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Category Archives: Roe
New information about Eliza Roe
Ron Roe has kindly provided me with some additional information about Eliza Roe, sister of my great great grandfather Daniel Roe, whom I last wrote about in this post. Firstly, it would appear that Eliza’s date of birth is likely … Continue reading
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Caleb Roe and Sabina Collinson
In the last post, I wrote about the family of Enoch and Ann Collinson, whose daughter Sabina married Caleb Roe, brother of my great great grandfather Daniel Roe. In this post, I want to write about Caleb, Sabina and their … Continue reading
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Caleb Roe and the Collinsons
Caleb Roe was the brother of my great great grandfather, Daniel Roe. Like Daniel, he made his way as a young man from Bedfordshire to east London, where he married, raised a family, and spent the rest of his life. … Continue reading
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Blanch, Ellis and Roe families in 1871
Continuing with this series: The years between 1861 and 1871 were a time of great change and tragic loss for the family of John Blanch. On 23 July 1862 John’s oldest daughter Mary Ann (Blanch) Roe gave birth to my … Continue reading
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Blanch, Ellis and Roe families in 1861
Following on from the last two posts: By the time of the 1861 census, John Blanch and his wife Keziah had moved from Bethnal Green, where they had lived for more than thirty years, to 8 Great Crown Court, Soho, … Continue reading
Blanch, Ellis and Roe families in 1851
Following on from the last post: In 1851 John Blanch was 50 and living with his wife Keziah at 2 Green Street, Bethnal Green, where he was still working as a boot and shoe maker. Their son Joseph, 20, a … Continue reading
Blanch, Ellis and Roe families in 1841
Following on from my recent posts on the Blanch family, I now want to track the movements of the Blanch, Roe and Ellis families through the decades of the nineteenth century. I’m intrigued by these families’ geographical movements across London … Continue reading
Mary Ann Blanch Roe and Leonard Vincent Kew
This is by way of a footnote to the last post, in which I noted that in 1881, Keziah Blanch, widow of John Blanch, was living at 11 Cumberland Terrace, Ealing, with her daughter Eliza Maria Blanch, 12 year old … Continue reading
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Limehouse links
Three generations of my mother’s family were married at St. Anne’s, Limehouse. John Blanch and Keziah Holdsworth were married there on 5th July 1827. Twenty-one years later, on 30th October 1848, their daughter Mary Ann married Daniel Roe in the … Continue reading
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Mary Ann Blanch Roe – actress?
I haven’t posted much recently about the Roes – the family of my maternal grandmother. This is partly because I’ve been absorbed by the Aberdeenshire origins of my father’s family, the Robbs, and partly because I had reached something of … Continue reading
