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The newly-weds lived for a time in Whitechapel in East London where Emma Jane was born and where her parents were married*. | | | | | | |
| | | | | | 4.2 BERMONDSEY
 ermondsey
is more easily identified today as the part of London on the south
bank of Tower Bridge, however for most of the 19th century the first
bridge across the Thames from Bermondsey was London Bridge as Tower
Bridge was not opened until 1894.
The area is about a mile square with Rotherhithe to the east, the Thames to its north and Southwark and The Borough to the west. To the south it is skirted by the Old Kent Road and the part of London known as Walworth.
In the 19th century the whole Bermondsey riverfront was lined with warehouses built right to the water's edge. It was a very busy area. There were always ships alongside the warehouses and cranes jutting over the river landing goods brought from all over the world. Large ocean going vessels which came up river only as far as the Surrey Docks (in Rotherhithe) transferred their cargoes to lighters or smaller ships, for landing at the Bermondsey warehouses which stored threequarters of the butter, bacon, cheese and canned meat needed for the London area.
The same Surrey Docks provided employment for many in Bermondsey although being a docker could be dangerous and being only casual it was often poorly paid.
As foodstuffs from all over the world were landed and stored at Bermondsey it was only natural that many processing and packaging firms started up in the area making custard powder, pickles, jams and biscuits, A vinegar | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | * William Henry Beaumont and Harriet Martin married on 20 Mar 1836 at St. Leonard's church, Whitechapel. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | For Thomas William there would have been plenty of potential work in the Whitechapel breweries alone. Their first child, Henry Robert, was born on 21 Mar 1856 at 9 Black Lion Yard in Whitechapel** but he was not baptised until over 3 years later. | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | The registration of Henry Robert's birth is interesting in that the mother was the informant and either the Registrar got the information down wrong or Emma Jane genuinely mixed up her husband's middle name with, probably, her father's (Thomas William and William Henry). So Henry Robert's birth certificate incorrectly states his father is Thomas Henry Gander, hoop bender. All the other details are correct.
On 22 Jun 1859 Thomas William and Emma Jane increased their family with the birth of their first daughter, Lucy Harriet. By now they were once more back in Bermondsey and were to remain living in this area for the rest of their lives. | | | | | | | |
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