COCKNEY ANCESTOR ARTICLE INDEX

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This list contains an article index for back issues of the Cockney Ancestors (CA). Article indexes have been created for groups of twelve (3 years of CAs).

Included below are:

the indexes for CA 48 to CA 60 (Autumn 1990 to Autumn 1993, and

the indexes for CA 61 to CA 72 (Winter 1993/94 to Autumn 1996).

Indexes for CA 1 to 47 are not available on-line at this time.

INDEX TO ARTICLES - OLD COCKNEY ANCESTORS
Articles are listed under broad headings, reflecting the main subject covered. The first numeric indicator is the CA number and the second the page number followed by author. For example, one would find the article: "The childless years 52: 11; Marilyn Barker" within CA52 on page 11.

INDEX TO Numbers 48 to 60 (Autumn 1990 to Autumn 1993)

ARCHIVE SOURCES
Archives and libraries 48: 26
A missing entry at St Catherines House 49: 26; Ernest Collins
Civilian war dead 1939-45 49: 19; John Gavens
War of 1939-45 Roll of Honour (WO 304) 49: 47
The childless years 52: 11; Marilyn Barker
LCC staff records in the Great War 52: 15; Dennis Galvin
Marriages and obituary notices Lynn Advertiser, Norfolk 49: 20, 56: 15 & 53: 16
A first visit to the record office 53: 22; Edith Morley
The Princess Alice disaster 59: 13; Tony Benton

ARMY ANCESTRY
A letter from the Crimea 50: 3; Jeanne Baker
Is my great grandfather a ghost? 55: 11; F Kendall
Cockneys in the Crimea 55: 51; Dennis Galvin
Some corner of a foreign field: Private Clarence Sorrell 57: 9; Tony Benton
Albert Chittock: died on the Somme 57: 11; Charles Ribbons
Rifleman Smith, Poplar and Stepney Rifles 59: 36; Richard Smith

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
Margaret Campbell 50: 18 ; Ann Jefferyes
Tappin update 51: 36
A childhood in Bethnal Green 52: 15; Carole Culley
Childhood memories of West Ham 57: 19; Rebeckah Innes
Jottings of my life: William Woolidge 59: 3
"Blind Fred" Peters - a Hackney character 59: 19; Linda Everington
Muriel Lester: Mother of world peace 60: 3; Jill Wallis
The last few weeks of little Elsie Andrews' life 60: 19; Beryl Gibbs

CATHOLIC ANCESTRY
Some Roman Catholic marriages in Liverpool 49: 27; Eileen Crook
Catholics in the East End 52: 3 ; Michael Gandy

CENSUS
Century-old census reveals Hackney Roots 48: 21; D G Cook
1881 census - a progress report 53: 32; Christine Patient
1881 and all that 53: 33; Ron Miller & Angela Golding
Haggerston and the 1881 census project 53: 34; Dennis Galvin
1881 Census Indexing Project 48: 20
Pity the poor enumerator 50: 15
1851 census: Shoreditch 54: 18
Roll on 2002! 54: 34; Tony Benton
Where to find the 1891 census locally 54: 36
1881 census project update 58: 55; Christine Patient
Whose children? 59: 22; Meryl Catty

CHURCHES & CEMETERIES
Victoria Park Cemetery, Bethnal Green 50: 33
The parish of Holy Trinity, Mile End Old Town 51: 3; Preb. Arthur Royall
Church building and demolition in Tower Hamlets 55: 22; Preb. Arthur Royall
St Thomas, Bethnal Green 58: 45; Dennis Galvin
SS Peter and Paul, Dagenham 59: 45; Tony Clifford

CRIME & PUNISHMENT
George Hutchinson: a witness to Jack the Ripper 54: 49
"By person or persons unknown" 55: 3; Kathryn Abnett
In Barking House of Correction 1820-23 55: 7
How wrong can you be? 55: 13; Chris Hough
Mann-slaughter in Rosemary Lane 57: 57; David Randall
A skeleton in the cupboard? 58: 16; Ron McEwen
Reprieved! Clippingdale, George 59: 47; Jack Clippingdale

