The Origins of John Beckwith, born circa 1779

 John Beckwith was the father of Thomas Beckwith, my 3 x great-grandfather. John married Ann Lamson in Hackney 1804.¹ He died in Bethnal Green on 6th March 1838 his age being given as 59.² This indicates he was born about 1778-79. There are no Beckwith Baptisms in Bethnal Green before 1800, and only one isolated event in Shoreditch (John Backwith, 1778).³

 There are twelve John Beckwiths or Backwiths baptised in England from the beginning of 1777 to the end of 1780, with baptismal locations including Shoreditch, Middlesex, several in Essex, one in Norwich, Norfolk and others extending as far north as Brough under Stainmore, Westmoreland.⁴ To assist with his identification I looked at the details of John’s life and offspring to see if they would provide any hints.

 From the parish records, John & Ann Beckwith had the following offspring: Ann (1800), John Mitchelson (1802), Thomas (1804), Edward (1808), William Henry (1811), Charles (1817) & Edmund (1818), all christened in either Shoreditch or Bethnal Green.^5,6 However this list is not complete because the informant on the death certificate of Ann Beckwith nee Lamson is her son Ambrose Beckwith, weaver of 17 Robert St.⁷ Ambrose is easily found at 17 Robert Street in the 1851 census.⁸ The entry indicates he was born circa 1806 in Bethnal Green and there is a matching 1806 baptism entry in the registers of Bethnal Green St Matthew: Ambrose s/o Joseph & Ann Beckworth.⁶

 Baptisms were initially recorded in day books, often in abbreviated form, prior to being written into the official register. John would be abbreviated J^no and Joseph would be abbreviated J^os. These could be (and sometimes were) confused and misinterpreted during the transfer to the official register. Ambrose (1806) was the first child the couple baptised at St Matthew, so the parish officials wouldn’t necessarily have been familiar with them as a couple. He also fits nicely into a gap in the regular two-yearly child pattern.

 So the complete list of the offspring of John and Ann Beckwith is:

• 1800 Ann, christened 25th December 1800, Shoreditch St Leonard,
• 1802 John Mitchelson, christened 8th December 1811, Shoreditch St Leonard,
• 1804 Thomas, christened 1st January 1805, Shoreditch St Leonard,
• 1806 Ambrose, christened 16th November 1806, Bethnal Green St Matthew,
• 1808 Edward, christened 22nd June 1809, Shoreditch St Leonard,
• 1811 William Henry, christened 8th December 1811, Shoreditch St Leonard,
• 1817 Charles, christened 23rd March 1817, Bethnal Green St Matthew,
• 1818 Edmund, christened 3rd January 1819, Bethnal Green St Matthew.5,6
  

 Both John Beckwith and Ann Beckwith nee Lamson died in Bethnal Green (in 1838 and 1837 respectively).^2,7 On his death certificate, John’s occupation is given as a weaver and in 1841 his five unmarried sons (John, Edward, William Charles & Edward) are still living in the house in which he died, and are all weavers.⁹ The other three married offspring are also living in Bethnal Green in 1841, with all three households (Thomas & Ann Barton nee Beckwith; Thomas & Sarah Rebecca; Ambrose & Hester) being weaving households with everyone from the age of 11 up giving their occupation as weaver.⁹ By 1841 it was hard to make a living as a weaver, and families worked as a factory with the younger children spinning, threading weights or winding shuttles (see Plummer, page 361).¹⁰ Before 1800 there are no weavers with surname Beckwith in the East End.

 One odd point about the family is that Ambrose is quite a rare given name, but there is a sudden glut of Beckwiths with the given name Ambrose baptised in the East End of London in the early 1900s:

1. 1803 – Ambrose son of Ambrose & Ann, christened 7th August, Bethnal Green St Matthew (buried 17th August 1803, Bethnal Green St Matthew),
2. 1804 – Ambrose son of Ambrose & Ann, christened 12th August, Bethnal Green St Matthew (presumed death before October 1806),
3. 1806 – Ambrose son of Ambrose & Ann, christened 26th October, Bethnal Green St Matthew (buried 18th September 1808, Bethnal Green St Matthew),
4. 1806 – Ambrose son of Joseph & Ann, christened 16th November, Bethnal Green St Matthew,
5. 1814 – Ambrose son of Ambrose & Ann, christened 13th March, Bethnal Green St Matthew,
6. 1832 – Ambrose son of Ambrose & Esther, christened 17th June, Bethnal Green St Matthew,
7. 1844 – Ambrose James son of Ambrose & Maria, christened 5th June, Bethnal Green St Matthew,
8. 1849 – Ambrose Bona son of Henry & Mary Ann, christened 4th February, Bethnal Green St Jude,
9. 1871 – Joseph Ambrose son of Ambrose Bona & Sarah Ann Susannah, christened 2nd October, Hackney St Michael.^3,11,12

