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My 2xgreat gran Gertrude Wallaker was born 14 July 1866 in Foulness, Essex to a Foulness born father and an Oxfordshire born mother. Her said parents John Wallaker, a waterman, and Sarah Brain had married in February 1866 in Lambeth, London, (county was technically Surrey but Lambeth was part of the London metropolis by then) and lived near St Mary Lambeth. They lived down Catherine Street which is where the groom's maternal aunty lived. They had their first set of banns read on 21 January 1866 at Lambeth church. Sarah would have been about 3 months pregnant at the time the first banns was read. To think if they had stayed in London a few more months, the Gertrude would have been born there but at least she was growing in her mum's tummy when she lived in London. It is unknown how John and Sarah met, whether he travelled as far as Oxford and met her there, or she was living in London when they met.
Another 2xgreat gran was born in Sussex in late December 1863, but her parents moved to London when she was a baby and she spent the rest of her life there. She wed a born and raised Londoner (born Marylebone) and my great gran was born Islington in 1889.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain