Birth: July-September 1873 Bromley, Middlesex, UK
Father: John Free 1840-1914
Mother: Eliza Lashmar 1842-1879
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 28 August 1897 All Hallows East India Dock Road, Poplar, London, UK
Husband: Thomas John Sanderson 1872-1966
Death: 26 April 1961 14 Melstock Avenue, Upminster, Essex, UK
Charles Edward Sanderson 1898-1899
Thomas John Sanderson 1898-1899
Ethel Belmont Sanderson 1900-1995
Thomas Edward Francis Sanderson 1903-1993
Herrick Arnold Sanderson 1910-1991
Birth of Emma Free in FreeBMD in July-September 1873 in Poplar (1c 626).
Her mother died in 1879.
In the 1881 census as Emma Free aged 7, born in Bromley, Middlesex, and living with her father (John), brother (Charles), and three sisters (Eliza, Ellen and Paulina) at 17 Bright Street, Bromley St Leonard, London.
Her father married Emma Beaumont in Poplar in 1881.
I cannot find her in the 1891 census but she was not living with her father.
Marriage of Emma Free and Thomas John Sanderson in FreeBMD in July-September 1897 in Poplar (1c 939).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 for Emma Free aged 24, father John Free, and Thomas John Sanderson on 28 August 1897 at Poplar All Hallows. "Entry 97 in 1897 at All Hallows E I [East India] Docks in the Parish of Bromley in the County of London on 28 August 1897 for John Sanderson aged 25, a bachelor employed as a station assistant of 71 Ida Road, Poplar, father Frank Sanderson, a stevedore, and Emma Free aged 24, a spinster of 13 Bright Street, father John Free, an engine driver, by banns, witnessed by Edward Francis Sanderson and Mary Ann Sanderson."
In the 1901 census as Emma Sanderson aged 27, born in South Bromley, and living with her husband (Thomas J) and daughter (Ethel B) in three rooms at 66 Tudor Road, East Ham, Essex. Another family shared this address.
In the 1911 census as Emma Sanderson aged 37, born in Poplar, Essex, married for 13 years with 5 children, three still living, and living with her husband (Thomas John), two sons (Herrick Arnold and Thomas Edward), and daughter (Ehtel Belmont) in four rooms at 29 Grosvenor Gardens, East Ham, Essex
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Emma Sanderson in April-June 1961 aged 87 in Romford (4a 422).
Entry in Ancestry England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 for Emma Sanderson who died on 26 April 1961 in Essex, probate 28 June 1961 in London. "Sanderson Emma of 14 Melstock Avenue Upminster Essex (wife of Thomas John Sanderson) died 26 April 1961 Probate London 28 June to Ethel Belmont Sanderson spinster and Thomas Edward Francis Sanderson experimental engineer. Effects £673 2s 1d."
Cheryl Adams and Deborah Dyke have entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Emma Free born in 1874 in Bromley, Middlesex, parents John Free and Eliza Lashmar. Jenny Moyes adds her marriage to Thomas John Sanderson in 1897 in Polar and her daughter Ethel Belmont. Another adds her two sons and death in December 1955 in Camberwell.
Emma Free was my eighth cousin three times removed.
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