Woods   page added  27th September 2005

Currently working on Charlotte Norford group and George Theed links

From Marilyn Spreadbury

28.10.06

Hi David,
Have been watching your web site, but not for the last few weeks. Will look again next week. I was going to email you.

I think William Whiter, son of Charles and Ann Wheeler must have been a bigamist, married to Mary Marr, but living with Maria Popplewell (never found a marriage cert), as they were both having children at the same time. Also, I have found Mary Whiter on the Censuses (have subscribed to Ancestry.co.uk) but although married, never living with her husband. Strange thing though, the elder children (if my theory is correct) were living with Willaim and Maria. Additionally I have not found a death certificate for another William Whiter of the right age at any time in the records.

There is a family story that my grndfather used to tell about someone running off with a Sunday school teacher. Perhaps it was him. It would also explain why the offspring used both surnames.
The other thing I wanted to ask you was, did you watch who do you think you are this week? They were looking at Julia Swahala's family, some of whom, on her mother's side, were Huguenot weavers in BG.

An historian was talking about the silk trade, and said how it collapsed after around 1850, due to mechanisation, which would explain why all our ancestors became hawkers.

It was also said how poor they became, and a lot of them ended up in the workhouse, and how all that area around Spitalfields beame the worst slums in London. I can understand how some of the people on that programme become so emotional, as it is so sad to think what dreadful lives they led, when our children are so privileged (they were probably a nasty rough lot that I would have crossed over if I'd seen them on the street!!)

Have also found Maria POpplewell;s mother. She was Maria Pickall.

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20.10.2006

from Albert Woods

Hi David

I have George (Whiter) born 1821 in Bethnal Green,son of James and Mary.

Any connection?

Regards Bert

Reply have ged-coms available also try or Whiter_family site!

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18^th April 2005