Who is John's mummy?

[Sue at the seaside]

What do you think about John Thomas Chambers parentage?

He was born c 1806 in Hackney

Married to Sarah Slynn in 1824 Islington

Then Married Hepzibah Battersby, nee Bellman in 1853 in Poplar.

There is a very likely baptism in 1805, St John at Hackney, parents John and Jane Chambers

BUT

In 1851 his daughter Martha Jane Chambers c 1840 Shoreditch was living in Hackney with a lady listed as her Grandmother, with the name Sarah Chambers!

What do you think, any ideas where I should go from here?

[JessBow]

is there more than one Martha Jane Chambers though?

[JayG]

Have you found grandmother Sarah Chambers on the 41 census?

[Merry]

Where you should go is to the GRO for the second marriage cert to see what he said about his father. (assuming the cert isn't on the LMA records? I looked briefly, but did't see it)

[Sue at the seaside]

is there more than one Martha Jane Chambers though?

I have never found another likely one, I only recently discovered her middle name was Jane! She is listed in 1851 as Martha, not Martha Jane. You have a fair point!

[Sue at the seaside]

Where you should go is to the GRO for the second marriage cert to see what he said about his father. (assuming the cert isn't on the LMA records? I looked briefly, but did't see it)http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1623&iid=31280_197748-00149&fn=Hephzibah&ln=Battersley&st=r&ssrc=pt_t819491_p-2045171210_kpidz0q3d-2045171210z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgPLz0q3dpid&pid=7099521

Hope this works, can't read his father's occupation!

[JayG]

His occupation is nursey man.

[Sue at the seaside]

His occupation is nursey man.

As in Garden type nursery man do you think? Well Hackney was quite rural then! I've got someone who lived just the otherside of the rail lines from St John at Hackney who was a Cowman, but I digress, thanks for that Jay

[JayG]

Yes that's what I would take it to mean.

Where's the family in 1841, the only Martha I can see aged about 1 is living with a William & Martha Chambers.

[JayG]

Ignore that Sue i'm found your Martha on FMP, guess the family is mistranscribed on Ancestry.

[Sue at the seaside]

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/browse/view.aspx?dbid=8978&iid=MDXHO107_699_700-0304&pid=7725942&ssrc=&fn=Martha&ln=Chamber&st=g

Hopefully the family in 1841, transcribed as Chamber, it is a very poor repro.

[Sue at the seaside]

I am thinking that Jess probably has it right, and the record I have for 1851 is the wrong one, there are other Martha Chambers born in London in 1840.

I need to find my one in 1851 now.