Mansfield Street, Southwark

[ShaunJ]

It's Shoreditch.

This is from the 1869 PO Directory:

[erika]

Thank you Shaun. No names on there that ring any bells I'm afraid.
It's such a mystery, no birth registered and her mother Ellen Barker comes from a village in Essex called Woodham Mortimer. She was there in 1871 census. She didn't have an occupation so nothing to use as a clue to why she may have gone to London.
Lucy(Florence?) Barker had a strange life going on to have an illegitimate daughter herself and then being a housekeeper in the 1911 census and subsequently having children with her employer!!
Love all these challenges

Erika

[Milliepede]

no birth registered

Do you have her exact date of birth from anywhere? **

Did she ever marry?

** 15 May 1873 if she was housekeeper to Frederick Brand

[Milliepede]

Is she Lucy Royce 7 in 1881 with

Jonathan Royce 24
Ellen Royce 26
William E Royce

[hanes teulu]

Mansfield Road, off Kingsland Road - see bottom left hand corner -
https://maps.nls.uk/view/101201478

[erika]

Thanks milliepede for your interest.
You have the correct person in 1881. Never found a birth registration and although she was the mother of the Brand children, have never found a marriage  for her. Her death certificate has her as
Lucy Brand Barker , widow of George Brand Barker and her daughter Beatrice Brand Ward ( nee Barker ) registered it.
In the 1939 register she is listed as single.
Such a mysterious lady !!!

Thank you also hanes teulu for the map

erika