Christiana Atkinson
 

Name - "official" name and what they were known as

Christiana Atkinson

Date and place of birth

Abt 1788 Dean St, Holborn, London

Names of parents

Thomas and Mary Ann

Date and place of baptism

March 3rd 1788 St Andrew's, Holborn

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any

Thomas Headland - details not traced, but may have been Non Conformist

as first three children were baptised at Providence Independent Chapel,

Uxbridge.

Occupation

Seamstress

Addresses where they lived - and please list which censuses you have or

haven't found him/her on

1841 - Chapel St, Islington

1851 - Trinity St, Islington

1861 - 13 Great Sutton St, Clerkenwell

Date and place of burial/cremation

Died March 1871 Camberwell - burial place not traced

Details of will/administration of their estate - if applicable

Not traced

Memorial Inscription - if any

Not traced

Unless they were Quakers or Jews they wouldn't have had a non--conformist wedding before 1837 (at least they shouldn't have!)

How do you know her maiden name?

Answered that myself now!

Sorry Merry - I do remember that now.(Slinks into corner, wearing dunce's cap)

What was the earliest baptism date of their children, to give you an approx. marriage date and was the surname always transcribed as Headland?

Vita, I was just having a little look at the children's baptisms and I noted bapt 1806, 1808, 1810 then 1821, 1824 and 1831. I thought that is strange the big gap. I thought possibly prison or military.
(From memory) I looked on Ancestry and found that Thomas Headland enlisted April 1815 and fought in Belgium at Waterloo and he also received a pension with his name written as Corp Thomas Hedgland. Not sure if you know this or have reason to discount it but thought it worth mentioning. Julie

As well as the baps you mention Julie, there's another in 1836 at St Pancras for a dau, Amelia Julia, born in 1827.

There's another at St George Hanover Square:

10 January 1816 Charlotte Christiana born 10 Dec 1815. The family are of Bird St, father a painter. So that one is right in the middle of the gap! (and 6 months after Waterloo!). As Thomas enlisted in April, Christiana must have been newly pregnant. Does the army record state a discharge date? (I couldn't find the army record)

Well, hello both! A bit late joining you today. Very interesting developments - thanks a lot.

Julie - sorry I didn't get to post b/dates before you did, but with Merry's addition of

Charlotte Christiana you have accounted for all. The amateur genealogist friend who did

a lot of the original work for me has pencilled in "another?" in between CC & Matilda Jane

b 1821, but I've never been able to trace another child.

I've haven't come across Thomas with a different spelling of surname before, but other

Headlands (likely father Isaac & sibling Robert, thread "A Stubborn Brick Wall" refers)

appear as Hedland or Edland.

The enlistment info is new to me - well done. Likewise the Bird St address.

Ooooh, I do love it on here!

Apologies - above should read "With the addition of Charlotte Christiana & Amelia Julia."