This photograph
is of her as a young girl
This is her with her husband Benjamin Wilson, (They had married on the 4th August 1907) her eldest daughter Gertrude was born in 1908 and Mike's father William, was born in 1911. They had two other children Joyce and Alec.
Rosalind's parents were Alexander Lemon and Elizabeth Walton.
This is Elizabeth Walton as a young girl
Elizabeth with her husband Alexander Lemon
Alexander and Elizabeth were married on the 28th November 1885 at St Pancras Register Office.
They had five children three boys Alexander, Martin and John. Their two daughters were Rosalind and Gertrude. (Mike's Grandmother).
Alexander worked in the Pianoforte trade. He was born on the 27th March 1866 at 139 Maldon Road Haverstock Hill in Kentish Town.
(Elizabeth was born in Westoning in Bedfordshire on the 11 April 1860. Her parents were John Walton and an Eliza Ireland). Mike's Aunt had told us there was an Irish connection and we think this is it!!. (Well the surname is Ireland).
Alexander was the seventh child born to Martin Lemon and Elizabeth Beckett.
Martin Lemon and Elizabeth Beckett
Martin and Elizabeth had married on the 22 July 1850 also at St Pancras Register office.
They had eight children Five boys, Martin born first in 1851 in Boxmore, Elizabeth's home village, George, Mark, Alexander born 27th March 1866 and another Martin. (Probably their first son Martin had died). The three girls were Elizabeth Rosalind and Annie.
Martin was a Musical Smith and Master Brass Finisher who had his own business.
Martin's parents were George Mark Lemon who was born on 31st Dec 1797 in Marylebone, and Sarah Playsted. They were married about 1825 at St James's Paddington.
They had two sons Martin and George Mark. Their daughters were Mary and Sarah they were twins.
George Mark was also a twin with his sister Betty, they had seven siblings, two more boys, Thomas Martin and Mark and three sisters Maria, Grace and Mary.
It was Thomas Martin who was the father of the Mark Lemon who Nanna Wilson had spoken about.
Thomas had died at the young age of thirty two in 1818 and so the young Mark had grown up with his Grandparents Mark Lemon Senior and his wife Grace Denyer at thir home Church Farm House in Hendon.
This is Church Farm House (Now a museum).
George Mark died on the 29th November 1831, his twin sister Betty died on the 16th October 1871.
Betty had never married and in the Census' of 1851/61 and 1871 she was living with her sister in Law Alice Lemon (Nee Collis) Mark Lemon's mother. After Mark's father Thomas had died she had married Thomas Ver(s)ey who Betty had once been engaged to.
*Mark Lemon Senior who is Mike's Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather had married Grace Denyer
(She was born in Dunsfold in Surrey). They had married in St Marylebone Parish Church on the 16th May 1784. They had eight children,three sons,Thomas Martin, George Mark and Mark and four daughters Betty, Maria, Grace and Mary Ann.
Mark was a Farmer and Horse Dealer.
Mark died in 1820 and Grace in 1823. They are both buried in St Mary's Church Hendon which is next door to Church Farm House.
This is Mark Lemon Writer/Dramatist.
(For our Grandchildren...he is your 1st cousin six times removed... that's the number of direct grandparents)
Mark Lemon was born in London in 1809. His writings were first published in the New Sporting Magazine in 1834 under the pseudonym 'Tom Moody'. He also had contributions published in the Illustrated London News and his friend Charles Dickens' Household Words. He was also a prolific writer for the stage. From 1836 when he had his first work was performed at the Strand until the late 1860s, he wrote over 70 shows: comedies, farces, melodramas, operas and pantomines.
His most famous performance was as Falstaff. 
Mark Lemon pictured with the Dickens family.
Nanna Wilson mentioned a cousin of hers, also a Mark Lemon. We haven't yet established the connection to her father but we hope the 1911 census will shed light on this.
Meanwhile here is his billing....
*During our research we were contacted by the Great Grandaughter of Alexander Lemon's sister, she has recently found Mark Lemon Senior's birth and is continuing the research. We hope to update the Blog at a later date.