EAST OF LONDON FHS SERVICES
Reciprocal Research Registers 48: 16
Help offered: Photography 52: 33; Dave Stanley
Members' Interests Directory 1991 54: 22
The East of London FHS Strays Index 56: 39; Peter Clare
British Isles Genealogical Register 58: 53; Carol McLee

EDUCATION
"... Unwillingly to school?" 49: 3; Bill Gowlett
Elementary education "for all" 49: 5
Hackney Downs School, formerly The Grocers' Co.School (1876-1926) ; 49: 11 & 50: 10; Alan Ruston
"Education by election": Reed's school, Clapton and Watford 50: 16
Picture corner: St Leonards National School Bow 60: 33

GENERAL INTEREST
Chapman Codes 50: 12
Table of parochial fees 50: 30
White lies 51: 9; Victor Goudie
The Salt Office 50: 14
Some of London's railways 51: 13
What a coincidence! 52: 30; M F Brown
How many gentlemen do you know? 52: 31; Brian Callan
Something to offer? 56: 41; Ted Shirley
Found drowned in the River Thames 59: 14; Frank Jansen
To travel hopefully 60: 39; Joan Curtis
The haunted wardrobe 60: 50; Jean Medcalf

HOSPITALS & INSTITUTIONS
Tower Hamlets Registration District maternity hospitals 51: 23
With disastrous consequences: (Forest Gate Industrial School) 54: 3; Wendy Neal
Sons of the state: St Leonards Childrens' Home 54: 10; David Aylward
Born in the workhouse 54: 12; Dr Bernard Ineichen
In and out of the workhouse 54: 13; Jenny Cole
In praise of the Royal London 58: 6
A lying-in hospital birth 58: 7; Ron Green
Gone to take the air (City of London Lying-in Hospital) 58: 8
The sad tale of Henry Ringwood 58: 9; Evelyn Meadows

HUGUENOT ANCESTRY
Carlier hunting 56: 29; Reg Carlier
An Arno family reunion 56: 31; John Arno
Dulieu ancestors: Huguenots from Nerac 56: 33; Janet Cumner
A Huguenot in Spitalfields 60: 47; Mary Killingback
Templeux le Guerard 60: 48; Reg Carlier

HUMOROUS
Bluff your way in family history: Part one - Getting stuck 53: 26
Bluff your way in family history: Part Two - At the Society of Genealogists 56: 19
Bluff your way in family history: Part Three - At the County Record Office 59: 43
Murphy's Ancestors 55: 40; Terence McLaughlin
Garey's elegy written in a country churchyard 54: 44; Leslie Garey
Great Aunt Edith reveals all 57: 23; Leslie Garey
This little piggy... 58: 33; Leslie Garey

INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX
The IGI meets the 1990s 55: 45; Billie McNamara
IGI on CD-ROM 55: 46; Jeanne Bunting
Salt Lake City 1992 56: 17; Marjorie Ridout

JEWISH ANCESTORS
Jewish marriages (Princess St Synagogue, Spitalfields) 49: 29; Peter Manning
Born in three places? (Jewish ancestry) 55: 8; Sabina Doust
Getting sidetracked 57: 55; Edward Pond
My ancestor was a navy agent (Jewish ancestry) 60: 35; Sabina Doust

MARITIME
Press gang 49: 33; Neal Williams
His dutiful regard for her memory 53: 3; Tony Benton
Royal Naval ancestry: a new source 53: 8; Meryl Catty
HMS Chichester and some homeless and destitute boys 53: 12; Josephine Birchenough
The Nagle journals 53: 15
Lost at sea 55: 52; Margaret Stevens
Picture corner: HMS Thunderer 57: 34
Henry Blewett, Sea Captain 60: 23; Godfrey Mann
Some Thames Training Ships 59: 8; Sherwin Chase

MIGRATION, IMMIGRATION & EMIGRATION
1820 Settlers to South Africa 48: 17; Sue Mackay
More miracles 50: 20; Owen Luton
Pauper apprentices (West Ham) 50: 22
Was my grandfather Phillip or Peter? 53: 10; Brian Johnston
The Gazelle and its passengers 59: 18; Dorothy Anderson
James Spurgeon: an East End emigrant to America 60: 21; Dr Gary Dickey

