Name:
Susan Harrison1
Sex:
Female
Father:
-
Mother:
-
Birth:
btw Apr 1791 and May 1791
The 1841 Census give her age as 50 and the 1851 Census as 59. If these ages are accurate then as the Censuses were held on 30 March 1841 and 6 June 1851 she would have been born between 1 April and 5 June 1791. Her age of 61 given on her death certificate confirms this assumption.
A search of the IGI and FreeReg failed to produce a baptimal record which may have given a more accuate date of birth. Without a baptismal record it is not possible to trace her parents.
Parent:
5 Mar 1820 (age 28)
Birth of daughter Hannah
Parent:
9 Mar 1820 (age 28)
Baptism of daughter Hannah
Parent:
4 Sep 1824 (age 33)
Birth of son Edward
Parent:
24 Oct 1824 (age 33)
Baptism of son Edward
Parent:
25 Sep 1826 (age 35)
Birth of son Henry
Parent:
11 Mar 1829 (age 37)
Birth of son John Loyal
Parents:
23 May 1830 (age 38-39)
Matthew and Susan Drew were present at the burial of their child John on 23 May 1830 in Spar Fields Burial Grounds, in the parish of St James, Clerkenwell according to the Church of England rite. Spa Fields Burial Grounds was privately owned but nearby there was a Duchess of Huntington non-conformist chapel. It is probable that the burial service was conducted by by a minister from the chapel. Whether there was service in the chapel is not known. His parents would have been present at the burial. The cause of his death is not known but as his twin brother Matthew was buried 6 days later on 29 May it was almost certainly some infectious childhood disease.
Parents:
6 Nov 1832 (age 41)
Matthew and Susan Drew were present at the burial of their child Mary on 6 November 1832 in Spa Fields Burial Grounds, in the parish of St James, Clerkenwell according to the Church of England rite. Spa Fields Burial Grounds was privately owned but nearby there was a Duchess of Huntington non-conformist chapel. It is probable that the burial service was conducted by by a minister from the chapel. Whether there was service in the chapel is not known. Her parents would have been present at the burial. The cause of her death is not known.
Guest:
2 Sep 1839 (age 48)
Guest at marriage of Hezekiah Dowell and Hannah Drew
Her husband Mathew was a witness
Son's marriage:
2 Sep 1844 (age 53)
Marriage of son Edward to Hannah Newsom
Parents:
21 Feb 1847 (age 55)
Matthew and Susan Drew were present at the burial of their child Henry on 21 February 1847 in St Mary's Churchyard, Islington, Middlesex according to the Church of England rite. The burial was attended by Charlotte Drew. The minister at the burial was the Rev. the Rev. Hutchison. His parents were almost certainly present and probably his sister Charlotte but who else was there is not known. What he died of is not known.
Death:
23 Jun 1852 (age 61)
Cause: phthisis and diarrhoea
Address: City Road, Hoxton New Town, Shoreditch, Middlesex
Phthisis is the term for a progressive wasting disease nowadays usually referring to pulmonary tuberculosis. However, as it was coupled with diarrhoea it could have been a stomach or bowel cancer although tuberculosis was probably rife in the area area where she had been living and her husband Matthew died of complications arising from the disease two years later. On her death certificate she is described as a charwoman which may indicate that she was working and was hospitalised because of her illness. A search of the workhouse records is necessary to establish the reason for her admission. Mary Burnett who is recorded as being present at her death also lived in the workhouse and may have been an attendant as she reported Susan's death to the Registrar. She is unlikely to have been either a fellow inmate to have been entrusted with such an important job or the Mistress as she was illiterate.
Death Registration:
24 Jun 1882
the Register Office5
Address: Hoxton New Town, Middlesex
1841, 1841 Census for Household of Matthew Drew in Islington, Middlesex
Spouse:
Children:
Marriage Banns:
15 Nov 1818 (age 27)
St Nicholas Chapel8
Address: Lynn, Norfolk
Both Matthew and Susan lived in the parish
Marriage:
3 Dec 1818 (age 27)
Address: Lynn, Norfolk
The witnesses were George Goddard, Mary Abraham and John Vine who signed with his mark. Having three witnesses is slightly unusual and their relationship to the couple is not known - probably friends. Who else attended the wedding is not known.
St Nicholas was a chapel of ease and served the relatively affluent northern part of the parish of St Margaret's, Kings Lynn.
