Amos
Thomas Amos with his wife Sarah [nee Berry] from a long line
of predecessors in
Kent brought their family to Essex
sometime around 1835.
Their family - Thomas b.1808, John b.1809,
Thomas b.1810, Richard b.1811, Henry b.1812,
Elizabeth b.1813, Mary Ann b.1814, William Henry
b.1816, George b.1820 and Mary b.1824.
George Amos and Hannah Wiffen [an Essex girl from Stock]
were married in 1841, in Ramsden Crays Parish Church, a few
miles outside Billericay
- a town about 25 miles east of London.
George and Hannah besides having other children, had Emma in
1852. Emma had one son out of wedlock and born on the 29 October
1875 in Ramsden Crays - he was Edward John.
Emma married James Harrison on 4th December 1881 -
they settled in Shoreditch, North London had 6 children.
Edward John Amos married Lily Louisa Rawlinson in Tottenham,
London in October 1901. They had 3 daughters and 2 sons.
Violet,
Lily, Horace, Edward, and Winifred.
Various
branches of the family moved to Bush Hill Park, Middlesex and to
Buckhurst Hill, Essex.
Violet & Winifred married
Redman brothers, and
Lily married a Fiddament later in life.
Horace had one daughter, Shirley and so it is left to
Edward's only son John, to carry the name
forward into future generations.
