PRESS/WILKINSON Chart 0500

This is a Chart for William Press, Rachel Neal and Eli Neel Wilkinson

married (1)
14th February 1844
West Hackney
Church
Hackney
Middlesex
witnesses
Henry
NEAL
Alice
PARCELL 		 

 

 (2)imarried
13th August
1854
St Phillip
Bethnal
Green
Middlesex
witnesses
William
HOLMSTEAD
(his mark)
Mary
HOLMSTEAD
1
WILLIAM PRESS
born 
???
occupation
1844 Trimming Maker
(at marriage)
1847 Trimming Maker
(baptism of Rachel Emma)
1855 Trimming Maker
(at baptism f Jerome and Robert
although he was deceased)
died before
1855
 		  2
RACHEL NEAL
born about
1825
Norwich, Norfolk
occupation
1871 Mantle Cutter 		3
ELI NEEL WILKINSON
born about
1824
Shoreditch, Middlesex
occupation
1855, 157 Labourer
1861 Blacksmith
1871 Hammerman
4
Rachel Emma
PRESS
born 
8th May 1847
baptised
13th June
1847
All Hallows
Tottenham
Middlesex 		5
Jerome Henry
PRESS
born 
2nd May 1849
Shoreditch district
Middlesex
baptised
19th October 1855
St John the Baptist
Hoxton
Shoreditch
 Middlesex
(his father William is down as deceased)
occupation
died 
March quarter 1898
Shoreditch district
London, Middlesex
Age 49

married about
 1878
not found
Sarah
BINGHAM

 6
Robert William
PRESS
born about
1854
Tottenham
Middlesex
baptised
19th October 1855
St John the Baptist
Hoxton
Shoreditch
Middlesex
(his father William is down as deceased)
occupation
1861
Scholar		 7
Benjamin
Samuel
WILKINSON
born about
1855
Shoreditch
Middlesex
occupation
1861
Scholar
baptised
19th October
1855
St John the Baptist
Hoxton
Shoreditch
Middlesex
occupation
1871
Printers
Ink Maker		 8
Eli
WILKINSON
born about
11th October
1857
1857
Shoreditch
Middlesex
occupation
1861
Scholar
baptised
4th November
1857
St John the Baptist
Hoxton, Middlesex
occupation
1871
Scholar		 9
Mary
Ann
WILKINSON
born about
1861
baptised
30th August
1861
St John the Baptist
Hoxton, Middlesex		 10
Rachel
WILKINSON
born about
1864
London
occupation
1871
Scholar
  1. 1844 Church Street, Stoke Newington, Middlesex. Father John PRESS Carman (at marriage)
  2. 1844 Church Street, Stoke Newington, Middlesex. Father Henry NEAL a Dyer
    1847 Tottenham, Middlesex (baptism of Rachel)
    1854 22 York Place, Bethnal Green, Middlesex. She is down correctly as a widow, with Father Henry NEAL a Dyer
    1855 Allerton Street, Hoxton, Middlesex (at baptism or Jerome,  Robert Press and Benjamin Wilkinson)
    1857 Pimlico Walk, Hoxton, Middlesex  (baptism of Eli)
    1861 2½ Fulford Cottage, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex
    1861 Whitmore Road, Hoxton, Middlesex (baptism of Mary Ann)
    1871 35 Princes Street, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex (There is a NEAL family at number 34, Rachel's maiden name was NEAL
  3. 1854 5 York Place, Bethnal Green, Middlesex. Father Eli WILKINSON - Smith
    1855 Allerton Street, Hoxton, Middlesex (at baptism or Jerome,  Robert Press and Benjamin Wilkinson)
    1857 Pimlico Walk, Hoxton, Middlesex  (baptism of Eli)
    1861 2½ Fulford Cottage, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex
    1861 Whitmore Road, Hoxton, Middlesex (baptism of Mary Ann)
    1871 35 Princes Street, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex
  4. 1847 Tottenham, Middlesex (baptism of Rachel)
  5. 1855 Allerton Street, Hoxton, Middlesex (at baptism) Jerome and Robert PRESS and Benjamin Samuel WILKINSON were all baptised at the same time.
    1861 2½ Fulford Cottage, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex. Down correctly as Stepson
    1871 15 Green Arbour Court, St Luke, Finsbury, Middlesex. This was a "Common Lodging House" with about 15 men living there 
    1881 B25 Golden Lane, St Luke, Middlesex. Living with them was father-in-law Maurice BINGHAM
    1891 Not found
    Information from Linda SMITH née PRESS 18th May 2004
    One other PRESS researcher and I have done an in depth search of the PRESS name as it is not an English name. Originally there was only two main groups of PRESSes in the country, in Somerset and the Suffolk and Norfolk area. The Somerset group tend to think they are from France, although Brittany was then part of Gt. Britain. We are not so sure with our group. My family are in Lowestoft in the 1600's. After the Battle of Lowestoft, which was between us and the Dutch, both sides claimed victory, We signed a peace treaty, and started trading again with the Dutch. Then lots of PRESS names start appearing on the Parish records. The battle involved over 240 ships and was so terrible that Samuel Pepys writes in his diaries that he could hear it in London. Robert and Susan PRESS had their first son, Matthew, in 1681, but I can find no marriage for Robert and Susan and no birth for Robert. So where have they got married? Could it be Holland? France? Or even Germany?
    During the 1800's lots more PRESSes appear; many of these are from Russia and Poland and are normally Jewish. They were being persecuted at this time by the Tsars. PRESS is quite a common name in Russia. 
    Another large group of PRESSes were living in Nottingham, but we have been told these came from the Somerset Group. 
    A large group of my family left Great.Yarmouth in 1875 and went to live in London although a lot of them remained in Yarmouth until quite recent. Elizabeth PRESS, born 1890, died in Gorleston in 1976. She never married and purchased a Lifeboat for the RNLI, named the Joseph B. Press after her late father. Seven hundred and forty seven items went to the museum in Norfolk, but many items had been stolen in a robbery at her house shortly before she died. The Police think it was a gang of sophisticated antique thieves. The rest of the money all went to charities, The Shipwreck Mariners Society, Seamans missions and a childrens home.
    Son of William PRESS and Rachel NEAL
  6. 1855 Allerton Street, Hoxton, Middlesex (at baptism) Jerome and Robert PRESS and Benjamin Samuel WILKINSON were all baptised at the same time.
    1861 2½ Fulford Cottage, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex
  7. 1855 Allerton Street, Hoxton, Middlesex (at baptism) Jerome and Robert PRESS and Benjamin Samuel WILKINSON were all baptised at the same time.
    1861 2½ Fulford Cottage, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex
    1871 35 Princes Street, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex
  8. 1857 Pimlico Walk, Hoxton, Middlesex  (baptism of Eli)
    1861 2½ Fulford Cottage, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex
    1871 35 Princes Street, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex
  9. 1861 Whitmore Road, Hoxton, Middlesex (baptism of Mary Ann)
  10. 1871 35 Princes Street, Haggerstone West, Shoreditch, Middlesex

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