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From: "M Reinig" <>
Subject: Re: [LON] JOHN CARD b abt 1842 Islington
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:00:25 -0400
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Hi Jan,
Ancestry has them as:
1891 Ancestry
Household Members: Name Age
Ethel Clara 4
Jane Clara 11
Jessie Clara 15
John Clara 48
Mary Ann Clara 41
William Clara 6
Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 1087; Folio 31; Page 5; GSU roll: 6096197.

Maureen in NY

On 10/6/08, Jan & Stuart Moon <> wrote:
> Can someone please help with this?
>
> John was the son of Jonathan Card (b 1811 Hartfield, Sussex) and Lucy (nee
> Heasman) (christened 15 Nov 1811 East Grinstead, Sussex) . In 1861, he and
> his siblings were living @ 26 Norfolk St, Islington.
>
> In 1871, John has married Ellen (I think this is Eleanor Morris, b 1851,
> Islington) They have a child, John, born 1870, Islington. Ellen obviously
> dies between then and 18 Dec 1881, when John marries my great grandmother,
> Mary Ann Tookey, (nee Walker) in Shoreditch. I have their marriage cert.
>
> I cannot find them in 1891, but whereever they are they now have at least
> one child, Ethel Card, born Enfield 1887.
>
> In 1901 they are living in Acacia Road, Enfield. Ethel is 14 and John is a
> Carpenter.
>
> Mary Ann seems to have believed in extemporising in regards her age, in 1881
> she is on the census as Mary Ann Tookey b 1831, and she is still only 51 in
> 1901. She is living in Lancaster Road, with Annie, her children from her
> marriage to Albert Tookey (Jane and Jessie) and her mother, Elizabeth
> Walker. I have the birth certificate for her first child, Annie E Walker,
> who was obviously illegitimate, this was back in 1866.
>
> So where were she and John in 1891??
> TIA
> Regards
> Jan Moon
> Daintree, Australia

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