Charles VANDERSTEEN = Martha HOBBS
Married 19 Apr 1841, Hackney, Midsx, St. John1
Charles VANDERSTEEN
Born 31 Aug 18212
Christened 23 Sep 1821, Bethnal Green, Midsx., St Matthew's3
Died 1866, Norwich, Norfolk4
Occupation: Hot-presser (1841) Ribbon Weaver (1841) Brushmaker Journeyman (1851) Brush maker (1852, 1861)5
Abode: Charles St., Hackney (1841); 6 Ramar Place, Stepney, Middsx (1851) 43 Booth St, Spitalfields (1852); Pearse's Field, Sprowston, Norfolk (1861)6
Martha HOBBS
William VANDERSTEEN10 = Mary KERNEY11 > Family
Married 1 Dec 1872, St Joseph's Chapel, Lambs Passage, Holborn, Middlesex12
William VANDERSTEEN
Born 1 Nov 1841, House of Industry, Coventry13
Occupation: Brush maker (1855) Labourer (1872), General Dealer (1881), Brush Maker (1886)14
Abode: Waterloo Road Workhouse, Bethnal Green (1855) 7 George Yard, Holborn (1872), 6 & 7 George Court (1881)15
Mary KERNEY
Isaac VANDERSTEEN18
Born 5 May 1852, 43 Booth Street, Spitalfields21
Born 1 Dec 1855, Workhouse, Stepney, Middsx22
Occupation: Silk weaver (1881)23
Abode: Wroxam Rd., Sprowston, Norfolk (1881)24
Tremenia/Amelia VANDERSTEEN27 = George SHORTEN > Family
Married 4 Oct 1879, Sprowston, Norfolk28
Tremenia/Amelia VANDERSTEEN
Born 19 May 1861, Pearse's Field, Sprowston, Norfolk29
Died 31 Jan 1930, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada30
DID TREMENIA INVENT HER OWN NAME?
Tremenia’s birth is registered with her name as Amelia and she appears in the 1871 Census as Susanna and the 1891 Census as Jemima. When she married George SHORTEN on 4th October 1879 she was Tremenia and as Tremenia SHORTEN she appears in the 1881 Census. She gave her first child the name of Lily Tremenia. Lily Tremenia’s own child, born in 1903 had the name Lily Tremenia SENDALL.
From where did she get this name? Perhaps it was the name of a relative or acquaintance or perhaps she saw it in a newspaper. If one searches FreeBMD which give most births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales from 1837 to 1920, there are only the three occurrences which I have noted above. There are also no occurrences of alternative spellings such as Treminia. Tremenia does not occur in The Times from 1785 to 1985.
After these two SHORTEN and SENDALL families emigrated to Canada, sometime before the census of 1911, it seems that the name Tremenia was removed from England. This name does not appear in the England and Wales 1911 Census (note the database is not yet complete) nor in recent electoral registers (2000 and 2004).
Search on Ancestry.co.uk produces no more Tremenias in England but shows a small number in the United States. The earliest entry in the Census Records is Tremenia TOLARCI in the 1910 Census. There is a birth index entry Tremenia Latorya WALL in North Carolina and a marriage index entry for Tremenia Rowena BURNS. In the US Public Records there is Tremenia R AUSTIN, Florida, Tremenia R Oliver and Tremenia WALL, North Corolina.
A Google search finds five people: Tremenia R OLIVER, Albany, New York, Tremenia R AUSTIN, Deerfield Beach, Florida, Tremenia WALL, Biscoe, North Carolina, Tramenia MISKEL, Gulfport, Mississippi and Tremenia SMITH, Forrest City, Arkansas.
There is a suggestion that the “correct” spelling is Treminia, but the English and other records do not support this. In the All British Columbia Death Index, we do however find the granddaughter’s death in 1954 recorded as Lily Treminia SENDALL.
There has been a suggestion that Tremenia is derived from an Italian place name, but this is based on a single Google reference to a Brazilian birth certificate which gives a place of birth as “Cassan de Treminia”. This is identified with Cazzano Di Tramigna. No doubt the Brazilian registrar was doing his best with the Italian words.