 The early baptisms (1, 2, 3, 5) are the offspring of Ambrose Beckwith and Ann nee Cecil (married in 1803, St George in the East).¹³ Ambrose and Ann can also be found in the censuses, and in 1861 he is shown as a weaver, born in Norwich about 1782.¹⁴ This corresponds with the son of Ambrose Beckwith and Ann Wittelton, christened in 1782, at Norwich St Paul.¹⁵

 The 1844 Ambrose James (7) is the grandson of Ambrose and Ann nee Cecil via their son Ambrose (1814, #5) and his wife Martha Bennett.^11,16 The 1849 Ambrose Bona (8) is the grandson of Ambrose & Ann Cecil via their son Henry (1816) and his wife Mary Ann Bona.^11,16 The 1871 Joseph Ambrose Beckwith (9) is the son of Ambrose Bona.

 We have already discussed the first 1806 Ambrose Beckwith (4). The 1832 Ambrose Beckwith (6) is the grandson of John and Ann nee Lamson via their son Ambrose (1806, #4) and his wife Esther/Hester Holloway.^11,16 Ann Beckwith (1800), daughter of John Beckwith who married Thomas Barton in 1824, also named one of her sons Ambrose (Ambrose Barton 1835).^11,16

 So all the Ambrose Beckwiths in the East End of London (plus Ambrose Barton) descend either from Ambrose Beckwith (1782, Norwich) and Ann nee Cecil or John Beckwith (c. 1779, origin unclear) and Ann nee Lamson (see Figure 1). Could John Beckwith and Ambrose Beckwith (1782) be related? After all one of our twelve possible John Beckwiths is from Norwich.

Figure 1: The Ambrose Beckwiths of the East End of London, 1803-1871.

 Looking at the family of Ambrose Beckwith & Ann Wittelton (proven parents of Ambrose born 1782, above), we find that they baptised nine children in Norwich, four of whom died in infancy (see Figure 2).^15,17,18,19 No further records can be found for Ambrose Beckwith (1749), his wife Ann nee Wittelton or any of their surviving offspring in Norwich. There is, however, a burial in 1814 at Bethnal Green for an Ambrose Beckwith of about the right age to be Ambrose (1749).⁶ There is then a marriage for an Ann Beckwith (widow) to James Oldfield (Whitechapel 1816).^6,20 Finally there is a burial for Ann Oldfield of the right age in 1819 at Bethnal Green.⁶ Of the surviving five children two can definitively be identified in the East End of London in the 1851 census (Ambrose Beckwith (1782) and Mary Ann Debarr nee Beckwith (1787), (see Figure 2).^8,21

Figure 2: The Family of Ambrose Beckwith and Ann(e) Wittelton, Norwich-Bethnal Green.

 We are thus missing three offspring: John (1779), Susanna (1786) and Elizabeth (1790). There are possibilities for John and Susanna in Bethnal Green: “Our” John, husband of Ann Lamson (and father of Thomas), and Susanna Beckwith who married John Whiter in Shoreditch in 1806 (see Figure 2), but I have not been able to find any evidence for the fate of Elizabeth.^1,5 All these couples (Ambrose Beckwith (1782) and Ann Beckwith nee Cecil, John Whiter and Susanna Whiter nee Beckwith, and James Debarr and Mary Ann Debarr nee Beckwith) lived in Bethnal Green like “our” John.⁹ Furthermore Ambrose Beckwith (1782), John Whiter, James Debarr and James Oldfield (second husband of Anne nee Wittelton) are also weavers like “our” John.^9,22 In addition a James Oldfield witnessed the marriages of John Beckwith to Ann Lamson in 1800 and Mary Ann Beckwith to James Debarr in 1813 prior to marrying Ann nee Wittelton in 1816.^1,20 He signed all three documents and the signatures are similar.

Figure 3: St Edmund's Church, Fishergate, Norwich, where Ambrose Beckwith was baptised in 1749. Photographed by the Author, 2018.