Census for household:
6 Jun 1841 (age 50)
St Mary Islington, Finsbury, Middlesex12
Address: City Gardens
The household consisted of Mathew & Susan Drew and their children Edward age 15, Henry age 14 and Charlotte age 5. They shared the house with another family of 5 and two single men. The size of the house is unknown.
Their daughter Hannah and her husband Hezekiah Dowell also lived in City Gardens just 4 houses away.
Census for household:
30 Mar 1851 (age 59)
St Lukes, Finsbury, Middlesex13
Address: 8 Howards Green
The household consisted of Matthew, his wife Susan and their daughter Charlotte who was 18. Three families shared the house. In all there were 12 people. There is no indication as to the size of the house.
Church of England , Register Entry for Marriage of Matthew Drew and Susan Harrison, (Initially transcribed from a FreeReg Marriage Register entry with minor additions from copy of register page provided by Norfolk Record Office ). Bride's Name Susan Harrison. Norfolk Records Office, The Archives Centre. Tel: 01603 222599, Email: E-mail: norfrec@norfolk.gov.uk, Call Number: Parish Registers.
1841 Census for Household of Mathew Drew in St Mary Islington, Finsbury, Middlesex, (Ancestry website). Custom Id: HO107/664, Folio 19, Page 4; Name and age. Cit. Date: 6 June 1841. National Archives.
1851 England census St Lukes, Middlesex, Census Type: 1881 England, Census Place: St Lukes, Middlesex, Folio: 305, Page: 39, (1881 England Census for St Lukes, Middlesex, Folio 305, Page 39). Name, age and place of birth. Cit. Date: 30 March 1851. National Archives. Call Number: 1851 Census.
General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Death for Susan Drew, (Application No 1506282-2 Issue Date 13 Aug 2009). Custom Id: DYC410793; Date of Death23 Jun 1852NameSusan DrewAge61. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.
Ibid. Cit. Date: 24 June 1852. Jack Ward, The Nook, Silver Street
Bampton
Tiverton
Devon
EX16 9NR. Tel: 01398332458, Email: familyhistory@blackwithies.demon.co.uk.
CRI(E&W) for Death of Susan Drew, Event Type: Death, Registration District: Shoreditch, Volume: 1c, Page: 119, (Period, Apr-Jun 1852). Quarter and YearJun 1852SurnameDrewGiven NamesSusanRegistration DistrictShoreditch. General Register Office. Call Number: Deaths.
St Luke's Workhouse, Subject: St Luke's Workhouse, Location: City Road, Hoxton New Town, (c. 1840). St Luke's, like a number of other London parishes such as Islington, St Marylebone, St Pancras, and St Leonard's, Shoreditch, was constituted under a local Act of Parliament to give it greater powers for the management of its own poor relief. In 1782, a parish workhouse costing £2,000 was built at the junction of City Road and Shepherdess Walk in Islington. Its location is shown on the attached map.After 1834 St Luke's constitution meant that it fell outside the jurisdiction of the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act and it continued to manage its own poor relief.
Church of England , Banns of Marriage for Mathew Drew and Susan Harrison, (Find My Past Archive Reference BD 9/119). Cit. Date: from 15 November 1818 to 29 November 1818. Norfolk Records Office, The Archives Centre. Tel: 01603 222599, Email: E-mail: norfrec@norfolk.gov.uk.
Church of England , Register Entry for Marriage of Matthew Drew and Susan Harrison, (Initially transcribed from a FreeReg Marriage Register entry with minor additions from copy of register page provided by Norfolk Record Office ). Cit. Date: 3 December 1818. Norfolk Records Office, The Archives Centre. Tel: 01603 222599, Email: E-mail: norfrec@norfolk.gov.uk, Call Number: Parish Registers.
St Nicholas Chapel, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, (1200-2009). Dowell-Wallace Data Base. Call Number: Places.
Church of England, Register Entry for Baptism of Hannah Drew, (9 March 1820). Mattthew Drew and Susanna are shown as the parents of Hannah Drew. Norfolk Records Office. Call Number: Registers.
1841 Census for Household of Mathew Drew in St Mary Islington, Finsbury, Middlesex, (Ancestry website). Custom Id: HO107/664, Folio 19, Page 4; Cit. Date: 6 June 1841. National Archives.
1851 England census St Lukes, Middlesex, Census Type: 1881 England, Census Place: St Lukes, Middlesex, Folio: 305, Page: 39, (1881 England Census for St Lukes, Middlesex, Folio 305, Page 39). Cit. Date: 30 March 1851. National Archives. Call Number: 1851 Census.