emma malandain + william shoulder
Emma was born at 3a East Street in Bethnal Green and she was the youngest daughter of Isaac Malandain and Mary Ann Bingley. She was baptised at St Simon Zelots in Bethnal Green on 9 March 1862. When she was only seven, her father died and although her mother struggled to support the family, they remained together in their home on East Street.
In 1881, Emma was living at 8 West Street along with her mother and brother Harry. Her mother was still working as a Silk Winder and Emma as a Silk Weaver while brother Harry helped support the family by working as a Fresh Fruit Packer. Harry left home the following year to marry and when her mother died in 1888, Emma left the house on East Street and moved into lodgings. In 1891, she was working as a Silk Winder and lodging with Elizabeth Platt and her daughter at 10 Chisenhale Road in Bethnal Green.
Three years later, Emma married William Shoulder, on 29 July, at St Barnabas, Bethnal Green. William was born on 30 April 1855 to George Robert Shoulder, a Weaver, and his wife Charlotte Jordan. When they married, William was working as a Weaver and living at 54 Chisenhale Road — next door to where Emma's brother William lived ten years earlier.
William was a widower with a 12 year old daughter. He married Mary Ann Boulder at St Thomas, Bethnal Green on 14 June 1880. Their first daughter, Louisa Mary Ann was born on 9 January 1882 and baptised at St James the Great on 29 January. Sadly, Mary Ann died in childbirth along with their new born daugther, also named Mary Ann, in 1885.
After their marriage, they left the East End and moved to Braintree in Essex along with William's daughter Louisa. Their first daughter, Florence Emma, was born in Braintree in the spring of 1896 followed by Lilian in 1898 and Ethel Edith on 25 January 1900. In 1901, the family was living on Mount Road in Braintree and William was still working as a Silk Weaver and his daughter as a Silk Winder. Six months after the census, their third daughter, Bertha, was born on 31 October.
Louisa left home when she married Frederick George Cronk in 1907 and three years later, William died in Braintree aged 55 years. Emma and her daughters were still living on Mount Road, at number 47, in 1911 and she was doing laundry work at home and her thirteen year old daughter Lilian was working as a Silk Winder in a factory.
Florence died in Braintree in the summer of 1920, aged only 24 years, and one year later Emma died. Lilian married William Lawrence in 1922 but it does not appear they had any children. She died in Braintree in 1944 and her sister Ethel, who never married, died there in 1974. Bertha never married and she died in Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire in 1979.