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parish 'St. Paul's'. Thomas William's occupation is given as hoop bender the same trade as his father and grandfather before him.

The same certificate also says they were 'of full age' which was then 21 yet we know Thomas William was not yet 20 and Emma Jane only 18. Possibly they married without parental consent although the vicar must have known Emma Jane's real age as he had recorded a birth date in the baptism register at about the time the banns were read.

Certainly no parent signed the marriage register as a witness although as James we know was resident in the City of London there was good reason for him not to have crossed over the river at that time. In 1854 cholera was again sweeping through the London area and Bermondsey did not escape although the City of London did, due to preventative measures taken by the City Commissioners of Sewers a few years earlier following a previous cholera outbreak.

To marry so young was unusual then yet Thomas William probably felt quite wealthy at the time. The war against Russia in the

  
   
 

PART 4
THOMAS WILLIAM
GANDER 1835 - 1912


4.1 MARRIAGE TO EMMA JANE BEAUMONT


ames' eldest son, Thomas William, married Emma Jane Beaumont at St. Paul's Church, Kipling Street (then called Nelson Street), Bermondsey, on Christmas Day 1854 after banns had been read.

Emma's, father, William Henry Beaumont, was a wheelwright, We also know her mothers name was Harriet as Emma was baptised only a few weeks prior to the marriage and the baptism entry also gave her address as 52 Snowsfields, a street adjacent to Nelson Street. A search of the 1851 and 1861 census doesn't show the Beaumonts at this address on these two dates.

The marriage certificate is also unhelpful As regards an address merely stating the

  
   
Snowsfields, Bermondsey c.1893
   

Snowsfields, Bermondsey -
where Emma Jane Beaumont's parents were living at the time of her marriage to Thomas William Gander in 1854. The turning off to the right is Crosby Row where Thomas William & Emma Jane & their children lived for a while around 1859. This sketch was dated 1893.

[Snowsfields was described by Henry Mayhew in London Labour and the London Poor (1861) as one of the home areas for a class of people he described as 'sewer hunters'!]

  
   
 
 

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