William and Charlotte Little had nine children:
- 37.2.1 Benjamin Little (1800-1869)
- 1851: Lived with brother William (below) and assisted with the business
- 1861: Gent, living with his father in West Wickham
- 37.2.2 William Burgess Little (1804-1881)
- Apprenticed to a stationer in London in 1823
- Married Elizabeth Foster (1817-1876) at St Margaret, Rochester in 1834
- Children:
- Edward Thomas Little (1834)
- William Burgess Little (1836)
- Elizabeth Little (1839)
- Charles Little (1840)
- Isabella Little (1843)
- Ann Little (1844)
- Henry Little (1847)
- Emma Little (1848)
- Alfred Little (1851)
- Sarah Little (1852)
- Walter Little (1853)
- James Little (1857)
- Alice Little (1857)
- Florence Little (1862)
- 1842-1871: Built sailing barges at Lower Upnor, Frindsbury, Kent
- William Burgess Little built 25 barges at his yard between 1843 and 1871. Many were called after members of his family. The first was the Sarah Little and the last called W. B. Little's Finish.
- A Thames Sailing Barge is a type of commercial sailing boat once common on the River Thames in London. The flat-bottomed barges with a shallow draught and leeboards, were perfectly adapted to the Thames Estuary, with its shallow waters and narrow tributary rivers. The larger barges were seaworthy vessels, and were the largest sailing vessel to be handled by just two men. The average size was about 120 tons and they carried 4,200 square feet (390 m2) of canvas sail in six working sails. I've checked a sample of the Little barges and they are in the 40-60 tons bracket.
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| Thames Sailing Barge (credit) |
- 37.2.3 Harriett Cassandra Little (1806-1879)
- See Chapter 37
- 37.2.4 Dinah Loveday Little (1808-1884)
- 1851, 1861: Lived with her father in West Wickham, Kent
- In 1871 (and 1881), her father having died, she was a boarder at 59a High St, Croydon, of independent means
- 37.2.5 Thomas Little (1810-1862)
- 1841 In a crowded lodging house in Down St, Mayfair, with makers of something illegible!
- A hundred years later Winston Churchill used the (now disused) tube station here as a bunker
- 37.2.6 Burgess Little (1812).
- Burgess died in 1813.
- 37.2.7 Sarah Hannah Little (1814-1875)
- Married George Lovejoy (1816-1884) in Bromley, Kent in 1847
- George was a judge's clerk in 1861 and 1871, having been absent from the family in 1841 and 1851. The family were in Camberwell, Kennington and Brixton.
- Children:
- George Seymour Lovejoy (1848)
- Frederick Lovejoy (1850). Frederick died in 1851.
- Arthur Lovejoy (1852)
- Sarah Ada Lovejoy (1854). Sarah died in 1855.
- Florence Lovejoy (1858)
- 37.2.8 Edward Little (1816-1884)
- Married Alicia Scales (1830-1912) in Lambeth in 1853
- Had been a lighterman but by 1871 was a grocer in Northfleet, and retired as a gentleman (with income from property) by 1881
- Children:
- Edward William Little (1870)
- 37.2.9 Charlotte Little (1819-1895)
- Married George Burrows (1814-1878) in Lambeth in 1844
- 1851: George was a clerk in chancery. They lived in Clapham. Perhaps he commuted via the Clapham Omnibus. In 1861, Kennington, he was a clerk to the Master of the Rolls. He had been promoted to an officer by 1871 (Vauxhall)
- Charlotte was living in Kennington on her widow's pension in 1891
- Children:
- Charlotte Burrows (1844)
- George William Burrows (1846)
- Alfred Burrows (1848)
- Emily Burrows (1850)
- Walter Morton Burrows (1852)
- Frederick Burrows (1855)
- Maria Jane Burrows (1857)
- Edwin Burrows (1860)
- Henry Ernest Burrows (1862)
- Eleanor Burrows (1866)
There will be more on these families in Chapter 51.
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