| By this time traffic congestion in the main streets of central London and the City was a real problem. Horse buses, hansom cabs, drays, carts and waggons jammed the thoroughfares and made quite a din as the iron rimmed wheels and iron shed horses travelled the streets, many of which were cobbled with granite setts.
On 1st August 1875, John Edward, then aged 25, married Lydia Susannah Flahey 22, at St. Phillips Church, Bethnal Green. John Edward was living at 47 Fairclough Street near where his father and stepmother had been living when they were married.
Fairclough Street was pronounced 'Fairclow' by the local inhabitants and has been written similarly as 'Faircloud' on the marriage certificate. Lydia, whose address was 2, Spital Street, was the daughter of Frederick Flahey a tailor aged 53 of Irish descent and Priscilla (nee Sturgess) aged 55, daughter of John Sturgess a weaver.
For some reason James Gander did not witness his son's marriage but a as yet unidentified member of the family who did was an Ann Gander. Could this have been | |
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his re-marriage and some time before 1881, James Gander moved south
of the river to the parish of St. Saviours, Southwark. He probably
had to make this move to obtain work as a hoop bender. However it
could be that his son James Henry had moved to this area and he
wished to be near him. His eldest son Thomas William had by now
settled in this area as well (see 