Henry John CUMING

[heywood]

Apologies if this has already been posted but I can't see it.

William  Frederick Cuming 1872 Kensington mmn Cosomince.

[Jomot]

Minnie Cuming born 25 May 1860 was baptised 20 May 1872 at St Peter, Cranley Gardens (Bayswater).

Parents: Edward (a photographer) and Jane, of 161 Portobello Road.

I haven't been able to find a birth registration for Minnie - can anyone else? I'd wondered if Minnie was a pet name but she married Alexander Pennington by Licence on 5 Aug 1883 as Minnie Cuming and naming Edward Cuming, Cabman as her father.  Her address at marriage was 14 Bay Street, which is the same address as the 'Powell' family in 1881 

[avm228]

1861 census

Dudley Grove, Paddington

Edward Cummings Head Mar 23 Artist
Jane do Wife Mar 22
Jane do Daur 4
Minnie do Daur 2
Elizabeth How Servant 17

All birthplaces NK (Not Known).

So was Jane aged 4 from Jane's marriage to George GELL in 1854?

GELL, JANE  EMILY
Mother's maiden surname: COSIMINI
GRO Reference: 1856  D Quarter in ST LUKE CHELSEA  Volume 01A  Page 151

Jane named her father as Raphael COSIMINI, a Modeller.

Debra 

This looks right (though the Gell/Cosimini marriage was 1856 rather than 1854 I think).

Jane Emily Gell was baptised 10 Dec 1856 at St Jude, Upper Chelsea.

Parents: George (store keeper at Thames Embankment) and Jane, of 16 Kings Street.

[avm228]

Raffello Cosomini married Sarah Lewis at St Leonards, Shoreditch on 15 June 1823.

Baptisms etc of their children:

Sarah Elizabeth Cosomini buried as an infant 9 Aug 1826 St Martin in the Fields (may or may not be theirs)
Louisa b c 1826?
Rosena Cosomini 18 July 1827 St Martin in the Fields
William Lewis Cosomini, 4 May 1831 St John the Evangelist, Lambeth
Raphael Cosomina (born 4 Oct 1835), 21 May 1836 St Martin in the Fields (died 1844)
Jane Hannah Cosomini 17 March 1836 St Andrew Holborn
Sarah Hannah Cosomini 29 Sep 1839 St Clement Danes (buried there 1840 aged 1)

A fragment of this family in 1851:
 
6 Bedford St, St Andrew Holborn

(Lodging in the household of James Scott, a porter)

Sarah Cosomini Lodger Mar 59 French flower maker London
William do Son Unm 20 Lithographic writer Surrey Newington

HO107/1513/481/18

[avm228]

It looks as though the George Gell who married Jane Cosimini on 11 May 1856 may have been born 1838 in St Neots, Huntingdonshire (and living in Chelsea with his parents by 1851).

That would make him a very young bridegroom for Jane (not of "full age") as he claimed.  It looks as though they already had baby Jane Eliza on the way (baptised 7 months after the marriage) so perhaps the marriage, in Battersea, was a rush job in a parish where they were not well known.

I cannot easily see what happened to George after 1856.

[Jomot]

In 1861 he's back with his parents - RG9/32/13/34

[avm228]

In 1861 he's back with his parents - RG9/32/13/34

So he is (& recorded as unmarried).

I could of course be wrong about his being the relevant George.

At marriage, 11 May 1856:
George Gell, full age, clerk Somerset House, of Battersea.  Father: John Gell, butler.

Then George was a "store keeper, Thames Embankment" when Jane Eliza was baptised on 10 Dec 1856 (this could still be at Somerset House).

Re George b 1838 St Neots:

1851 Chelsea: 12, office boy, son of John, gardener.
1861 Chelsea: 22, auctioneer's porter, son of John, journeyman clothworker.

Hmmm

[mickawinn]

Spent a wasted weekend following up another Minnie, right birth year, who ended up in Australia with her family. If I could find the right Minnie's birth record I would have the mother's name and would have cracked it!