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Valda
Co-moderator London and Middlesex

Hi

If your father was in care in a Middlesex or London County Council care home and not a privately run home managed by a charity then it is worth reading the information in the London Metropolitan Archives guide on how to proceed further with your enquiries. The MCC and LCC were responsible for children's care between 1930 and 1965. The individual London Boroughs took over this responsibility in 1965.

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/visiting-the-city/archives-and-city-history/london-metropolitan-archives/Documents/visitor-information/2012-adoption-in-care-guidelines-for-enquirers.pdf


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Valda

Hi

He is likely to be buried in a London civic cemetery. Unless you think he may have been buried somewhere where he lived earlier the first place to enquire would be the London Borough of Wandsworth cemetery office if that is where he died and was living last.
The link is in the Rootschat guide to London burials at the top of the London board.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,403485.30.html

Regards

Valda

Hi

He married as Charles Strickland and as buried as Charles Strickland. There is no second name given on his children's baptisms or on his will.
Catherine's burial at St Mary Lambeth was 4th April 1836 aged 53 which would give her age as 5 years older than her husband.
Their first child Elizabeth born in 1814 was baptised at St Margaret Westminster father's occupation coffee merchant. By 1816 Charles was a chocolate maker in Lambeth so the family was perhaps in the coffee trade before Charles branched out into chocolate.
As both Catherine and Charles' surname was Strickland the direct connection to Henry if there is one may be through Catherine (who made her mark on her marriage).

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Valda