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    Infant Orphan Asylum

    If a child was in the Infant Orphan Asylum Hackney Middlesex is there any way you could find out the childs parents and circumstances.

    I have William Richard Gibbons born 1839 to Jonathan and Mary Ann Gibbons. The parents I haven't found since in any census. In 1841 census is William Gibbons age 3 in the Asylum. I assume that is a Workhouse.

    Is this the same William and if so what happened to the parents.

    Can anyone help please

    June
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    Do you know Mary Ann's maiden name?

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    • #3
      And Jonathan's occ would probably be on the birth cert too.

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      • #4
        "orphan" didn't mean what it does today....usually one parent would be dec'd though, but someties a child who had two living parents might get taken into such an establishment for some reason or other.

        There's a Jonathan Gibbons aged 45 b Bethnal Green on the 1861 census who I can't see easily on the 1851 or 1841.

        I have to go and fetch a prescription before the chemist closes....back later!!

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        • #5
          In 1851 he's Jonathan Gilton

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          • #6
            Yes. Her full name was Mary Ann Venables King.

            Jonathans occupation isn't very clear. It could be cordwainer although it looks like cardmaker. His father 's occupation was shoemaker.

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            • #7
              I've just realised that information was on their marriage certificate.

              On the birth cert Jonathans occupation looks like Printer.

              June

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              • #8
                I'd be interested to know the details of those two census records you found Merry.
                The name Gibbons has always been a problem with the spelling and i've looked and looked and you found it just like that.

                Unfortunately I haven't got access to the census at the moment.

                June

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                • #9
                  Jonathan's middle name is Oakley. Have you pursued this? There are several Oakley Gibbons on freebmd. One is born Stepney 1841. He dies & in 1846 Joseph Oakley Buttress Gibbons is born in St James. He moves to Medway & is a leather seller. I can't follow through as I don't have Ancestry, but this may be related, even if not Jonathan's sons.
                  Phoenix - with charred feathers
                  Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.

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                  • #10
                    Hi Phoenix

                    Yes I do know about the Oakley middle name. Jonathans Grandmother was Margaret Oakley so it has been used in the family quite a bit.
                    The two you mentioned were Jonathans cousins. (The children of his father's brother.)
                    June

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