Lister Snowden carpenter of Rothwell

[Phoenix]

Lister (or Lester) is born 1832, baptised in Rothwell, marries Sarah Walker, has a son Thomas Walter, moves to London, has two more children: William (Islington) and Emily (Battersea). Happy family in 1871.

In 1878 Clara Louisa Fanny Hewett marries a Lester Snowden. I cannot find this on Ancestry.

The birth of their son Lester is registered as Lester Snowden Hewitt in 1880.

Children are baptised into the mid 1880s in London, and Lester is a carpenter.

The 1881 census ought to have at the very least:

Emily Snowden b 1867 Battersea
Lester Snowden/Hewitt b 1880 East Dulwich Surrey
Clara Louisa Fanny Snowden/Hewitt b 1850 Islington
Lester Snowden b 1832 Woodlesford, Yorkshire, carpenter

and possibly Sarah Snowden b 1831 Burford, Oxfordshire and William b 1862 Islington.

Thomas Walter is a boarder all by himself.

I cannot find Lester's first family in 1861, nor can I find Lester's death.

Can anyone find any of the first or second family in 1881? That wierd birth registration leads me to suspect a bigamous marriage, but I can't believe that they are all living on Mars.

[Langley Vale Sue]

His marriage to Clara Louisa Hewett is on FMP. Islington Q2, 1878, Vol 1B, P623 as Lister Snowden.

[Merry]

Clara Louisa Fanny Hewett was bap 1850 in Islington. Parents George and Louisa.

[Merry]

1911, Lester Snowden 30 b Lordship Lane, Dulwich, with wife and children and mother, Clara 61 b Caledonian Road, Islington.

[Shona]

Looking at the poll books and electoral registers, Lester Snowden was at 17 Woodville Road in Stoke Newington in 1873 and 1875 (same street at the 1871 census) and then at 28 Millard Road, also Stoke Newington, in 1876, 1877 and 1878.

Then vanishes!

Clara is calling herself a widow in 1891.

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/65...l=ReturnRecord

[Shona]

Thomas Hewett is at Duncombe Road School in Islington in 1898 - parent named as Clara Snowden. Can't make out the address.

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/19...l=ReturnRecord

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Shona

Looking at the poll books and electoral registers, Lester Snowden was at 17 Woodville Road in Stoke Newington in 1873 and 1875 and then at 28 Millard Road, also Stoke Newington, in 1876, 1877 and 1878.

Then vanishes!

Precisely, Shona. The dates do seem to be significant.

[Shona]

There is a death for a Sarah Ann Snowden, age 51, registered in Pancras district, London in the second quarter of 1878. Age is a bit out, but it may be Lester/Lister's first wife.

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...off=&ml_rpos=1

Deceased online have a burial for Sarah Snowden on 13 April 1878, St Pancras Cemetery, Camden.

[Shona]

Emily Snowden's marriage to Herbert Cooper, 4 Oct 1900, Walworth Common, Southwark, London. She states that her father, Lester Snowden, was a builder (deceased).

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/16...l=ReturnRecord

[Shona]

Lister and Sarah appear to have had another child.

Sarah Ann Snowden, baptised on 18 June 1864 - privately being ill - recorded at St Bartholomew, Sydenham. Parents - Lister Snowden, carpenter, and Sarah.

There is a death of a Sarah Ann Snowden registered in Lewisham district, second quarter 1864.