40.2 Siblings of Eliza Meaden (née Waddilove)

James and Margaret Waddilove had ten children in London. There is a possibility that two families are conflated here, but the records do not seem to support this.

• 40.2.1 - James Rinaldo Waddilove (1808) 
• Born in Bethnal Green
• Married Elizabeth Ewer (1811-1872) in Bloomsbury, London in 1831
• Children:
• James Ewer Waddilove (1831)
• Harriet Maria Waddilove (1835)

• 40.2.2 - Eliza Margaret Waddilove (1810, Bethnal Green)
• See Chapter 40

• 40.2.3 - Joseph G Waddilove (1812-1875)
• Born in St George Hannover Square (SGHS)
• Baptism and death only recorded

• 40.2.4 - Alfred John Waddilove (1812)
• Born SGHS
• Was admitted to Christ Church Workhouse, Southwark as a single, ill labourer

• 40.2.5 - Ann Taylor (1814-1889)
• Born Shoreditch
• Married William Whiting (1806) in Clerkenwell 
• William was of independent means at age 35 in 1841; they lived in Somers Town
• Children:
• Amelia Rosetta Whiting (1835)
• Margaret Annie Whiting (1837)
• The family emigrated to South Africa, where Ann died in 1889.

• 40.2.6 - Amelia Waddilove (1814)
• Born Shoreditch
• Married John Benjamin Taylor (1854) in Holborn in 1843
• John was a painter
• No known children

• 40.2.7 - Henry William Waddilove (1816)
• Born Shoreditch; only baptism recorded

• 40.2.8 - Richard Taylor Waddilove (1818-1863)
• Born Shoreditch; died SGHS
• Coach driver
• Married (Emily) Abigail Bennett (1815-1854) in Whitechapel in 1841, which was by then classic Dickensian East End.
• No known children
• Abigail's father, William, owned a coach company and the couple lived under his roof in Chelsea in 1851. Chelsea was then thought of as a creative, slightly bohemian place. My photos of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea are here.
• The family lived on Robert St (now part of Sydney St, which runs from King's Rd past the Royal Brompton Hospital.) At the same time as our family lived on the street, a plumber, one George Green Crapper was training his nephew Thomas there; before long Thomas started his WC business on the street.

• 40.2.9 - Frederick Waddilove (1823-1866)
• Born Shoreditch; died St Giles; no other records found

• 40.2.10 - John Waddilove (1826-1894)
• Born SGHS; died Holborn
• Married Zillah Teager (1819-1878) at St Giles without Cripplegate in 1855
• Zillah has been married before. She lost three children in 1848, probably in a cholera epidemic (where she lived was regarded as a focus of infection; her husband died in 1854.
• St Giles gets a mention in The Old Curiosity Shop (1841):

"How many who, amidst this compound of sickening smells, these heaps of filth, these tumbling houses with all their vile contents, animate and inanimate, slimily overflowing into the black road, would believe that they breathe this air?”

• In 1861, John was a pork butcher.
• He lived with Zillah at 17 Aylesbury St, Clerkenwell. This street is (and was then) only two blocks long. If the numbering is unchanged then, they lived on the right edge of this Street View. William Larard's shoe business was on the left edge, i.e. one of his closest neighbours.
• Disaster struck the unfortunate Zillah once again (see Chapter 40.2a)
• John re-married in 1883, in Bethnal Green, to Gertrude Amelia Poole (1852-1936)

More information on these families in Chapter 52.

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