I was excited for the 1921 census to finally be available, and my 2 main focal characters (those who I felt would give me the most information on the document) were Sam Poyser my great-grandfather, my maternal grandmother's father, and Charles Hunt, my nan's grandfather through her mother.
Charles and his 2nd wife, Alice, were the only people living at 1 Rathbone Street in Canning Town at the time of the census, June 19th 1921. All of the children were grown and gone. It seems he still had the shop as he is listed as "Livestock Dealer - Birds etc". He was 62 and his employment is noted as "own account" which I assume to mean self-employed, and his place of employment is "at home". He and Alice had been married almost 18 years.
I am now wondering, was my nan's sister, Alice, named after her mother's stepmother? I guess I'll never know, but, if so, that would be telling of the relationship between them. My great grandmother would have been 18 at the time of her father's remarriage, mother, Catherine (Kate) having died only the previous year.
Sam Poyser's record gave me new information. his working life. Having previously worked at the Thames Ironworks, that had closed down by the 1921 census. His then-workplace was listed as Fletcher Feasell Ship Repairers but I could find no mention of them anywhere, the closest being Fletcher, Son and Fearnall who were "marine engineers" with locations at Limehouse and Tilbury.. I believe this is the company, since there are other errors in the census record. My grandmother, Rose, for instance, is listed as Rox, and poor "Uncle Harry" from my childhood is shown as Mary although - thankfully - he is still designated as "son".
Looking into the distances between locations, there being an entrance to Limehouse at Millwall (the entry on the census stating the location of Fletcher Feasell as being at Millwall, Poplar) it definitely seems that Fletcher, Son and Fearnall is the correct employer.
In 1921 his address was 26 Boyd Road, Tidal Basin; this is the same address that my nan and granpop were married from in 1936.
Still got more digging to do ...
