Address: 9 Ufton Grove

The register entry for his baptism gives his date of birth, his parents names and where they lived. It is assumed that he was born there.

Address: Shoreditch, Middlesex

Who else was present is not known but probably the service was attended by his grandparents and his two older sisters Rebecca and Elise.

The 1901, 1911 and 1921 Censuses, the Register entry for his marriage, and the 1939 Register show this as his occupation. It is assumed that he was apprenticed around the age of 14 and continued working until he was nearly 70. The varying areas in which his children were born show that he moved around and he may have changed employer as the need arose. He worked on the restoration of the House of Commons after it was bombed by the Germans in the 1939-45 war. He also made plaster bas-reliefs of the wartime leaders Prime Minister Churchill, General Montgomery and the Russian General Timoshenko which were displayed on the kitchen table of their basement flat at 57 Binfield Road, Stockwell . Each bas-relief was circular, about 18" in diameter, and beautifully coloured whilst the plaster was still wet. This was much to his wife's annoyance as he would get up in the night to work on them and wake her up to give her a cup of tea. It must have been messy as well! Jack does not know whether he made any other decorative plasterwork at home or what happened to these particular items. Their most likely fate was that they were left behind when the houses in Binfield Road were requisitioned by Lambeth Borough Council to build blocks of flats and destroyed when the houses were demolished.

Charles must have admired General Timoshenko as their tabby cat was named Timoshenko or Timmy for short.

Cause: protrate cancer and myocardial degeneration

Address: 20 Stockwell Park Crescent, Stockwell

Myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle which causes degeneration or death of heart muscle cells. His wife Rebecca was with him when he died.

Address: Lambeth

Rebecca Harriet Dowell (1880-1961)

Rebecca Alice Maskall (1900-1980)

Elise Caoline Maskall (1902- )

Charles Edward Maskall (1904- )

Address: Hoxton, London

Thomas was the bride's father and Caroline was her sister. It is known that Thomas was her father (as opposed to her brother Thomas who was only 16 at the time) because he signed the register with his mark X whereas her brother was literate. It was slightly unusual to have the bride's father as a witness but perhaps it was because she was pregnant (her daughter Rebecca's was born the day after the marriage). Why the Groom did not have a relative or friend as a witness is not known. Perhaps his parents did not approve of the bride and the marriage was a 'forced' one. Never-the-less it is highly likely that other members of both families were present.

Address: 48 Gopsall Street

They now had a one year old daughter Rebecca. The census shows that the family lived in a single room, the remainder of the house being occupied by another family and a boarder who do not appear to be related. Where they washed and cooked defies imagination but perhaps they had an arrangement with the principal family.

Address: 35 de Beauvoir Crescent

The household consisted of Charles, his wife Rebecca and their three children Rebecca (age 10), Elise (age 9) and Charles (age 6). The family had 2 rooms in an 8 roomed house which they shared with three other families. In all 17 people lived there and the conditions must have been very crowded.

Address: 17 Oxford Road

The household consisted of Charles, his wife Rebecca, their children Rebecca (age 21), Elsie (age 19) and Charles (age 16), and a lodger Albert Cornish who married Charles' daughter Rebecca three weeks later. They lived in four rooms and shared the house with another family of 12 who had 5 rooms.

Address: 17 Elizabeth Avenue

The household consisted of Charles, his wife Rebecca and their son Charles who was unmarried. Charles (senior) is shown as a stretcher bearer. They shared the house with Albert and Rebecca Cornish and their daughter Elsie. Rebecca Cornish was Charles and Rebecca Maskall's daughter. Although they all lived in the same house it would appear that the two families maintained separate households.