Person:Jane Stringer (2)

Jane Stringer was born on the 4th of April 1847 at Worth (probably Turner's Hill), Sussex, England, the eldest child of agricultural labourer George Stringer and Mary Worsel. She was christened in Worth on 2 May 1847. She had five brothers and two sisters, who grew up to be or marry bricklayers, carpenters, painters, carmen, cattle stock men and agricultural labourers.

In the 1851 census she was living in Turners Hill Village with her parents, brother, and cousin. In 1861 she was visiting with a house proprietor Sarah Humphreys, with her parents and siblings living in a cottage nearby. In 1861 her future husband James Gorringe was also living in Worth, where he was working as a servant to a grocer and draperer. Jane and James must have known each other when they were both living in Worth. It is not yet known whether they moved to London together or at different times, but in June 1865 they were both living at 11 Talbot Mews, Paddington and 18 year-old Jane married 22 year-old James at St. Stephen's Church, Paddington, with James' older brother William and Esther Cogdell as witnesses. Sadly Jane's mother Mary died on Christmas day the same year.

Two years later James and Jane's first son, James, was born, followed by daughters Phillis Emily in 1868 and Catherine Mary in 1870. In the 1871 census the family of five were sharing a house with visitor Penelope Stringer (Jane's sister), another family with three children, and a young married couple. They were living at 42 Brindley Street in Paddington (see a 1960's painting of the street here), which in Booth's 1898 map was classified as "mixed: some comfortable, others poor". Without knowing how large the house was it's difficult to know how cramped the house was, but it seems likely the Gorringe family occupied a small number of rooms on one floor of the building. James worked as a coal porter.

James and Jane's next son, Robert Victor, was born in 1876, and their sixth and final child George was born 22 Mar 1878 at 85 Clarendon Street, Paddington (just down the road from Brindley Street).

Sadly, Jane died at their home in Clarendon Street of acute pneumonia on 31 Jan 1880 aged just 32 with her sister Emily Kelley by her side, leaving James a widower at the age of 37 with five young children to care for. He later married Jane's brother-in-law Walter Kelley's sister Sarah Kelley, and had three more children with her.

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All Saints Church, Crawley Down

St. Stephen's Church, Paddington, where Jane and James were married

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
   entry for Jane Stringer, volume 7, page 359, Apr-May-Jun quarter 1847, East Grinstead district.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Sussex, England. 1861 Census of England
   Worth, folio 36, page 34; citing PRO RG 9/580.

   visitor with Sarah Humphrey

3. ↑ Registrar General. Birth Certificate
   birth certificate for George Gorringe, born 22 Mar 1878; citing 1a/18/200, Apr-Jun quarter 1878, Paddington registration district, Saint Mary sub-district.
   George Gorringe birth certificate
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Registrar General. Birth Certificate
   birth certificate for Jane Stringer, born 4 April 1847; citing 7/359/424, Apr-Jun quarter 1847, East Grinstead Union registration district, Worth sub-district.
   Jane Stringer birth certificate
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} London, England. 1871 Census
   St Mary Paddington, folio 17, page 23; citing PRO RG 10/2.

   Household members:
   Name Age
   James Gorringe 28
   Jane Gorringe 24
   James Gorringe 4
   Emily Gorringe 2
   Kate Gorringe 4 months
   Peneylope Stringer 14 - Visitor

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
   entry for Jane Gorringe, volume 1a, page 16, Jan-Feb-Mar quarter 1880, Kensington district.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} General Register Office. England & Wales. Certified Copy of an Entry of Death
   death certificate for Jane Gorringe, died 31 Jan 1880; citing 1a/16/399, Jan-Mar quarter 1880, Kensington registration district, Saint Mary Paddington sub-district.
   Jane (Stringer) Gorringe death certificate
8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1 Sussex, England. 1851 census of England
   Village of Turner Hill, Worth, folio 366, page 9; citing PRO HO 107/1641.
9. ↑ Church of England. Sussex, England. Parish Registers 1538-1910. (FamilySearch)
   Jane Stringer, parents George & Mary, bap. 2 May 1847 at All Saints, Worth.
10. ↑ General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Marriage Index. (London, England: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    entry for Jane Stringer, volume 1a, page 264, Apr-Jun quarter 1865, Kensington district.
11. ↑ ^11.0 11.1 General Register Office. England and Wales. Civil Registration Certificates. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office)
    marriage certificate for James Gorringe and Jane Stringer, married 12 Jun 1865; citing 01a/264/28, Jun quarter 1865, Kensington registration district.
    James Gorringe m. Jane Stringer marriage certificate