John Thomas Cockshull & Jane Pearce
born
 1847
died
13 April 1912

Born at Nr 37 Orford Street,
Chelsea, London

It's been renamed and is now Rosemoor Street. A dank, dark block of tenement type dwellings
Rosemoor Street

Parish Church St Andrews, Bethnal Green

They married on the 8th of September 1885 in the Parish Church St Andrews in
Bethnal Green.

They had 13 children !

born
 Spring of 1849
died
 26 October 1914

Born in Camberwell, London (Surrey)

At age 2 she was living with her parents at Paradise Place, Saint Giles,
Camberwell, Lambeth, Surrey
Paradise Place 1920

There was a lot of calico production in the area and John was an apprentice Calenderer to his father at the age of 13.

Calico is a cotton type cloth and he was involved in various parts of the process,
including cleaning, glazing, dying and colouring of the cloth.

Calico printing

It must have been a hard life!

 

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