amelia mallindine + william newall
Amelia was born in the family home in Carter’s Rents, Bethnal Green on 29 April 1825, the third of eight children born to Isaac Mallindine and Amelia Blackstone, and baptised at St Leonard Shoreditch on 15 May.
She married William Newall at St Mary Whitechapel on 20 October 1846 with his father and Mary Ann Hyder signing the register as witnesses. William was the son of James Newall, a Mariner, and Mary Hyder and was baptised at the City of London Lying-In Hospital in Finsbury on 31 August 1817. When Amelia and William married, they were both living on Plummer’s Row and William was working as a Grocer.
Amelia and William had six children but not a single baptism record has been found for any of them. Their first daughter, Amelia was born in 1847 and her birth was registered in Whitechapel in the fourth quarter of the year. William Henry’s birth was registered in Stepney in the first quarter of 1851.
When the census was taken several months later, the family was living at 47 Oxford Street and William was working as a Grocer’s Porter. Frederick’s birth was registered in Stepney in the fourth quarter of 1853 but he died two years later. Alfred Francis was born in Whitechapel in 1857 and Mary Ann in early 1861 in Mile End Old Town.
In 1861, Amelia, William, and their four children were living at 27 Jamaica Street in Mile End Old Town and William was working as a Warehouseman for a merchant. Alice was born in Mile End Old Town in 1864 but four years later, they lost a second child when seven year old Mary Ann died and was buried at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery on 28 November 1868.
In 1871, they were still on Jamaica Street but had moved from number 27 to number 50 and William’s occupation had changed as well as he was working as a Coffee Roaster. Their two youngest children were still in school but the two older ones were also working: twenty-three year old Amelia as a Sewing Machinist and twenty year old William as a Warehouseman. Also living with them was William’s seventy-one year old aunt, Frances Hyder.
Their son William married Margaret Mary Shout at St Dunstan in Stepney on 20 July 1873 and his father signed the register along with Amelia Newall, either mother or sister. William was living on Jamaica Street and working as a Clicker, a job in the shoe making trade that involved cutting the leather to make the upper part of the shoe. Margaret was the daughter of Benjamin Veletta Shout, a Hat Manufacturer.
Alfred had joined the army and was assigned to the 6th Dragoon Guards. In the late 1870s, Alfred’s regiment was deployed to Afghanistan during the second Anglo-Afghan war and while serving, he died of Enteric Fever in Peshawar on 23 August 1880. At the time, Peshawar was part of India and was near the border of Afghanistan.
Amelia and William had moved to 46 Exmouth Street in Mile End Old Town by 1881 and he was still working as a Coffee Roaster. Their two surviving daughters were still at home and both Amelia and Alice were working as Dressmakers. Ten years later, they had left Mile End and moved north to Hackney; Amelia, William and their daughter Amelia were living in three rooms at 23 Frampton Park Road when the census was taken and seventy-three year old William was working as a Foreman Boot Maker.
Youngest daughter Amelia was working in Walthamstow, Essex as a Domestic Servant for retired timber merchant, Charles Ford. William and Margaret were living at 48 Southborough Road in Hackney along with their six children; William’s occupation was listed as a Boot Manufacturer and it is possible that his father was working for him as a Foreman.
Amelia died in Hackney in 1893, aged 67, and William died six years later at the age of eighty.
In 1901, William and Margaret had moved to 18 Meynell Crescent in Hackney and he was still working as a Boot Manufacturer. The family occupied the whole house and were wealthy enough to afford a live in domestic servant. Their six children were still at home and all but the youngest, 12 year old Ada, were working as Clerks for the County Council.
There is a possible match for Amelia in the 1911 census – in Essex, living alone, and working as a Dressmaker – but other than that, there are no further confirmed records relating to Amelia or Alice. William had retired by 1911 and was living at 1 Cheriton Place in Folkestone, Kent along with Margaret, eldest daughter Margaret Annie and youngest daughter Ada Mabel. William died on 19 March 1923 at 28 Overton Drive in Wanstead, Essex and probate on his £57 000 estate was granted to his son, William Ernest, and his son-in-law, Walter Frederick Bigg. His wife Margaret died in Wanstead on 2 August 1929.