John Thomas was the 2nd child, born on the 23rd December, 1845 at 22 New Street, Westminster. (see map below) Birth Ref: Westminster 1846 - 1st Qtr (1 - 429). John, his father was a journeyman jeweller and it is as a wedding ring maker that was the profession that John Thomas also took as an adult.
John Thomas Barrand married Mary Ann Alford from Exeter on the 11th March, 1869 in Westminster, Marriages Ref: Bethnal Green 1869 - 1st Qtr (1c - 496), and on the certificate it states that John’s father had already died by 1869. John Thomas was administrator of his father’s estate. Mary Ann Alford was a daughter of Henry (or Harry) Alford (23/10/1814-1891), a mason’s labourer and gardener & Mary Ann Endicott (1813-1870) who were married on 17th December, 1837 in Exeter, and they had 8 children. The Alford family can be traced back to 1576.
On the 1871 census, John Thomas Barrand and Mary Ann were living at 57, Roman Road along with a Thomas Randell and his family. The census shows John Barrand (diamond setter), Mary Ann (wife), born in Devon and their only child, also Mary Anne, aged 1. Also living with them was Sarah Barrand and Elizabeth Barrand (John's sisters).
John Thomas died aged 32, on the 1st October, 1878, at their new residence of 32, Blundell Street, Islington of a brain hemmorage, and his occupation was recorded as a Labourer. What happened to the jeweller status is not known. Death Ref: Islington 1878 - 4th Qtr (1b - 147)
On the 1881 census the record shows Mary Ann, aged 35 from Exeter in Devon still living at 32, Blundell Street, a widow, and is shown as "head" of the family. Also with her is Mary Anne (11), Susannah (9), Harry Alford, aged (5) Hannah aged (3) and Alice, aged (1).
The first four children, Mary Anne, Susannah, Harry Alford, and Hannah were all baptised on the same day, 15th February, 1880, and John Thomas is described as their father, a labourer and still living at 32, Blundell Street which is incorrect as he had already died in 1878. For some reason, Alice (last child) is not shown on the baptism records for 1880, but instead she was baptised in 1879 at a totally different church to that of her siblings. Surprisingly also, there is no birth date shown for Mary Ann (1st child) on the baptism records, and no record of her birth as Barrand in the BMD indexes. I believe she was possibly registered as Mary Ann Barren.
There was also another child, John Henry, born on 21st July, 1873 at 57, Roman Road, Islington, (Now Roman Way) where John Thomas is still shown as a builder’s labourer, but John Henry died on the 4th November, 1873, aged 3 months and with the name of Barren on the certificate. In 1881, Mary Ann Barrand (nee Alford) then married Thomas Randell, but he died in 1882. Thomas Randell was the same person that lived with the Barrands in 1871 in Roman Road.
Mary Barrand had at least 2 other children, a William (born in 1882) and an Ada (born in 1885) There is no record of the birth of a William “Barrand”, although there is a birth certificate for him as William Randell. The birth certificate for Ada however shows she was born at 32, Blundell Street and shows John Barrand, a jeweller as her father which cannot be true. As Thomas Randell had died in 1882, he also could not be the father of Ada. On Ada’s death certificate in 1894, her father is given as John Barrand.
The Census for 1891 shows Mary Barrand now living at 14, Sutterton Street, Islington which is just a very short distance from Blundell Street. Mary Ann's name is written as M. A. Barrand (Widow) and living with her are Susannah (aged 18), Henry (aged 16), Annie (Hannah) (aged 14), Alice, (aged 9) plus William, (aged 7) and Ada (aged 4). Mary Anne (daughter) does not show on this or any other census since so presumably she had already married, although I cannot find any record to confirm this.
The 1901 census shows Mary Ann Barrand aged 54, a bottle worker (washer), and she is still shown as a widow and living at 29, Blundell Street, Islington. Living with her is her sons Henry (aged 26) and also William “Randell” Barrand (aged 19) a carman.
Mary's daughter, Susannah and her husband George Lawrence are also living at the same address. Hannah (daughter) is living next door at 31, Blundell Street with her husband Albert Whitbread and their 2 children.
As Mary Ann Barrand married Thomas Randell in 1880, Alice (b 1880) was certainly his daughter, but Ada (b 1885) cannot have been his daughter as Thomas Randell died in 1882. The William Randell Barrand born in 1882 is shown as a son of Mary Ann Rendall (nee Alford) and the father is noted as Thomas Rendall. Certainly, there are no baptism records for either William or Ada.
The 1911 census shows Mary Ann Barrand living as a lodger in Frederick Street, and still employed as a bottle washer, and it also shows that Mary Ann had 10 children, five living and five that had died by 1911, but I can only find 8 in total, and that is with the Alice, William and Ada who are not the children of John Thomas Barrand. The record of the death of Mary Ann Barrand (nee Alford) is shown as Mary Ann Randall Ref: Islington 1927, 4th Qtr 1b - 301and died on 15th December, 1927 of Cerebral Apoplexy at 26 Blundell Street, and her daughter Sarah Lawrence was present at the death. She was buried on the 21st December, 1927, aged 82.
The Randall/Rendell family
Both the Barrand and Rendell/Randall families lived together during the 1860s into the 1870s at 57, Roman Road. Thomas Randell (b1826-1882) was born in West Coker, Somerset and first married Henrietta Goode (1823-1867). They had 8 children, but Henrietta died during childbirth with her son Archie in 1867 (see newspaper article) (The name is most likely to be Arthur Randell). Thomas then married Henrietta’s sister, Mary Eliza Goode in Windsor in 1868 (Windsor 1st Qtr 2c-557) Mary died possibly in Barton Regis in Gloucestershire in 1877, but the reason for this is not known, and Thomas Randell then married Mary Barrrand in 1880.
