See also
Husband:
Lawrence Henry Akersten (1816-1872)
Wife:
Sarah Collett Lewing (1803-1879)
Children:
Marriage:
29 Sep 1836
Christ Church, Spitalfields, Middlesex
Name:
Lawrence Henry Akersten
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
12 May 1816
Drury Lane, Holborn, Middlesex
Baptism:
15 Sep 1816 (age 0)
St Andrew Holborn, London
Census (1):
1841 (age 24-25)
Stevedore, Old Road, Limehouse
Occupation:
1 Oct 1841 (age 25)
Stevedore, 4 Old Road, Limehouse (on daughter Caroline's birth cert.)
Census (2):
1851 (age 34-35)
Stevedore, 30 Underwood Street, Stepney
Census (3):
1861 (age 44-45)
Stevedore (empl. _ men + 1 boy, docks), Alma House, Plaistow, West Ham, Essex
Census (4):
1871 (age 54-55)
Stevedore, 193 East India Road, Bromley, Middlesex
Death fact:
1872 (age 55-56)
1872 Dec Qtr, Poplar, 1c/380 (aged 56)
Death:
1872 (age 55-56)
Poplar, Middlesex
Name:
Sarah Collett Lewing
Sex:
Female
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
30 May 1803
Norton Folgate, Shoreditch, Middlesex
Baptism:
11 Sep 1803 (age 0)
Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London
Death fact:
1879 (age 75-76)
1879 Dec Qtr, Shoreditch, 1c/56 (aged 76)
Death:
1879 (age 75-76)
Shoreditch, Middlesex
Name:
Sarah Chappell Akersten
Sex:
Female
Birth:
1840
Stepney, Middlesex
Birth fact:
1840 (age 0)
1840 Jun Qtr, Whitechapel, 2/499
Baptism:
5 Sep 1841 (age 0-1)
Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London
Census:
1841 (age 0-1)
Living with parents
Death fact:
1849 (age 8-9)
1849 Dec Qtr, Whitechapel, 2/440
Death:
1849 (age 8-9)
Whitechapel, Middlesex
Name:
Caroline Margaret Akersten
Sex:
Female
Note:
11 Feb 1889. Administration of the Personal Estate of Caroline Margaret Akersten late of 5 Princes Street Finsbury Square in the County of Middlesex Spinster who died 23 or 24 July 1888 in the River Thames was granted at the Principal Registry to Mary Jane Akersten of 5 Princes Street Spinster the Sister and only Next of Kin. Personal Estate £825 11s.
Birth:
1 Oct 1841
4 Old Road, Limehouse, Middlesex
Baptism:
7 Nov 1841 (age 0)
Saint Dunstan, Stepney, London ("Margaret Sarah Akersten")
Birth fact:
1841 (age 0)
1841 Dec Qtr, Stepney, 2/411
Census (1):
1851 (age 9-10)
Visiting John & Mary Ann Harpham, 32 Wenlock St, Shoreditch
Census (2):
1861 (age 19-20)
Drapers assistant, Manningtree, Essex (unmarried)
Census (3):
1871 (age 29-30)
Living with parents
Census (4):
1881 (age 39-40)
Income from house property, 5-6 Princes St, Moorfields, Shoreditch
Death fact:
1888 (age 46-47)
1888 Sep Qtr, Woolwich, 1d/581 (aged 46)
Death:
24 Jul 1888 (age 46)
Drowned in the River Thames
Name:
Mary Jane Akersten
Sex:
Female
Note (shared):
MARY JANE AKERSTEN, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any debts, claims, or demands against the estate of Mary Jane Akersten, Spinster, late of No. 5, Dysart-street, Finsbury, in the county of London (who died on the 28th day of December, 1899, and of whose estate letters of administration were granted out of the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice on the 20th day of September, 1900, to Lewis Alfred Tomes Margetts, of 20 and 21, London-wall, in the city of London, the lawful attorney of William Akersten, the natural and lawful uncle and only next-of-kin of the deceased), are hereby required to send particulars, in writing, of their debts, claims, or demands to us, the undersigned … on or before the 6th day of November, 1900, after which date the said administrator will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased amongst the persons entitled thereto … etc.
—Dated this 5th day of October, 1900.
LEWIS MARGETTS and CO., 20 and 21 London-wall, London, E.C., Solicitors for the said Administrator.
THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER 9, 1900, p.6217
Birth:
1845
Mile End, Stepney, Middlesex
Birth fact:
1845 (age 0)
1845 Dec Qtr, Whitechapel, 2/557
Baptism:
14 Jan 1846 (age 0-1)
Spitalfields Christ Church, Stepney, London
Census (1):
1851 (age 5-6)
Living with parents
Census (2):
1861 (age 15-16)
Living with parents
Census (3):
1871 (age 25-26)
Living with parents
Census (4):
1881 (age 35-36)
Income from house property, living with sister Caroline, Shoreditch (unmarried)
Census (5):
1891 (age 45-46)
Living on own means, 5 Dysart St, Shoreditch (unmarried)
Residence:
1899 (age 53-54)
5 Dysart St, Finsbury
Death:
28 Dec 1899 (age 53-54)
Shoreditch, Middlesex
Death fact:
1900 (age 54-55)
1900 Mar Qtr, Shoreditch, 1c/32 (aged 54)
11 Feb 1889. Administration of the Personal Estate of Caroline Margaret Akersten late of 5 Princes Street Finsbury Square in the County of Middlesex Spinster who died 23 or 24 July 1888 in the River Thames was granted at the Principal Registry to Mary Jane Akersten of 5 Princes Street Spinster the Sister and only Next of Kin. Personal Estate £825 11s.
MARY JANE AKERSTEN, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any debts, claims, or demands against the estate of Mary Jane Akersten, Spinster, late of No. 5, Dysart-street, Finsbury, in the county of London (who died on the 28th day of December, 1899, and of whose estate letters of administration were granted out of the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice on the 20th day of September, 1900, to Lewis Alfred Tomes Margetts, of 20 and 21, London-wall, in the city of London, the lawful attorney of William Akersten, the natural and lawful uncle and only next-of-kin of the deceased), are hereby required to send particulars, in writing, of their debts, claims, or demands to us, the undersigned … on or before the 6th day of November, 1900, after which date the said administrator will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased amongst the persons entitled thereto … etc.
—Dated this 5th day of October, 1900.
LEWIS MARGETTS and CO., 20 and 21 London-wall, London, E.C., Solicitors for the said Administrator.
THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER 9, 1900, p.6217