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First Generation
1. At some point Henry PENFOLD [6293] married Mary Ann [6294] .
Note From Matthew Penfold:
Henry Penfold, born about 1776, is the earliest ancestor we have so far traced. The 1841 census recorded his occupation, but unfortunately the writing is so faded that it is illegble.
He must have died sometime during the 1840s, for by 1851 his wife Mary Ann was living
with her son George. She was born in Westminster about 1786, and made paper bags, as
most of her children seem to have done. The manufacture of paper bags dates from the
end of the eighteenth century, and it would be nice to think that Henry and Mary Ann
were pioneers of the craft, but we have no evidence to show that they were. The bags
were expensive because the work was time-consuming, the paper costly and the glue took
a long time to dry. Paper bags were made by folding a piece of paper diagonally and
gluing the side, so that they were pointed like icecream cones: a machine to make the far
more useful square-bottomed ones was invented about 1860, by one Margaret Knight in America.
Note From Matthew Penfold:
Henry and Mary Ann Penfold had at least five sons, all but one of whom were involved at some stage in the manufacture of paper bags in or near Islington. Whether they worked from home or in some communal factory we do not know. Some of them became
printers, which suggests that their work probably involved the printed labelling of the bags. Since they were all born before the first censuses were taken, we cannot tell whether they had any sisters, or indeed how many children the family included.
Mary Ann [6294] and Henry PENFOLD had the following children:
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Second Generation
2. William PENFOLD [6295], son of Henry PENFOLD [6293] and Mary Ann [6294], was born in 1811 (approx.). At some point he married Susanna [6296] .
Note From Matthew Penfold:
The eldest, William, is variously described as a verger, porter or messenger, but his wife made paper bags and their youngest son was a compositor. The first, however, was a gas fitter, with a daughter wonderfully named Lucretia, in an age depressingly liable to repeat familiar names, and the second an organ builder. This last occupation, however, either did not provide lucrative employment or else Edward Penfold built bad organs, for in 1871 we find him, sadly, at the age of thirty, an unmarried inmate of the Manchester
Wharf workhouse in Crumpsall. William’s address in 1851 was 1 Thornhill Street.
Susanna [6296] was born in 1811 (approx.). She and William PENFOLD had the following children:
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3. Henry PENFOLD [6297], son of Henry PENFOLD [6293] and Mary Ann [6294], was born in 1812. At some point he married Sarah [6298] .
Note From Matthew Penfold:
The second son was Henry, born about 1812. Henry’s family lived in Balmoral Castle, but without Henry! That is to say, before we get ideas above our station, that in 1861 his wife and several children gave their address as 3 Market Terrace, Balmoral Castle,
Finsbury! Where Henry was at that time remains a mystery, but he turns up again in later censuses with his wife Sarah; they were printers and stationers in or near the Caledonian Road, Islington, not far from Thornhill Street. At least two of their sons were printers and
seem to have run thriving businesses.
Sarah [6298] and Henry PENFOLD had the following children:
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4. Thomas PENFOLD [6299], son of Henry PENFOLD [6293] and Mary Ann [6294], was born in 1813. He died in 1854 in 56 Great Ormond Street, Bloomsbury. At some point he married Mary GILLARD [6300] .
Note From Matthew Penfold:
Thomas, from whom we are descended, was the third son. Avoiding the paper bag trade, he was a butcher, living at 56 Great Ormond Street, next door to the hospital. From at least 1841 his widowed mother-in-law, Ann Gillard (1782-1870), lived with him and his
wife Mary, and their children. She was a licensed victualler, which I suppose means she kept a cookshop that also sold alcohol, and came from Tutbury in Staffordshire. Why or when she had moved to London is not clear — probably brought by parents or guardians,
for there was another family of Gillards living in or near Holborn, and her daughter Mary was born in London: like Thomas, in the parish of St George the Martyr.