George SHORTEN
4 :
1881 Census RG11/1935 fol 60, Death Index Dec 1866 Norwich 4b 94
5 :
Marriage certificate, son William's birth certificate; 1851 Census HO107 /1544 fol 297, birth certificate of son Joseph; birth certificate of daughter Amelia
6 :
Marriage certificate; 1851 Census HO107 /1544 fol 297; birth certificate of son Joseph; birth certificate of daughter Amelia (1861) 1861 Census RG9/1211 47
7 :
1851 Census HO107 /1544 fol 297; 1861 Census RG9/1211 47
8 :
Death Index Mar 1885 St. Faith's 4b 77 (FreeBMD)
9 :
Birth of daughter, IGI downloaded 11 Aug 2004; St Matthew's, Bethnal Green Rough Examination Book 1855 page 85 " Ann (?!) Vandersteen 34, paper from St George in East" Bethnal Green Board of Guardians 1855 May 16 to 1856 Jul 09 Rough Examinations Indexed, BEG/267/011, London Metropolitan Archives;
10 :
On marriage certificate father is Charles, brush maker. Spelt Vanderstean in Birth Index (informant the Governor)
11 :
Marriage certificate, Marriage Index Dec 1872 Holborn 1b 1122
12 :
Marriage Index Dec 1872 Holborn 1b 1122, Marriage certificate, a bachelor, father Charles Vandersteen, brush maker
13 :
Birth Index Dec 1841 Coventry XVI 368 (spelt Vandestean in index)
14 :
St Matthew's, Bethnal Green Rough Examination Book 1855 page 85 " William Vandersteen 14 Brushmaker see mother's exam post" Bethnal Green Board of Guardians 1855 May 16 to 1856 Jul 09 Rough Examinations Indexed, BEG/267/011, London Metropolitan Archives; Marriage certificate, Marriage Index Dec 1872 Holborn 1b 1122; 1881 Census RG11/342 fol 69, Marriage certificate of son John
15 :
St Matthew's, Bethnal Green Rough Examination Book 1855 page 83 " William Vandersteen 14 Brushmaker see mother's exam post" Bethnal Green Board of Guardians 1855 May 16 to 1856 Jul 09 Rough Examinations Indexed, BEG/267/011, London Metropolitan Archives; Marriage certificate, Marriage Index Dec 1872 Holborn 1b 1122; 1881 Census RG11/342 fol 69
16 :
Marriage certificate, Marriage Index Dec 1872 Holborn 1b 1122
17 :
Death Index Dec 1880 Holborn 1b 428 aged 37
18 :
1851 Census HO107 /1544 fol 297
19 :
1851 Census HO107 /1544 fol 297, Birth Index Sep 1850 Whitechapel II 590
20 :
Death Index Sep 1851 II 415
21 :
Birth certificate, Birth Index Jun1852 Whitechapel 1c 329
22 :
Birth Index Dec1855 Geo. East 1c 416, 1861 Census RG9/1211 fol 47, IGI downloaded 11 Aug 2004
23 :
1881 Census RG11/1935 fol 60
24 :
1881 Census RG11/1935 fol 60
25 :
Birth Index Jun 1859 Norwich 4b 168
26 :
Death index Dec 1868 St Faiths 4b 69
27 :
Birth registered as Amelia, marriage registered as Tremenia
28 :
Marriage Index Dec 1879 St. Faith's 4b 287, Sprowston Parish Register (informant Helena T Hayden, Rootsweb)
29 :
Birth certificate in name Amelia (confirmed with Norwich Register Office that the name is not Tremenia), Birth Index Jun 1861, St Faith's 4b 95.
30 :
Informant Peter J Butler by email to RFG 16 Jan 2009
31 :
Informant Peter Butler by email to RFG, 19 Jan 2009. Not found in FreeBMD
33 :
Informant Peter J Butler by email to RFG 16 Jan 2009
34 :
1881 Census RG11/1935 page 22, 1991 Census RG12/1517 page 6, 1901 Census RG13/1833 page 20
35 :
1881 Census RG11/1935 page 22, 1991 Census RG12/1517 page 6,1901 Census RG13/1833 page 20
36 :
1901 Census RG13/1845 fol 128, Birth Index Mar 1864 St Faiths 4b 111
37 :
1901 Census RG13/1845 fol 128, IGI at 11 AUG 2004
38 :
Marriage Index (FreeBMD) Dec 1888 Norwich 4b 309
39 :
1901 Census RG13/1845 fol 128, Birth Index Mar 1864 St Faiths 4b 111
40 :
1901 Census RG13/1845 fol 128
41 :
1901 Census RG13/1845 fol 128
42 :
1901 Census RG13/1845 fol 128, Birth Index (FreeBMD) Dec 1867 Tunstead 4b 46
43 :
Birth Index Dec 1866 St Faiths 4b 100, 1881 Census RG11/1935 fol 60
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