ernest william mallandain + annie elizabeth mcmillan
Ernest was born at the family home at 40 Scawfell Street in Bethnal Green on 22 July 1879 to William Samuel Mallandain and Jane Bull. He was baptised at St Mary in Haggerston on 2 October 1881.
He married Annie McMillan on 2 April 1899 at the church of St Clement Danes, located on the Strand in the City of Westminster, with his brother Frederick and Annie’s sister Louisa standing as witnesses. Annie was born in Brighton on 22 November 1876 to Robert MacMillan and his wife Elizabeth Wells. Her father was born in Hoxton and worked as an Ostler, someone who most often worked at an inn or stable caring for visitors’ horses, so it is possible his work took him to Brighton on the south coast where he met his wife. By 1891, the McMillan family had moved back to London and were living on Lever Street in Holborn.
When they married, Ernest and Annie were living on Murton Street in Hackey and he was working as a Packer — most likely in a factory — and they were still there when their first daughter, Florence Louise, was born on 2 January 1900. She was baptised on 21 January at St Clement’s on the City Road in Finsbury but she died only six months later and was buried at Chingford Mount Cemetery in Waltham Forest on 23 July. Son Ernest William was born on 23 March 1901 and on 14 April, he was also baptised at St Clement’s. When the census was taken on 31 March 1901, the family was living in two rooms in a house at 8 Shaftesbury Street in Hornsey and Ernest was working as a Draper’s Warehouseman.
Two years later, they returned to Hackney and were living at 91 Albion Road when they enrolled Ernest William in the St Paul's school. By 1906, they had moved to 122 Broke Road in Haggerston and Ernest was working as a Stereotyper making the large metal plates used in printing. They had two children while living on Broke Road: William Herbert was born on 20 November 1906 and baptised at St Paul Haggerston on 9 December, and Doris Annie was born on 20 January 1908.
In 1911, they were living at 18 Aske Street in Hoxton and Ernest was still working as a Stereotyper. Annie was pregnant at the time and along with her husband and their three children, her two younger brother's were living with them — seven people occupied just four rooms. Several months after the census, on 21 July, Annie gave birth to Frederick George.
Four years later, Ernest appears in the Electoral Registers at 86 Brougham Road in Hackney but as women were not eligible to vote until 1918, he appears alone without Annie. In early 1919, Ernest died in Hackney aged only 40 years and was buried at Abney Park Cemetery on 20 February. Annie was left to raise their four children who were between the ages of eight and eighteen. There are no records that shed light on how Annie supported her family after Ernest died but she appears at various addresses in Hackney throughout the 1920s.
William was the first to marry — to Caroline Bright in the spring of 1928 and the following year eldest son, Ernest William, married Lilian Clara McCarthy in Hackney in 1929. On 1 May 1932, Doris left home to marry Frederick William Bennett at St Philip in Dalston and lastly, Frederick married Doris Wymer in Hackney in 1935.
In 1939, Annie was living with Fred and his wife Doris at 86 Parkholme Road in Hackney. Ernest and his wife Lilian lived nearby, at 18 London Fields, and he worked as a Clerk and Lift Attendant while she worked as a Factory Hand for a surgical supply company. William and Caroline lived on Southwold Road in Clapton, in the northern part of the borough of Hackney, where he worked as a Motor Driver and she as a Mantle Presser. A mantle was a sleeveless cloak or shawl so she likely worked for a clothing manufacturer.
Doris and her husband Fred were even further away, at 61 Friern Barnet Road in North London, along with their two sons. Fred was a Cabinet Maker by trade and was working as a Furniture Maker and Repairer in addition to his volunteer work as an Ambulance Driver with the Air Raid Precautions organization.
Frederick went to sea when he was 18 years old, later serving in the Merchant Navy, and when war broke out, he sailed on supply ships crossing the Atlantic that were in constant danger from German submarines. A crew list from 1944 describes him as being 5' 11' tall and 212 lbs with a scar on his neck. Fred and his wife Doris had one daughter and after the war, they settled on Lamb Lane in Hackney and Annie continued to live with them until her death on 9 July 1951; like her husband she too was buried at Abney Park Cemetery. Frederick died in Hackney on 28 June 1955, aged 43 years, and in 1964, Doris remarried to Ernest Farrow. Doris Wymer died in Hackney in 1986.
Ernest and Lilian lived in Hackney — on Malvern Road, Stockmar Road and finally Mayfield Close — but they did not have any children. He died in Hackney in 1975 and was buried at Manor Park Cemetery on 15 August and his wife pre-deceased him on 16 August 1968. She was buried at Abney Park Cemetery.
By 1945, William and Caroline had moved to 6 Blanchard Street in Hackney and lived there until 1957. They had four children, three boys and a girl, but their son John Herbert died aged 6 months in 1938. William died 28 January 1965 and was buried at Abney Park Cemetery followed by his wife Caroline in 2002 at Waltham Forest.
Doris Annie and Fred Bennett lived in North London for many years. She died on 2 September 1990 at Barnet General Hospital and her husband died of cancer on 26 September 1980 at St Paul’s Hospital in Camden.