Hello Maureen(cc Suzi),
I have been in contact with Suzi a few times but not for a long time. Yes, I can confirm that Ulrich & Ann were married on 20th May 1829 at St Dunstan's in Stepney. I was working close to the London Metropolitan Office and popped in to check the microfilm that they have. Alas, there were not any details of their parents' names.
My grandmother, Agnes Gefaell, was born in the quarter July/Sept 1870 in Mile End. Agnes married Walter Clark in 1896, that's where I come in!
Agnes's father was Joseph Ulrich Gefaell - Ulrich & Ann's first born - and he married Bridget Donnell from Tipperary on Christmas day 1859 at St Mary's & St Michael's RC Church, Commercial Road, Stepney (nice to know that there is some Irish in there somewhere!).
If you want to email me on
alanaclark@ntlworld.com, I'll forward the info. that I've dug up, although I think Suzi is far further down the road than me.
I've replied here 'on the quick' but I think that one correspondent (it could have been Suzi) thought that there might have been a family connection through the clockmaking, in Leeds.
One of the things that intrigues me is that at the time of the 1841 Census Ulrich (Alvage) and Ann are living together in Commercial Road, Stepney but ten years later, he is lodging in Blackheath Road, Greenwich but Ann is living in Lower Fenton Street, Stepney. I know transport would have been an issue in those days but I wondered if they might possibly have been separated?!?
Do you have any record of Ulrich after the 1851 Census or any record of his death?!?
I would be very grateful for any information that you might be able to supply to me.
Regards,
Alan