This is very kind of you... things are beginning to take a bit of shape. I presume that Robert (born B-u-Tweed) worked in the London Docks (Mariner), which would explain why he came down to London. Must have been desperate for work.
Hmmm.... yes, a bit of a mystery about Elizabeth Catherine and Robert and their father Robert the gunmaker and mother Sarah. I don't have them on my list at all, but possibly because I haven't done much work on this lot, but Splits Terrace means that chances are they are relatives. . Very interesting about where Elizabeth and Richard were christened, I have looked on the net, and it appears that the area St Saviours Mission served was extremely poor (slums from what I have read about the area previously).
It says written by the founder .... Wellclose Square, in which our Mission House was situated, is a large open square forming the meeting point of the three parishes of St George's, St Mary's Whitechapel, and St John's Wapping... The poverty of the place was very great.... In the midst of scenes of sin and misery the children were brought up, the school of too many the streets, abounding in temptation, echoing with profane and disgusting language, and forming a very atmosphere of vice.... The parish had very few redeeming features; scarcely any residents of education and respectability to foster a better spirit....