Their children were Thomas, Campion, our ancestor Charles, and Clara. The fate of young Thomas we do not know. Campion died aged five in 1846. Clara grew up to marry a warehouseman grocer named, appropriately enough for the daughter of a butcher,
Thomas Meatyard. In 1881 the Meatyards were living at 67 Linton Street, Middlesex, with six-year-old Thomas and three-year-old Harry, who were both born in Shoreditch, and for all we know to the contrary may well have been nicknamed Meatinches.
Charles’s father Thomas died in 1854, aged forty one, after suffering from phthisis for nine months. Phthisis, Greek for wasting away, was an old term for T.B. Thomas’s death certificate mentions halmoptysis, a word which did not find its way into the
O.E.D. ( the Oxford English Dictionary). However, the Greek derivation shows it must mean salty spittle. After his death the family seems to have split up; perhaps there was insufficient income to keep the premises in Great Ormond Street. In 1861 Charles is
living with his uncle George, helping to make paper bags, and Ann Gillard and her granddaughter Clara with a nephew Horatio Guy and his family in Bermondsey on the other side of the river.
Mary GILLARD [6300] was born in 1810. She died in 1875. She and Thomas PENFOLD had the following children:
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5. George PENFOLD [6307], son of Henry PENFOLD [6293] and Mary Ann [6294], was born in 1815. He died in 1879. At some point he married Hannah NIXON [6308] .
Note From Matthew Penfold:
The fourth son George seems not to have had children. He was married to Hannah Nixon, whose sister Frances and Frances’s illegitimate daughter Emily also lived with them, as well as his mother Mary Ann, widowed some time in the 1840s, and, following
his father’s death, Charles. In those days it seems taken for granted that when an older relative lost a spouse or a youngster lost a parent, he or more often she would take up residence in the home of a married member of the family.
Hannah NIXON [6308] was born in 1820.
6. John PENFOLD [6309], son of Henry PENFOLD [6293] and Mary Ann [6294], was born in 1823. At some point he married Jessie [6310] . At some point he married Frances [6311] .
Note From Matthew Penfold:
The youngest brother, John, some eight years younger than George, was married to Jessie, by whom he had three children. He was a painter (of buildings, I take it, not portraits!)
but after the death of Jessie we find him married to George’s sister-in-law Frances and making paper bags like his brother. Emily kept her mother’s maiden name of Nixon, but after John’s death when Frances remarried, Emily adopted her new stepfather’s surname of Lilley. In 1879 George died, and by1881 Frances was again a widow, living with her widowed sister Hannah and her daughter Emily Lilley.
In 1862 a five-year-old named Thomas Penfold was run over and killed in the Caledonian.
Jessie [6310] was born in 1825. She and John PENFOLD had the following children:
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Frances [6311] was born in 1830.
Third Generation
7. William PENFOLD [6315], son of William PENFOLD [6295] and Susanna [6296], was born in 1836. At some point he married Ellen [6316] .
Ellen [6316] and William PENFOLD had the following children:
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8. Edward PENFOLD [6318], son of William PENFOLD [6295] and Susanna [6296], was born in 1842.
9. Henry PENFOLD [6319], son of William PENFOLD [6295] and Susanna [6296], was born in 1844. At some point he married Elizabeth [6320] .
Elizabeth [6320] was born in 1852.
10. Henry PENFOLD [6321], son of Henry PENFOLD [6297] and Sarah [6298], was born in 1840.
11. George PENFOLD [6322], son of Henry PENFOLD [6297] and Sarah [6298], was born in 1842. At some point he married Louise [6330] .
Louise [6330] was born in 1844. She and George PENFOLD had the following children:
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12. Jessy PENFOLD [6323], daughter of Henry PENFOLD [6297] and Sarah [6298], was born in 1845.
13. Richard PENFOLD [6324], son of Henry PENFOLD [6297] and Sarah [6298], was born in 1848. At some point he married Eveline [6325] .
Eveline [6325] and Richard PENFOLD had the following children:
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14. Alice PENFOLD [6326], daughter of Henry PENFOLD [6297] and Sarah [6298], was born in 1854.
15. Thomas PENFOLD [6301], son of Thomas PENFOLD [6299] and Mary GILLARD [6300], was born in 1839. He died in 1862 (approx.).
