looking for connection to henri ferdinand wenger peterkin

[Michelle Munn]

 i  found a  memoriam  card  amongst my  mothers things. states he is  interred  at  st. pancras having passed in  1953.   my  grandfather  is the  son of  louis peterkin  and mabel  guest.  my  grandfather  was born  in 1919  may  30.  he  maybe  a  great  uncle?

[rutht22000]

Hi Michelle


I think you are spot on with the great uncle.   In 1891 Henri is living with his mother Emma and a brother Louis and 10 years earlier with a sister Emma.  Was Louis (as in the husband of Mabel) born about 1881 in Romford, Essex?  If so, Henri does look like a great uncle to your granddad



 

[CaroleW]

www.freebmd.org.uk

Birth reg

Henri Ferdinand Wenger Peterkin March qtr 1881 Romford 4a 235.  GRO online shows no mothers maiden name indicating he was illegitimate.  A tree on Ancestry has his birthdate as 2.12.1880.  It shows his mother as Emma Ginger & father as Louis Wenger

[Michelle Munn]

yep   that is  him. so  seems  like  both  louis and  henri  were  illegit

[rutht22000]

They seem to use Peterkin and Wenger interchangeably.

Emma Ginger marries Thomas Alexander Peterkin on 16 February 1865 in Pentonville, London.  Emma is using Peterkin on the 1871 census but is not with Thomas.   I don't think he dies but I wonder if they were separated?  There is a Thomas Alexander Peterkin that turns up in New Zealand but I have no clue if its him.

She then has Emma Louisa about 1878, Louis in around 1880 and Henri in around 1881.

Emma Louisa is officially registered as a Emma Louisa Peterkin (no maiden name for mother), Louis as Louis Wenger Peterkin (again no maiden name) and Henri as Henri Ferdinand Wenger Peterkin (again no maiden name) as Carole found.

Emma then uses Wenger in 1881 (children all Wenger too) and then flips back to Peterkin in 1891 and remains as Peterkin until she dies

 

[rutht22000]

hmmmm.... it would seem that Thomas Alexander Peterkin was charged with bigamy in November 1868 at Lambeth Police Court, having married a Harriet Martin when his wife Emma Peterkin was still alive. 

There is also a newspaper article on 16 June 1866 (The Bucks Herald) that states that Thomas was not responsible for Emma's debts.  That suggests they might have split up very quickly after the marriage.

Thomas Peterkin also had 2 aliases- Thomas Willoughby and Thomas Burrows

[rutht22000]

Michelle, are you aware of these threads?

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=820605.0

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=820192.0