Hi Carole and thanks for replying.
The children of this mystery George James, carpenter, who died before 1854 were:
1. Henry James. Born Westminster 23 March 1816 (date known from his daughter's 'birthday book') Married/cohabited with Frances Hunt c1849 (no marriage found) and died in Wales in 1873. His daughters Elizabeth, Jane and Ellen went to live with his brother George Edward's family in the London area. I cannot find his baptism.
2. William James. Of full age at marriage so born before 1823. Married Sarah Burry in 1844 and had one son in 1851 called Osborn William James. He was a butcher of Moscow Road, Paddington, in 1851.
3. George Edward James. Born Fulham, Middlesex, c1823/4. He married Jane Gatcum in 1846 at St George Hannover Square and died in 1893 at The Five Bells, New Cross, Deptford, of which he was the landlord. His baptism has not come to light but the records for the period for All Saints Fulham are missing on ancestry so perhaps could be there. His marriage certificate of 1846 states his father was a carpenter.
4. Mary Ann James. Born Croydon, Surrey, c1830-1831. I have only found her with her sister Eliza's widowed husband John Poole in the 1881 census in Paddington where she appears to have taken on the housekeeper role following her sister's death in 1872. I have not found her baptism in Croydon or her in any other census. I wonder if there was a census error and she was not in fact his sister.
5. Eliza James. Born London/Paddington c1831-1833. She married John Tucker Poole at St Pancras in 1854 and died in 1872. An Eliza James, daughter of George & Mary, was baptised at Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, in 1832. It is possibly this Eliza but other children baptised here make that possibly unlikely. For example there is no George born in 1824 but a George was baptised in 1835. The father on these is a boot maker, not a carpenter.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Jon