16. Campion PENFOLD [6302], child of Thomas PENFOLD [6299] and Mary GILLARD [6300], was born in 1841. He/she died in 1846.
17. Charles PENFOLD [6303], son of Thomas PENFOLD [6299] and Mary GILLARD [6300], was born in 1844 in Holborn, London, England. He married Emily DAVIS [6304] on 8 May 1865 in St. George, Camberwell, Surrey, England. He died in 1894.
Note From Matthew Penfold:
Whether Charles found life at Uncle George’s unduly restrictive, or how he became acquainted with a bone dealer and his beautiful daughter in Walworth, Newington, south of the Thames, are intriguing but unanswerable questions. Suffice it that on May 8th 1865 he married Emily Davis in the parish church of Camberwell, and brought her back, at least for a time before going south again, to 14 Thornhill Street in Islington, two doors away from the house at No 12 where Uncle George lived. He was of “full age”, if barely so,
and his wife still a minor. His marriage certificate describes him as a “pointer”, if the “o” is not a misreading by the copyist for an “r”, but his daughter’s birth certificate, November 1866, calls him a paper bag maker: the jobs evidently interlocked.
“Pointer” was an occupation in the printing trade. If correctly read, the entry on Charles’s marriage certificate, it is pleasing to note, antedates the earliest reference in the O.E.D. by seventeen years. The job is rather bewilderingly defined (O.E.D., s.v.
“pointer” 7.) as:
Printing. A layer-on who secures the register in printing the reverse side by ‘threading’ the sheet through the point-holes made in printing the first side.
Presumably he was such a man, but either he found exact register irksome, or he couldn’t make a living by it, for in 1871, rather alarmingly, he has adopted his father-in-law’s trade and is a dealer in bones. Family tradition says he came into some money which enabled him to buy a cab: since his mother died in 1875, it may have come from her, but we
do not know. If he prospered as a cab-driver, it may only have been for a time, for by 1891 he is described simply as a “labourer”: perhaps by then his cab needed more expensive repairs than he could afford. In 1894, aged fifty, he died.
Emily DAVIS [6304] was born in 1846 in Walworth. She died in 1932. She and Charles PENFOLD had the following children:
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18. Clara PENFOLD [6305], daughter of Thomas PENFOLD [6299] and Mary GILLARD [6300], was born in 1848. At some point she married Thomas MEATYARD [6306] .
Thomas MEATYARD [6306] was born in 1850.
19. Jessie PENFOLD [6312], daughter of John PENFOLD [6309] and Jessie [6310], was born in 1848.
20. Charlotte PENFOLD [6313], daughter of John PENFOLD [6309] and Jessie [6310], was born in 1856.
21. Henry PENFOLD [6314], son of John PENFOLD [6309] and Jessie [6310], was born in 1858.
Fourth Generation
22. Lucretia PENFOLD [6317], daughter of William PENFOLD [6315] and Ellen [6316], was born in 1857.
23. Alice PENFOLD [6331], daughter of George PENFOLD [6322] and Louise [6330], was born in 1868.
24. Florence PENFOLD [6332], daughter of George PENFOLD [6322] and Louise [6330], was born in 1870.
25. George PENFOLD [6333] was the son of George PENFOLD [6322] and Louise [6330].
26. Ernest PENFOLD [6334] was the son of George PENFOLD [6322] and Louise [6330].
27. Sanford PENFOLD [6335], son of George PENFOLD [6322] and Louise [6330], was born in 1878.
28. Sarah PENFOLD [6327], daughter of Richard PENFOLD [6324] and Eveline [6325], was born in 1870.
29. Alice PENFOLD [6328], daughter of Richard PENFOLD [6324] and Eveline [6325], was born in 1878.
30. Robert PENFOLD [6329], son of Richard PENFOLD [6324] and Eveline [6325], was born in 1880.
31. Emily Louisa PENFOLD [6336], daughter of Charles PENFOLD [6303] and Emily DAVIS [6304], was born in 1866 in Islington, London, England. She died in 1957. At some point she married Leonard FAULKNER [6337] .
