john william malandain + elizabeth cushway
John was born on 24 September 1853 and baptised at St Matthew on 16 October; he was the son of William Malandain and his second wife Louisa Hannah Ferrey. John’s sister, Louisa, was one year older and he also had three half-siblings from his father’s first marriage but they were 20 to 30 years older and it’s not known if he had any contact with them. His father died when he was only a year old and he grew up with his mother, sister and aunt in a small terraced house in Conduit Street but despite the family’s circumstances, John attended school and was able to find a job as a Clerk.
John married Elizabeth Louisa Cushway at St James the Less in Bethnal Green on 11 July 1874 with his sister and cousin, Benjamin Ferrey, acting as witnesses. Elizabeth was born at 13 North Place in Bethnal Green on 13 May 1852 to Joseph Cushway and his wife Jane Elizabeth Harrison and she was living on Bethnal Green Road with her widowed father prior to her marriage.
John and Elizabeth settled on Adelphi Terrace, south of Hackney Road, where their first son, John William, was born on 9 May 1875. Elizabeth Louisa was born on 16 October 1876 and Arthur Joseph on 13 July 1878.
By 1881, they had moved to Approach Road near Victoria Park and John was working as an Agent (Fire Officer), likely for an insurance company. Edith Alice was born on 2 June 1882 and shortly after the family moved to 43 Smith Street near Stepney Green Park and one year later, their six year old daughter Elizabeth entered the Dempsey Street School, which was just round the corner. John and Elizabeth had two more daughters: Mabel Hannah in 1887 and Rose Mary in 1889.
In 1889, they moved to a neighbouring street and settled in a house at 127 Jamaica Street and they were still there two years later when the census was taken. John was working as an Assistant Superintendent at an insurance company and his eldest son, John, was working as a Clerk for a Silk Manufacturer. They lived on Arbour Street East for several years before leaving the East End in 1896 and settling in Lewisham in south-east London and shortly after moving, they enrolled their three youngest daughters in the Plassy Road School near their home on Albacore Terrace.
By 1901, they had moved further south and were living at 80 Wiverton Road in Beckenham and John was still working as an Insurance Agent. Their four daughters were all at home and their eldest, Elizabeth, was working as a Dressmaker. Also living in the household was their 1 year old grandson John. Their eldest son, John William, had left home in 1899 when he married Evelyn Chapman and Arthur Joseph was living and working in Kensington.
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Ten years later, John, Elizabeth and their four daughters were living in a seven room house at 53 Westbourne Gardens in Aldrington, a residential neighbourhood in Hove near Brighton. John was still working as a Life Assurance Agent, for the Prudential Insurance Company, and the move to the south coast may have been the result of a job transfer or perhaps a new opportunity. Their daughter Mabel was working as a Milliner in a retail draper’s shop in Hove but was visiting her future husband at his parent’s home in East Molesey, Surrey when the census was taken. Months later, Elizabeth Cushway died in Hove on 6 July aged 59 years and following her death, the family moved a few streets away, to 11 Shelley Road, where they lived for many years. John William died at home on Shelley Road on 7 June 1924 and probate on his estate was granted to his daughter Edith.
Their youngest daughter Rose married Colin Graham in early 1914 and her sister Mabel married Ernest John Jury Little several months later. Ernest was born in Hollingbourne, Kent in 1887, to George Jury Little and Elizabeth Hannah Young, and worked as a Salesman for a ladies clothing manufacturer — and perhaps met Mabel in the shop while on his sales rounds. Mabel and Ernest stayed in Hove after they married but they did not have any children. Ernest died at the Hove Hospital on 19 September 1960 and Mabel on 1 August 1962; her estate was valued at £3 200 and probate was granted to her sister Edith.
Edith married Charles William Lush in Hove on 7 February 1916. Charles was born in Hendon in 1899 to Charles Lush and Hannah Ward. His family left North London and moved to Hove between 1891 and 1895 when his father got a job as a Coachman. Charles worked as a Builder’s Clerk before enlisting in the army as a Lance Corporal with the Royal Engineers and was killed in action on 18 September 1918. He was buried at the Hagle Dump Cemetery in Ieper, Belgium. Edith never remarried and died in Worthing, Sussex in 1970.
by John Morgan Rendle
Rose and Colin lived in Kent and had two sons, Norman John born on 2 August 1915 and Charles in 1921 but sadly Charles died shortly after birth. Rose died in the London County Council Hospital in Darford, Kent in 1947 aged only 58 years. Her only surviving son, Norman, died in Lewisham in 1978.
Elizabeth Louisa worked as a Dressmaker her entire life but never married. She died on 20 March 1960 at 36 Heston Avenue in Patcham near Brighton and probate on her estate, valued at £372, was granted to her sister Edith.