A few random facts and musings:
Susannah Single age 51 of Mile End Old Town was buried at Stepney St Dunstan on 17 Aug 1851.
There's a load of rubbish on Ancestry trees for this family, compounded by the fact that they all have Susannah as Weston and all show her children as being Jabez's. I think most of her children were William Single's, her first husband.
The only burial of a William Single that looks likely is a 30 year of Brighton St at St Pancras on 21 Sep 1836, but the place seems wrong
In 1851 living at 11 New Rd, Stepney (indexed as Lingle on Ancestry)
Jabez Single head marr 46 Bricklayer employing 7 men b Eaton Beds
Susannah Single wife 51 b Bilston Staffs
Eliza Single dau unmarr 26 Dressmaker b Stepney
Ann Single dau 22 dressmaker b St Lukes
Jabez Single son 17 b Cripplegate City of London
Samuel Single son 14 Cigar maker b Whitechapel
On his marriage to Mary Abraham at Whitechapel on 29 Nov 1860 Samuel Single names his father as Jabez Single builder
On marriage to William Jeremiah Murphy at Hoxton St John the Baptist on 25 Dec 1851 Ann Single of full age spinster lists her father as Jabez Single builder. One of the witnesses was Eliza Single
The vicar of St George in the East having refused to marry Jabez Single and Ann Preston on 17 Nov 1851 after publishing the banns, they married by licence the following day at Christ Church Watley St - Jabez Single widower father William bricklayer and Ann Preston widow
(?) father Thomas Preston bricklayer
There was more than one Single family in that part of London giving Eaton Socon as their birthplace, all bricklayers
1851
Thomas Single head marr 62 Builder b Eaton Beds
Sophia Single wife 60 b Stepney
Washington Single son unmarr 26 builder b Stepney
Unfortunately they married well before 1837 so there's no record detailing his father
1841
St Ann Limehouse
John Single 63 bricklayer Not b in Middlesex
Susan Single 63 Not b in Middlesex
1851 St Anne Limehouse
Susannah Single head widow 73 b Eton
John Single married Susannah Goodliff at Eaton Socon on 20 Apr 1802
John Single aged 70 was buried at Limehouse St Ann on 24 March 1850
But this John with an implied birth of c1780 seems too old to have been the son of Willian and Ann who didn't marry until 1786
A possible sister of Jabez - Lydia, who married Robert Goodliff at Eaton Socon on 12 Jul 1824 (as well as on the IGI this marriage can also be found at
http://www.escan.org.uk/ ). Lydia Goodliff widow 47 father William Single builder married John Morrison 43 widower at St John Clerkenwell on 4 Feb 1854
I can't find baptisms for any of these Singles in Eaton Socon, although I suspect Thomas may have been the one baptised at Tempsford on 5 Jul 1790, son of William and Ann Single
Whilst there are no baptisms to prove that these Singles, with the exception of John, were children of William and Ann, I think there's enough circumstantial evidence to make it very probable, particularly as there doesn't seem to be another Single family in Eaton Socon at that time.
Unfortunately William Single of Eaton Socon doesn't appear to have left a will.
I wrote yesterday that I suspected that Ann (Barcock) was the Ann Single buried in 1807. I think he may have remarried Margaret Emery on 9 Aug 1809 - she was buried at Eaton Socon on 9 Nov 1836 age 82
I can't find a Martha Single though, the witness at William and Susannah Preston's marriage
Nor can I determine if this William might have been Jabez's brother, or just a cousin perhaps.
That should keep you out of mischief for a while
Do you think you are descended from Jabez?
David
