frederick peter mallandain + emma drinkall
Frederick was born in Finsbury on 8 September 1860, the son of Frederick Mallandain and Sarah Vaughan. He was only 12 years old when his mother died and 14 when his father died. In 1881, he was living with his brothers on Bath Street in St Lukes and working as a Pie Maker. There is a second matching entry in the 1881 Census with Frederick Mallandine, aged 22 years, employed as a Servant at a Public House on Holland Road in Kensington. It is possible that Frederick worked at two jobs and was therefore recorded twice in the census.
There is no further sign of Frederick until 1892 when he appears in the Hull Trades and Professions Directory as the Manager of the East Hull Pie House Company, at 319 Hedon Road in Hull. There is no information as to why Frederick moved to Hull but while in the north east, he met and married Emma Drinkall in Sculcoates in 1892.
Emma Drinkall was born in Baumber, Lincolnshire in 1870. She appears in the 1871 Census with her parents, William, a Groom and Coachman, and Elizabeth in Baumber. Frederick and Emma returned to London following their marriage and in 1898, they were living in Walworth in south London where their only son, Sidney Harold, was born on 3 January. However, he was baptised at St Gabriel in Plaistow, Essex on 27 May 1900 even though his family was living at 40 King William Street in the City of London.
Frederick and Emma also appear in the 1901 Census at 40 King William Street and Frederick’s occupation was listed as House Painter while Emma was listed as a housekeeper. A reference in the Marshall Report mentions that Fred was working as a caretaker in a City Warehouse about 1905 but this has not been confirmed in the census records. In 1911, they were still on King William Street, occupying two rooms, and Fred was employed as a Pastry Cook.
King William Street runs through the City of London to the banks of the Thames where it turns into the London Bridge. It was a busy thoroughfare filled with crowds and carriages crossing the bridge and even gained a mention in T.S. Eliot’s poem The Wasteland:
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours,
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
Frederick died in Croydon in 1915, aged only 55 years, but no further records have been found relating to Emma Drinkall.
Their son Sidney joined the Royal Navy and served as a Steward in WWI. He appears in numerous Passenger Lists between 1914 and 1916, primarily on board the Commonwealth which travelled between London and Sydney, Australia. It appears that Sidney decided to remain in the South Pacific following his discharge from the Navy as he first settled in Auckland, New Zealand before taking a job on a farm near Omaio in the Bay of Plenty region. Sadly, Sidney died near Opotiki on 16 September 1920 aged 22 years. An account in the Poverty Bay Herald reported that he drowned while attempting to cross the Raukokore River on foot and the article noted that Sidney had no family in New Zealand but his mother was still alive in England.