 To summarize, “our” John Beckwith lived in Bethnal Green, the same area where Ambrose Beckwith (1749) lived prior to his death as did his proven offspring Ambrose Beckwith (1782) and Mary Ann Debarr nee Beckwith (1787). John, his male offspring and his son-in-law were all weavers as were Ambrose Beckwith (1782) and James Debarr, husband of Mary Ann Beckwith (1787). John’s marriage was witnessed by a James Oldfield, who also witnessed the marriage of Mary Ann Beckwith (1787) and subsequently married Ann Beckwith nee Wittelton in 1816.

 The balance of the evidence points to John Beckwith (c. 1779) being the son of Ambrose Beckwith (1749) and Ann Wittelton who was christened 29th August 1779 at St Pauls Church, Norwich.

Which Thomas Beckwith?

My 2xGreat-grandfather, Zachariah Beckwith, was the youngest of fourteen children of Thomas Beckwith and his wife Sarah.¹ Thomas Beckwith married Sarah Rebecca Hall, on 6 Jun 1824 at St John of Hackney.² The couple appeared in the 1841 census: Thomas Beckwith, a silk weaver aged 36, and Sarah at 2 Shacklewell Street, Bethnal Green.³ Thomas’ age is not rounded down, so we can infer that Thomas was born 1804-5.

There are two Thomas Beckwiths born in East London in 1804-5, one in Whitechapel and one in Shoreditch.^4,5 By comparing the histories of the two families we can deduce which Thomas Beckwith was the father of Zachariah.

Whitechapel	Shoreditch
Thomas, son of Thomas Beckwith & Mary of Church Lane, ch 26 Aug 1804, St Mary Whitechapel4	Thomas, son of John & Ann Beckwith of New Inn Yard, bn 12 Dec 1804, ch 1 Jan 1805, St Leonard Shoreditch5/td>
Marriages
Thomas Beckwith married Mary Finch, 10 Jan 1791, All Saints West Ham Essex6	John Beckwith married Ann Lamson, 7 Jun 1800, St John at Hackney7
Other Offspring
Sarah Ann daughter of Thomas & Mary Beckwith of Colchester Street, ch 5 Jul 1795, St Mary Whitechapel8	Ann daughter of John & Ann Beckwith of New Inn Yard, bn 16 Nov 1800, ch 25 Dec 1800, St Leonard Shoreditch12
George son of Thomas & Mary Beckwith of Colchester Street, ch 19 Feb 1797, St Mary Whitechapel9	John Mitchelson son of John & Ann Beckwith of New Inn Yard, bn 28 Dec 1802, ch 8 Dec 1811, St Leonard Shoreditch13
Harriet daughter of Thomas & Mary Beckwith of Church Lane, ch 17 Mar 1799, St Mary Whitechapel10	Edward son of John & Ann Beckwith of New Inn Yard, bn 25 Dec 1808, ch 22 Jun 1809, St Leonard Shoreditch14
Samuel Cox Beckwith son of Thomas & Mary of Church Lane, ch 24 Jul 1801, St Mary Whitechapel11	William Henry son of John & Ann Beckwith of New Inn Yard, bn 7 Jul 1811, ch 8 Dec 1811, St Leonard Shoreditch15
	Charles son of John Beckwith (weaver) & Ann of Swan Street, bn 27 Feb 1817, ch 23 Mar 1817, St Matthew Bethnal Green16
	Edmund son of John Beckwith (weaver) & Ann of Swan street, bn 19 Oct 1918, ch 3 Jan 1819, St Matthew Bethnal Green17
1841 England Census
Samuel & George Beckwith, carriage makers of Devonshire Street West, Mile End Old Town18	John, Edward, William, Charles & Edmund Beckwith, silk weavers of Old Nichol St, Bethnal Green19

We don’t have any indications of the occupation of Thomas, husband of Mary, but by 1841 two of his sons were carriage makers.¹⁸ In contrast John Beckwith, husband of Ann, is listed as a weaver in the baptism entries of his last two sons and as a silk weaver in his death certificate.²⁰ In 1841 five of his sons are living together and are all weavers.¹⁹

Looking at locations, John Beckwith & Ann lived in the Shoreditch/Bethnal Green area and five of his sons were living in Bethnal Green in 1841 (see Figure 1).

Figure 1: Locations associated with the families of Thomas & Mary Beckwith and John & Ann Beckwith. 

