Trying to trace Mary Charlotte Stanhope Paulley

[cardinalcanary]

Could Paulley be a phonetic spelling of the Huguonot name Paulet. Perhaps Mary couldn't write her name and tried to explain it to the clerk! Getting a bit fanciful now. Trying to imaging someone saying the name with a French accent!

[cardinalcanary]

Mary's husband Robert Linch seems fairly well to do. He was a freeman of the city of London and a member of the Worshipful Company of Stationers. (The company still exists and mainly represents the newspaper industry these days). Their son Bartholomew became a policeman. Their daughter Elizabeth Mary (my 4xGGM) married A printer Thomas Fenton. Another son Francis John Linch applies to become a Freeman of the City through paternal rights and is accepted. Being born to the east of Aldgate and outside the City boundary meant he couldn't trade in the City without becoming a Freeman.

All in all, the family don't seem to be struggling. That changes somewhat for my poor 4xgreat grandmother Elizabeth when her husband dies and her son and daughter-in-law die leaving her to raise her other miscreant son and her grandchildren on her own. She is found in the workhouse later in life.

[..claire..]

It could easily be a Huguenot surname. I know with my lot I've had a devil of a time trying to track down my surname ( Mocquard ) and the different ways it has been spelt.
Plus, a friend of mine also researching Huguenot ancestors told me it's not uncommon for females to keep their maiden names, so could account for why she may be buried under a different name

Claire

[cardinalcanary]

Thanks Claire.

I have found a bit more info from 4xGGM Elizabeth Mary Linch's baptism record.

Elizabeth was baptised at S. Leonard's Church Shoreditch on 9th July 1792. Her parents are listed as Robert and Mary Linch of Union Gardens.

Presumably Union Gardens was somehow linked to the Shoreditch Union workhouse. I'm not sure how yet.

What I think is now clear is that Mary is very definitely Mary and not Maria or anything else (her daughter also has the middle name Mary) and she was happy to use Linch as her surname.

[cardinalcanary]

When son Robert junior was born in 1790, Mary and Robert senior lived at Kingsland Road, Shoreditch. Robert junior was baptised at St Leonards on 22-08-1790.

Elizabeth was baptised at S. Leonard's Church Shoreditch on 9th July 1792. Her parents are listed as Robert and Mary Linch of Union Gardens.

Son Bartholomew Linch was baptised at St Katherine's Cree church on 22.06.1794. I can't find the register entry but the selected births and christenings list and Pallots baptism index show the parents as Rob't and Mary Charlotte Stanhope Linch.

Daughter Martha Ann Linch was also baptised at St Katherine's Cree on 15.05.1797.

Son William Joseph was baptised at St. Botolph Without, Aldgate on 28.08.1803.

Youngest son Francis John Linch was baptised back at St Catherine Cree on 01.01.1809.

[Galium]

The reason it is difficult to find the register entry on Ancestry is that it has been indexed as Bartholomew Hanpope s/o Robert and Charlotte.  (You will see that there's no excuse for such a lousy transcript.)

[jonw65]

Re the 1813 burial, where I wondered whether there may be an error (Linch missed off)
There might be another source at the LMA
St Mary Whitechapel
Burials fee book
Gives name, age and address of deceased, cause of death, place of burial, and apportionment of fees
Dec 1805-May 1814
P93/MRY1/086

[cardinalcanary]

Thanks Galium. That transcription is completely and utterly wrong isn't it. I have left a comment.

Thanks Jon. I will see if I can get over to the LMA and get my hands on the register.

[cardinalcanary]

Apologies if you have explored this yourself, and I'm not sure if it leads anywhere, but maybe someone else will spot something to take it further.

One of the witnesses to the marriage is a Susannah Solomon.
On 27 June 1791 Susannah Solomon married Thomas Whitney at St Anne, Soho (by banns). One witness is Robert Linch  (the other, Joseph Davies also witnessed a marriage on the following day, so probably unconnected)

Thomas Whitney died and Susannah Whitney, widow of the parish of All Hallows the Great in the City of London married Joseph Reeve, bachelor at St James Dukes Place on 22 August 1825 (Witnesses are John Whitney and Catherine Whitney).

In 1841 Susannah Reeve aged 65 is recorded in the household of Bartholomew Linch in Peckham.  Impossible to say whether she normally lived there or was just visiting, but she seems to have been important to the Linch family.  One of Bartholomew's daughters is named Susannah, and perhaps Bartholomew himself was named after Susannah's father, Bartholomew Solomon.

Baptism 6 December 1774 at All Hallows Staining Susannah d/o Bartholomew and Mary Solloman (born 3 December).

Interested in Susannah Solomon and who she is in relation to the family. Its hard to make out but I think the entry in the 1841 census where she lives as Susannah Reeve with Bartholomew Linch says 'n' in the born in England, Scotland or Wales column. Say she is jewish and comes from outside the UK. where would she have come from?