Anyone still following this?
I've been having a look at the tree of my friend Andrew.
He likely descends from Christianna READ the daughter of Jonah & Elizabeth READ. From census information consistently telling us that she was born at Cambridge, that particular Christianna is the only candidate available to be his ancestor.
FreeBMD has Christianna's marriage to John CONDER which should give at least her father if the cert is ordered (not me as they are not my people).
FreeBMD
Marriages 3Q 1859
John CONDER, Cambridge 3b, 787
Christiana READ, Cambridge 3b, 78
John CONDER was a school master and a minister.
They lived at a National School at St Anne's in Wandsworth London in 1861 where John was a schoolmaster, in 1871 were at 21 & 23 Park Road Battersea (converted into one house) when John was a Royal College Preceptor, and in 1881 John was a Rector at Wendy in Cambridgeshire.
Two baptisms of children in 1864 and 1866 have them at Halbrake House at New Wandsworth/Battersea, so I think that the location in 1861 and 1871 will be the same and it will be Halbrake School aka College.
http://www.census1891.com/streets-h.phpHalbrake College, Battersea, WANDSWORTH
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH/2005-09/1128012346".....While searching for some of my UK roots in the 1881 census, I came across a few South African-born youngsters at boarding school.
The following three, all born "Cape of Good Hope", were at 17/19/21/23 Park Road, Halbrake College, Battersea, Surrey, England (1881 UK Census).....Other students at the College came from far and wide, including Burma, France, Trinidad & Tobago and even "Hindostan"....."
There were not many pupils with John in the 1871 census, just 14, but maybe not all the students were boarding at the one place. He had two assistant masters and 6 servants in the household which seems like overkill for just 14 students and his family (5 children at that stage, had 9 altogether). Not sure.
Just found this:
http://oro.open.ac.uk/18803/1/pdf02.pdfThe Metamophosis of Battersea, 1800-1914, a Building History
Ph.D Thesis, The Open University, by K.A. Bailey (1995)
"Private education was still available in Battersea during the School Board era, including the long-established Sir Walter St. John's and Battersea Grammar Schools, but affected only a tiny proportion of children. Local directories for 1891/2 list 26 "schools", located in ordinary dwelling houses, mostly small terraced properties. Only two of them were run by men - Thomas Montelli's preparatory school at 43 Bennerley Road and the Rev. J. Parr's Halbrake School at 21/3 Park Road, New Wandsworth. The rest were run by women, virtually all spinsters. Ten were for "ladies", two for "girls" and four were "preparatory". Sixteen of these establishments were located in or to the south of Lavender Hill-St. Johns Hill, and none in the typically working-class streets of north Battersea except Miss E. Adams' ladies' school (54 Cabul Road) and Mrs. Mary Hannington's (114 New Road). It is unlikley that these schools accommodated more than 20-30 pupils on average, providing in total less than half of one typical board school."
The details given for the family of Jonah & Elizabeth READ earlier in this thread don't quite gel.
1841 census has (probable) issue Matthew 15, William 9, Alfred 4, Christianna 2 and Frederic 7 weeks. Can't be 100% sure with relationships not given in 1841.
1851 census has Susan 21, Christianna 12, and Fredrick 10, as definite children.
The list given earlier in the thread doesn't mention Susan or Matthew (who can't be the one died 1826). There is no sign in 1841 census or 1851 census of these issue from that list, Amelia, Harriet, Emma and George.
Unless there were multiple burials and kids coming and going from the family at census time, The list of issue given earlier in the thread doesn't gel properly with the lists in census information.
Early days yet, maybe I haven't been at this long enough to sort it out, but those lists need to be reconciled with each other. I haven't had a go at OPR data yet.
Christianna's son Eric CONDER married Eliza Louisa (Louisa) RUMBLE in 1901, part of a complicated set of marriages. When Louisa died, Eric remarried 1917 to her sister Ann Ellen RUMBLE who had previously been married 1901 to Robert Stephen LOVE who had previously been married 1880 to Fanny POWIS.
Eric & Louisa's children:
Daughter Florence emigrated to New Zealand where she married 1924 Basil William CHISNALL. Her sister Kathleen married Harold BOSTON 1927 at Acton and they also went to New Zealand. Sister Vera married Laurence PORTCH. Sister Ethel Margarita married her first cousin, Frederick Charles LOVE, who was the son of Robert & Ann. I don't know what happened to sister Madeline.
Peter