NAMES
Em 48: 12; R Kingsford
Where did he come from? 54: 50; Alice Atkins
Biblical names 55: 33; Tony Benton
"A mindful and thankful regard": surnames used as forenames 56: 9; Tony Benton
More about names 57: 48; Anne Giller

ORAL HISTORY
Something to Hyde 52: 9; Ted Shirley
Now you come to mention it 56: 16; Stanley Merridew
According to mother... 58: 22; Val Preece

RESEARCH METHODS
The search for Edwin Walker 51: 21; Shirley Williams
Which Henry Street? 52: 33; Sam Vincent
What a pain! 54: 37; Christine Selby
And in the beginning 58: 34; Alan Diver and Terry Lockhart
Our country seat 58: 43; Cyril Scanes

SOCIAL BACKGROUND
A letter within a letter 48: 27; V E Sullivan
"Clean clothes on Sundays" 58: 15
We remember Grotto Day 58: 37; Tony Benton (ed.)
Oyster Day 59: 20
More about batch weddings 60: 15

SPORTS & PASTIMES
Pedestrianism 54: 45; Bill Griffiths
What did you do over the Bank Holiday? 55: 37; Ken Doughty
On the trail of Aby Belasco (boxer) 56: 3; Norman Jacobs
A most excellent wager!(Doggett's Coat and Badge race) 52: 20; Loris Kingcott
Aby Belasco is cornered 58: 21; Norman Jacobs

TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS
The silk weavers of Spitalfields 48: 17 ; Keith Le May
Figurehead carvers 48: 22
"Men of the tideway" (lightermen) 48: 30
Miracles do happen (watch & clock makers) 49: 22; Dorothy Gorsuch
My ancestors were curriers 51: 7; Judith Forsyth
West Ham and the early textile trade 54: 47; Edward Pond
Staff Nurse Emma Andrews 58: 3; Beryl Gibbs
A fireman in the family 57: 39; Edna Allars
Metropolitan Police history and ancestry 57: 41; Police Sergeant Bernard Brown
Richard Turner, Excise Officer: Please declare yourself 57: 36; Jillian Trethewry
More about firemen 58: 19; Tony Parkes
Picture corner: Maddison's plate glass merchants 58: 24
Picture corner: Sherry, timber merchants of Hoxton 59: 34
Bethnal Green and a royal wedding (silk weaving) 60: 17; Joan Lee
An Ilford fireman discovered 60: 34; Audrey Baron

WAR & OTHER MEMORIALS
Barking war memorial 1914-18 49: 15
Upper North Street School, Poplar (Memorial 1917) 49: 16 & 51: 29
National Inventory of War Memorials 49: 17
Carter Paterson: roll of honour 1914-19
Upminster: anatomy of a war memorial 57: 3; Tony Benton
National Roll of Honour of the Great War 1914-19 57: 13; Dennis Galvin
A Bow factory war memorial 59: 35; Preb. Arthur Royall
A World War Two war memorial saved 60: 36; Stephen Park

INDEX TO Numbers 61 to 72 (Winter 1993/94 to Autumn 1996)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This index has been produced by James Carlile (Member 3966) who compiled the Index to articles and John Bridges (Member 3162) who prepared the Index to surnames mentioned in articles. It was edited and prepared for publication by Tony Benton (Member 154).

INDEX TO ARTICLES

Articles are listed under broad headings, reflecting the main subject covered. The first numeric indicator is the CA number and the second the page number followed by author. For example, one would find the article: "The childless years 52: 11; Marilyn Barker" within CA52 on page 11.main subject covered.

