Marriage Certificate Fathers occupation

[avm228]

Listing out some possibly relevant baptisms:

20.07.1818, St Mary Newington: Mary Ann Day, d/o George (porkman) & Ann, of Lion St, Kent Rd
07.04.1822, St Mary Newington: Thomas Day, s/o George (postman) & Ann, of New St, Kent Rd.
04.07.1824, St Mary Newington: Louisa Day, d/o George (letter carrier) & Ann, of New St, Kent Rd.
21.01.1827, St Mary Newington: James Larwill Day, s/o George (letter carrier) & Ann, of New St, Kent Rd.

"Porkman", although clear on the face of it, therefore looks likely to be an error for "postman".  Perhaps the minister had made rather scruffy notes and was thereby misdirected when it came to writing up the register.

[jedidiah]

Thanks a lot again - will take me a few hours to look into all that but much appreciated. I have an Elizabeth Amelia Day .. perhaps that is it, but if not at least should have enough now to nail it down!

[avm228]

A possibility for Elizabeth (though she's not very consistent on birthplace, she does mention the City at one point!):

All Hallows the Great, City of London

Elizabeth Ann, the daughter of George Day and Ann his wife, was born the 23rd of October [1809] and baptized the 12th of November [1809] by [   ].

In the presence of:

George Day at the King's Head, Swan Lane
Ann Lowden, London St, Greenwich

[trish1120]

A LOUISA Day married also, Father GEORGE, Brushmaker (deceased)

Louisa Day/John Wyatt
5 Apr 1846, St Peter, Walworth
Borough:   Southwark
Father Name:   George Day
Spouse Father:   John Wyatt

Looks like a Witness was a JAMES Day

A LOUISA Day was Bapt 4 July 1824 Newington to GEORGE/ANN Day

1851 Census L Wyatt is born c 1825 Newington

[avm228]

George Day of New St, Kent Rd left a (simple) will by letter dated 12 May 1832 which did not name any executors but left everything to his wife Ann, including his business as a news vendor.

Administration of the estate (with will attached) was granted to his widow Ann on 5 June 1832.

[trish1120]

Ann may have remarried.

In 1861 with Louisa Wyatt is a John POPKINS, born c 1783 Cripplegate.
Down as Father in Law to John Wyatt (image is hard to read)

1851 Census
Newington, Surrey
John Hopkins, 68, Head, Mar, Hawker of ?, born Cripplegate, Middlesex
Ann Hopkins, 66, Wife, Mar, born Midd, Southall

Cant find them 1841

[avm228]

Ann may have remarried.

In 1861 with Louisa Wyatt is a John POPKINS, born c 1783 Cripplegate.
Down as Father in Law to John Wyatt (image is hard to read)

1851 Census
Newington, Surrey
John Hopkins, 68, Head, Mar, Hawker of ?, born Cripplegate, Middlesex
Ann Hopkins, 66, Wife, Mar, born Midd, Southall

Cant find them 1841

Yes, they may have married 25 Dec 1835 at St Leonard's, Shoreditch (both previously widowed).

His occupation of hawker is interesting - a traditional traveller occupation, as was brushmaking.  I wonder whether George Day, if we have the right one, was a postman/letter carrier/news vendor as his "official" occupation, and a brushmaker as his traditional one?  I am very possibly clutching at straws, but other than the brushmaking this family looks so promising!

[trish1120]

Yes, just found the 1835 Marriage also.

I agree that it looks promising as the right Family.

Changes of Occp are not unusual though I have found depending on how many mouths there are to feed!

Off to bed,
Trish

[avm228]

Changes of occupation aren't unusual, certainly, but if George was a postman/letter carrier when his children were born, and a news vendor by the time of his death in 1832, it is puzzling that two of his daughters remembered him as a brushmaker when they married in the 1840s.