john mallindine + catherine kinchley
John was born on 4 January 1839 at 1 Carter Street in Bethnal Green to Isaac Mallindine and Amelia Blackstone. His mother died before his twelfth birthday and when he was seventeen, his father entered the Bethnal Green Workhouse as he was destitute and unable to support himself and presumably John and his younger brother George. His father died in the workhouse in 1861 and while George was found to be lodging at 4 Hare Marsh in Bethnal Green, John has not yet been located.
There is no record of John until his marriage to Catherine Kinchley on 8 November 1870 at St Bartholomew in Bethnal Green with his sister Elizabeth and her husband John Brand as witnesses. Both John and Catherine were living at 60 Cleveland Street in Mile End Old Town and he was working as a Labourer. Catherine was born in Liverpool in 1844 and she gave her father’s name as John Kinchley and his occupation as a shopman. But the only matching birth registration in Liverpool was for a daughter born to James Henry Kinchley and Mary Caton.
In 1871, John and Catherine were living at 7 Waterloo Terrace in Bethnal Green and he was working as a Brewer. There were a number of breweries in the East End with the Truman’s Brewery on Brick Lane one of the largest in the area. Their son John was born on Waterloo Terrace on 26 July and his mother registered his birth on 5 September. Edward was born on 6 February 1873 and Amelia in 1875. Daughter Maria Catherine Sarah, known as Sarah, was born on 25 July 1873 and baptised at St Anne’s Roman Catholic Church on Underwood Street in Bethnal Green on 20 October 1879.
In 1881, the family was living at Artillery Street in Waterloo Town on the eastern edge of Mile End New Town and John was working as a Labourer while their three eldest children were attending school. Three years later, nine year old Amelia died and was buried at Newham Cemetery on 5 March 1884. After losing one child, Catherine gave birth to another eight months later: Caroline Eliza was born on 30 November 1880 and baptised at St Anne’s on 2 March 1886.
John died on 13 December 1886 at the London Hospital in Whitechapel of Morbis Cordis and Oedema of the Lungs which indicates that he suffered from heart problems in the years leading up to his death. Five years after John’s death, Catherine and her four surviving children were still together and living at 5 Artillery Street. She was working as a Washerwoman which was a notorious low paying occupation for women so her sons, John aged 20 and Edward aged 18, were working as Colliers transporting coal for a Coal Merchant to help support the family while twelve year old Sarah and six year old Caroline were still attending school.
Edward married Jessie Lee on 31 July 1898 at St Matthew, Bethnal Green. Jessie was born in Bishopsgate on 6 August 1880 to Robert Richard Lee and Jane Price. Edward was living at 7 Waterloo Terrace and working as a Carman when he married. The 1901 Census confirms that Catherine had moved back to 7 Waterloo Terrace and was working as a Charwoman doing odd jobs such as laundry, cleaning and child-minding. Sarah was working as a Chocolate Maker and Caroline a Cap Maker but John was not living with the family.
Sarah married William Chapman at Holy Trinity, Bethnal Green 20 October 1901 and they went on to have five children. William was born on 13 February 1878 in Mile End New Town and his father George was also a Brewer’s Labourer. Sister Caroline married Theodore George Claydon at St Andrew in Bethnal Green 21 July 1904 and they had two children: Ivy Violet was born on 24 July 1905 and William George on 2 January 1910.
In 1911, Edward was living with his wife and four children at 2 Ada Place in Bethnal Green along with his elder brother John. Sarah and her family were still living at 7 Waterloo Terrace and Caroline and Theodore were living nearby on Selby Street but Catherine has not been found.
Catherine died in Whitechapel buried on 2 February 1925 at Manor Park Cemetery. Her daughter Caroline died in Stepney and was buried at Newham Cemetery on 26 July 1927; her husband Theodore died three years later and was buried in the same cemetery.
In 1939, John was living in a hostel for single homeless men at 2a Southern Grove in Stepney. The London County Council took over the Whitechapel Institution in 1932 and it was renamed the South Grove Institution. John died in Stepney, likely at South Grove, and was buried on 15 November 1942 at Harrow Weald Cemetery in London.
Sarah was widowed in 1925 but the family remained together on Selby Street and in 1939, she was living with three of their five children at number 35. Sarah was working as an Office Cleaner but the rest of her family was employed by a local brewery: George was a Loader, Edwin a Drayman, and Daisy a Bottler. Sarah died in Stepney in 1958.