UPDATE No 10.

EMMA BRIGHT

The Archive has acquired Registration certificates for several members of the South family including the marriage of Emma Bright, the first wife of Joseph(1),. Emma married Joseph at St. Margaret of Antioch, The Parish Church of Barley, on 14 October 1844. She was under twenty-one years of age. Her father, Henry Bright, was a brickmaker who may have been employed at the nearby Morrice Green brickfield. Traditionally, the Souths' were agricultural labourers and it is possible that Joseph(1) learnt the skills of the clayworker at the same brickfield. Those skills were to support his two future families and laid the foundations for the White Hart Lane Potteries During the journey towards Edmonton, Joseph(2) and Solomon were born inWare on 20 June 1850 and 9 November 1851 respectively. Samuel(1) was born on 19 June 1853 in Cheshunt. All were to remain in England when their father, Joseph(1), emigrated. to New Zealand in 1874. There were nine children in all. Emma made her mark on the marriage certificate and also the birth certificate of her son, Samuel(1), presumably because she was illiterate. Emma died, aged 40, from Pthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis) on 21 October 1868 at an address in Lower Fore Street, Edmonton, with her husband at her bedside. Some ten months later in August 1869 Joseph(1) married his second wife, Mary Ann Dutton.

SNELLS PARK

In  Update No. 9 mention was made of the Congregational Church where Samuel(2) and Emily Maud married in 1899. The church is illustrated in the adjoining photograph. The Rev. Thomas Bagley officiated at the ceremony. He was the incumbent from 1879 util 1912 and was known to the elder children of Samuel(2). Snells Park is to the right of the Church Contact has been made with edith Knight nee Fisk who moved to 46 Snells Park opposite the families of Samuel(1) and Samuel(2) in 1911. She was the childhood friend of Gladys and remembers all of the South children with exception of Joyce who was born after the move to River House. After the death of Samuel(1) in 1919, Edith recalls his widow, Alice, taking her for a ride in the Brougham (a light, two seater, one horse open carriage) used by the family for transport. Edith is the great-niece of Fred Fisk who wrote the well known histories of Tottenham and Edmonton (see Update No. 3).

POTTERIES

Enlargement taken from the third of the series of postcards illustrating scenes at the Potteries. Trucks carrying the excavated clay from the clay-pit were winched on the track shown to the pugmill.

SAMUEL(1)

The Archive is the proud trustee of the bank pass-book of Samuel(1) for the period from June 1886 until September 1892. The task of transcribing the entries is ongoing. It is hoped that scrutiny might provide an insight into his business activities The first three debit entries record payments of £55 to [Richard] sankey, the previous occupier of the White Hart Lane Pottery site. Enquiries have established that the Estate left by Samuel(1) was valued for the purposes of probate (granted on 2 July 1919) in the sum of £ 46,057-3s-7d. A substantial amount for the time.  Signature of Samuel (1) taken from the mortgage deed of 15 July 1912  (see Update No 1) for the purchase of River House.

KLB  12/97