COMPLETED 1871 Bertrand Barralet

[SRD]

I have a Bertrand Barralet born March quarter 1870 in Shoreditch and died in December quarter 1879 but can't fix which of the three or four Barralet families who lived in Shoreditch around that time that he belongs to. Can someone find him and his family in the 1871 census please?

[Stonewaller]

Here he is:

St. John Road, Shoreditch
William H BARROLET, head, age 24, plumber journeyman, born Shoreditch
Sarah M. BARROLET, wife, 22, born Clerkenwell
Bertrand BARROLET, son, 1, born Shoreditch
Edward STOCKER, father-in-law, widower, 57, bookbinder journeyman, born Westminster
Charlotte J. BATES, servant, 13, nursemaid, born London

[SRD]

Thanks stonewaller, I wonder what they'd done with elder daughter Sarah Edith (b 1869 according to unconfirmed info). She's not on the 1881 census either. I wonder if I've got her attributed to the wrong family. I have info that she married Francis Baxter in September quarter 1892 in Shoreditch.

[SRD]

What am I saying, of course there's a Sarah (b 1869) on the 1881 census.

[grangers14]

Could this be Sarah on 1881?
Odd how its put? Normally / means in the same household and // is end of household. As it is on census. But has another schedule and number so I would presume another household.

89 1881. 17 Harman? ? Haggerston West Shoreditch
Charles Pritchard, head, 59, Cabinet Maker
Matilda, wife, 55,
James, son, 19, Cabinet maker
//Caroline, daur, 22
All born Shoreditch

90 1881. 19 Harman? ? Haggerston West Shoreditch

Charles T Brooks, son, 17, Printer Compositer, Poplar
Louisa P, daur, 18, Machinist, Poplar
Sarah Barralet, boarder,2, Old Ford
91 / Edward A Roofe, head, 23, Bankers Clerk, Islington
Georgina, wife, 22, Pimlico?
92 /JohnA Shannon, head, 29, Boot Shoe Clicker, Mile End
Hanah A, wife, 29, Hitchen
Frederick ? son, 5, Shoreditch
No Name, son, 1 day, Shoreditch
Ann Jones, Nurse? 65, Nurse, Bow
93 /Masry A Cox, head, W, 69, Retired Butcher, Barking
Mary A, daur, 45, S;pitalfields
Andrew, son, 30, Clerk Bethnal Green

[SRD]

In 1939 I living in the east end of London in a district called Hoxton part of a borough of Shoreditch. In Harman street which was about 300yds long on each side of which was a unbroken terrace of houses
Each house had an excavated basement, which butted out into the street and had a boundary. This was fenced of from the street by railings with a gate in it for access to 6/7 steps these led down to a paved area and access to the front door of the two basement apartments. Entry to the rest of the house was gained by going up a wide flight of 6/7 steps to the main front door this was the entrance to 6 more apartments. Two one each side of the hall and a further four flats two on each of the floors above, also of the hall going to the back of the house was a flight of seven stairs which led to a half landing, off the landing was a toilet and another flight of six stairs going towards the front of the house which led to another landing off which was a further two flats. this sequence was repeated to the top floor.
Each apartment had two rooms one of which was fitted with a sink and a cold water supply. The only toilets were the two on the half landings and one in the hall. It was quiet common for large families to live in these two rooms in fact in the two rooms on the opposite side of the landing were we were their lived a family of ten

It looks like the various families were tenants in the apartments into which the houses had been divided. Not particularly salubrious living quarters; odd that a young girl should be taken in as a lodger, although if her parents were living in similar conditions, with a young, possibly sickly, baby, they may have been glad if a friend helped them out. Harman Street is no more, at a guess destroyed in the Blitz then redeveloped.

[grangers14]

Sorry SRD that census I added is 1871 not 1881.
Jo

[SRD]

Well that complicates matters somewhat, I'm not sure I've got a 2 year old Sarah Barralet in 1871. Are you sure - you must have mis-typed 1881 two or three times if it is 1871? If you c&P'd it the year 1881 is definitely there.

[grangers14]

I typed it out SRD...
It is 1871.

And...

SRD » Wed Aug 17, 2011 4:35 pm

What am I saying, of course there's a Sarah (b 1869) on the 1881 census.

So you do have a Sarah of that age?

[Stonewaller]

You may already have this. Here are Bertrand's parents in 1881 with a Sarah of the correct age.

74 St. Paul Street, Shoreditch
William H BARROLET, head, age 34, earthenware dealer, born Shoreditch
Sarah E. BARROLET, wife, 32, born Clerkenwell
Sarah BARROLET, daughter, 12, scholar, born Shoreditch
Phoebe BARROLET, daughter, 6, scholar, born Shoreditch
Louisa BARROLET, daughter, 4, scholar, born Shoreditch
Edmund BARROLET, son, 2, born Shoreditch

(wife Sarah has a middle initial different to the one recorded in 1871)

[SRD]

Thanks everyone, I don't know what's been up with me the last few days, is there a syndrome called genealogy-itis? Maybe I should drop this genealogy malarkey and go do something easy like filling in my tax return.

Will some kind person just confirm that I'm now correct in thinking I have a one year old Bertrand living with his parents at St. John Road, Shoreditch in 1871 whilst it may be his two year old sister Sarah living in what may be apartments in Harman St with the Brooks family in the same year and that she is back with her parents (Bertrand having died) by 1881 living at 74, St. Paul St.

[grangers14]

Yes

Jo

[SRD]

Thanks Jo, and to everyone else. This can be archived now.