Looking for Elizabeth Rea

[RW1]

Hi
I'm searching for my relative, Elizabeth Rea, born 31 July 1839 in Clerkenwell.  She married Frederick Gerrard on 1 March 1857 at St Philip's, Clerkenwell, and they had a son, Frederick William Gerrard, born on 27 January 1858, again in Clerkenwell.  On the 1861 Census, Frederick Jr is with his grandparents at 19 Margaret Street; I can't find his parents in 1861 at all.  Frederick Sr re-married: to Mary Ann Martha Lawrance on 6 June 1870; and appears on subsequent Censuses with her.
I can't find a remarriage or death that matches Elizabeth; I also can't find her son on the 1871 or 1881 Census; he's with his wife and children thereafter.  Frederick Jr's London City Freedom record from 1925 shows his father as "Late of Margaret Street", perhaps suggesting no contact since early childhood, if at all?
I should be very grateful for any suggestions?
Many thanks.

[CaroleW]

The 1870 marriage shows him as a bachelor aged 33 occ -  cab driver.  Father was William occ poulterer

1857 marriage he was a warder in the house of correction but fathers details the same as 1870

[osprey]

baptism of Frederick William has father Frederick as warder as well. Age on the second marriage is a few years out. Some later census entries show him as older
1881 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q277-3LZ1 
1901 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9ZN-682
as does 1841 with family
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQR7-MML

[RW1]

It's unusual that Frederick William and his wife had four sons before their marriage in 1888?  I can't find him on the 1871 or 1881 Census - he and his mother, Elizabeth, have "disappeared"?

[osprey]

Frederick & Julia in 1911
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWLV-Y66

birth reg for Julia Beatrice Gerrard sept qtr 1899 Pancras vol 1b pg 4 mmn Shirwell
so this marriage reg
Frederick William Gerrard dec qtr 1888 Strand vol 1b pg 986 with Julia Agnes Shirwill on the same page

1891 census https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q65S-8N2
birth regs
Frederick George Gerrard march qtr 1883 Marylebone mmn Shirwell
Charles James march qtr 1885 Marylebone mmn Shirwell
Arthur Edward sept qtr 1886 Edmonton mmn Shirwill
Walter Richard dec qtr 1889 Edmonton mmn Shirwill

Only baptisms I've found so far 
30 March 1907 St Mark's Regent Park
Florence Agnes & Julia Beatrice daughters of Frederick William Gerrard, tool maker, & Julia Agnes of 49 Ainger Road

Do you have a copy of the 1888 marriage cert? Is Frederick a bachelor on it?

[RW1]

I've researched Frederick William through the Censuses and 1939 Register; Elizabeth is not with him. It would be the 1871 and 1881 that I would be interested to find.

She's not with any of her siblings or nieces or nephews, either.

[jim1]

I think they divorced. There's a divorce petition dated 1860
Frederick Gerrard V Elizabeth Gerrard.
This is on Ancestry.
Added:
Nope she was Elizabeth Lambourne.

[RW1]

That could be them! I don't have access at the moment, but never found that before. I tried the newspapers - but no divorce hearing came up in a search. Very unusual then, surely?

[RW1]

Lambourne - oh dear, shame!