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The elder Rebecca's death?

Name: Rebecca Smith
Death Registration Month/Year: 1940
Age at death (estimated): 81
Registration district: Elham
Inferred County: Kent
Volume: 2a
Page: 3254

Good morning Joy

Thanks for the new marriage possibilities for daughter, they are worth checking??. My g/father had abt. 5 sisters none have I yet got round to looking into. I dont remember any of them as a child. My g/father was the only male in a female household.
I am today going to a funeral today for one of my cousins, so might get chance to ask a few quetions???.
Thanks for your help I will continue with this when I get back

Regards

Brian xxx

If that is the right marriage, the younger Rebecca's death?

Name: Rebecca Bence
Death Registration Month/Year: 1966
Age at death (estimated): 87
Registration district: Hackney
Inferred County: London
Volume: 5b
Page: 534

1901 Census

Name: Rebecca Bence
Age: 22
Estimated birth year: abt 1879
Relation: Wife
Spouse's name: Edwin
Gender: Female
Where born: Poplar, Middlesex, England

Civil parish: Bromley
Ecclesiastical parish: All Hallows
Town: London
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Poplar
Sub-registration district: Bromley
ED, institution, or vessel: 23
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 326
Household Members: Name Age
Edwin Bence 26
Rebecca Bence 22
Rebecca G Bence 1
Arthur Bence 7 months

One of these could be the younger Rebecca's marriage.

Marriages Sep 1899 (>99%)
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>>>>>>>>>>>Bence Edwin Poplar 1c 1023
Pemberthy Sarah Ellen Poplar 1c 1023
Simms John Charles J Poplar 1c 1023
>>>>>>>>>>>Walker Rebecca Poplar 1c 1023

Marriages Dec 1900 (>99%)
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Allen Ada Jemima Poplar 1c 1009
Collins Charles Agustus Poplar 1c 1009
Collins Charles Augustus Poplar 1c 1009
Johnson Robert William Poplar 1c 1009
Walker Rebecca Poplar 1c 1009

Hiya Joy & Rootsgatherer
Thanks for your last couple of replies, Edgar/George was found to have been listed as both a Locomotive engine driver and a Steam tug driver in different census'??...
Joy thanks for looking at 1911 census-you have certainly found something interesting as that fits well, At first I thought the Rebecca who had married Rbt. Alf. Smith might have been the eldest daughter Rebecca who would have been born 1879 (my g/fathers sister). Who I never knew???
Thanks for looking at 1911 census you have been a great help

Brian xxx

What was Edgar / George's occupation please? Is that not Rebecca living with him on the 1891 and 1901 census posted above?

1911 Census

Name Relation Condition/
Yrs married Sex Age Birth
Year Occupation Where Born Original
census
image

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SMITH, Robert Alfred Head Married M 32 1879 Greengrocer Weely Essex VIEW
SMITH, Rebecca Wife Married
7 years F 50 1861 Poplar Middlesex VIEW

Thanks Joy

Well spotted!!!, you could be right, maybe she did leave him around 1890, so not appearing on 1891 census, and remarried 1905???.
That would explain no death date for a Rebecca Walker???

Thanks for your help

Brian xx

Hi All

Thanks for the info - Thats the right family, seems George or Edgar, used his first or second name when ever it suited him???
I have looked for her death under Nowlan, Nowland & Walker all to no avail???

Thanks

Brian

Possible she re-married?

Marriages Jun 1905 (>99%)
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Atkins James Poplar 1c 989
REITZE Mira Sarah Poplar 1c 989
SMITH Robert Alfred Poplar 1c 989
WALKER Rebecca Poplar 1c 989

Hi Andy
Many thanks for confirming the marriage- The husband died 1903, but no sign of her anywhere after last child??

Thanks

Brian

so you dont actually want a death date for Rebecca Nowland, more Rebecca walker.

This looks like the family in 1901 with Edgar using his middle name George.

Name: Rebecca Walker
Age: 41
Estimated birth year: abt 1860
Relation: Wife
Spouse's name: George
Gender: Female
Where born: Poplar, London, England

Civil parish: Bromley
Ecclesiastical parish: All Hallows East India Docks
Town: London
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street Address: 64 Abbot Road

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Poplar
Sub-registration district: Bromley
ED, institution, or vessel: 21
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 186
Household Members: Name Age
George Walker 43 Locomotive Engine Driver
Rebecca Walker 41
Alice Walker 21
Sophia Walker 19
George Walker 16
Beatrice Walker 13
Grace Walker 11
William Orin 49 Visitor
Mary A Orin 50 Visitor

Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 347; Folio: 49; Page: 25.



1891 Census

Name: Rebecca Walker
Age: 31
Estimated birth year: abt 1860
Relation: Wife
Spouse's name: George
Gender: Female
Where born: Poplar, London, England

Civil parish: St Leonard
Ecclesiastical parish: All Hallows
Town: Bromley
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Poplar
Sub-registration district: Bromley
ED, institution, or vessel: 44
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
George Walker 26
Rebecca Walker 31
Rebecca Walker 12
Alice Walker 11
Sophia Walker 9
George Walker 9
Beatrice Walker 4
Grace Walker 1

Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 327; Folio 127; Page 25; GSU roll: 6095437.

? Edgar using his middle name & age mistranscribed


Name: Rebecca Walker
Age: 31
Estimated birth year: abt 1860
Relation: Wife
Spouse's name: George
Gender: Female
Where born: Poplar, London, England

Civil parish: St Leonard
Ecclesiastical parish: All Hallows
Town: Bromley
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Poplar
Sub-registration district: Bromley
ED, institution, or vessel: 44
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
George Walker 26
Rebecca Walker 31
Rebecca Walker 12
Alice Walker 11
Sophia Walker 9
George Walker 9
Beatrice Walker 4
Grace Walker 1

Here is the marriage

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
about Rebecca Nowlan
Name: Rebecca Nowlan
Age: 21
Estimated birth year: abt 1856
Spouse Name: George Walker
Spouse Age: 21
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 22 Jul 1877
Parish: St Thomas, Stepney
County: Middlesex
Borough: Tower Hamlets
Father Name: William Nowlan
Spouse Father Name: John Walker



Andy

Hi All
Would someone be kind enough to see if they can find a date of death for REBECCA NOWLAN bn 1859/60 Poplar London E14.
She was my G/Gran mother and married to a EDGAR GEORGE WALKER (1857-1903). I have date of marriage as 22/07/1877 at St. Thomas Stepney London E14, Though thats not confirmed, not sure were that came from???. Her first child was Rebecca(1879) and last found being Grace (1890) no sign of the mother on 1891 census??
Any help with marriage date or Death greatly appreciated
Thanks

Brian x