george mallindine + susan bromley
George was the youngest child of Isaac Mallindine and Amelia Blackstone and he was born on 13 September 1841 at 1 Spital Street in Mile End New Town. His mother died before his tenth birthday and by the time he turned fifteen, his father had left the family and was living in the local workhouse. It’s not known if George stayed with his older siblings or if he was left to fend for himself. In 1861, he was lodging at 4 Hare Marsh in Mile End with five other young men and working as a Labourer. Ten years later, he was lodging with the Phillips family at 3 East Street in Bethnal Green and working as a Plumber.
At the age of thirty-five, George married Susannah Bromley on 8 April 1877 at St Dunstan in Stepney with her brother James Bromley and Elizabeth Townsend as witnesses. They were both living at 10 Jubilee Street and George was still working as a Plumber. Susannah, known as Susan, was born on 28 July 1851 to James Bromley and Eliza Edwards and baptised at St James in Shoreditch. In the 1860s, Susan’s family lived further down East Street at number 28 and this may have been how she met George.
They were living at 9 Redman’s Row, near Jubilee Street, in Stepney when son George Thomas was born on 4 June 1877 – just two months after his parents’ wedding. George was baptised St Botolph Aldgate on 24 June. Eliza Susan was born at the family home on 24 July 1878 and baptised at St Botolph Aldgate on 11 August. Susan gave birth to twin boys, Edward Thomas and James Edward, on Christmas Eve in 1879 and while James was baptised at St Botolph on 25 January 1880, no baptism has been found for Edward.
John was born 20 January 1881 and when the census was taken three months later, the family was living at 15 Redman’s Road and George was working as a Plumber’s Labourer. But only three of their children appear with them – George, Eliza and Edward – along with Susan’s widowed mother, Eliza, and 45 year old bachelor brother, James.
When baby John was baptised at St Botolph on 10 July, the family had moved round the corner to 8 Jubilee Street and George’s occupation was listed as a Gas Fitter. Later that year, Eliza Susan died at the age of three and in early 1882, they lost another child when baby John died before his first birthday.
Before long, they’d moved to number 15 Jubilee Street where son Alfred was born on 16 March 1884; unlike his siblings, he was baptised, on 6 April, at St Mary in Whitechapel. Within three years, they’d moved again to 14 Tent Street near Weaver’s Fields in Bethnal Green and sons George Thomas and James were enrolled in the local school on Hague Street on 7 February 1887.
In 1891, they were still on Tent Street, living in three rooms, along with sons George, James and Alfred although one of the twins, Edward, was not with the family. George was still working as a Plumber and they also had a lodger, William Oakman, who was also a Plumber.
It appears George’s health deteriorated and fearing the worst, he was baptised at St Bartholomew on 10 January 1898. It was a private baptism which was reserved for those who were not expected to live much longer. The baptism register notes that the family was still living on Tent Street and his parents were listed as Isaac, a Weaver, and Amelia. Shortly after the baptism, George died in Bethnal aged 56 years.
In 1901, Susan was living at 134 Usher Road in Bromley by Bow with sons James, 21 years, and Alfred, 17 years, in just two rooms. She was working as a Trouser Finisher, James was a Coal Carman and Alfred an Errand Boy for a Printer. Her two eldest sons had married the previous year: Edward married Elizabeth Henrietta Bristow on 28 January and George married Mary Ann Snary on 25 December. George and Mary moved into two rooms at 132 Usher Road, next door to his mother, and he was working as a Packer of Machine Tools but Edward and Henrietta haven’t been found in the 1901 census.
Susan died in West Ham in early 1907 aged 55 years.
In 1911, Alfred was living with his elder brother Edward and his family at 36 Harcourt Avenue in Manor Park but it doesn’t appear that he was working as no occupation was listed. On the census return, ‘afflicted, 16 years of age’ appears in the column titled ‘Infirmity’ but it is not known if the cause was due to an illness or injury. Alfred died in West Ham in 1928 aged 44 years.
James hasn’t been located in the 1911 Census but he appears in Electoral Registers from 1929 living alone at 2 Franklin Street in Poplar. He was still there in 1939 and working as a Carman for a Public Works Contractor but no further records have been found; it does not appear he married and his date of death remains unknown.
George and Mary were living at 63 Altmore Avenue in West Ham along with their three sons and George was working as an Engineer’s Machine Fitter. Eldest son George Alfred was born on 25 January 1902 and baptised at St Mark Bow on 16 February, Albert Frederick was born 27 April 1904 and Harold Thomas was born 27 April 1908. They had a fourth son, Edward Jack, on 16 March 1916.
In 1939, George and Mary were living at 4 Chester Drive in Harrow, north-west London and he was working as a Salesman of Engineer’s Tools. Their two youngest sons were still living at home and 31 year old Harold was employed as an Accounting Clerk and 23 year old Edward was an Auctioneer’s and Estate Agents Negotiator.
Eldest son George had married Doris Wright at St James in West Hampstead on 22 November 1930 and they had one son. In 1939, the family of three was living at 53 The Greenway in Ickenham and George was working for the Burrough’s Adding Machine Company. Doris died in the Middlesex Hospital of a cerebral embolism on 10 July 1952, aged 47 years, and the following year, George married a second time to Joyce Martin but he was widowed a second time when she died in the Mendip Hospital in Wells, Somerset on 10 March 1963. He married a third time, to Muriel King, in 1966; she died on 2 March 1982 in Worthing and George died of pneumonia at the Worthing Hospital on 11 January 1984.
Albert married Gladys Doris Johnson in Hendon in 1933 and they had one son. In 1939, they were living at 80 Elm Drive in Harrow along with Gladys’ mother and younger sister and Albert was working as an Electric Meter Fixer. Albert died in Paddington in 1970 and Gladys in Brent in 1997.
Harold never married and worked in the accounting field as an Auditor. He died on 6 July 1988 at the Shakespeare Lodge Rest Home in Worthing.
Edward married Blanche Lawrence in Hendon in 1942 and they had one daughter, Carole, born later that year. In 1961, all three were killed in a head-on collision in Denham. Carole was driving, Police Constable Alan Pease did not realize he was on a dual carriageway and struck the Mallindine’s head on. He was charged with three charges of causing death by dangerous driving. lived at Orchehill Avenue, Gerrards Cross.12;25am on February 13 on Oxford Road, Denham, Bucks. Edward an Estate Office Manager, Edward died instantly, Carole on the way to hospital.
George died in the Worthing Hospital in the summer of 1961; Mary Ann died in Worthing Hospital on 14 Jun 1964, living at 3 Vincent Close, Lancing, Sussex.