| | | | | 3.4 DID PATHS CROSS IN CABLE STREET?
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Gander's family has been traced back well over 200 years
in the Shadwell and Stepney areas and was possibly established
there very much earlier.
The 1871 census records that his grandfather James, 20 lived at 448 Cable Street; with his mother Mary Ann (nee Driscoll) widow of Richard Gander (born l807), brother Edward 22 and two sisters, Mary Ann 16 and Emily 11.
His great aunt Sophia Coghlan (nee Gander) Mary Ann's daughter and her family lived at 454.
At 468 lived his great grandfather's brother Charles 55, widower (born.1816) and family comprising son George 28, daughter Frances Amelia 24 and her husband Henry Gander 25. Henry and Frances Amelia were also cousins and he was also a son of Mary Ann who lived at 448.
Henry died in 1876 but Frances Amelia and her children were still at this address in 1881. She herself died there aged 52 in 1898 about 3 months before John Edward Gander at No. 333.
| | | | | | | | | | | | Numbers 448, 454 and 468 were about 350 yards away from 333 on the opposite side or the street between Glamis Road and Love Lane.
Within the next few years in the early 1900's at least two of John Edward's sons and a daughter had moved to this end of the street. Walter James lived at 436 and 395; Thomas William at 395 and Alice North at 393.
It is likely they heard of the other family but it is not known if any were still there by the time they arrived.
Richard Gander (born 1807), Edmund's great grandfather, and his brother Charles (born 1816) were the sons of Stephen Gander (born 1771) and Sarah Robinson (born 1775), grandsons of Stephen Gander (born 1748) and Lydia Laws and great grandsons of Stephen (born c.1722) and Rachel.
If there is any connection between the two families, an examination of the family trees make it unlikely to be any later than the first part of the 18th century. | | | | | | |
