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Could someone with access to the London baptisms do me a favour please and see if they can work out the address for Susan Williamson baptised 27 Jul 1862 St Paul Bermondsey:) It's 9 Garden something

will have a look >>>

try blowing it up very big

then join the dots it works for me

Thanks Rose:)

Joy, it's clear enough I just don't know what it says:)

ok hun

I think ? it's Garden Row...looking at the R of Richardson street on opp page...and there was a Garden Row in Bermondsey.

Ah thanks Rose - that would make sense - thank you:))) No idea what they were doing in Bermondsey

Hi, Uggs. OH has loads of family from Bermondsey and Rotherhithe:-))

Sue xx

Hello Sue nice to see you back:) They shouldn't be there at all lol

Thanks, love. Where should they be? I've found the odd one out of their area and been a little puzzled but then if someone a hundred years from now was looking at OH's family they would wonder why his two older siblings were born in London and he and his sister oop north.

Sue xx

They should be in St John's Street, Clerkenwell - lived at the same address from 1861 until they died and Susan was born there. They did have relatives Sarf of the river so maybe they were out on a jolly:))

Hello me dear - how's the wall;)))

Hi, Lynda:-))

Uggers were your Susan's parents still alive or at least able to take care of her. She may have been farmed out with another family living in Bermondsey. I've worked that out with a couple of families.

Sue xx

Brilliant:))))

Sue, yes she and the rest of the family are with them elsewhere. I must try and have a look and find the address in 1861 , see who is there

Uggs - maybe you or someone else can help with this. If a child is baptised in an infirmary are they likely to have been ill and perhaps died shortly after. All the other children were born at home and baptised in church.

Sue xx

What sort of infirmary, Sue? Two of my great uncles were born in the workhouse infirmary and baptised in the associated church because my great grandmother seems to have used the workhouse as a maternity hospital to save costs;)

I never thought of a workhouse infirmary but I really doubt it, Uggs. The baby was a first child and as I can't find him on any census returns with the younger children I thought he may have been born ill and they've baptised him before he died but I haven't looked for the death yet - this family was a little sidetrack:-)

Sue xx

Sue they were done if they wasnt expected to live, also often they just got done when the verger/vicar/priest was paying a visit to the dying.....but would say a sickly baby,,,

it was a fear of them not getting a christian burial...