Given that Thomas father of Zachariah is a weaver living in Bethnal Green in 1841, not far from five of the sons of John and Ann, the balance of probability is that Zachariah’s father is the other son of John and Ann Lamson.

Sources

1. Birth of Zachariah Beckwith, born 4 Jul 1851; citing II/77/442, September quarter 1851, Bethnal Green registration district, Town sub-district; General Register Office, Southport.

2. Marriage of Thomas Beckwith and Sarah Hall, married 6 June 1824, St John at Hackney Church Registers, Hackney, Middlesex, Page 236, No. 707.

3. Census record for Thomas Beckwith, aged 36, 2 Shacklewell Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, 1841 England and Wales Census, The National Archives, HO107/694/11/42/20, UK Census Collection, Ancestry.com, accessed 23 Apr 2006.

4. Baptism of Thomas Beckwith, baptised 26 August 1804, St Mary’s Church Register, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England, Ancestry Australia, accessed 12 Dec 2009.

5. Baptism of Thomas Beckwith, baptised 12 December 1804, St Leonard’s Church Parish Register, Shoreditch, Middlesex, England, FHL Film 396232.

6. Marriage of Thomas Beckwith and Mary Finch married 10 January 1791, Parish of West Ham, Essex, England, Essex, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1935 (Index only, no image currently available), Ancestry Australia, accessed 30 Aug 2021.

7. Marriage of John Beckwith and Ann Lamson, married 7 June 1800, St John at Hackney Church Registers, Hackney, Middlesex, unpaginated, unnumbered.

8. Baptism of Sarah Ann Beckwith, baptised 5 July 1795,  St Mary’s Church Parish Register, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England, Ancestry Australia, accessed 30 Aug 2021.

9. Baptism of George Beckwith, baptised 19 February 1797, St Mary’s Church Parish Register, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England, Ancestry Australia, accessed 30 Aug 2021.

10. Baptism of Harriet Beckwith, baptised 17 March 1799, St Mary’s Church Parish Register, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England, Ancestry Australia, accessed 30 Aug 2021.

11. Baptism of Samuel Cox Beckwith, baptised 24 July 1801,  St Mary’s Church Parish Register, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England, Ancestry Australia, accessed 30 Aug 2021.

12. Baptism of Ann Beckwith, baptised 25 December 1800, St Leonard’s Church Parish Register, Shoreditch, Middlesex, FHL Film 396232.

13. Baptism of John Mitchelson Beckwith, baptised 8 December 1811, St Leonard’s Church Parish Register, Shoreditch, Middlesex, Ancestry Australia, accessed 10 Jan 2011.

14. Baptism of Edward Beckwith, baptised 22 June 1809, St Leonard’s Church Parish Register, Shoreditch, Middlesex, FHL Film 396232.

15. Baptism of William Henry Beckwith, baptised 8 December 1811, St Leonard’s Church Parish Register, Shoreditch, Middlesex, Ancestry Australia, accessed 10 Jan 2011.

16. Baptism of Charles Beckwith, baptised 23 March 1817, St Matthew’s Church Parish Register, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, Page 63, No. 502, Ancestry Australia, accessed 10 Jan 2011.

17. Baptism of Edmund Beckwith, baptised 3 January 1819, St Matthew’s Church Parish Register, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, Page 231, No. 1841, Ancestry Australia, accessed 10 Jan 2011.

18. Census record for Samuel Beckwith, aged 35, Devonshire Street West, Mile End Old Town , 1841 England and Wales Census, The National Archives, HO107/713/4/48, UK Census Collection, Ancestry Australia, accessed 30 Aug 2021.

19. Census record for John Beckwith, aged 35, Old Nichol Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, 1841 England and Wales Census, The National Archives, HO107/693/1/20, UK Census Collection, Ancestry.com, accessed 11 Nov 2006.

20. Death of John Beckwith, died 6 March 1838, citing II/28/381, March quarter 1838, Bethnal Green registration district, Hackney Road sub-district; General Register Office, Southport.

Emily Beckwith's Bible

Well it's not been a great year, but I have managed to complete six out of the seven remaining Units I need to complete my Diploma of Family History and I'm looking forward to having more time to spend on my blog. This post is from an assessment for one of the most recent Units "Place, Image, Object", part of which involved identification of inherited objects and placing them in context. I looked at the bible which originally belonged to my great-grandmother, Emily Beckwith.

