BALDWIN ERITH PLUMSTEAD SEVENOAKS

[kushti100]

My Baldwins start in Sevenoaks with Benjamin and Jane Page.  Their son Henry Godfrey Baldwin and Mary Ann Cranfield were married in 1881 and lived in Erith, Kent. in 1881 census Jane Baldwin ran a boarding house at 39 High Street, Erith. At some point before the 1901 census they went to Newcastle and the family name was mysteriously changed to Godfrey.  In that census Mary is listed in All Saints Parish with 8 children and Henry was in Lynesack & Softley as a joiner.  As far as I know the name Godfrey continued from that time on. Henry may have later left and gone to Australia without the family.   Most children stayed "up north" - Henry (Boy), Fred, Frank, Ella, Norman, Harry and Will.  Three girls went "down south" - Mabel, Ethel and Nora.  Anyone have any knowledge of this family and why the name was changed? 

[Bok]

Hi  I am a direct descendant of Jane Page and Benjamin Baldwin and have been researching but  just on my own Baldwin  line. I don't have any lateral knowledge of the family as yet. I don't know how we can be of help to each other but you never know. I was actually born in Erith. All the best Chris B.

[kushti100]

Sorry, only just found your reply Chris.  Don't have a lot of information about the other children of Jane and Benjamin Bladwin, I have names and dates, and would be happy to share what I have.  I was born in Surrey, and though I have pictures, have never been to Erith.  My grandmother was born on High Street.  Penny

[Bok]

Hi Penny.

Hope your research is going well.. 
I have found that Jane Page’s parents were Jane King and  ? Page ( I’ve put my notes down some where)
You didn’t say if you were related to Jane Page.. But I guess you must be because of the interest. If you are then we are cousins of some sort. When Jane Page married Benjamin she already had a son of
2 years old called George. Up to to the wedding he was called George Page. We don’t know who the
 father of George is. It could be that Jane and Ben had a fling and when Ben found out about George they got married, romantic at least.  But it could just as well be any man of the time, we just don’t know. Maybe there is a family story some where. Any way, George now became George Page-Baldwin, his descendants carried the Page-Baldwin name until my generation.. So I suppose that the other children of Ben and Jane were ‘proper Baldwins and thus half-brothers and sisters to George. There were 3 George Page-Baldwins. My father, (His Dad being Bertie) my Great-Granddad,  Great-great Grandfather and then Great-great-great Grandmother Jane Page-Baldwin.

 I do have copies of all the relevant Birth, Marriage and Death certificates that help to pull the jigsaw together. We took our mobile home down to visit ‘Shoreham’ in Kent a village mentioned on a
certificate. We stayed a few days so that I could see and feel the old place and walk the grave yard. There are still ‘King’ names to be seen on shop fronts and in the grave yard. I will let you know anything else I find.. I didn’t call my daughter Page-Baldwin perhaps I should have. When I dig-out my notes Penny I'll let you know where my Grand-folks were born. Talk again Soon Chris K Baldwin