John James Old

  Birth Notes:

Mother in 1851 shown as Kezia Old.
Possibly Leonard Street, Shoreditch, souce Karen Westwood.

  Death Notes:

Ref: Shoreditch/Dec 1886/1c/91, aged 75
44 Gifford Street Haggerston Shoreditch, source Karen Westwood

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Journeyman wood carver, 1851. ²⁵

• Occupation: Wood carver, 1861. ³⁴

• Occupation: Wood carver, 1871. ¹⁰

John married Charlotte Verrant, daughter of Richard Parker Verrant and Sarah Other, on 23 Feb 1838 in Bishopsgate London [St. Botolph's].¹⁵ (Charlotte Verrant was born in 1816 in St. Luke's Middlesex [London] ²⁵ and died in Dec 1905 in Shoreditch Middlesex (London) ¹¹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Residence, 1838, Bishopsgate London [6 Sun Street]. ¹

• Census, 1851, Shoreditch Middlesex (London). ²⁵

• Census, 1861, Shoreditch Middlesex (London) [9 Gifford Street]. ³⁴

• Census, 1871, Shoreditch Middlesex (London) [9 Gifford Street]. ¹⁰

  Marriage Notes:

Ref: Bishopsgate/Mar 1838/2/28
Witnesses Richard Jeune and Jane Witt. Richard Jeune was born in 1814 and married in 1844 in Bishopsgate. Jane Witt was born in 1816 and christened at St. Bride's Church, Fleet Street. Another Jane Witt was christened in Bishopsgate in 1821, but she would only have been 17, so too young to be a witness.