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My Spanswick Links
My story starts with my great grandmother Elizabeth Christina
Spanswick (photograph on the left) born at 6 Daniel's Row Mile End London on
16th Jul 1867. She was the youngest of three daughters of Francis William
Spanswick a Pocket Book Maker (see below) and Susannah Mary Cuttriss. The
eldest daughter was Sarah Ann Spanswick born in 1860 at Cripplegate London and
the middle daughter was Mary Spanswick born c1863. Susannah, Elizabeth
Christina's mother is believed to have died soon after the birth of Elizabeth
Christina in 1867 (to date I haven't traced the death certificate). Her father
Francis William sent Elizabeth Christina away to be looked after by a German
couple but things didn't go to plan. The foster family put young Elizabeth
Christina "on the stage" as a singer. When her father found out he took her
back immediately. 
By the
1881 Census the family appears at 1 Goswell Terrace Clerkenwell, Sarah and
Mary are both Purse Makers while Lizzie aged 13 is unemployed. Two years
latter in 1883 Sarah Ann married James Joseph Tiley at St Mark Old Street.
And on 27th Oct 1895 Elizabeth Christina married my great grandfather William Henry Middleton (photograph on the left) a Post Office Letter Sorter at St James Pentonville in Clerkenwell London. Elizabeth Christina died in 1950 in Ealing and was buried at Ealing and Old Brentford Cemetery.
Francis
William Spanswick (photograph on left) my great great grandfather was born 9th
October 1836 according to his Baptism at Walworth St Peter Surrey.He was the
youngest of eight children. His parents were Roger Spanswick a Silversmith and
Mary Ann Elizabeth Dugard who had married in 1817 at St Thomas Southwark.
Francis's father Roger died aged 50 in 1845 and Mary Ann his mother died 1849 c56 years of age.
Francis William appears in the 1841 census with his parents an Aunt Elizabeth
, his brother James and sister Matilda and again in the 1851 census
apprenticed to William Crouch a Pocket Book Maker of St Giles Cripplegate St
Bartholomew London. He married Susannah Mary Cuttriss 25th December 1859 at St
Matthias Church Bethnal Green. He died aged 73 in 1910 in Clerkenwell.
Matilda Ann Spanswick - Francis William Spanswick's youngest sister
was born in 1829 and baptised 1831 at St Peters Walworth. On 31st Dec 1853 she
married at Addington near Croydon Surrey a Labourer called William Websdale.
They had five children all boys and emigrated to Canada from where in 1887 my
greatgrandfather received a letter describing life in Ontario (see photograph
on left). And the puzzle of letter from an MA Websdale opening "Dear Brother" was one of the sparks which ignited my interest in my ancestors.
To view more Spanswick Family Photographs please click
here
And to view the letter to Francis William Spanswick and life in Ontario in 1887 please click
here