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Thanks for the offer of the photos.  I have one of the blasted school (1955) and some from the sixties after the top was taken off.  I have been up on the roof, although I didn't throw stones.  The shelters under the arches at the back were converted to classrooms a good many years ago.  I'd love a picture of the furniture shop opposite.  I'll message you.

Deborah

There is a catholic section at Woolwich New Cemetery, in Plumstead.  No problem from 1830 onwards here.  He would have been buried in an unconsecrated area as it was a pauper's burial.

Deborah

Sorry, Mabel.  I'm probably being a bit dim, but I can't find Costan in 1861 Dorking in Ancestry or with the RG reference.

I now have them in 1851, thank you, Bookbox.

Deborah

Hi,

I am looking for Katherine Fanny Cowtan, or her parents (Robert and Susannah/Susanna/Susan) in 1851 and 1861.  She was born in Newington in 1848 and baptised in St Pancras in 1852, along with her brother Frederick James.  Frederick was with his maternal grandparents (James and Elizabeth Roase) near Dorking in 1851 - but I have not been able to find Katherine or her parents in 1851 or in 1861.  Cowtan is easily mistranscribed and I think this may be the problem.

Katherine married William Thomas Vincent at St Nicholas, Plumstead in 1868 and she then lived in Plumstead for the rest of her life.  Her brother also married in Plumstead in 1874, but he and his wife lived in St Pancras and then Crouch End.

I have Katherine's parents at later dates in Mansfield Road, Hampstead.  Robert was born in St Pancras and seems to have remained in North London - apart from when Katherine and Frederick were born in Newington Butts.  Robert and Susannah married in Kennington in 1846.  He was a piano forte maker.  His father, William, was a cabinet maker who hailed from Canterbury as did most of the Cowtans I have come upon - some of them migrating to the Camberwell area and others to North London.  The Roses were from Dorking.

Thank you.