Anyone heard of Meybourn

[richardstree]

On the 1911 census I found people I believe to belong to my husbands family. There are three people, head and son are born in Deptford.

The wife is born in a place called Meybourn.

Googled it and nothing of interest came up, do you know where Meybourn is/was?

[Peter Goodey]

Can you show us a bit of the household schedule?

[richardstree]

This is all from the 1911 census

Thomas Loveridge Head married 6 years, aged 26 Deptford
Sussa Loveridge Wife aged 22 Meybourn
John Loveridge Son aged 7 Deptford

The wife is named as Sussa, I have had a really good look, it isnt Sussan, it could be Tessa. It has been transcribed as Sussa

They live at 15 Hale Street Deptford.

Hale Street and the name Loveridge seem to go hand in hand. I was told there was a Jumbo Loveridge, which could be the John named above.

[Wirral]

There is a marriage on FreeBMD that looks likely:
Thomas LOVERIDGE Sep 1905 Dartford 2a 1241. On the same page is Susan SULLIVAN. I can't positively identify her in the censuses. You would need to get a copy of the marriage certificate to find the name & occupation of her father. With a name like SULLIVAN she could well be Irish.

[Wirral]

What about this family?
1891 census RG12/98 f93 p30, 41 Devonshire St, Marylebone, London
Jno SULLIVAN, head, M, 36, Gen lab, Ireland
Mary ", wife, M, 41, Ireland
Mary ", dau, 10, London, Marylebone
Susan ", dau, 6, London, Marylebone
Jno ", son, 4, London, Marylebone

You definitely need the marriage certificate first, but Meybourn could be a translation of Marylebone. Maybe a Londoner can tell us how Marylebone is pronounced?

[richardstree]

Marylebone did cross my mind.

Forgot to say that the occupations given for Sussa and Thomas is hawker for each.

[blue eyes]

Looking on the censuses there is a Maybourne Hampshire recorded as a pob, St Maybourne, St Mary Bourne, no Sullivans with that as pob. The only one I could find for a Susan Sullivan in Hampshire born abt 1889 Winchester father John born India mother born Ireland. John is a solider but couldnt find them after 1891.

[blue eyes]

A possibility for Thomas Loveridge in 1901

Civil parish St Paul

52 Hale Street

Thomas Loveridge head age 40 occ street hawker born Deptford
Elizabeth wife age 48 occ hawker born Croydon Surrey
Thomas son age 18 occ hawker born Deptford
Henry son age 14 born Deptford
Edith dau age 8 born Deptford

Class RG13
Piece 527
Folio 70
Page 15

Could this be the Jumbo Loveridge (this is the only time he appears as Jumbo)


1891

Civil parish St Pauls

5 Stanhope Street

Adolphus Loveridge head age 28 occ hotel cook born Deptford
Elizabeth wife age 34 born Deptford
Polly dau age 13 born Deptford
Jumbo son age 6 born Deptford
Adolphus son age 10mths born Deptford

Class RG12
Piece 494
Folio 117
Page 34

[blue eyes]

Hi,

I'm on holiday this week, but if you like I can pop into the local archives at Lewisham next week and see who was listed at the address in 1911.

[Mutley]

In 1911 at 52 Hale Street were

Emma Ault a 74 year old widow
Frederick Ault, her son a 33 year old hawker.

Charles Gunston as head a 62 year old Fishmongers Assistant with wife Clara and son Arthur.

Hawkers rarely stayed in the same place for long.