The Muddled Trail of Mary Ann

According to the birth certificate of my great-grandmother, Emily Beckwith, the maiden name of my great-great-grandmother was Mary Ann Butler.¹ Emily was the second child of Zachariah and Mary Ann Beckwith, the oldest being Mary Ann Beckwith born 1865.²

The first muddle occurs in the maiden names given in the birth registrations of Zachariah and Mary Ann’s children. For Mary Ann, Emily, Alfred (1881) and Zachariah (1883) the mother’s name is given as Mary Ann Beckwith formerly Butler.³ Importantly, on the certificate of Martha Ann (1879) the mother’s name is given as Mary Ann Beckwith late Stevens formerly Butler.⁴ This indicates the existence of a previous marriage, supported by the list of names in Emily’s Bible, which includes Joseph Stevens (1868).⁵ Confusingly in the registrations of the last two children, Arthur (1886) and Elizabeth (1888), the mother’s name is given as Mary Ann Beckwith formerly Fletcher!⁶

End paper of Emily Beckwith’s Bible⁵

The next muddle is in the Beckwith-Stephens marriage certificate.⁷ The bride, who quite correctly gives her name as Mary Ann Stephens, is mistakenly listed as a spinster. Therefore, as far as the clerk is concerned, her father’s name must be James Stephens, mustn’t it? Thankfully the “James” is correct.

Mary Ann and Joseph both appear in the 1871 census with a younger child, George (~1870), with Mary Ann giving her marital status as “widow”.⁸

In the birth certificates of Joseph and George their parents are given as George Stephens/Stevens and Mary Ann Butler.⁹ George senior’s death had occurred on 22nd March 1871, just before the census.¹⁰ But when did Mary Ann marry George Stevens? Given that Mary Ann was born in 1847 and was twenty when she gave birth to Joseph one would expect it to be a year or so before Joseph’s birth.¹¹

It turns out that George Stevens married Mary Ann Butler (daughter of James Butler) on 27th July 1843, when Mary Ann was sixteen (though she gave her age as eighteen).¹² The witnesses were from George’s family. There were no children prior to Joseph in 1868 (shortly after the death of James Butler).¹³ Did James drag Mary Ann back to her childhood home? We’ll never know, but it is possible that George started working for James before James’ death as on Joseph’s birth certificate his father’s trade is given as chairmaker (which was James’ trade).¹⁴

You won’t find Mary Ann Butler or James Butler in the 1861 or 1851 censuses. The family appears under the surname “Fletcher”.¹⁵ Throughout this time the family still registered their children using the surname “Butler”.¹⁶ The reasons behind this are rather involved and will have to wait for another blog, but it seems that somehow the surname “Fletcher” caught up with Mary Ann again, later in her life.

St Leonard, Shoreditch photographed by John Salmon 27th September 2011

The final muddle in Mary Ann’s trail is a clerk’s error in her baptism entry. St Leonard Shoreditch was a busy, crowded parish in the nineteenth century. The clerks were entering multiple entries in multiple registers every day and made mistakes. When entering James Butler’s surname the clerk seems to have accidentally repeated his given name. Thus on 4th April 1847 Mary Ann daughter of James and Fanny Maria “James” was baptised having been born on 1st March.¹⁷ Apart from the surname this matches Mary Ann birth certificate details.

The documentary trail of my great-great-grandmother is muddled, but when pulled together all the parts fit neatly together like a jigsaw.

