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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => London and Middlesex => Topic started by: Malivrag on Saturday 19 September 20 06:14 BST (UK)
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I had a rather interesting discovery while doing some research. I was having trouble finding a birth record for Alfred Denhart, who was born in Hoxton about 1878, married in 1905, and had a family. Then I discovered that he and his mother and siblings went into the workhouse in St Mary Islington in 1885.
In September of that year, Florence Denhart, age 36, a charwoman by profession, entered the workhouse with her young children Florence (11) and William (9), from her marriage to her late husband, and Alfred (6) and James (5), who are noted as her illegitimate sons by one Thomas Shipman. In October they were ordered removed to the parish of St Leonard's Shoreditch.
I found Florence and her three sons in 1891, now living in London under the name Shipman and working as a laundress. She is listed as married but there is no husband present. I went searching for the birth records of her children. Her birthplace seems to say "Strasburg" (probably the city called Strassbourg in Alsace). As far as I can tell, Alfred and James have no birth records, not under Denhart nor Shipman. But I did find the birth records for her elder children, where her maiden name is quite unusual -- Merckling.
Alfred's marriage record lists his father as Tobias Denhart. Tobias Denhart did marry in 1872, to a woman named Salome Merckling. I believe I found her in 1871, working as a nurse in a household in Ealing, Middlesex. Her birthplace is given as France. I don't know why Salome chose to go by Florence, but it certainly seems this is the right woman.
Finally, I located her little family in 1881. Salome (now Florence) is living with William (not Thomas!) Shipman in Shoreditch with her two little boys and her daughter, Florence. William is working as a cabman. Florence's birthplace is again given as France, "British Subject". I don't know what happened to William Shipman, but in 1885, as I mentioned before, Florence and her young children would go to the workhouse.
At last, in 1901, Florence has reverted back to the Denhart name and is living in Fulham on her own. Quite a long way from Salome Merckling from Strassbourg!
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Have you found her on 1911?
Louisa Maud
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Here she is in the workhouse in 1911
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWLD-7VY
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Familysearch has her as Salome Merklin, born 12th November, 1850, daughter of George Mercklin and Madelilaine Ostheimer, in Barr, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France..
On two trees, she died on 13th November 1918 in Kensington Instition (Institution?).
David
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I found a death for her 1918 if she is the right person, Kensington, agree with David, her death cert would be a good idea
Were there any baptisms for the children?
LM
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On marrying a British husband, she would automatically have gained British nationality at the time (and I suspect lost her other nationality).
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Here she is in the workhouse in 1911
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWLD-7VY
Admitted 6.2.11
A widow, born 1850
Admitted from 31 Greenside Rd
Creed C E
Relative Daughter in Law, same address
Discharged to Infirmary 31.5.11
She is back from there 9.6.11
Son Wm
Royal Marines
HMS something in Chatham!
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-L3N1-K2B7
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I think Mr Shipman is more likely to be William than Thomas. James marries as Denhart, father William Denhart (dec), cabman.
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Well Mr Shipman is William in 1881
And he is a cabman
Wife Florence born France
Living Shoreditch
Link to Florence
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27S-H2M7
Deliberate mistake now corrected!
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Then again, possible school admissions have Mr Shipman as Thomas
Admitted to Manchester Street school, 27.10.84
Alfred Shipman, born 8.2.79 (or is it a 3?)
James Shipman, born 17.5.80
Father Thomas
Residence 48 Hastings St
Presuming it's them, but left towards end of 85 :-\
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In 1871 William Shipman, 39, Cab Driver, born St George in the East
Living in Mile End Old Town, piece 556 folio 17 page 34
Wife Mary, 41, and 5 children, youngest Lydia, 4
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VB8Y-XSR
1881
Mary Shipman, 51, son William, 23, and daughter Lydia, 14, still in Mile End Old Town, possibly even the same house
Mary says she is married
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q27S-LHDW
Naughty William!
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Marriages June qtr 1872
Denhart Tobias Mile End 1c 1050
MERCKLING Salome
Deaths March qtr 1876
DENHART Tobias 27 Marylebone 1a 398 He died in the Middlesex Hospital & was buried 21.3.1876 in Tower Hamlets
A tree on Ancestry has this info - surname shown with a d on the end
His father - Konrad Denhard (Missionary)
Mother Anna Margrethe Ratz
Birth: 1848 Gambach Main-Spessart Bayern Germany
Death: 15/03/1876 Mortimer Berkshire England (wrong place of death)
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Deaths
Conrad Denhardt aged 64 March qtr 1883 St George in the East 1c 284
Anna Margaretha Denhart aged 61 March qtr 1872 Mile End Old Town 1c 380
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1871
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRJW-BWT
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Hi
Familysearch has her as Salome Merklin, born 12th November, 1850, daughter of George Mercklin and Madelilaine Ostheimer, in Barr, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.
So her birth record should be found in this online archives:
http://archives.bas-rhin.fr/rechercher/documents-numerises/
By the way Strasbourg/Strassburg has its own online archives:
https://archives.strasbourg.eu/
His father - Konrad Denhard (Missionary)
Mother Anna Margrethe Ratz
Birth: 1848 Gambach Main-Spessart Bayern Germany
Were they catholics or lutherans? The catholic parish records are at the archives in Würzburg.
https://abbw.bistum-wuerzburg.de/
Gruss
Svenja
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Religion-wise, Salome/Florence seems to list her religion as Church of England on her workhouse admissions. I don't know if she or her first husband Tobias would've been raised Catholic or Protestant, though.
Looks like they had another daughter who perhaps died young:
DENHART, SALOME MARKLING
GRO Reference: 1874 S Quarter in MILE END OLD TOWN Volume 01C Page 489
As for the surviving daughter Florence Denhart, she's working as a cook in a household in Islington in 1901: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9ZT-9KL
In 1911 she's working as a manager at a private hotel: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWLY-3H1