 't'.

I'm thinking _eatly or _eatby, and possibly starting with a very bad 'wh'.

vv.

[croxia]

Josey as I posted my reply your revised version came up! Thank you for the information I hadn't been unable to find any Nealby/Neilby so will now look in more detail at the 1841 census. Still puzzled by Emma's prescence at the death of Nicholas though.

Thank you veeblevort "wh" is a possibility.

Croxia

[Alexander.]

I agree it looks like Nealby.

I've looked through all of Lavender Lane, Rotherhithe on the 1841 census (a few months before the death), but I couldn't see anyone with a similar name. For anyone else who wants to check, the reference for Lavender Lane is HO107/1067, book 7, folios 15-17.

Alexander

[MaureeninNY]

There's a baptism 1816 Rotherhithe for Emma NEATBY  dau of John and Ann.

Maureen

[Alexander.]

I think you've got her, Maureen.

That Emma is on the 1851 census in Rotherhithe with her parents (see HO107/1583, folio 165, page 58). Her father was a boatbuilder (that fits with what you know about Mr Jenking). I can't see them in 1841 though.

Alexander