13. Madeline Charlotte Swain

Madeline Charlotte Swain was the mother of my maternal grandfather, Joseph Charles Andrews.

Her birth certificate says that Madeline Charlotte Swain was born on 18 April 1874, in Poplar in the sub-district of Bow in the County of Middlesex. Her father was William Henry Swain, profession Carman, and his mother was Susannah Swain, formerly Sykes. She was the informant, made her mark, and gave her address as 6 Sherwood Street, Bromley (presumably Bromley by Bow).

I couldn't find her living with her family in either the 1891 or the 1901 census. Perhaps she was a live-in domestic servant. Or pursuing some other female occupation in Victorian London.

Be that as it may, Frederick Chisnall Andrews and Madeline Charlotte Swain were married on 24 April 1904 at the Parish Church of St Edmund King and Martyr at Forest Gate in the County of Essex. Madeline Charlotte Swain was 28 years old (no occupation) living at 17 Halley Road, Forest Gate. Her father was given as William Harry Swain, Stableman, ie the same as her husband (perhaps that's how they met). The witnesses to the marriage were D Ramsay Murray and Elizabeth Jane Murray.

She was living in West Ham, at 46 Lucas Avenue when her son Joseph Charles Andrews was born on 8 June 1909

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