ARCHIVE SOURCES
Somerset House: 1902 61: 19; George R Sims
Tower Hamlets Archives, some recent accessions 62: 57; Jane Kimber
Greater London Record Office (GLRO): Friend or foe 64: 3; Tony Benton
GLRO. An update 65: 47
Frogley's manuscript History of Barking 66: 33; Herbert H Lockwood
Checking an entry on the IGI 67: 7; Linda Eyre
Major changes to Newham research arrangements 67: 8; Stephen Park
Using Waterman's Records and Bishop's Transcripts 67: 13; Anthony Coppin
Sources I have used: Electoral Rolls and School records 68: 36; Joyce Winder
Dulwich College Archives 70: 11; Lillian Petchey
The India Office and Records 70:19; Dorothy Gorsuch
The Irish Connection 71: 8; Bill Grundy
Another useful source: The British Library 71: 22; Jack Clippingdale
1914-1918 War Records at the Public Record Office. 71: 24
The British Telecom Archives.72: 26
I give, Devise and Bequeath.(Wills and Admons) 72: 44; Charles Lodemore
Using the Family History Library, Salt Lake City 63: 18; Paul McKenzie

ARMY ANCESTRY & MILITARY INTEREST
Unsung East End heroes. 67: 17; Bob Baverstock
The slender thread of life 67: 42; Ken Baker
Deserters from the Militia May 1880 71: 19; Alan Clark
John Edward Marriott M.M. 72: 19; Robin Marriott
Thiepval 66: 21; Brenda Tombs
A Dagenham war-time tragedy: 5 Oct 1940 67: 6; Tony Clifford
Crimean mystery : A survivor of the "Charge" 68: 48; Dennis Galvin
What researching family history is all about 69: 51; Christine Miller
Fred Hart - A cockney in a Irish regiment 70: 3; Ron Hart

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Muriel Lester remembered 61: 44; Dorothy Gorsuch
The Surgeon-Poet of the Commercial Road 62: 16; Jack Clippingdale
Sir Peter Griggs MP : A self-made man 63: 35; Tony Benton
Frederick N. Filby FSG.(1915-95) 66:3; Peter Ferdinando
Marie Lloyd - The Duchess of Hoxton 66: 9 (see also 67:14); Dennis Galvin
A Hackney childhood : 1913 - 1927 69: 3; Arthur H Phillips OBE
Lily Burnand - A burlesque actress 70: 25; J H Garrod
Days in Crisp Street, Poplar 71: 10; Cath Fitzgerald
Robert Hawley Clutterbuck 71: 15; Janet Haley
In search of Freddie Ashwell - Female impressionist 71: 43; Rosemary Taylor

CENSUS
A fair on Wanstead Flats, 1891? 61:41; Stephen Park
Success through the Census 66: 49; Beverley Dwyer

CHURCHES & CEMETERIES
A ramble through Rippleside cemetery, Barking 61:33; Tony Clifford
Spitalfields : Tales from the Crypt 61: 32
St Margaret's churchyard, Barking 63: 3; Tony Clifford
Some notes on early 19th century Ilford burials 63: 9; Herbert Hope Lockwood
The City of London & Tower Hamlets cemetery 64: 37 ; John Greenfield
St Anne's, Hoxton 64: 40; Dennis Galvin
Finding family graves 65: 3; Brian Spear
Marriages for nothing 66: 11; Prebendary Arthur Royall
St John The Evangelist, Havering- Atte- Bower 66: 17; Tony Clifford
St Anne's Hoxton, A follow up 66: 19; Edith Morley
Never give up ! - It pays to advertise 66: 45; Sylvia McQuire
Parish burial plots in East London Cemetery 67: 45; Arthur Royall
Rev John Hubbard : A Stepney Independent minister 67: 31; Muriel Bowler
Rev John Hubbard and Mile End Old Town 69 49; Derek Morris
An East London minister in Victorian days 70: 10; Prebendary Arthur Royall
St Matthias, Canning Town 70: 26; Jon Dachey
St George's Wesleyan Chapel, Cable Street 70: 36; Dennis Galvin
The way we were: Funeral 1903 70: 44; G.M Williams
The way we are now: Funeral 1995 70: 45; Doreen Colledge
St Thomas, Arbour Square 71: 29; Dennis Galvin

CRIME & PUNISHMENT
Blacker than Most! 65: 35; Meryl Catty
Inexorable justice: The murder of Inspector Simmons 68: 8; Kevin B Trott
From the Maryland & Pennsylvania Gazette 15 July 1762 70: 5; Betty Bandel
Onesiphorus Randall - Father and son 70: 20; Stanley Gooch