Note: Known as Lily.
32. Rosa H PENFOLD [6338], daughter of Charles PENFOLD [6303] and Emily DAVIS [6304], was born in 1866. She died in 1883.
33. Charles PENFOLD [6339], son of Charles PENFOLD [6303] and Emily DAVIS [6304], was born in 1869.
Emigrated to Australia.
34. Edith PENFOLD [6340], daughter of Charles PENFOLD [6303] and Emily DAVIS [6304], was born in 1873. She died in 1950 (approx.). At some point she married August HORATH [6341] .
August HORATH [6341] was born in 1872.
35. George PENFOLD [6342], son of Charles PENFOLD [6303] and Emily DAVIS [6304], was born in 1874. He married [unnamed person] [6343] in 1901 in Camberwell, London, England.
36. Kate PENFOLD [6344], daughter of Charles PENFOLD [6303] and Emily DAVIS [6304], was born in 1875. At some point she married Archibald HONE [6345] .
37. William PENFOLD [6346], son of Charles PENFOLD [6303] and Emily DAVIS [6304], was born in 1878. He died in 1975. At some point he married Alice SPEER [6347] .
Emigrated to South Africa in 1903 & 1905.
Alice SPEER [6347] was born in 1874. She died in 1962. She and William PENFOLD had the following children:
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38. Grace PENFOLD [6348], daughter of Charles PENFOLD [6303] and Emily DAVIS [6304], was born in 1883. She died in 1956 (approx.).
39. Walter PENFOLD [6349], son of Charles PENFOLD [6303] and Emily DAVIS [6304], was born in 1885. He married [unnamed person] [6350] in 1909 in Camberwell. He died in 1950 (approx.).
Fifth Generation
40. William John PENFOLD [6351], son of William PENFOLD [6346] and Alice SPEER [6347], was born in 1899. He died in 1948. At some point he married Alice JACOBS [6352] .
Alice JACOBS [6352] and William John PENFOLD had the following children:
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41. Albert PENFOLD [6355] was the son of William PENFOLD [6346] and Alice SPEER [6347].
42. Henry PENFOLD [6356] was the son of William PENFOLD [6346] and Alice SPEER [6347].
43. Sydney PENFOLD [6357], son of William PENFOLD [6346] and Alice SPEER [6347], was born in 1907. He died in 1994. At some point he married Iris WADE [6358] .
Iris WADE [6358] was born in 1908. She died in 1997. She and Sydney PENFOLD had the following children:
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44. Edith PENFOLD [6365], daughter of William PENFOLD [6346] and Alice SPEER [6347], was born in 1909. She died in 1991. At some point she married Sidney LEE [6366] .
Sidney LEE [6366] was born in 1908. He died in 1972.
45. Ethel PENFOLD [6367], daughter of William PENFOLD [6346] and Alice SPEER [6347], was born in 1912.
46. Helen PENFOLD [6368] was the daughter of William PENFOLD [6346] and Alice SPEER [6347].
47. Stephen PENFOLD [6369], son of William PENFOLD [6346] and Alice SPEER [6347], was born in 1918.
Sixth Generation
48. At some point Eileen PENFOLD [6353], daughter of William John PENFOLD [6351] and Alice JACOBS [6352], married Edward WILSON [6354] .
49. John PENFOLD [6359] was the son of Sydney PENFOLD [6357] and Iris WADE [6358].
50. Marion PENFOLD [6360] was the daughter of Sydney PENFOLD [6357] and Iris WADE [6358].
51. Diane PENFOLD [6361] was the daughter of Sydney PENFOLD [6357] and Iris WADE [6358].
52. At some point William PENFOLD [6362], son of Sydney PENFOLD [6357] and Iris WADE [6358], married [unnamed person] [6363] .
[unnamed person] [6363] and William PENFOLD had the following children:
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Seventh Generation
53. Matthew PENFOLD [6364] was the son of William PENFOLD [6362] and [unnamed person] [6363].