Sarah Elizabeth Kneller

(divon lan) sources:

Lesley Masters Tree on Genes Reunited

Copy of Birth Certificate Sarah Elizabeth Cecil

Copy of marriage Certificate John Kneller & Sarah Elizabeth Cecil

Copy of Death Certificate Sarah Elizabeth Kneller

(from: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~knellerfamily/johnandsarah...)

John Kneller and Sarah Elizabeth Cecil married on 23 February 1873 at St. Anne's in Limehouse. They had eight children and lived in the Stepney/Ratcliff area of East London in the late 1800s. John worked at the docks, first as a labourer, then later, as a crane driver. Sarah was a sewing machinist, like her mother (also Sarah Elizabeth Cecil).

John was born in 1852 at Lower John Street, Ratcliff. He was the son of Thomas Kneller, a coal porter, and by the time of the 1871 census John had followed his father into the same line of work. His mother Emma had somehow managed to keep the family together, despite being widowed in 1861, and they lived on Caroline Street, Ratcliff.

Sarah was born in 1853 in Bethnal Green, to John and Sarah Cecil. The daughter of a weaver, she grew up in a part of London known for the trade. Her mother was also widowed by the time of the 1871 census and in 1889 was noted in Charles Booth's survey of London's poor. Click here to find out more about Sarah Elizabeth Cecil

Their children were John (b.1873), Sarah Elizabeth (b. 1874), William (b. 1876), Annie (b. 1878),

Louisa (b. 1880), James (b. 1883), Thomas (b. 1885), and Alice (b.1889).