Hi Francis
Baptisms at Woodbridge show that William Hartridge senior was a carpenter (1807-1810) or cabinet maker (1814-1821).
At 3B Spencer Street, Shoreditch, Middlesex, in 1851 (HO 107/1533 folio 218 verso, page 19, schedule 75) Woodbridge-born cabinet maker William (Hartnidge at Ancestry) gave his age as 40, perhaps reducing the age-gap between him and his wife, Sarah (30, born in Marylebone).
In 1861 they were at Queens Place, Shoreditch (RG 9/241 f. 7 v. p. 8 s. 37), William being 49 and Sarah 38 (Harbridge at Ancestry).
In 1871 cabinet maker William Heartridge (62) and his wife Sarah (48), both from Shoreditch, were at 45 Orange Street, Bethnal Green (RG 10/493 f. 33 p. 21 s. 110) .
In 1881 a 74-year-old widowed cabinet maker named William Pastridge (transcribed as Partride at both Ancestry and Findmypast), born in Suffolk c.1807, was lodging with gardener Thomas Reynolds at 13 Boston Terrace, Longfellow Road, Walthamstow, Essex (RG 11/1730 f. 11 v. p. 16 s. 80).
Destitution had probably caused him to spend nearly a year in Shoreditch Workhouse from August 1879, when he was recorded as a married bedstead maker, and another few days in December 1880, when he was initially registered as William Hartrage, a married cabinet maker (Ancestry: London, England, Workhouse Admission and Discharge Records, 1764-1921).
Unfortunately, his marriage seems to be as elusive as his location in 1841, but at least two potentially relevant deaths were registered in Bethnal Green: William Hartridge aged 72 in 1884 Q2 and Sarah Hartridge aged 80 in 1898 Q1.
David
