M:1864
D:1902
Born 1845, Bassingham Lincoln. Mother was Ann Douglas. Father, James Parker. Married at 19 years of age to George Thorne, in Jan 1864 at St Leonard's church Shoreditch. Children were:
Alice Maude Thorne (b.1866)
Ernest Thorne (b.1868)
Charles Thorne (b.1870)
Edith Thorne (b.1872)
After Sarah's husband George died in 1872 we lose track of her children. She remarried in 1876 to William Ray.
In the 1881 census, William (1848), is shown as Labourer in a yeast factory (brewer)... Sarah as a Laundress, and the only child in the household is Edith Jane Thorne. Charles in 1881 is residing at the Shoreditch Industrial School (Brentwood) for fatherless children. Alice in 1881 was residing at the Soldiers Daughters Home (To be admitted her father would of had to of been in Crimean war). Ernest had died a month or so before the 1881 census ( taken in April of that year ) aged 12.
William and Sarah Ray appear in the 1901 census.
Sarah died 1902, aged 57.
Click HERE for more information on details of various certificates, including Marriage, birth, death and 1871 census.
Some known addresses...
1864 - 7 OR 1 New Inn St, Shoreditch - aged 19
1871 - 10 Belham St, Camberwell - aged 26
1881 - 30 Sansom St, Camberwell - aged 36
1901 - 28 Suffok Grove. - aged 46
Map, Sansom St.& Belham 1899. |
 Charles Booth notes |
 30 Sansom St. |
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Born b.1815 - Little Walsingham Norfolk.
Married to Ann Douglas (b.1823, born
Thurlby Lincoln.
Children were:
Charles Parker (b.1847)
Eliza Parker (b.1851)
Jane Parker (b.1853)
George Parker (b.1855)
Walter Parker (b.1858)
In the 1851 Census, James and his family are in West Lynn, living in a Caravan. James Occupation is listed as Navvie.
Ann and the children appear on the 1861 census in Walsingham Union Workhouse. No sign of James, but she is not listed as a widow.
Click HERE for more information for James & his family, including 1851 & 1861 census.
 Little Walsingham 1900. |
 Ann's birthplace Thurlby Lincoln 
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