Alexander Lemon's wife was Elizabeth Walton. She was the second child born to JohnWalton and his wife Eliza Ireland.
John and Eliza had married on the 9th March 1857 in Southill Bedfordshire where Eliza had been born 24 yrs before. After their marriage they went to John's village of Westoning where he was a Blacksmith. They lived and raised six children there, four daughters and two sons. John, Elizabeth, Jane, Emma, Joseph and Ann.
John's father was also called John and he had been born about 1810 and he was a Labourer.
Eliza's Ireland's father, another, John was born in Old Warden in Bedfordshire in abt 1810. He was married to an Elizabeth and they lived at Southill Park where he was a Groom. They lived in a cottage in the grounds. They had thirteen children, Eliza was their second daughter, their first born child also called Eliza had died just before our Eliza had been born.
They went on to have seven boys, George, Joseph, John, William, Charles, Frederick and Robert. The girls were named Emma, Fanny, Mary Ann and Elizabeth and of course Eliza.
John was one of the seven children born to Joseph Ireland born 1773 and Elizabeth Brown born 1779.
Joseph and Elizabeth Brown had both been born in Old Warden and they had married on the 10th October 1798 at the Parish Church. Their children were Mary, Joseph, Ann, John, William Brown, Elizabeth and Francis.Joseph had died before 1837 and we haven't yet found the death date and we don't know what his occupation was.
This is Elizabeth Beckett pictured with her husband Martin Lemon. Her home village was Boxmoor in Hertfordshire where she was born about 1824, she had been a Straw Plaiter in the village. She was living in St Pancras at the time of her marriage to Martin in 1850.
We know they were living in Boxmoor after their marriage as on the 1851 Census they are living next door to her parents cottage with their first child called Martin.
Her parents were William Beckett and Sarah Mansfield. They had married on the 23rd April 1820 in Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire and had eight children. Five girls, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha, Ann and Susan and three boys William, John and James. William Beckett had been a Shoemaker, Sarah was also a Straw Plaiter.
Sarah's parents were Sylvester Mansfield and Mary. He had been born about 1772.
They had two boys Sylvester and John and the two daughters were Mary and Sarah.
Grace Denyer (Married to Mark Lemon born 1755) was born in Dunsfold in Surrey about 1760, her parents were Thomas Denyer and Grace. They had twelve children, all born at Dunsfold. Five girls Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, Jane and Susannah and six boys George, Thomas, William, John and two named James (The first one died).
Mark Lemon is named in Thomas Denyer's will.
Thomas Denyer's father was William Denyer and he would have been born around 1710. We haven't found a marriage for him but there are four children, Thomas, William, John and Francis and one daughter named Jane.