DIALECTS
How did they speak? 62: 38; Beryl Gibbs
How did they speak? 64: 17; Betty Bandel
Glossary of Dockology 62: 7; Richard Gerard
More about "Dockology" 64: 14; Fred Wright

EAST OF LONDON FHS SERVICES
New Courier service 62: 58
1881 Census Project update 62: 59; Christine Patient
Strays Index 63: 53; Peter Clare
Bishopsgate branch - The Future 64: 54; Meryl Catty
Maps for those with London ancestors 66: 20; Stephen Park
Reciprocal Research Register 61: 8
The Longitudinal Study of Residential Histories (Lancaster University). 66: 53
Have you read "John Tallis's London Street views" 67: 33

GENERAL & LOCAL INTEREST
The Isle of Dogs, 1867 62: 3; Thomas Wright
London East End, The Staging Post for many 62: 10; Ruth Piggott
"They do things differently there" 62: 24; Tom Dailey
Hackney Haunt - Sutton House 62: 48; Sharon Ames
Memories of Homerton recalled 62: 50; Joan A Rogers
All the fun of the fair 61: 43; Meryl Catty
Fruit of their Gloynes 64: 48; Josephine Ward-Lewis
Cable Street as it used to be ;1940 64: 49; Daphne Neech
The Beresford White House, Hackney Marshes 65: 45; Hilda Jones
Notes on "The Nichol" 66: 6; Les Tarling
More about "The Nichol" 67: 15
Was your ancestor an imposter ? 67: 35; Brian Fraser
Researching the history of our house 68: 37; Dorothy Gorsuch
A distressing accident 68: 17; Anita Phillips
A relative on my doorstep 68: 45; Jeanette Thornell
A walk to Custom House 69: 10; George Saitch
An autograph album c.1926 69: 52; Maureen Holliday
I want to tell you a story 70: 4; Joan Renton
Life at No.13 Angrave Street 70: 6; John Patient
A forgotten Marks Gate pub 70: 17; Tony Clifford
The Parish of All Saints, West Ham 71: 4; Tony Benton
Eastbury House, Barking - Venue for our A.G.M. 72: 6; Tony Benton

HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTES
The search for Susan Piquet 61: 15; Doreen Holyfield
Never despair ! The sequel to "The search for Susan" 66: 46; Doreen Holyfield

HUGUENOT ANCESTRY
Leonard's will 68: 44; Ron Green

HUMOROUS
Tales from the Research Room 64: 7; Clive Dellow
Presents for Christmas and after 69: 11; Meryl Catty
Taking a Registrar at his word 69: 18; Stephen Park
Cleaning up at the Public baths 69: 19; John Patient

JEWISH ANCESTRY
In two places at once ? 67: 43; Doreen Levy
No stone unturned - Tracking ancestors in WW2 66: 47; Doreen Levy

MARITIME
A mariner in my family-Thomas Edmund Warrington 68: 3; Bob Bright
Starting from nothing 68: 6; Ron Spiers
Tasting the salt: The delights of ships' logs 72: 48; Ken Baker

MIGRATION, IMMIGRATION & EMIGRATION
From West Ham to Edmonton, Canada 63: 21 ; Margaret Raven
From Spitalfields to the gold fields 63: 22; Gloria Wilkes
They didn't move much, did they? 67: 3; Tony Benton
Forced emigration of the young 69: 37; Edith Morley
They moved more than I thought! Migration in Poplar 1851-91 69: 16; Frank Boden
A tale of Poplar, England and Canada 70: 22; Gillian Smith & JD Pascoe
The poor Palatines: German Immigrants 1709 71: 16; Iris Gray
The Patients move to London 72: 32; John Patient
Was your ancestor a vilemonger ?- Mine was! 72: 47; Russell Mewse

