Name	Age	Occupation	Where Born
George ?Nary	36 (Head)	Porter	Blackfriars
Jane ?Nary	30 (Wife)	??????	Bethnal Green
Walter ?Nary	9 (Son)	Scholar	Bethnal Green
George ?Nary	6 (Son)	Scholar	Bethnal Green
John ?Nary	4 (Son)	Scholar	Bethnal Green
Henry ?Nary	2 (Son)		Bethnal Green
William ?Nary	6m (Son)		Bethnal Green
James Black	20 (Lodger)	Bedstead Maker (Jyn)	Bethnal Green

James Black married Caroline Bunce who was born in July 1837 and baptised the 25th of August 1837 in Saint George parish, Middlesex, England. Her parents Henry and Mary Bunce lived at Duke Street.

James Black and Caroline were married on the 11th of October 1851 at Saint Andrews Church, Bethnal Green, Middlesex. In 1861 they were living at 24 Gt. Pearl Street, Spitalfields. James Black, the son was actually baptised on the 29th of August 1852 at Shoreditch according to the parish register.

1861 Census 24 Gt. Pearl Street, Spitalfields, London

They emigrated to North America sometime before 1865. The 1870 USA census shows Mary Jane and Phillip born in Nova Scotia but a record has been found showing Philip was actually born the 17th of September 1867 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Daughter Ellen Black was actually baptised at Bethnal Green on the 12th of January 1862 as seen in the parish register.

 

1870 Census Ward 3, Boston, County of Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

 

By 1881 JAMES BLACK and his family had returned to England as confirmed in the census of that year. Daughter Catherine is now absent but we know from the parish registers that she married at Bethnal Green on the 28th of July 1880.

 

1881 Census 14 Sea Brook Place, Clerkenwell, London

 

MARY JANE BLACK was in service in the household of a commercial traveller as revealed in the census.

 

1881 Census 77 ?Berrenden Street, Hackney, London

 

MARY JANE BLACK married ALFRED PERCIVAL MEADOWS, a mechanical engineer from Thrapston, Northants at St. Giles, Cripplegate, London on 17^th February 1886.

 

The 1891 Census shows ALFRED P. MEADOWS and his wife MARY JANE residing in London with the children from ALFRED’s first marriage to MARY A. MEADOWS (nee DALLMAN) and their own children, Percy and Grace.

 

1891 Census 40 Haberdasher St. Shoreditch, London

 

MARY JANES’S widowed father JAMES was still living in London with 3 of his sons as shown in the 1891 census.

 

1891 Census 93 Albany Cottages, Islington, London

 

The 1901 Census shows MARY JANE MEADOWS living with her husband Alfred at 281 High Road, Tottenham. London. Interestingly her place of birth was given as Nova Scotia. Their son William P. (Percival) was 13 years old. I think he was born between Jan – Mar. in 1888 and their daughter Grace was 11 years of age. She was born 4^th February 1890.

 

I have some information regarding 2 of MARY JANE’S brothers via the 1901 census.

 

Philip Black and his wife Jane both aged 34 years old were living at 1, Cleveland Road, Islington.

 

Walter Black aged 29 and his wife Mabel aged 30 years (she was born in Brentwood, Essex) were living at 130 Seymour Place, Marylebone, London.

 

On the death of her husband ALFRED, MARY JANE MEADOWS married Arthur Hurst on 4^th September 1901 in Edmonton, Middlesex. MARY JANE died September 1921 in Tottenham.