Hutchinson The Sailor Man

[Lechmere]

However tragedy struck the family when John Hutchinson died in Mile End in the final quarter of 1872.

[Lechmere]

John Hutchinson married Kezia Goldstone on 29th August 1858.
She is listed as living at 31 Little Alie Street.
I just referred to my 1873 map and Alie Street was indeed divided up into Great Alie Street (between Mansell Street and Leman Street) and Little Alie Street (between Leman Street and Commercial Street – with the very end actually called Goodman’s Stile).
I remember someone asking about Alie Street on here a short while ago.
Anyway it is fairly clear that they moved into her address and were still living there at the time of the 1871 census.
They were married at St Jude’s Whitechapel, which was on Commercial Street, in front of Toynbee Hall.
John was a 22 year old cook, the son of Benjamin Hutchinson a publican and he was from 26 Newgate Street, which is in the City of London.

[Lechmere]

He's more or less the same age as Toppy which may well make him too young to be a credible content for JtR. But we will see!

[Lechmere]

In the 1871 census he was living at 31 Alie Street in Whitechapel.
Alie Street connects Leman Street and Commercial Road.
The family consisted of:
John Hutchinson the head. He was a 36 year old Cook and Cutter from Nottingham
Kezia Hutchinson, his wife was a 32 year old needle worker from Leytonstone.
They had five children all born in Whitechapel:
Sarah A – a scholar, aged 10.
John W – a scholar aged 9
George E – a scholar aged 5 (the future Grays pauper)
James - aged 3
Emily – aged 11 months.
Kezia’s mother seems to be living there as a widowed nurse. She is called Anne Plumb and is aged 70. There are a couple of things that don’t quite add up about this. She must have been 38 when she had Kezia, which is a bit old for that period and as we will see, Kezia’s maiden name was Goldstone.
It is of course possible that she remarried and became widowed a second time.
As they had the house to themselves I presume that they were relatively prosperous.

[Rubyretro]

Thank you once again Lechmere !

I'm sure that this will be interesting....although this Hutchinson seems a bit
too young to correspond to 'our' Hutch..

[Lechmere]

I have started this thread to look at the possibility that George Hutchinson was identical with the George Hutchinson who was listed in the 1881 census as a pauper scholar from Mile End, aged 15, living on the training ship Exmouth in Grays, Essex.

If nothing else we will at least get a number of versions of ‘Hutchinson’ written by a number of different people – and a little slice of late Victorian life.

I believe this is our man (or boy) - born in the first quarter of 1866 in Whitechapel – George E Hutchinson. Down at the bottom...