Phoenix
08-05-23, 08:44
Susannah Follenfant nee Walton married John Follenfant in Dover in 1808. He is variously described as a tide-waiter and a mariner. Their known children are Ann Priscilla (born Deptford) , George and James Henry born in the Whitechapel area of London and the sons are apprenticed to the same man as Orris Weavers (makers of gold and silver lace)
In 1841 John and Susannah are in York Street MEOT, where he is described as a pensioner and she a straw-bonnet maker.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8978/images/MDXHO107_712_712-0094?pId=15362997
His age is wrong, the name is mangled, but they have Ann’s little boy, Robert Griffin living with them, so it is the right couple.
John made his will 7 August 1833, when they were already living at 26 York Street, leaving everything to Susannah. PROB 11/2071/105. Not filmed by Ancestry. Available on TNA website. This was proved in 1848. He died in late 1847, in the Stepney RD.
By 1851, the two boys were living either side of Vauxhall Bridge Road, Westminster. James and family were in Ponsonby Place, then in the shadow of Millbank Prison, and George in Lillington Street with his wife and daughter.
Susannah was buried 2 June 1857 from Ashtree Cottage, Grove Road Stepney https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61263/images/47180_550561-00034?pId=286697 in the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery.
Her daughter Ann is living at 4 Portland Place MEOT in 1851, and Whitechapel in 1861, but with no clue to movements in between. George has stayed put in Lillington Street. James has moved about a bit, but if the birth places of the children were anything to go by, only between Westminster and St Pancras, where he is living with his large family, in Kentish Town in 1861.
So if Susannah isn’t with any of her known children in 1851, where is she?
This is my guess: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/MDXHO107_1480_1480-1003?pId=56401
The age is well out, but the name, mangled though it is by both enumerator and transcriber, could be hers. As the widow of a tidewaiter, she could well have been granted admittance to an almshouse (this was Emmanuel Hospital in the Buckingham Gate area of Westminster, which looks like a horribly poor area of Westminster in 1851, full of tiny courts). Her sons could well have found her a place not too far from where they were living.
But if that is her, why is she back in Stepney six years later? Help!;(
In 1841 John and Susannah are in York Street MEOT, where he is described as a pensioner and she a straw-bonnet maker.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8978/images/MDXHO107_712_712-0094?pId=15362997
His age is wrong, the name is mangled, but they have Ann’s little boy, Robert Griffin living with them, so it is the right couple.
John made his will 7 August 1833, when they were already living at 26 York Street, leaving everything to Susannah. PROB 11/2071/105. Not filmed by Ancestry. Available on TNA website. This was proved in 1848. He died in late 1847, in the Stepney RD.
By 1851, the two boys were living either side of Vauxhall Bridge Road, Westminster. James and family were in Ponsonby Place, then in the shadow of Millbank Prison, and George in Lillington Street with his wife and daughter.
Susannah was buried 2 June 1857 from Ashtree Cottage, Grove Road Stepney https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61263/images/47180_550561-00034?pId=286697 in the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery.
Her daughter Ann is living at 4 Portland Place MEOT in 1851, and Whitechapel in 1861, but with no clue to movements in between. George has stayed put in Lillington Street. James has moved about a bit, but if the birth places of the children were anything to go by, only between Westminster and St Pancras, where he is living with his large family, in Kentish Town in 1861.
So if Susannah isn’t with any of her known children in 1851, where is she?
This is my guess: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/8860/images/MDXHO107_1480_1480-1003?pId=56401
The age is well out, but the name, mangled though it is by both enumerator and transcriber, could be hers. As the widow of a tidewaiter, she could well have been granted admittance to an almshouse (this was Emmanuel Hospital in the Buckingham Gate area of Westminster, which looks like a horribly poor area of Westminster in 1851, full of tiny courts). Her sons could well have found her a place not too far from where they were living.
But if that is her, why is she back in Stepney six years later? Help!;(