On A Quest!
We’re going to Lambeth in May 07 to visit:
1) Peabody Buildings - where my granddad, William MARTIN, lived just after his born, with his father, William MARTIN & mother, Emily Sarah MARTIN (nee COOPER). They lived at no 22, K Block, just off what is now Duchy Street, north of Waterloo Station.
2) Lambeth Archives - to explore further the local history of our family at the end of the 1800s, living in one of the poorest parts of London.
3) Some of the streets where our family lived: Charles Street (now Nicholson Street), Goding Street, Duke Street (now Duchy Street), East Street (off Lambeth Walk), Thomas Street, Launcelot Street, Cottage Place (Lambeth). If the houses, given in the records we have, still exist, we plan to photograph them for our archives.
4) Family Records Office - to get advice on how best to increase certainty we are looking at the correct records. In particular, I would like to know that the person shown as Frederick Charles Martin on the birth certificates of his children is the same person as the Charles Martin given in the census records we have (1881, 1891, 1901) and also in the marriage certificate of his son, William (1).
January 10th, 2009 at 07:37 pm
I am probably not writing in the correct place. I am interested as your ancestors seem to have come from Lambeth as did mine. My gtx4 grandfather Robert Martin 1769-1827 had 10 children all born in Lambeth,I descend from a son Robert 1801-1857, but there were other sons, who could easily have had thier own son Frederick, your relative.If you are interested I have a tree on Ancestory and Genes reunited,not always up to date but let me know if you want to make contact.
Best wishes.
Sue