Map of New Street, Westminster No 22
| John b 04/11/1752 d 1830 - 1840 Frances bc 1753 d 14/02/1831 = c 1778 William Potter b 1750 d 1818 Thomas bc 1755 d 1810 = 22/06/1781 Susan Cook bc 1752 d 1822 James b 1756 d 1756 Mary b ? d ? = 20/05/1783 John Jones Sarah b 1761 d 1833 James Mather b 1761 d 1823 Mary Turpin b 1732 d 1821 John Barraud b 1728 d c 1765 Re-married in 1772 to William Pether = 12/12/1772 William b 1760 = 29/05/1803 Margaret Callow b 1764 d 1837 = 04/03/1783 = 27/11/1752 Elizabeth b 1763 d 1827 Thomas b 1783 d 1836 Peter Cook b 1785 d 1839 Elizabeth b 1787 Ann b 1789 d ? John b 1791 d 1871 Joseph b 1793 d 1839 Eliza Cook b 1795 = 11/11/1804 Sarah Eliz. Took b 1780 d 1852 = 05/09/1810 Eliz. Corry b 1784 d 1837 = 15/11/1812 John Stead b 1778 d ? Ann Routeledge b 1795 d 1857 = 27/03/1827 Eleanor Page b 1795 d 1845 = 24/08/1815 James Able b 1779 d 1849 William b 1782 d 1835 = 06/04/ 1804 Alice Young b 1774 d 1833 = 29/11/1813 Robert W, b 1815 d 1839 Thomas b 1822 d ? Emigrated = 16/02/1846 Caroline Anderson b 1826 Arthur b 1824 d ? (Eliza) b 1826 To Australia Phoebe b 1828 d 1829 James b 1830 d 1914 Alfred b 1834/36 d 1854 John b 1818 d 1867 Emma Lash b 1829 d 1894 = 09/08/1852 George Richard b 1820 d 1872 Emma Chivers b 1825 d 1890 = 19/05/1844 = 16/03/1841 Eleanor West b 1821 d 1859 Susan b 1817 d 1876 William Baskett b 1818 d 1899 = 09/12/1844 Eleanor Nancy b 1844 d 1890 John Thomas b 1845 d 1878 Arthur Archibald b 1848 To USA Eliza Eliz. Matilda b 1849 d 1894 Sarah Sophia b 1850 d 1877 Susannah Mary b 1855 d 1897 Elizabeth Emma b 1857 No records after 1871 Mary Ann Alford b 1846 d 1927 = 11/03/1869 Alfred (Henry) Alford b 1875 d 1904 Hannah Elizabeth b 1877 d ? Alice Annie b 1880 d ? Susannah Emma b 1871 d Mary Ann Catherine b 1870 d ? William Randell b 1884 d 1917 Ada b 1885 d 1894 John Henry b 1873 d 1873 | ||||||||||||
Birth Certificate John Thomas Barrand
Mary Ann Barrand worked at the Kilner bottle factory in Blundell Street which was the warehouse part of the Kilner Bros. empire which was concentrated in West Yorkshire. In 1842 John Kilner founded the John Kilner and Co glass company that produced glass jars. John Kilner who was born in 1792, invented the Kilner jar along with his associates. He set up a business that was the forerunner of Kilner Brothers. Of the 4 sons of John Kilner, Caleb, the youngest, was given the job of opening a London warehouse for the firm. This warehouse was used to store Kilner products so they could be transported all over the world. Women were employed as well as men in producing the glass marbles for the bottle stoppers, in packing and also washing departments. They had a large warehouse in Blundell Street, at the Great Northern Goods Station where they held an immense stock from whence they exported all over the world, particularly in India and South Africa. Sadly, with mechanization and more modern methods of producing jars and bottles, the Kilner business declined, and in 1922, the factory was closed down. The modern Kilner jar is a rubber-sealed, screw-topped jar used for the storage of food, which was invented by the Kilner family and produced by John Kilner & Co. The first Kilner Jar consisted of a glass lid which fitted over the top of jar and was secured using a metal screw band, later jars changed only slightly with the glass lid fitting inside the neck instead of across the top. The railway ran from Caledonian Road Railway Goods Yard to the docks at Tilbury and was opened in 1850. The premises were taken over by Davey & Moore, Glass Bottle Manufacturers, Blundell Street, Caledonian Road, London.
Kilner warehouse
1851 Census, aged 5
1861 Census, John Barrand aged 15
Marriage Certificate John Thomas Barrand and Mary Ann Alford
1871 Census, showing John Barrand living with the Randell Family Thomas Rendell’s first wife Henrietta had already died in 1867 and the Mary E. is his second wife, Henrietta’s sister.
Death Certificate of John Thomas Barrand 1878
Marriage certificate Thomas Randell and Henrietta Goode in 1852
Marriage Certificate Thomas Rendell and Mary Eliza Goode 1868
Marriage certificate of Mary Barrand (nee Alford) and Thomas Randell 1881 (Name as Barron)
Burial record of Mary Ann Randall (sic) She used the name Barrand on census returns, but was married to Thomas Randell after the death of John Thomas Barrand
The house where Mary Barrand/Randell lived after 1911 and is noted as the address on William Barrand’s army records. 2C / 3C Blundell Street.
1881 Census
1891 Census
1901 Census showing William (son) as William Randell
1911 Census of Mary Ann Barrand – showing 10 children (5 living and 5 died)