Person:Jane Cassanet (1)

Jane Cassanet was born on 25th February 1803 and baptised the following month in the parish of Bethnal Green in Middlesex, in the eastern suburbs of London. She was the daughter of Ann Cassanet, formerly Dean, and her husband Peter Vincent Cassanet, a linguist and teacher of mathematics, who was a Frenchman who had moved to England around the time of the French Revolution. However, whilst Jane was young it seems likely that the family would have lived modestly in Bethnal Green.

On 13th April 1822, aged 19, Jane married David Timothy, a feather and bedding merchant. He was also from the East End of London, having been born in the parish of St George in the East. They married at St Bride's Church in the City of London. Jane and David went on to have nine children together between 1823 and 1848. Their first daughter was born in Shoreditch, followed by a son in Southwark. By 1826 they had settled in the parish of St Giles without Cripplegate in the City of London, where they lived on the street called Barbican, where the rest of their children were born. David sometimes advertised his business in local newspapers, which make clear that their premises were on the corner of Barbican and Redcross Street. Jane and David's eldest daughter died when only ten years old in 1833.

Jane's mother died in 1837.

The 1841 census finds Jane, David, three of their sons and a servant living on Barbican. Two of their other children were at boarding schools within a few miles of London. Jane's father was living with Jane's sister Sarah and her family at Wood Street in Hackney.

Jane's eldest daughter married in 1846, and Jane's first known grandchild was born the following year. She appears to have had eighteen grandchildren born in her lifetime, although some of them died young.

Jane's father died in 1848.

The 1851 census finds Jane, David, three of their children, David's mother and a servant living at 1 Redcross Street, on the corner with Barbican.

During the 1850s Jane and David left the City of London and moved out to the southern suburbs, where they lived at 5 York Grove, Peckham, in the parish of Camberwell. One of their daughters gave her address as York Grove when she married in 1859, and Jane and David appear there in the 1861 census, along with their two youngest sons and a servant.

Jane died on 3rd March 1863 at Peckham, just a few days after her sixtieth birthday. David survived her by five years.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Church of England. Parish Registers of St Matthew, Bethnal Green.

   March 20 1803 / Jane D[aughte]r of Peter Vi[n]c[e]nt and Ann Cassenet Born 25 Feb[ruary] 1803

2. ↑ England. 1841 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 727; Book 9; Folio 15; Page 25, 6 Jun 1841.

   Address: Barbican; Parish: St Giles without Cripplegate; City: London; County: Middlesex
   David Timothy, male, 35 [1801-6], Bedding Warehouseman, born in county
   Jane Timothy, female, 35 [1801-6], born in county
   David Timothy, male, 15 [1821-6], born in county
   William Timothy, male, 13 [1827/8], born in county
   Peter Timothy, male, 10 [1830/1], born in county
   Ellen Mullelly, female, 20 [1816-21], F[emale] S[ervant], b. Ireland

3. ↑ England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class HO107; Piece 1525; Folio 344; Page 32, 30 Mar 1851.

   Address: 1 Redcross Street; Parish: St Giles without Cripplegate; City: London
   David Timothy, head, married, male, 49 [1801/2], Bedding Warehouseman, b. St George East, Middlesex
   Mary Timothy, widow [sic], widow, female, 78 [1772/3], supported by son, b. Wales
   Jane Timothy, wife, married, female, 48 [1802/3], b. Bethnal Green, Middlesex
   Peter V. Timothy, son, unmarried, male, 19 [1831/2], Medical Student St Barth[olomew']s Hospital, b. Cripplegate, London
   Jane Timothy, daughter, unmarried, female, 9 [1841/2], Scholar at Home, b. [blank]
   Justice T. Timothy, son, unmarried, male, 3 [1847/8], Son of a Bedding Warehouseman, b. Cripplegate, London
   Isabella Spaul, servant, unmarried, female, 21 [1829/30], Serv[ant], b. Southwold, Suffolk

4. ↑ England. 1861 Census Schedules for England and Wales, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class RG9; Piece 384; Folio 27; Page 9, 7 Apr 1861.

   Address: 5 York Grove, Peckham, Camberwell, Surrey
   David Timothy, head, married, male, 59 [1801/2], Retired Feather Merchant, b. St George in the East, Middlesex
   Jane Timothy, wife, married, female, 58 [1802/3], b. Bethnal Green, Middlesex
   Felix Festus Timothy, son, unmarried, male, 17 [1843/4], Clerk to a Corn Broker, b. St Giles Cripplegate
   Justus Thioplus [sic] Timothy, son, male, 13 [1847/8], Scholar, b. St Giles Cripplegate
   Martha Baker, servant, unmarried, female, Domestic Servant, b. Dover, Kent

5. ↑ Deaths index, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration. (London: General Register Office).

   d. Jane TIMOTHY, March Quarter 1863, Camberwell Registration District, Volume 1d, page 379, aged 60 [1802/3]

6. ↑ London Evening Standard, in United Kingdom. The British Newspaper Archive
   Page 7, 6 Mar 1863.

   DEATHS.
   TIMOTHY. - 3d, at Peckam [sic], Jane, wife of David Timothy.

7. ↑ Nunhead Cemetery Registers (London Metropolitan Archives).

   BURIALS in the London Cemetery Company's South London CEMETERY of ALL SAINTS', Nunhead, in the Parish of SAINT GILES', CAMBERWELL, in the County of SURREY, in the Year 1863
   No	Name	Abode	When buried	Age	By whom the Ceremony was performed
   17003	Jane Timothy	5 York Grove, Peckham	Mar[ch] 7	60 y[ea]rs	H. Morgan