Edward Green (1824-1876).
My 3rd great-grand uncle.
Edward was born in 1824 to parents William Green and Willoughby Staff and baptised at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 29 October that year.
He grew up with his parents and siblings in the town and then married on 25 October 1845 at St Nicholas’s. His bride was Mary Ann Gedge (or Gage), who was born in Yarmouth in 1817 or 1818. This was her third marriage – she’d previously wed Robert Soanes Eves on 14 March 1836 and John Rivett on 1 August 1841.
Census records list Edward Green as a fish curer and he appears, like others in his extended family, to have travelled around the country with his job. His son William, for example, was born in Manchester in 1849 and two years later the 1851 census records him and his family in the City of London at 12 Paternoster Row. Mary Ann’s son by her first husband, Charles Eves, was also living with them. She died in 1858 and was buried on 14 July at the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery.
Edward went on to marry for a second time, his bride being Wapping-born mariner’s daughter Margaret Cassidy. The ceremony was held at St George’s in the East, Wapping, east London. The 1861 census shows Edward and his family living in Corbetts Court, Spitalfields, but his occupation was now given as ‘porter’. Continuing the tale of doomed lives, Margaret died in 1863 and was buried on 18 May at the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery aged just 29.
In 1871 fish porter Edward was living with an Annie Green as his wife, but I’ve yet to find any evidence of their marriage. Living with them at Grey Eagle Street in Shoreditch were Annie’s stepchildren and Edward Green (born in 1864) and John Green (born 1866). However, while their ages are given in the census I’ve found no record of either child being born. Living next-door to them was Edward’s oldest son William Edward Green and his family. Edward Snr died aged about 52 in April 1876 and was buried on 1 May at the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery.
Edward’s child with his first wife Mary Ann:
- William Edward Green (1849-1933). William was born in the Lancashire city of Manchester but grew up mostly in Spitalfields, East London, where his father worked. He married Sarah Ann Gilligan in 1869 and raised a family. He was listed as a fish salesman in the 1911 census, which showed them living in Forest Gate, East London. Their son Albert Victor Green of the 4th Btn Essex Regiment was killed in the First World War on 27 March 1917. Sarah Ann died in 1923, William in 1933.
Sources. All data has been gathered from Ancestry.co.uk, FindMyPast.co.uk, Norfolk Family History Society.