RESEARCH METHODS
Looking for Fenn - or is it Pollesfen 61: 7; Yvonne Fenn
Never believe what you know (even when you have proof) 61: 9; Jean Matthews
Pettersen - Our noble house 61: 3; Tony Benton
A couple of dropped aitches! 62: 36; Dorothy Pattern
Even Stevens 62: 39; Joyce Winder
Tracing distant relatives the hard way 65: 7; Steven Park
The search for the headless Archer 65: 9; Ivy Ferguson
Of Pellatts, Pilots and searching still 65: 16; Margaret Crompton
The search for Sam Abrahams 65: 20; Linda Eyre
Get thee to a Nunnery 65: 34; Derek Morris
What's in a name? 67: 44; Dorothy Pattern
Searching for Hannah 68: 14; Les Tarling
Elusive Adelaide 68: 16; Margaret Lyons
Hurlocks of London- or elsewhere 68: 46; Dorothy Burch
From Sidney Ambury to Solomon Hamburg 68: 32; Lesley Brown
Smiths, Patricks and Longmans 69: 20; Mr E Stone
Marian Ridgway: A woman hidden in the shadows 69: 39; Katharine Christopoulos
Surprises out of the blue 69: 40; Maureen Walland
Finding Vernon John Charlesworth's children 69: 46; John Hughes
A trail gone cold: The Austin Dynasty 69: 50; Diana Cork
The name of Nind 70: 8; Henry Roughton Skelton
Where were Fosters Buildings? 71: 20; Pauline Taylor
That damned elusive - evidence 71: 37; Ken Baker
Things aren't where they used to be..71: 36; David Willimore
Renaming the roads and streets of London 72: 46; David Groen

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION
South East Essex Technical College evacuees 1943 62: 19; Ron Webb
St Matthews, Bethnal Green, National and Parochial schools: rules 65: 21
Records of Morpeth School E2 65:46
Old boys in Queensland! 69: 20; Peter Clarke
St Andrews Charity School, Hatton Gardens 72: 16; Iris Gray

SOCIAL BACKGROUND
Hard work rewarded 62: 18; Janet Cumner
Charles and Mary Mapp: A discontented life: 1746 64: 20; Derek Morris
Relieving poverty in East London parishes 69: 15; Prebendary Arthur Royall
Social change in the Parish of Holy Trinity M.E.O.T 72: 10; Preb Arthur Royall
Friends and neighbours- West Ham 1910-1920 63: 45; Colleen Mitchell
Sanitary ramblings 72: 25; Stephen Park

TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS
Goldbeaters unite ! 63: 24; R S Dean
Turn again Robert Aldridge 61: 17; Alan Ridgway
Shorts coffee rooms in Bethnal Green Road 64: 22; Geoffrey M N Mann
Perhaps a "Bevy of chemists" The Beals of Ilford 64: 46; Rev Charles Wright
A labour in vain 62: 26; Tony Benton
The Great Age of servants 63: 15; Meryl Catty
Charles Bassett, A Victorian policeman in Hackney 65: 18; Valerie Given
Views from the boiler room 65: 22; Ken Baker
Welsh cowkeepers in Cambridge Road 65: 31; Brenda Ashcroft
Thomas Maddison's Glassworks, Hoxton 65: 43; Mary Poulton
Steven Brothers, Printers of Bethnal Green 66: 51; Joyce Winder
Alexander MacMaster, Barking fisherman 66: 38; Alan McMaster
Go north young men: London fisherman in Grimsby 1850-1914 69: 35; John Wilson
A German cabinet maker in East London 70: 32; Lorna Flower
Top Cop: Cooper of the Yard 71: 3; Brian Taylor
My old man's a postman! 71: 7; Ron Hart
The Golledge Cordwainers in the East End 71: 19; Martin Golledge
Charles King - Excise Officer 71: 31; Bob Bright
Doctors and Gunmakers in the East End 72: 3; Michelle Dennis
Hackney's greatest treasure 72: 4; Dennis Galvin
Gardens perceived in London 72: 28; Les Tarling
Shopkeepers of Rathbone Street, Plaistow 1900-20 72: 33; Daphne Howard
The Painted Chest 72: 43; Valerie Given

TRANSPORT
Every picture tells a story 63: 39; Ruth Bartlett
Great Eastern Buildings, Hackney 72: 23; Avis Bullen

WAR AND OTHER MEMORIALS
Some other war memorials 61: 35