Map, Sansom St.
Belham 1899.
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Charles Booth notes - Sansom St.
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Sarah Ann lived here in 1881.
Still standing, 30 Sansom St
in Camberwell, South-London.
St.Mary's Little Walsingham.
Little Walsingham 1900.
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Family
Sarah Ann Parker
Birth:1845 Marriage:1864 Death:1902Mother was Ann Douglas. Father was James Parker. Born 1845 in Bassingham, Lincoln.
Married at 19 years of age to George Thorne, in January of 1864, at St.Leonard's church Shoreditch, London. Children were:
Alice Maude Thorne (b.1866)
Ernest Thorne (b.1868)
Charles Thorne (b.1870)
Edith Thorne (b.1872)
Sarah Ann & her family can be found on the 1871 census.
After Sarah's husband George died in 1872 we lose track of her children. She remarried in 1876 to William Ray.
In the 1881 census, William (1848), is shown as Labourer in a yeast factory (brewer)... Sarah as a Laundress, and the only child in the household is Edith Jane Thorne.
Charles in 1881 is residing at the Shoreditch Industrial School (Brentwood) for fatherless children. Alice in 1881 was residing at the Soldiers Daughters Home (A requirement for admittence would be that her father would have had to served in the Crimean war). Ernest had died a month or so before the 1881 census (taken in April of that year) aged 12.
William and Sarah Ray appear in the 1901 census.
Sarah died in 1902, aged 57.
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Some known addresses...
1864 - 7 OR 1 New Inn St, Shoreditch - aged 19
1871 - 10 Belham St, Camberwell - aged 26
1881 - 30 Sansom St, Camberwell - aged 36
1901 - 28 Suffok Grove. - aged 46
James Parker
Birth:1815 Marriage:? Death:?Parents unknown. Born 1815, Little Walsingham Norfolk.
Married to Ann Douglas (born 1823, Thurlby Lincoln England).
Their children were:
Charles Parker (b.1847)
Eliza Parker (b.1851)
Jane Parker (b.1853)
George Parker (b.1855)
Walter Parker (b.1858)
In the 1851 Census, James and his family are in West Lynn, living in a Caravan. James Occupation is listed as Navvie.
Ann and the children appear on the 1861 census in Walsingham Union Workhouse. No sign of James, but she is not listed as a widow.
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