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Harriet Eliza Chipperfield
b.27 Sep 1841 Stratford, Essex, England
d.20 Sep 1914 Mile End Old Town, London, England
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m. 12 Jul 1840
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m. 30 Apr 1865
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Harriet Eliza Chipperfield was born on 27 Sep 1841 in Stratford, Essex, England, the eldest child of shoemaker and journeyman cordswainer William Chipperfield and ladies shoe maker Ann Green. She was baptised on 24 Oct 1841 at St. Mary's Church, Stratford Bow. The family hasn't been found yet in the 1841 census. Four of Harriet's siblings were born in the Stratford/Bow/Bromley area between 1841 and 1851: James John born in 1843 and also baptised at St. Mary's Stratford Bow; George born 1845, Caroline born 1847, and William born 1849. In 1851 the family were living at 22 Park Place, Bromley St. Leonard, with father William working as a shoe maker and a Richard Green living with the family as an apprentice to William, as well as a labourer Thomas Green. These two Green men were probably related to Ann in some way, and were possibly her brothers. In the 1861 census Harriet was living at a pub and working for the licensed victualler and other publicans at 1 Lansdowne Place in Chelsea. Harriet was married 30 April 1865 at St. John of Jerusalem Church in Hackney to blacksmith George William Clark. The marriage was witnessed by George's parents George and Matilda Clark. After Harriet was married her younger brother George Chipperfield married in 1867 to George Clark's younger sister Matilda. The following year her younger sister Caroline married butcher and cow keeper George Peterken on 1 June 1868 at St. Mark's Church in St. John's Wood, London. Meanwhile, George and Harriet started their own family. Less than 9 months after their wedding a son George William Jr. was born in Bromley-by-Bow on 13 Sep 1865. After George Jr. followed Harriet Eliza born at 23 Neptune Street in Kennington on 12 Feb 1867, and Benjamin back in Bromley-by-Bow in 1869. In the 1871 census the family of five were living at 4 Park Street, Bromley St. Leonard (visible at the northern corner of Victoria Park on this map). Harriet's parents William and Ann Chipperfield lived just a few doors down the street at no. 11 along with three of Harriet's siblings, a niece and nephew and two members of the Green family who were listed as lodgers but were likely relatives of Harriet's mother Ann Green. Harriet's other sibling Martha was living with her husband George Peterken and infant daughter at number 26 Park St. So despite living in a big city the Chipperfield family remained geographically close. In 1871 and 1873 George and Harriet had two sons, both named Joseph, who died before the age of one from pneumonia at 3 Park Street. Their next two children, Henry b. 1875 and Elizabeth b. 8 May 1877, both survived childhood. Sadly after Elizabeth was born three more children died young: Caroline b. 1879 d. 4 Jan 1881 from measles, Charles b. 27 Oct 1881 d. 25 Sep 1882 aged 11 months from "dentition convulsions", and Ada b. 3 Sep 1883 d. 18 Jun 1885 from "measles congestion of lungs". Ada's death certificate gives George's occupation as "brewer's labourer", and other records simply say "labourer" so it's unclear whether George worked as a blacksmith his whole life. The only baptism records that have so far been found for George and Harriet's children are for Charles, bap. 8 Dec 1881 and Ada bap. 20 Sep 1883, both in the same church George was baptised in, St. Mary's Church, Bromley St. Leonard. George Clark's father died some time between 1871 and 1876, and his mother Matilda died on 19 Nov 1876 due to hemiplegia and "decay of nature" (she was 70 years old). George and his young family were living at 5 Devas Street in 1881 when Caroline died, and moved before the census to 8 Stratfield Rd in Bromley St. Leonard where they shared a house with George's brother Benjamin and his family. George's brother Caleb as well as Harriet's parents and three siblings (James, William and Caroline) all lived with their families on Devas street. Booth's 1898 poverty map classed Stratfield Road as "poor", and Devas street as "very poor" and suffering "chronic want", and they shared their homes with numerous other families so this demonstrates the Chipperfield and Clark families lived in very difficult circumstances. Harriet's father William died in 1887 on Devas street at the age of 75 due to "senectus", and mother Ann died in 1889 on Stratfield Road due to bronchitis exhaustion. The first of George and Harriet's children to marry was eldest daughter Harriet, who wed labourer Frederick Lowe in Aug 1888 and gave George and Harriet the first of their many grandchildren a few months later. The next of George and Harriet's children to marry was their eldest George William Clark, a hammerman, who followed suit in 1889 when he wed Frances Wisbey in Holy Trinity Church, Mile End. George and Harriet's daughter Harriet Lowe was living with the Clarks, her growing family, and several boarders at 8 Stratfield Rd in 1891. In 1891 Harriet (Chipperfield) Clark's brother John Chipperfield and sister Caroline Peterken were still living on Stratfield Road but several of George Clark's siblings had moved out to the West Ham area. George and Harriet's son Benjamin married Minnie Hammond at St. Paul's Church Bow Common in 1894 and they moved to the West Ham area around 1901 before returning to Bow Common Lane by 1907. Some time between 1894 and 1897 George and Harriet Clark moved to 230 Bow Common Lane, where they are found on the 1901 census living with their children Henry and Elizabeth, and grandson Harry Clark (recorded as a nephew - he is listed after Henry and Elizabeth Clark, and is their nephew - but grandson of the head of household George Clark). Harriet was with her husband George when he died on 29 Sep 1901 from liver cancer. He was buried in Tower Hamlets Cemetery. Harriet's son Henry married Florence Eliza Murphy in 1902 and her youngest daughter Elizabeth married coalman Harry Ripley in 1906. Elizabeth and Harry Ripley briefly lived at 223 Bow Common Lane in 1907 when their first child Harry George Ripley was born on 12 Nov. Harriet's son Benjamin Clark and his family were living at the same address on 21 Sep 1907 (according to their daughter Florence's baptism record) but Harriet's grandchildren and their mother Minnie were admitted to Mile End Workhouse on 19 Nov 1907, just a week after Harry George Ripley was born. It's also possible that Harriet's son Henry and his wife & daughter were living at no. 223 at the same time, because they lived at that address from at least 1910 to 1939. In the 1911 census Harriet was living with her daughter Elizabeth and Harry Ripley and their two young children at 49 Ropery Street, Mile End Old Town. She was likely still living with the Ripley family when her grandson Joseph Walter Ripley died of bronchopneumonia aged 21 months. This must have brought back painful memories of both of her sons named Joseph dying from pneumonia before the age of one. Harriet died at the Mile End Infirmary with her daughter Elizabeth at her side, on 20 September 1914 at the age of 72 due to senectus and chronic bronchitis. She was buried in Tower Hamlets Cemetery. [edit] DNA GenealogyIf you are a descendant of Harriet Chipperfield and would like to compare autosomal DNA results please contact Jocelyn_K_B (at) yahoo.com for kit numbers Image Gallery
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