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Could someone have a look at a death/burial of an Edward Sheldrake 1854 please.
7th March 1854 at St John the Baptist, Hoxton, Hackney
Edward Sheldrake of 30 Dove Row, aged 4 years. Buried by D Shaboe, curate.
Thanks Merry, unfortunately not the one I'm looking for but worth a try!
Who are you looking for? :)
Edward Sheldrick - I have hardly anything on him. He was baptised St Dunstans 1812 - age 9 according to the record - with two brothers.
I have his marriage at St Martin in the Fields in 1842 but after that can find nothing of what happened to him.
Have you got the marriage cert? What was his occ/father's details etc
Was he a widower? (not very young for a first marriage)
Was his age given?
This woman he married - Jennet Siggs/Luke, who was presumably a widow - have you found a death or remarriage for her?
There's a Janet Siggs in St Pancras aged 30 in 1841. Might that be her?
This death fits:
Name: Janet Sheldrick
Estimated birth year: abt 1811
Year of Registration: 1884
Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at Death: 73
District: Lambeth
County: Greater London, London, Surrey
Volume: 1d
Page: 359
I have her death she never remarried.
His father was a millwright (from memory) will go look for the papers shortly. His parents I did find on the 1841.
There was a bit of mystery when I found a ref to a marriage between Jenet and a George Siggs the same year for one to Edward, one of the strange name churchs by the Wardrobe I think, I had that checked where the records were held and there was apparently no sign of it. So this pair have had mystery all the time.
They had three sons, one I'm almost certain was my gt.gt.grandfather. Thomas.
I have marriage - Edward Sheldrick and Jenet Siggs 1842 his father Edward Sheldrick Millwright.
In the presence of a John Luke and Margaret Luke. Her maiden name was Luke, she was born in Scotland I had found two baptisms for her one in Scotland and one in London.
Edward was a seaman on the certificate.
Janet is a widow in 1861, 71 and in 1881 has no marital status recorded.
In 1861 she has two sons, Edward 18 and John 14.
In 1851 she is married but OH isn't there. Her name is transcribed as Jane but written Janet. Sons are Edward 7, John 4 and Thomas aged 1.
Would Edward senr's job have taken him from home?
Edward was a seaman on the certificate.
So he may well have died at sea then?
Janet - spellings differ on Christian name - died 1884 73 years widow of Edward ships steward
she was born in Scotland I had found two baptisms for her one in Scotland and one in London.
lol I did notice she couldn't decide if she was born in Edinburgh or kensington!
I've looked through any overseas seaman deaths that are online with no joy at all.
My mums paternal side - her grandfather was a Thomas Edward Sheldrick a plasterer, his father I believe to be Thomas (David Luke) Sheldrick. Everything fits in especially with them being plasterers.
Thomas David Luke Sheldrick - cert 1849 father Edward a mariner
So, is the slight difficulty only that Thomas b 1849 forgot all those helpful middle names when he married? Did he put the right details for his father on his 1878 marriage cert?
No that is the problem, he put John Sheldrick - ships steward. But the family appear to be plasterers his brother Edward and also his son Thomas. I spent so long trying to srt this out and it seems the only solution that a mistake was made on the cert, he had a brother called John.
On my granddads birth cert father Thomas Edward - plasterer.
The David Luke doesn't ever seem to appear anywhere other than that birth cert.
Hmmmm, I see what you mean. Good job they were not called Smith!
The only other remotely possible one is Thomas Sheldrick b Shoreditch in 1849, but his father was William a printer, so that doesn't fit at all. I think you have the right one - the only way to be certain, I suppose, would be to gradually build up the certs for the people surrounding Thomas 1849 on the offchance a particular cert ties everything together. Particularly his siblings marriage/death certs and his mother's death cert.
That's a good idea, I do have Jenet's death already. Edward John - son - informant.
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