Person:Matilda Wallis (1)

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Matilda Wallis
b.Abt 1805 Mitcham, Surrey, England
d.19 Nov 1876 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, England
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m. 27 Jun 1802
  1. Matilda WallisAbt 1805 - 1876
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  • H.  George Clark1813 - Bet 1871 & 1876
  • W.  Matilda WallisAbt 1805 - 1876
m. 22 Oct 1837
  1. George Clark1839 - 1901
  2. William Clark1842 -
  3. Benjamin Clark1845 -
  4. Matilda Clark1846 - 1911
  5. Caleb Clark1849 - 1911
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Name[1][2][6][8] Matilda Wallis
Married Name[2] Matilda Clarke
Married Name[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Matilda Clark
Alt Name[15] Matilda Wallace
Gender Female
Birth? Abt 1805 Mitcham, Surrey, England
Christening[15] 29 Sep 1805 Mitcham, Surrey, Englandat St. Peter and St. Paul Church
Alt Birth[10][13] Abt 1806 Mitcham, Surrey, England
Alt Birth[11] Abt 1811 Mitcham, Surrey, England
Residence[1] 1837 St. George in the East, London, Englandservant, Mile End Road
Marriage 22 Oct 1837 St George in the East, Middlesex, EnglandSt. George in the East Church
to George Clark
Residence[2] 1839 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, EnglandGrace's Lane
Residence[6][8] From 1846 to 1849 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, EnglandOld Ford Row
Census[10] 1851 Stratford le Bow, Middlesex, England4 Taylors Place
Census[11] 1861 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, EnglandMulberry Tree Row
Census[13] 1871 Romford, Essex, EnglandHigh Street
Death[14] 19 Nov 1876 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, England
Alt Death? 19 Nov 1876 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex, EnglandCause: hemiplegia, decay of nature
Alt Death[14] 21 Nov 1876 Poplar Registration District, London, EnglandDeath Registration

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.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 General Register Office. England and Wales. Civil Registration Certificates. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office)
    marriage certificate for George Clarke and Matilda Wallis, married 22 Oct 1837; citing 2/116/98, Oct-Dec quarter 1837, Middlesex registration district, St. George in the East sub-district.
    George Clarke and Matilda Wallis marriage certificate
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for George Clarke, born 9 Sep 1839; citing 2/290/246, Jul-Sep quarter 1839, Poplar Union registration district, Bow and Bromley sub-district.
    George Clark birth certificate
  3. ↑ Bromley by Bow, London, England. St. Mary's Church Parish Records
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," George Clark, bap. 6 Oct 1839.
  4. ↑ Bow, London, England. St. Mary's Church Parish Records
    London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906, William Clark, bap. 19 Feb 1843.
  5. ↑ Bromley by Bow, London, England. St. Mary's Church Parish Records
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," Benjamin Clark, bap. 30 Mar 1845.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 General Register Office. England and Wales. Civil Registration Certificates. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office)
    birth certificate for Matilda Clark, born 22 Dec 1846; citing 02/329/66, Jan-Mar quarter 1847, Poplar Union registration district, Bow and Bromley sub-district.
  7. ↑ Bromley by Bow, London, England. St. Mary's Church Parish Records
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," Matilda Clark, bap. 14 Mar 1847.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Registrar General. Birth Certificate
    birth certificate for Caleb Clark, born 4 Mar 1849; citing 2/361/19, Jan-Mar quarter 1849, Poplar Union registration district, Bow and Bromley sub-district.
    Caleb Clark birth certificate
  9. ↑ Bromley by Bow, London, England. St. Mary's Church Parish Records
    "London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906," Caleb Clark, bap. 1 Apr 1849.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Middlesex, England. 1851 Census
    Bromley, folio 150, page 12; citing PRO HO 107/1555.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Middlesex, England. 1861 Census
    Bromley St Leonard, folio 47, page 23; citing PRO RG 9/302.
  12. ↑ Hackney, London, England. St. John of Jerusalem Parish Records
    "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921," George Clark m. Harriet Eliza Chipperfield, 30 Apr 1865.
    George Clark m. Harriet Chipperfield
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Essex, England. 1871 Census of England
    Romford, folio 70, page 4; citing PRO RG 10/1644.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 General Register Office. England and Wales. Civil Registration Certificates. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office)
    death certificate for Matilda Clark, died 19 Nov 1876; citing 1c/414/474, Oct-Dec quarter 1876, Poplar registration district, Bow sub-district.
    Matilda Wallis Clark death certificate
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Surrey, England. Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1917
    St. Peter and St. Paul (Mitcham, Surrey, England), Matilda Wallace, bap. 29 Sep 1805.
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