Birth: Circa 1832 Bethnal Green, Middlesex, UK
Father: Joseph Lane c1792-1881
Mother: Hannah Maria Howard c1803-1862
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 1 March 1857 St John of Jerusalem, Hackney, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Ann Sweetenham 1835-1897
Death: 16 March 1907 Poplar Union Workhouse, Poplar, London, UK
Mary Ann Lane [Lashmar] 1859-1931
Minnie Lane [Smy] 1858-1897
Hannah Ann Lane c1860-a1881
John Lane 1862-1897
Joseph Lane 1866-1866
Alice Lane [Hough] 1868-1939
William Edward Lane 1870-1936
Louisa Phoebe Lane [Raby] 1872-1925
Rose Lane 1874-a1901
LArthur George Lane 1878-1879
In the 1841 census as John Lane aged 8, born in Middlesex, and living with Joseph and Hannah (parents], John, Joseph and William (brothers?), Hannah, Louisa and Sarah (sisters?) and Jane (aunt?) at Bakers Place, Bethnal Green, Middlesex.
In the 1851 census as John Lane aged 19, born in Bethnal Green, Middlesex, single, a blacksmith journeyman,and living with his parents (Joseph and Hannah), four brothers (Charles, George, Joseph and William), and three sisters (Hannah, Louisa and Sarah) at 17 Minerva Street, Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, Middlesex. Another family shared this address.
Marriage of John Lane and Ann Sweetenham in FreeBMD in January-March 1857 in Hackney (1b 357).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for John Lane, father Joseph Lane, and Ann Sweetenham on 1 March 1857 at St John of Jerusalem, South Hackney. "Page 200 1857 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of South Hackney in the County of Middlesex. [No.] 400 March 1st 1857 John Lane of full age, [a] Bachelor [and] Iron Bedstead Maker [of] South Hackney, [father] Joseph Lane] [a] Gardener, [and] Ann Sweetenham of full age, [a] Spinster [of] South Hackney, [father] Samuel Sweetenham [a] Weaver. Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [he signed his name, she made her mark]"
In the baptism of his daughter on 20 June 1857 he was a blacksmith living at 1 Gloster Place and for his second daughter on 1 May 1859 at he was a smith living at 35 North Street, Hackney, both at St Matthias, Bethnal Green.
In the 1861 census as John Lane aged 25, born Bethnal Green, Middlesex, a black smith, and living with his wife (Ann), and three daughters (Hannah A, Mary A and Minnie) at 36 North Street, Hackney, Middlesex (this address was shared with another family).
In the baptism of his daughter on 29 March 1868 at St Matthias, Bethnal Green he was a blacksmith living at 51 North Street, Cambridge Heath.
In the 1871 census as John Lam (sic - in the index, Lane on the original) aged 33, born in Middlesex, occupation illegible, and living with his wife (Ann), three sons (John, Joseph and William E) and four daughters (Alice, Hannah, Mary A and Minnie) at 37 North Street, Hackney, London.
His daughter was born on 14 December 1872 at 145 St Stephens Road, Bow.
In the 1881 census as John Lane aged 49, born in Hackney, a smith, and living with his wife (Hannah), three sons (John, Joseph and Willm) and five daughters (Alice, Hannah, Louisa, Minnie and Rose) at 502 Old Ford Road, Bow, London. Another family shared the same address.
In the 1891 census as John Lane aged 58, born in Bethnal Green, London, a boot riveter, and living with his wife (Ann), son (William), and two daughters (Louisa and Rose) at 43 Driffield Road, Stratford Le Bow St Mary, London. Another family shared the same address.
His wife died in Poplar in 1897.
In the 1901 census as John Lane aged 68, born in Bethnal Green, London, widowed, a retired bootmaker, and living with his son (Joseph), daughter (Rose S), son-in-law (Joshua Smy - wife of Minnie), grandson (Walter Smy) and granddaughter (Florence C Smy) at 43 Driffield Road, Bethnal Green, London.
Death of John Lane in FreeBMD in October-December 1907 aged 75 in Poplar (1c 284).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003 for John Lane died 16 March 1907 in Poplar, Tower Hamlets. "Poplar Union Register of Deaths in the Poplar Workhouse [...] March [...] 16 Lane John [of] Bromley [buried] By Friends".
There are forty two entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for John Lane.
John Lane was the father of Mary Ann Lane, wife of Edmund Watts Lashmar, my seventh cousin four times removed.
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