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My families from the West
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Stafford, Nichols, Clee and Cornell |
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The Stafford Family
George
Stafford married Jane Clee on Christmas day
in 1826 in St Pancras Old Church,
Middlesex.There is not much more to tell of
him other than he had died before his
daughter married on 3rd August 1901. On
her wedding certificate he is recorded as
having been a cabinet maker.
Unfortunately there are no census returns
for either George or Jane.
Their son
George Richard was born on 3rd January 1836.
He married Emma Nichols on 6th July 1862 and
they became my great grandparents
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Pancras Old Church
[Photographed January 2007] |
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The Nichols Family
Emma's
father, Samuel Nichols, was bon in
Middlesex, St James Westminster. It is very
sad that no record of a Baptism or a birth
for him has been found, however using the
census returns as a guide he is likely to
have been born c. 1803. In spite of
exhaustive searches at both the London
Metropolitan Archives and at the Westminster
City Archives no records of any of the
Nichols family have been found in St James,
[February 2009]
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2 Arlington Street |
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Samuel lived most of his
adult life at 2, Arlington Street - on the corner of
Mornington Crescent in London, and kept his profession
of House Painter/ Decorator until we hear no more of
him. Before then he lived at 9 Frederick
Place, off the Hampstead Road, which is no longer there.
He and his wife
Sarah [Cornell] had 6 Children.
It has not been possible to confirm a date of death
for Samuel but his last census return was made in 1871,
his age at that time 68 years.
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Emma married
George
Richard Stafford in 1862. He was a boot
maker. Her mother’s father was also a boot
maker. Oral tradition holds that George was
encouraged in his boot making by his
connection to the
Cornell family. |
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Family Tree/Chart and details
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