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« on: Saturday 13 May 06 12:03 BST (UK) »
Hi Valda,
My cousin is going to go to check the Merchant Taylors records in the next couple of weeks. He was going to do so last year but discovered that they were unavailable while they were being moved from Guildhall to LMA while the Guildhall was reorganised, and has just not had time since they became available again.
You suggestion about NC marriages at churches outside of their area of residence does bring in additional possibilities. One is at St Andrew, Holborn between Thomas Jeffryes and Elizabeth Gerwin in 1798.
The missing Jeffryes marriages are Thomas and of his son James (my ancestors). Thomas would have married about 1800 and his son James about 1823.
James married Mary Temperance Arrowsmith (their last 3 children were born after 1837 so we have certificates).
Theirs is the second missing Jeffryes marriage, still no clues as to where that one took place.
James was baptised as an adult in 1839 age 36 at St Matthew BG. He is a weaver on the baptism records of his early children before 1830, after that he is an Undertaker. Could this have something to do with his baptism?
There are other records that I have found of Jeffryes being baptised as adults and one of them is an undertaker as well.
One of James sons William went on to become a City Missionary and preached on the steps of the Royal Exchange and the main post office.
Both James and Mary Temperance were buried at Abney Park. I do have a copy of the Abney Park burrials index thanks.
They were in the undertaking business and their son James was a co-founder of Manor Park Cemetery.
Thomas also became an Undertaker late in life and may have founded the family business and got his sons involved or it may have been started by his son or sons.
Kelly's directory lists the business but there is no history, just their names and the address.
Unfortunately I do not have an Adam Arrowsmith, but thanks for the info it may link in sometime.
The only deffinate Arrowsmith links I have are Mary Temperance's family she had brothers and sisters (mentioned in her will) but no Temperance mentioned.
Her parents were William Arrowsmith and Sarah (believed to be Sarah Trenell) married in 1798 at St Dunstan, Stepney.
William Arrowsmiths age from census and death cert puts his birth ca 1779 in Shoreditch but we have been unable to find any record of his birth so have no confirmed knowledge of his parents. It would be a real boost to find Williams birth record.
I have been looking for it for about 8 years, there are Arrowsmith descendants who have made a guess as to who he was but when I have challenged them to prove it they can't. So I will wait until I see it for my self, I do this to find out where I come from, not where I would like to have come from.
Regards
Derek