edward mallindine + jessie lee
Edward was the son of John Mallindine and Catherine Kinchley and he was born on 6 February 1873 in Bethnal Green. He grew up in Mile End Old Town and following his father’s death when Edward was just thirteen years old, he was raised by his mother at a time when it was financially difficult for a single mother to raise her children.
He married Jessie Jane Lee on 31 July 1898 at St Matthew in Bethnal Green. Edward was living at his family home on Waterloo Terrace when he married and working as a Carman. Jessie was living at 61 Vallance Road. She was born on 26 January 1901, to Robert and Jane Lee, and baptised on 3 March baptised at St Peter in Hackney.
They were living at 5 Derby Road in Hackney when daughter Jessie Jane was born on 26 January 1901; she was baptised at St Peter on 3 March 1901. When the census was taken months later, they were still on Derby Road, along with Jessie’s five year old brother Robert Lee, and Edward was working as a Carman in the building trade.
Edward John was born on Derby Road on 27 January 1902 and baptised at St Peter on 2 March followed by Robert Richard who was born on 2 October 1903 and baptised at St Peter Hackney on 25 October. Ellen Florence was born on 11 July 1905.
In 1911, the family of six was living in 4 rooms at 2 Ada Place on Pritchard Street in Bethnal Green along with Edward’s elder brother John. Edward and John were both working in as Carmen for a wholesale ironmongers and Jessie was working as a Charwoman or Cleaner for the London County Council.
Jessie was forty years old when she gave birth to her fifth child, Albert Alfred, in 1920. That same year, her eighteen year old son Edward enlisted in the King’s Rifles and served two months before being discharged as medically unfit due to a weak bladder. In 1923, Robert was working as a Carman when he enlisted in the Royal Artillery for a term of 6 years but later that year, he too was discharged as he was deemed ‘not likely to become an efficient soldier’.
After failing with the army, Edward decided to seek new opportunities in Australia. He was living at the family home on Dunloe Road and working as a Carman when he emigrated on 8 May 1823 on board the Moreton Bay. He travelled on his own and landed in Melbourne before moving on to Sydney where he met and married Violet Lilian Druce in Petersham, New South Wales in 1930. They had two daughters.
Back in England, the family celebrated a third wedding in 1930 when Robert married Catherine Heuston at the Leysian Mission Hall in Holborn on 23 February 1930 and several months later, Jessie Jane married Percy Brady in Shoreditch.
In 1939, Edward and Jessie were living at 10 Dunloe Street in Dalston and although one of the 1939 Register entries is closed, it is assumed to be their youngest son Albert. Edward was listed as a Retired Carrier’s Yardman and although Jessie was listed as performing ‘unpaid domestic duties’, she previously appeared in the Post Office Directory as a Confectioner at 563 Old Kent Road.
Robert and Catherine were living at 39 Davenant Road, Islington with their three surviving children. Their first child, Joyce Jessie died in 1932 just after her first birthday. In 1939, Robert was working as a Trolley Bus Driver and Catherine as a Machinist. They had one more daughter born in 1941.
Ellen Florence was living alone at 29 Smalley Road in Hackney in 1939 and working as a Tea Picketing Machine Maid. The following year, she married George Herbert Rosamond in Shoreditch in 1940 but they did not have any children. Ellen appeared alone at 55 Wilberforce Avenue in Hackney in the 1945 Electoral Register as George was likely serving in the war but they appear together at that same address through to 1965.
Eldest daughter Jessie Jane hasn’t been located in the 1939 Register but she had one daughter, born in 1931, with husband Percy. Edward remained in Australia with his wife and two daughters and in the 1930s, they were living at 20 Red Lion Street in Rozelle, a suburb of Sydney, and Edward was working as a Labourer. From the 1960s to 1980s, Edward and Violet appear in electoral registers at 96 Carlisle Street in Leichhardt. Violet died in 1988 but no death record has been found for Edward.
Youngest son Albert married Winifred Irene Gay in Hackney in 1953 but they did not have any children. They later moved to Truro in Cornwall where Albert died at the Treliske Hospital on 12 December 2005. He was buried on 29 December at Ruan Minor Methodist Church; he was predeceased by wife on 7 July and she was also buried in the same churchyard.
Edward died in Southwark in 1955 and wife Jessie died in Hackney one year later. Their son, Robert, died in Islington in 1982 and his wife Catherine died in Enfield and was buried at the Trent Park Cemetery Islington on 14 June 1996. Jessie Jane died in Southend, Essex in 1985.