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Matilda Wallis (aka Wallace) was born about 1805 in Mitcham, Surrey, where she was baptised on 29 September 1805. Her parents were labourer Caleb Wallace and Matilda Baker. She had six siblings, at least four of whom lived to adulthood: Caroline who married three times and lived in Bromley-by-Bow, Charles who became a shoemaker, Charlotte who married tobacco pipe maker John Kipps and lived in Hackney, and James who worked as a carman and lived in Islington. By 1837 Matilda was working as a servant and living on Mile End Road. On 22 October 1837 32 year-old Matilda married 24 year-old labourer George Clarke at St. George in the East Church. Witnesses to the marriage were Matilda's sister and brother-in-law, Charlotte & John Kipps. Matilda's mother must have died before 1839, because her father Caleb married Sophia Rackham on 4 August 1839 at St. Botolph without Bishopsgate Church. He worked as a labourer and coal dealer and lived in Sydenham until his death in 1853 at the age of 75. George and Matilda's first child, George William Clark was born 9 September 1839 in Grace's Lane, Bromley-by-Bow. He was baptised at the nearby St. Mary's Church, Bromley St. Leonard on 6 October 1839. The family hasn't been found yet in the 1841 census. Several more children were born between 1841 and 1851 and baptised at nearby churches: William baptised at St. Mary's Stratford Bow in 1843; and at St. Mary's Bromley St. Leonard Benjamin in 1845, Matilda in 1847 and Caleb in 1849. The birth certificates for Matilda and Caleb give the family's address as Old Ford Row. By 1851 the family had moved to 4 Taylors Place, Stratford Le Bow. In the household were George, working as a beer seller; his wife Matilda; their children George, William, Benjamin, and Matilda listed as "scholars" (meaning they were attending school); toddler Caleb; and Elizabeth Evenett, a house servant. Elizabeth was the step-daughter of Matilda's sister Caroline Wallis, who had married Thomas Evenett in 1839. Taylors Place was somewhere near Beazley Crescent, visible on Old Ford St on this map. In the 1861 census the family were living in Bromley St. Leonard at Mulberry Tree Row, which was somewhere off St. Leonard St near the lochs and railway lines. In the household were George, working as a drayman (e.g. delivering beer), Matilda, and their children George a blacksmith, William a brass finisher, Benjamin a brewery labourer, Matilda a house servant, and Caleb who was still at school. The first of George and Matilda's children to marry was William, who in December 1863 married Catherine Bate Ives at St. Philip's Church in Bethnal Green. He was followed down the aisle by Benjamin (now a blacksmith) who wed Elizabeth Ann Smith in 1864. On 30 April 1865 George and Matilda were witnesses at the marriage of their son George William Clark to domestic servant Harriet Eliza Chipperfield at St. John of Jerusalem Church in Hackney. After George William was married his younger sister Matilda married in 1867 to Harriet's younger brother George Chipperfield, a riveter, boiler maker and labourer at the corn mills. The last of George and Matilda's children to marry was builder's labourer Caleb, who wed Sarah Ann Osborn in 1870. George's occupation was listed as "brewer" on William and Benjamin's marriage records, and "labourer" on George and Caleb's. By the 1871 census George and Matilda had moved to High Street in Romford, with George still listed as a labourer. This was a fair distance from where their children were still living in the Bromley-by-Bow area with their various families. George died some time between 1871 and 1876, when Matilda died as a widow. She died 19 November 1876 of hemiplegia at the age of 70, at 65 Marner St, Bromley, with her son Caleb present at her death. [edit] DNA GenealogyIf you are a descendant of Matilda Wallis and would like to compare autosomal DNA results please contact Jocelyn_K_B (at) yahoo.com for kit numbers References
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