« on: Wednesday 12 July 17 23:06 BST (UK) »
Well, it's that time of year and I'm having another go at chipping away at one of my biggest brick walls ie trying to identify the parents of my great x 3 grandfather George Serjeant.
He lived in St. Pancras and the census tells me he was born in around 1792. My best suspects for his parents, going on age (and the fact that Ancestry keeps suggesting it!) are John and Ann Serjeant who had a son George baptised at St. Leonard Shoreditch on 2.12.1792. They had five other children, all of whose names are reproduced in George's family.
One thing in particular puzzles me. The baptismal register says that they lived in Black Dog Alley. I have searched and searched and there were apparently only two 'Black Dog Alleys' in London at the time - one in Westminster and the other 'off Seething Lane' in East Smithfield. Both of these were outside the parish of St. Leonard's Shoreditch. Would it have been permitted for someone who lived outside the parish to have their children baptised there? Or is it possible that there was another Black Dog Alley in Shoreditch that has simply disappeared without trace?
What do people think?
Toomebridge, County Antrim: Devlin
Toomebridge and Cavan: McCormick
Glasgow, Wolverhampton, Shropshire: Hill
Lurgan Co. Armagh: Malone, Dumigan, McCourt, McGill
St. Pancras, and Poplar, London: Serjeant, Heald
Brookborough Co. Fermanagh: Carmichael, Tierney
Staffordshire: Cook
Isle of Wight: Parkman
Warwickshire: Kinchin
Cork: Kennedy, Ahern, Deliere
A British Islander, born Dublin of Irish/Anglo roots. Ancestors have crossed and recrossed the Irish sea in every generation.
