martha mallindine + alfred henry scammell
Martha was born on 17 July 1859 at 5 Hope Street in Spitalfields to William Mallindine and Elizabeth Mary Pearce. She was baptised at the nearby church of St Matthias in Bethnal Green on 7 August.
She married Alfred Henry Scammell on 22 December 1879 at St Matthew Bethnal Green with Albert Ames and Mary Beaton acting as witnesses. They were both living at 55 Pollard Row at the time and Alfred was working as a Packer. Alfred was born on 3 April 1859 and baptised at St Botolph, Bishopsgate on 29 September 1861. He was the son of Henry Scammell, a Wine Casker, and Elizabeth Sarah Wells as well as the brother of Elizabeth Scammell who married Martha’s brother William three years before.
In 1881, Martha and Alfred were living at 1 White Street in Bethnal Green where she worked at home as a Fancy Box Maker and Alfred continued to work as a Packer. Later that year, Martha gave birth to the first of their two daughters; Martha Elizabeth Marian was born on 23 November and when she was baptised at Christ Church Spitalfields three weeks later, the family was living at 2 Spital Street.
Florence Clara was born on 28 August 1886 and baptised on 19 September at Christ Church. Martha and her family had returned to her family home at 74 Pelham Street but it’s not know if they lived with her parents or rented another room in the house.
In 1891, they were living in two rooms above a general shop at 120 Buxton Street in Mile End New Town and Martha’s widowed mother and younger brother George also occupied one room in the house. Alfred’s occupation was listed as a Beer Bottler’s Labourer with the additional note that he was a Cellar Pack — possibly at the Truman’s Brewery off Brick Lane. Martha was still working from home as a Fancy Box Maker and their eldest daughter was attending school. Three years later, Alfred died aged 35 years but the cause of his death is not known and no burial record has been found. Martha also suffered a loss the year before when her mother died.
william dealing
Martha was living at 28 Wolverley Street, down the road from her brother-in-law John Weedon and twelve year old niece Elizabeth when she married William Dealing on 12 January 1896 at St Matthew Bethnal Green. William was a 35 year old labourer and lived at 7 Canrobert Street which was the same address as Martha’s younger brother Thomas lived.
In 1901, Martha and William were still living at 28 Wolverley Street, in three rooms, with her two daughters aged 19 and 14. Her eldest daughter Martha married Thomas Charles Walter Hollington at St Andrew, Bethnal Green on 5 February 1905 and both her step-father and her sister Florence signed as witnesses. Martha was living at 7 Mape Street when she married which was an address that once again is related to family members as it was the home of Mary Ann Samuels (nee Mallindine) until 1902. Martha’s cousin, Elizabeth Weedon, also lived there with her father.
On 24 July 1910, Florence married William Charles Farren St Matthew Bethnal Green and her step-father once again acted as one of the witnesses. Florence still lived at home and William, who worked as a Wheelwright, lived at 249 Bethnal Green Road.
Martha and William were still on Wolverley Street when the 1911 census was taken and they were living alone in two rooms. William continued to work as a Labourer and Martha as a Cardboard Box Maker. Martha died in January 1918 and was buried at the West Ham Cemetery on 24 January. William died almost exactly five years later and was buried at West Ham on 15 January 1923.
Eldest daughter Martha and her husband Thomas were living in three rooms at 11 Conyer Street near Victoria Park in Bethnal Green along with five year old daughter Martha Florence and son Walter William, aged 8 months. They had a third daughter, Agnes Lillian, who was born in the spring of 1908 but died before her first birthday. Over the next ten years, Martha and Thomas had four more children, all boys; Leonard Arthur was born on 15 June 1913, Stanley Edward in 1915, Ernest James on 10 May 1917, and finally Cyril on 22 September 1922.
Thomas died on 19 January 1936 and was buried at the West Ham Cemetery eight days later. By 1939, Martha had left Conyer Street and moved across the Roman Road to Ellesmere Street where she lived with her two youngest sons. Four years later, she married Walter Hillier in Ilford, Essex and later settled in Romford. She survived her second husband, who died in 1957, and died in Romford in 1964.
Florence and her husband William Farren were still living on Bethnal Green Road in 1911 and their census form notes they occupied six rooms at 249 and 251. William was a Wheelwright working on his own account at home so it would seem they occupied both a workshop and a house. Their daughter Florence Alice was born in 1912 followed by William Charles on 16 November 1920. They left Bethnal Green between 1912 and 1920 and settled in West Ham. In 1939, they were living at 106 Keogh Road in West Ham along with their son. Florence married Henry Read in 1938 and William married Gwendoline Bryant in 1949 but it does not appear that either of them had any children. Florence died in West Ham in 1965 and Henry died five years later.