Hello Katy
2nd try!
I will admit to being very new to family history, I did look up the 1901 census for Hunstanton and found the family that I knew or had heard of. More on that later.
Various myths & legends that I have heard are that it was thought there were Welsh roots, but no more info than that. The existence of a Welsh bible said to have been handed down was the only thing to give that substance. (I managed to find it yesterday, sadly no names have been written in to give any clues as to past ownership). It was also said that my gg made the ornamental gates at Sandringham, but I rather doubted that.
I knew that there was a very strong Hunstanton link, and the name Sedgeford was familiar too.
On the 1901 census it lists my gg, Alfred Isaac, and his son, Stanley Walker, as blacksmiths. This was a revelation to me as I had never heard that before, maybe because I had never asked. However, it suddenly made the gates story a bit more plausible.
So, Alfred Isaac and his wife Annie (probably Walker) were my great grandparents. They had 2 children, Gracie Hannah (b1879, d10/2/56) and Stanley Walker (b c1886, d c1970).
Neither Gracie nor Stanley ever married, to the very best of my knowledge. However, Gracie had my Dad, Kenneth Hope Jones, (in Bournemouth) on 30/11/1916. He was bought up by Stanley, his uncle, only finding out who was who after the war when he had to get a birth cert for a job with the Post Office. Dad married Gladys Cuttriss on 8/2/47 and I was born on 16/6/48.
I don’t know when the move to London was made, but I guess it was anytime after they moved from Park Rd in 1913. There were several addresses, but always around the Holloway and Tufnell Park area. That said, there was mention of Dad living at Sewardstone, between Chingford and Waltham Abbey.
I would imagine that the Holloway Pleating Company would be in the 1920’s and maybe early 1930’s. That was at 491 Holloway Rd (I have a postcard of it) and I have a book with Gracies address, probably at the same time at 503 Holloway Road.
Do you have any family photo’s? I have a few but can only identify a small number of people, wonder if you can help.
Typically, we don’t think of asking the right questions until it’s too late. A family friend (Lillian Newstead) that knew Hunstanton, and then before WW2 moved to Holloway, died in about 1990. She could have told me so much.
I’ll leave you to try and make sense of that for now.
Dave
