Right, now for the Holloways!
The marriage cert shows Benjamin batchelor of full age, a cabinet maker. He is the son of John Holloway a foreman at the West India docks.
I haven't found Benjamin in the 1841 census but I think he the Benjamin shown in the London, England, Selected Poor Law Removal and Settlement Records, 1698-1922 in 1840 son of John Holloway a weaver married to Sarah Field age 40 wife of 20 years as at last 14 Aug, married Stepney, no cert. Children Benjn age 19, John 17, George 15, Mary 13, Wm 9, Jeremiah 5, Edw 15 months.
The marriage record shows the marriage was by banns, witnesses Charles Ardonis and Mary Swan. Mary Holloway married Thomas Swan (widow) 17 Oct 1814 Christ Church, Spitalfields. Witness Benjamin Holloway.
I think this is the family minus Benjamin in 1841
John Holloway Age 40 born Middlesex, England silk weaver
Hunt Street, Mile End New Town Stepney
Hundred Ossulstone (Tower Division)Middlesex
Piece 711
Book 5
Folio 37
Page number 7
With
John Holloway 17
George Holloway 15
Mary Holloway 13
William Holloway 11
Jeremiah Holloway 8
Edward Holloway 2
Sarah Holloway 40
All born in county
I think this is them in 1851
5 Little George Street, Bethnal Green
John Holloway Age 52 dock labourer born Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England
Spouse Sarah Holloway age 51 born Bethnal Green
Children
Mary Holloway 22
William Holloway 19
Jeremiah Holloway 16
Edward Holloway 10
Charles Holloway 6
all born Bethnal Green
In 1861 John is once again shown as a silk weaver, but in both 1871 and 1881 he is shown as a dock labourer.
I believe that John Holloway was the son of Benjamin Holloway and Ann of New Inn Yard baptised 1 Jan 1800 at St Leonard's Shoreditch, born 5 Nov 1799.
This is where it gets tricky because there are two Benjamin Holloways born about the same time in the same area. One, a widower, married Ann Stevens on 28 Feb 1788 at St Dunstan and All Saints, witnesses James Brown and Samuel Mears? I believe this is our man. His first marriage was probably to Hannah Golding.
There are two possibilities for his parents John and Mildred Holloway who baptised a son Benjamin in 1757 or Jeremiah and Mary Holloway who also baptised a son Benjamin in 1757.
I am not sure who Sarah Field's parents are either.
