elizabeth brown mallindine + john thomas weedon
Elizabeth was born on 16 March 1855 at 42 Booth Street and she was the first of nine children born to William Mallindine and Elizabeth Mary Pearce. Her family moved four times during her childhood from Mile End New Town to Spitalfields to Bethnal Green and back to Mile End.
Elizabeth married John Thomas Weedon on 8 July 1878 at St Matthew Bethnal Green and both were able to sign the register. She lived at 29 Abbey Street which ran behind the church of St Matthew in Bethnal Green and John, who worked as a French Polisher, lived at number 22. John was born on 31 December 1854 in Shoreditch to John Thomas Weedon and Mary Ann Williams and was baptised at St Botolph Bishopsgate on 28 January 1855. In 1871, John was living at White Cross Place, St Leonard with his parents and his father was working as a Carrier or Carman.
Elizabeth gave birth to Elizabeth Mary Ann Martha, the first of their two daughters, on 6 June 1879 at the family home at 2 Silver Street in Bethnal Green. Their daughter was baptised at St James the Great on 29 June. When the census was taken two years later, the family was still living on Silver Street with Elizabeth working at home as a Fancy Box Maker and John as a French Polisher.
Their second daughter was born at Silver Street and baptised at Christ Church Spitalfields on 17 July 1881 and they gave her a strikingly similar name, Mary Ann Martha. Sadly, she died in the spring of 1883, just months before her second birthday. The family suffered a second tragedy when thirty-five year old Elizabeth died of tuberculosis on 17 December 1890 at the London Hospital.
In 1891, John and his twelve year old daughter Elizabeth were living in one room at 16 Wolverly Street in Bethnal Green and he was still working as a French Polisher.
On 4 February 1900, Elizabeth married her second cousin James Arthur Samuels at St Andrew in Bethnal Green with her aunt Martha Scammell standing as a witness. James was the son of Mary Ann Mallindine who was the daughter of John William Mallindine and Mary Short. Both Elizabeth and James were living in the Samuels family home at 7 Mape Street and she was working as a Box Maker and he was a Builder’s Labourer.
By 1901, John was also living in the Samuels home on Mape Street with his wife’s cousin Mary Ann and her youngest son at 7 Mape Street in Bethnal Green. They occupied three rooms and his daughter and son-in-law lived in a single room in the same house with their 9 month old daughter Elizabeth Martha.
John has not been found in the 1911 census and there are no further records relating to him until his death in Bethnal Green in 1934.