Sources

1. England, Bethnal Green Register Office, birth certificate for Emily Beckwith, born 10 Mar 1877; Bethnal Green registration district, Church sub-district
2. England and Wales, birth certificate for Mary Ann Beckwith, born 12 Mar 1875; citing 1c/267/450, Jun quarter 1875, Bethnal Green registration district, Church Bethnal Green sub-district; General Register Office, Southport
3. England and Wales, birth certificate, Mary Ann Beckwith, 12 Mar 1875, citing 1c/267/450, Jun quarter 1875, Bethnal Green registration district, Church Bethnal Green sub-district; England, Bethnal Green Register Office, birth certificate, Emily Beckwith, 10 Mar 1877; Bethnal Green registration district, Church sub-district; England and Wales, birth certificate for Alfred Beckwith, born 9 Sep 1881; citing 1c/261/144, Dec quarter 1881, Bethnal Green registration district, Church sub-district; General Register Office, Southport; England and Wales, birth certificate for Zachariah Beckwith, born 31 Oct 1883; citing 1c/258a/269, Dec quarter 1883, Bethnal Green registration district, Church sub-district; General Register Office, Southport
4. England and Wales, birth certificate for Martha Ann Beckwith, born 1 Jul 1879; citing 1c/288/393, Sep quarter 1879, Bethnal Green registration district, Town sub-district; General Register Office, Southport.
5. Emily Beckwith’s Bible - The Holy Bible (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1890)
6. England and Wales, birth certificate for Arthur Beckwith, born 17 Jan 1886; citing 1c/261/86, Mar quarter 1886, Bethnal Green registration district, Church sub-district; General Register Office, Southport; England and Wales, birth certificate for Elizabeth Beckwith, born 4 Mar 1888; citing 1c/264/213, Mar quarter 1888, Bethnal Green registration district, Church sub-district; General Register Office, Southport
7. England and Wales, marriage certificate for Zacharia Beckwith and Mary Ann Stephens, married 25 Dec 1875; citing 1c/839/177, Dec quarter 1873, Bethnal Green registration district; General Register Office, Southport
8. 1871 census of England, London, Bethnal Green, folio 96, page 39, Mary A Stevens; digital images, Ancestry Information Operations Company, Ancestry Australia (http://www.ancestry.com.au/ : accessed 29 Apr 2006); citing PRO RG 10/491
9. England and Wales, birth certificate for Joseph Charles Stephens, born 9 Jan 1868; citing 1c/267/270, Mar quarter 1868, Bethnal Green registration district, Green sub-district; General Register Office, Southport; England and Wales, birth certificate for George Stevens, born 23 Mar 1870; citing 1c/279/102, Jun quarter 1870, Bethnal Green registration district, Church sub-district; General Register Office, Southport
10. England and Wales, death certificate for George Stevens, died 22 Mar 1871; citing 1c/249/30, Mar quarter 1871, Bethnal Green registration district, Church, Bethnal Green sub-district; General Register Office, Southport
11. England and Wales, birth certificate for Mary Ann Butler, born 1 Mar 1847; citing II/564/233, Jun quarter 1847, Whitechapel registration district, Spitalfields sub-district; General Register Office, Southport
12. England and Wales, marriage certificate for George Stevens and Mary Ann Butler, married 27 Jul 1863; citing 1c/596/369, Sep quarter 1863, Bethnal Green registration district; General Register Office, Southport.
13. England and Wales, death certificate for James Butler, died 26 Oct 1867; citing 1c/225/288, Dec quarter 1867, Bethnal Green registration district, Town sub-district; General Register Office, Southport
14. England and Wales, birth certificate, Joseph Charles Stephens, 9 Jan 1868, citing 1c/267/270, Mar quarter 1868, Bethnal Green registration district, Green sub-district
15. 1861 census of England, Middlesex, Bethnal Green, folio 70, page 42, James Fletcher; digital images, Ancestry Information Operations Company, Ancestry Australia (http://www.ancestry.com.au/ : accessed 8 Aug 2006); citing PRO RG 9/262; 1851 census of England, Middlesex, Bethnal Green, folio 376, page 30, James Fletcher; digital images, Ancestry Information Operations Company, Ancestry Australia (http://www.ancestry.com.au/ : accessed 8 Aug 2006); citing PRO HO 107/1542
16. England and Wales, birth certificate for Louisa Butler, born 28 May 1844; citing II/537/304, Sep quarter 1844, Whitechapel Union registration district, Spitalfields sub-district; General Register Office, Southport; England and Wales, birth certificate, Mary Ann Butler, 1 Mar 1847, citing II/564/233, Jun quarter 1847, Whitechapel registration district, Spitalfields sub-district; England and Wales, birth certificate for Charles Henry Butler, born 2 Apr 1849; citing II/625/621, Jun quarter 1849, Whitechapel registration district, Spitalfields sub-district; General Register Office, Southport; England and Wales, birth certificate for Catherine Butler, born 11 Sep 1851; citing II/73/119, Dec quarter 1851, Bethnal Green registration district, Town sub-district; General Register Office, Southport
17. St Leonard (Shoreditch, Middlesex, England), Parish Registers, "London Metropolitan Archives P91/LEN/A/01/Ms 7496/54, Register of baptisms 1846-1848,"  page 91, baptism of Mary Ann "James", 4 Apr 1847; digital images, Ancestry Information Operations Company, Ancestry Australia (www.ancestry.com.au : accessed 21 Nov 2009).