isaac william mallindine + elizabeth moore
Isaac was born in the Bethnal Green Workhouse on 18 October 1851 with only his mother, Martha Mallindine, listed on his birth certificate but when he was baptised at All Saints, Stepney on 30 November 1851, both his father, Isaac, and his mother were named in the register. The family was living at 11 Spital Street in Mile End New Town and his father was working as a Weaver.
But by 1861, his father was no longer with the family and Isaac’s mother, brother John and sister Martha were living alone in rooms above a chandler’s shop at 4 Well Street in Stepney. It appears that his mother had started a new relationship with a man named William who appears as the head of the household in 1871 under the name Mallindine but there is no record of any marriage or any other clue’s as to his identity. It is possible that Martha simply provided her family name to the census enumerator to hide the fact she was not married and it remains unclear as to whether William existed and if he did, how long their relationship lasted or what if any impact he had on young Isaac’s life.
On 5 August 1878, Isaac married Elizabeth Moore at St James the Great in Bethnal Green with Sarah Peploe acting as one of the witnesses. His father was listed as Isaac, deceased, and at the time, Isaac was working as a Carman and both his address and Elizabeth’s were listed simply as Bethnal Green. Elizabeth was born in Surrey in 1858 to William Moore and Frances Mary Cookson.
In 1881, they were living in Lambeth at 15 New Street along with one lodger and 5 year old Frances Moore, who was listed as ‘gd daughter’. As they weren’t old enough to be grand-parents, the abbreviation likely stands for god-daughter and it seems Frances was the daughter of Elizabeth’s older brother Amos and his partner, Sarah. There is a related baptism for Frances Elizabeth Moore at St John the Evangelist on 20 March 1881 and her birth date in the register was listed as 5 April 1876. She was the daughter of Amos Moore, a butcher, and his wife Sarah of 53 Mint Street in the Borough of Southwark and she was baptised on the same day as her younger brother George Isaac William who was born on 9 February 1881. If this is the same Frances, it would appear that her god-parents were caring for her while her mother recovered from the birth of her brother George.
sarah ann peploe
Isaac and Elizabeth have not been found in the 1891 census but four years later, he married a second time to Sarah Ann Peploe at Christchurch, Southwark on 23 March. Isaac was working as a Labourer and he listed his father as Isaac Mallindine, a French Polisher while Sarah was listed as a spinster and the daughter of Edward Peploe, a decorator. Isaac and Elizabeth were living at 52 Broadwall and both were only able to sign the register with their mark.
Five months after their wedding, their first daughter Martha Ann was born on 6 August 1895 at 52 Broadwall and on the birth registration, her mother was as ‘Sarah Ann Mallindine late Peploe formerly Brown’. The ‘formerly Brown’ would indicate that she was previously married but this contradicts her status as a spinster at the time of her marriage to Isaac and no records have been found under the name Brown.
Isaac was listed as a widower on the marriage register but in truth, his first wife was still alive. Elizabeth continued to live in Southwark until her death on 17 November 1898 as a result of ‘syncope following tuberculosis’ at 7 Dorrit Street in the parish of St Saviour. The cause of death was determined by the coroner following an inquest on 21 November and the death was registered on the same day with the coroner as the informant. The syncope or temporary loss of consciousness may have resulted in questions regarding her death but it appears that Elizabeth’s advanced tuberculosis was the direct cause of death and possibly the reason she was separated from her family. Tuberculosis was highly contagious and as the disease progressed, the lungs filled with fluid resulting in a wet, hacking cough that spread the TB bacteria to anyone who came into contact with the sufferer.
Elizabeth may have been ill for years before her death and may have been moved to a local sanitorium for not only treatment but isolation as well. In her absence, it appears Isaac started a relationship with Sarah and when they discovered she was expecting a child and in anticipation of Elizabeth’s death from TB, they decided to marry before he was legally free able.
Isaac and Sarah had a second daughter, Eliza Kathleen, on 7 July 1899 in Southwark and two years later, the family was living at 1 Hatfield Place with their two daughters and four boys who were listed as Isaac’s sons: 21 year old George, 13 year old Amos, 11 year old William and 8 year old Ernest. Based on the date of his first marriage and his subsequent marriage to Sarah, it doesn’t appear that these could be his children although he could have been in a relationship with Sarah long before their marriage.
No record for eldest son George has been found under the name Mallindine, Peploe or Brown but his age does correspond to the record of George Isaac William Moore who was the son of Isaac’s brother-in-law Amos and his partner Sarah. Additional records also provide links between the three other boys and Amos Moore and Sarah Peploe. There is no definitive evidence at this point but there are enough links in the available records to indicate that Amos Moore and Sarah Peploe were in a long term relationship and had at least seven children. It would appear that after their relationship ended, Sarah married Isaac.
