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Can anyone suggest how I can trace my Fathers siblings just have their first names and dobs. They lived in London borough of Southwark will the library have info can I see census there after 1901 as they were all born after that

You can't see any census after 1901 yet.

What are you looking for, to see if they are still living? If so, have you tried an electoral register look up or directory enquiries?

Sam x

Hi Sam

Yes Im trying to find if they are still alive and if I have any cousins. Anyone who could tell me about my grandparents just family information really, What were they like any pics that sort of thing.

What name are we looking for!, where in Southwark did they live! I lived in Southwark for thirty years I might be able to give you some local information.

Southwark has a number of old churches, most notably Charles Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle, Southwark Cathedral and St Thomas Church. The Salvation Army maintains the William Booth Memorial College near Denmark Hill railway station. London's Norwegian Church and Finnish Church are both located in Rotherhithe. On the other hand, it is also famous for a number of historic public houses, starting with the site of The Tabard inn featured in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The George Inn and the the White Hart inn are also notable.

The old theatre district of Southwark leaves the remains of the old Rose Theatre and the rebuilt Globe Theatre. Art galleries include the oldest public gallery in Britain, Dulwich Picture Gallery and one of the most modern, the Tate Modern, situated in the shell of the 1930s Bankside Power Station. In the centre of the borough is Camberwell College of Arts and south, in Dulwich has been a centre for public schooling for centuries, containing Alleyn's School and the Charles Barry designed Dulwich College.

There are many museums, including the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, Britain's Imperial War Museum built on the site of the Bethlem Royal Hospital, The Clink and Livesey Museum for Children. The site of the medieval Winchester Palace can be seen.

Some of the old industrial and wharfside heritage can be seen at the now defunct Surrey Commercial Docks including Greenland Dock. Near Tower Bridge old warehouses have been converted at to new uses at Butler's Wharf and Hay's Wharf. Similarly, the Oxo Tower now hosts restaurants shops and housing. Visitors are allowed on board at HMS Belfast moored nearby.

Southwark is the home to the Greater London Authority at City Hall and contains Guy's Hospital with its roots in the Middle Ages. Peckham Library, designed by Will Alsop has won architecture awards. For shopping, Borough Market near London Bridge is probably London's most famous general food market.

The planned Shard London Bridge will be London's tallest building when completed.

Hi Carol

Thanks for replying. My Family name is Friend and my father was Albert, he had brothers called Edward, David and sisters Ellen married to a James Smith, Mary and Anne. Parents were David Friend and Mary Hogan. When they married they lived at 40 Doon Street and my father was born 37 Danson Road in 1921

Any info would be appreciated. I am going to go to Southwark library as they hold a lot of information I have been told and I may found some there. Would like to trace them before its to late as time is passing for them now.

I have found this birth in 1918. Do you think he is one of yours?


Name Mother's Maiden Name District Page Quarter Year View Image Add Comment View Comment

FRIEND David J Hogan Southwark.1d 160 3 1918

Best Wishes

Jane

Victoria, I too grew up in Southwark, in Walworth, near Elephant and Castle, hubby in Bermondsey, it does cover quite a large area. I think Danson Road is now Bexleyheath, which comes under Kent. Danson Road is still a very nice Road with highly priced houses which overlook the lake in Danson Park. If his family owned a house there in 1920's they would have been very well off indeed. Let us know where in Southwark if you can.

Victoria,

Were the other siblings older or younger than your datd? I have gone through to 1927 and can't find anymore births other than the one posted earlier.

Kind Regards

Jane

Danson Road, was near Tarver Street, Near To Penton Place.

Doon Street, Waterloo Road, LAMBETH

This record has been added to your shoebox.
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983
about Albert George Friend
Name: Albert George Friend
Year of Registration: 1921
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
Mother's Maiden Name: Hogan
District: Southwark(1901 Onw)
County: Greater London, London
Volume: 1d
Page: 197 (click to see others on page)

Victorian Walworth

1831 Surrey Zoological Gardens opened on Lorrimore common near the Manor House.
1848 Queen Victoria & family visited Zoo. Then named Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens.
1852 St Peters School.
1856 Surrey Zoological Gardens replaced by Surrey Gardens Music Hall.
1860 St John built in Larcom Street.
1861 Metropolitan Tabernacle built at Elephant & Castle.
1862 Canterbury Cathedral gave their land in Walworth to Church Commissioners.
Railway built through Walworth.
1866 St John¹s School.
? Vestry of St Mary Newington set up on Walworth Road.
1871 Tram lines laid in Old Kent Road and Walworth Road for horse drawn trams.
1872 Surrey Gardens Music Hall demolished. Penton Place covers part of the site.
1889 Charie Chaplin born above a shop in East Street.
1890 Undergound linked to the Elephant. City and South London Railway was first electric line. Later became Northern Line.
1891 Sanford Road School (now Walworth Lower School).
1892 Pembroke College Mission set up by Pembroke College, Cambridge. Carter Street Police station?
Newington Library
1898 The Paragon demolished for new Paragon School, Searles Road.


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Modern Walworth

1900 Vestry became Southwark Town Hall
1902? Cuming Museum established.
1903 Traders moved off Old Kent Road and Walworth Road by authorities to East Street due to new electric trams.
1904 Eletric trams in Walworth.
1905? Old slums cleared & Faraday Gardens set up by Octavia Hill
1906 Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (Bakerloo) reached the Elephant.
1939 Clubland set up by Methodists.
1940 Walworth bombed in Blitz.
1952 Trams discontinued.
1958 Brandon Estate built.
1965 Southwark Town Hall moved to Peckham Road when borough of Camberwell was merged with Southwark.
Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre opened. First covered shopping mall in UK.
1969 Newington Workhouse demolished.
1970 Houses cleared for Old Kent Road Flyover.
1974 Heygate Estate completed.
1977 Aylesbury Estate completed.

Do you mind if i ask a question relating to Southwick ?
Would anyone know whether the houses in Kennington park road are stil standing and if or any developent has taken place also what type of area was it ?
Just found out a great aunt was a phrenologist and used to practise from one of the houses around the 1940's era
Many thanks!

Hi Jane

Mary Friend born 1911, approx, Ellen born 1913 David bron 1918 and Edward born 1928, think I have found both David and Edward and Ellen now.

thanks for help

thanks for replying Linda

I think that perhaps they had money as my Gt Gt Gt Grandfather was German and a Tailor who came over in approx 1850 my Gt Grandfather was also a Tailor.

It would be great to find photos etc of my family as I nothing except one picture of my father.

Hi Carol,

Thanks for all the info

Have you checked National Archives for immigration?

Bexleyheath is a fair old distance from Southwark - I wouldnt have thought that would be the same road.? But its a long time since I lived there. Danson Park was virtually countryside when I lived there, Id have thought it would have been well out in the sticks in 1920.

Find My Past website has a living people finder. For instance if you are looking for Friends in Southwark or Lambeth it should bring up a list of people with that name - this would be from the electoral registers so long as they didn't ask to be anonymous and then you could write to some of them who you think might be your relations.

You can buy credits on the website - just google Find My Past.

Alison.

Thanks Alison for that info I will try it now It would be great if I still had some living relatives on the Friend side.