john francis mallindine + eliza manning
John Francis was born on 28 July 1842 in the Bethnal Green Workhouse; his mother, Martha Mallindine, was still living in the workhouse when she registered his birth on 18 August under the name John Francis Forecast and she told the registrar that the father was John Forecast who worked as a Hearth Rug Weaver. John was baptised twice at two different churches; the first time, he was baptised on 21 August 1842 at St Matthew under the name John Francis Mallindine and only his mother, Marth Ann, was listed on the register. The second baptism occurred almost two years later, on 26 February 1844, at St Leonard Shoreditch under the name John Francis Forecast. His father was named as John Forecast, a Hearth Rug Weaver, and the family was living on James Street.
The second baptism suggests that John’s parents reconciled after his birth and lived together as a family for a time but by 1851, his mother was living with a new man, named as Isaac Mallindine on the census, at 14 Hunt Court. The family next appears in the census ten years later at 4 Well Street in Stepney where John worked as a Blind Maker.
On 25 June 1865, John married Eliza Manning at All Saints in Stepney under the name John Forecast Mallindine and his mother was one of the witnesses. He listed his father as John Forecast Mallindine, a Hearth Rug Weaver, who was deceased. John was working as a French Polisher and living at 28 Preston Street when they married while Eliza was living at 12 Hart Street. She was born in Braintree, Essex in 1848 to Benjamin Manning and Sarah Folkard. Her father, who died in 1858, was an Agricultural Labourer originally from Kettlebaston in Suffolk but she listed his occupation as Gentleman’s Servant in the marriage register.
Their first son, John Francis was born in the summer of 1866, but died one year later and was buried in the Tower Hamlets Cemetery on 3 July. Albert John Francis Forecast, was born in the spring of 1868 and although his birth was registered in Shoreditch under the name Mallindine, he was baptised at Christ Church Spitalfields on 3 May under the surname Forecast. The family was living on Clifton Place in Shoreditch and John was still working as a French Polisher when their only daughter Edith Martha Manning was born on 23 June 1869 and baptised on 25 July at Christ Church, Spitalfields. Arthur Frederick William was born in the last quarter of 1870 but no baptism record has been found.
In 1871, John, Martha and their three children were living at 5 Clifton Place in Shoreditch but by 1874, they had moved to the north east of England and settled in Newcastle. They had two more sons in Newcastle: Charles Alfred was born in 1874 and Ernest Everett was born in 1875 and baptised on 27 June at St Nicholas. Charles died on 26 December 1875 aged only 15 months.
John’s mother also moved north but the only record of her is her death in Sunderland Workhouse on 19 April 1880. In 1881, John and Martha were living at 24 Colville Street in Gateshead and he was working as a Foreman Polisher. Their four surviving children all attended school and two years later, Arthur and Ernest moved from the Clarence School to the Christ Church Church of England School in Shieldfield when the family moved to 17 Shield Street.
Their daughter Edith married Joseph Bell at St Michael & St Lawrence in the Byker area of Newcastle in 1886 and three years later, eldest son Albert married Mary Tindall at St Phillip in Elswick. John and Eliza had moved down the street to 178 Shield Street by 1891 where they rented three rooms and their daughter and her husband rented the other two. Their son Arthur was working as a Gasfitter and youngest son Ernest as a Stationer’s Porter while Edith’s husband Joseph worked as a Comedian presumably in one of the local theatres.
John died several months after the census was taken aged only 48 years and the following year, Albert’s wife Mary died at the age of 22 years. Albert remarried in 1895 and in 1900, son Arthur married Marian White at St Phillip in Elswick.
In 1901, Eliza was living at 7 Howe Street in Hebburn, south of the river Tyne and east of the city of Newcastle, as the wife of Thomas Dickensen a 59 year old bootmaker from Walton Lancashire but no corresponding marriage record has been found. Eliza’s son Ernest was also living with them, recorded under the surname Dickensen along with her 14 year old grandson William Bell and 12 year old grandaughter Edith Bell. Her daughter Edith and her husband haven’t been located elsewhere in the census but they may have been travelling for Joseph’s job in the theatre. Likewise, her sons Albert and Arthur haven’t been found in 1901.
Eliza and Thomas moved back to Newcastle and were living in three rooms at 9 Ayton Street in Byker, east of the city centre, in 1911 along with her sons Ernest and Albert. Thomas was still working as a bootmaker and the census notes they were married for 14 years placing their marriage date in 1897. Eliza died in Newcastle in 1915.
Arthur and Marian were living at 23 Carliol Square Newcastle On Tyne and he was working as a Dispatch Clerk in a Drapery Warehouse. They had been married for 10 years but had no children. They lived in just two rooms and yet had three boarders living with them: Joseph and Catherine Callaghan and 10 year old Margaret Mann. They lived together in the house from 1905 and after Marian’s death in 1921, Arthur remained on his own for a number of years before moving back to 9 Ayton Street to live with his younger brother Ernest. Arthur died in 1934 leaving Ernest on his own until his death in 1939.
Edith and Joseph haven’t been located in the 1911 census and there are no other confirmed records relating to them. Their eldest son William married Jane Nicholson Veitch at St George in Leeds on 25 September 1909 with his father listed as an Insurance Clerk on the marriage register. William and Jane were living at 55 Clifton Ave in Leeds with their 1 year old son Ernest but went on to have four more children: William Veitch in 1911, Edith in 1913, Ellen Nicholson in 1915 and Lilian in 1916.
Their daughter Edith hasn’t been traced but youngest son, John Joseph Ernest Bell, enlisted in the 9th Batallion of the King’s Liverpool Regiment on 26 May 1908 when he was 17 years and 8 months old. He was working as a Bladder Dresser for T. M. Keogh and living at 17 Dawson Grove in Liverpool. He was discharged the following February to allow him to enlist in the Royal Field Artillery. He married Florence Ashbrook Welding on 7 November 1925 in Bootle, Lancashire and they had three children. In 1939, John and Florrie were living at 329 Stanley Road in Liverpool and he was working as a general labourer on the Mersey docks. John died in the Walton Hospital in Liverpool on 22 December1958 and his wife died on 22 May 1979.