On 25 June 1902, Isaac and Sarah had their third child, a son, Harry Edward but when his birth was registered, it was under Mallingdine — which may be an indication of the registrar’s difficulty in understanding their accent or pronunciation.
Isaac and Sarah lived on Hatfield Place until 1903 and from 1904 to 1906, Isaac appears in the Electoral Register at 9 Ladd’s Court. A marriage between Frances Mary Peploe and William Arthur Sculthorpe on 4 March 1906 contains additional links between the Moore, Peploe and Mallindine families. Frances was living at 9 Ladd’s Court at the time and her father was listed as Amos Peploe, deceased, a Market Porter while one of the witnesses was George William Peploe. It would appear that Amos and Sarah had two daughters named Frances born approximately ten years apart.
In 1911, Frances and her husband were living in the Street’s Buildings on Canvey Street in Southwark with their three children, William’s sister and Frances’ two brothers, George and William, in just three rooms. Both George and William were using the surname Peploe and both were working as Carmen.
Isaac and Sarah were living at 7 Caffrey Place with daughters Martha and Kate and their 9 year old son, listed as Edward, and they too occupied just three rooms. Isaac was working as a Night Manager and 16 year old Martha was working at a Rag Merchants. When they completed the census return, they stated that they had been married for 31 years and had 7 children which would put their date of marriage at 1880 and would cover all of the Moore/Peploe/Mallindine children from George through to Harry Edward.
Isaac died in Lambeth six months after the census and although there is a possible burial at Manor Park Cemetery in Newham, Essex on 21 October 1911, this seems unlikely as it is so far from their home in south London. Sarah died at the Southwark Infirmary on 20 December 1914 although her home address was in the Streets Buildings on Sumner Street. The cause of death was osteomyelitis of the parietal bone or an infection of the bones in her skull with a secondary cause of ‘leptomenigitis operation trephine 3 days’ so it appears she had surgery on her skull to reduce the pressure on her brain caused by meningitis. Rather gruesomely, the term trephine indicates a drill was used on her skull during the operation and it was likely this surgery that resulted in an infection that ultimately caused her death three days later. The death certificate notes that she was the widow of Isaac William Mallindine, a Brewer’s Drayman, and her daughter Frances Mary Sculthorp of the same address on Sumner Street acted as the informant.
When Sarah died, her youngest son was just twelve years old while daughters Martha and Eliza were 19 and 15. It’s not known if eldest daughter Martha was able to keep her younger siblings with her, if they were cared for by Sarah’s older children from her relationship with Amos Moore of if the family was split after their parents death.
Sarah’s son Ernest married Rose Midwinter at St Charles in Walworth on 31 May 1914 but he did so under the name Mallindine and listed his father as Isaac William, deceased. A note in the margin added by the vicar in October 1923 confirms that Ernest and Rose appeared before him to amend the details in the marriage register and specifically, Ernest’s name was amended to ‘Peploe otherwise Mallindine’ and his father was corrected to ‘Amos Peploe’. It is not known if he represented himself as Mallindine during that time or why he waited almost ten years to correct the error to his mother’s surname rather than his father’s.
Isaac and Sarah’s daughter Martha married George Thomas Blooman at All Saints in Islington, North London on 27 October 1914. At the time, she was living at 194 Copenhagen Street, as was her new husband, and she gave her father’s name as John Mallindine, a Cabman. Martha and George settled in St Pancras and they went on to have 11 children. George died in St Pancras in 1959 and was buried at the North London Cemetery in Finchley. Martha remained in their home at 33 Frederick Street in St Pancras until the mid 1960s when she moved to Dolben Court in Lewisham until her death in 1971. On 31 August, she was buried in the same cemetery as her husband.
Eliza married George Edward Jobber in Shoreditch in 1923 and they had two children. They lived in the East End for many years but like many other families in that area, they left the overcrowded conditions for better housing and opportunities in the neighbouring county of Essex. In 1939, they were living at 258 Valence Avenue in Dagenham and in 1964, Eliza was still living at the same address but with Arthur J. Crane rather than her husband. There are two possible death records for George — in 1962 and 1985 — while Eliza died in Berkshire in 1991.
Harry followed his family to east London and in 1925, he was living with sister Eliza and her husband at 30 Claremont Street in Bethnal Green and he was still living with them the following year when they lived on Laburnum Street in Shoreditch. On 27 December 1930, he married Dorothy May Lawrence at St Barnabas in Finsbury and they had one daughter. By 1939, they had moved to East Ham in Essex and were living at 188 Roman Road along with Dorothy’s father. Harry was working as a General Labourer at a glassworks factory at the time. Dorothy died in Havering in 1968 and Harry in 1983.