Sophia MORUM (nee SIMMONDS born c1808) is on the 1841 census in Shoe Lane with her carpenter husband John and their two children. They had lived there since at least 1836 when John was awarded a Royal Humane Society medal for rescuing a child from a privy in Blackfriars (the medal came up for sale in 2008). They had married on 30 Jun 1828 in Bromley, Kent which is where John was born, and their infant son Samuel died there in 1833.
I can find no trace of Sophia after 1841. John married again in 1844 at St Pancras to Mary Willmore saying he was a bachelor (untrue), carpenter (true), and his father was Samuel Morum dec’d (true) and a daughter Marianne was bapt in 1849 born 2 Aug 1848 with a note that the father was a carpenter abroad while the mother lived in Hampstead. This tallies with his emigration to New York, though I haven't found him on a passenger list I have his burial there in 1875, and daughter Rosina her husband Richard EVERED & children travelling there in 1873, she was back in England by 1881 with an American born half brother.
Any help appreciated.
I can find no trace of Sophia after 1841. John married again in 1844 at St Pancras to Mary Willmore saying he was a bachelor (untrue), carpenter (true), and his father was Samuel Morum dec’d (true) and a daughter Marianne was bapt in 1849 born 2 Aug 1848 with a note that the father was a carpenter abroad while the mother lived in Hampstead. This tallies with his emigration to New York, though I haven't found him on a passenger list I have his burial there in 1875, and daughter Rosina her husband Richard EVERED & children travelling there in 1873, she was back in England by 1881 with an American born half brother.
Any help appreciated.
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