Great sights and thank you so much. I've spent the morning browsing.
I have briefly extracted and summed up:
In the late 1800s for people living on this street none can be said to rise above poverty, nor are many to be classed as very poor. As a general rule they had a hard struggle to make ends meet, but they were, as a whole, decent steady men, paying their way and bringing up their children respectably. Residents of this street generally had earnings of 18s to 21s per week for a moderate family and included intermittent working labourers, poorer artisans and street sellers. The irregularity of employment may show itself in the week or in the year: Stevedores and waterside porters may secure only one of two days' work in a week, whereas labourers in the building trades may get only eight or nine months in a year. The comfortable received small regular earnings and included factory, dock, and warehouse labourers, carmen, messengers and porters.
It was interesting to find out there was a bank at Drummond, 49, Charing-cross. It has been found from the marriage record that James' parents were Helen Day and Joseph Clark. I did find a Joseph Clark with wife Helen on the 1871 census living in the St. John at Hackney District. I cannot find this couple on the 1881 census. It is known that James had a sister in England; however, grandchildren living don't know her name, so the Amy with this couple looks promising. He lists both parents as dead in his war records. James was born August 18, 1873. I haven't been able to identify him on the BMD yet. Still looking.
Thank you both once again,
Linda
