The story of the ANTHONY line

Edwin is a bit mysterious as a young man but turns up with a woman called Mary (originally Miriam ABENDANA alias Mary Ann BENDON, born in 1839 into London's Portuguese Jewish community). Mary had had three children in the 1860s who were registered with a father's name that wasn't Edwin (and can't be confidently linked to anyone), but who were brought up by Edwin and took his surname. Since our descent is from one of these, it is here that the uncertainty of biological ancestry for Edwin and his forbears arises. The three children of doubtful paternity were:
Anne 1864
Moses 1866
Israel 1868

Though I haven't found a marriage record for Edwin and Mary, they lived as husband and wife from about 1870 and had five children registered with both of them as parents:
Charlotte 1870
Elizabeth 1872
Hannah 1874
Edwin Herbert 1875 (but died 1878)
Mary Ann 1878

While living with Edwin, Mary's son Moses used the name Henry and doesn't seem to have gone back (see below). His brother Israel was known at one point as Isedore, but as a young adult was baptised John.

The family lived at at least two different addresses in the East End of London from 1871 to 1881.

Edwin worked in manufacturing firms - for several years as a packer in a warehouse. Mary gave her occupation as furrier in 1881.

Edwin died in 1882; Mary (re)married and lived until 1925.

Henry married Maria Ann EDNEY in 1884 in Bethnal Green, when they were both in their teens. Maria had been born in 1867 in Mile End New Town. They had twelve known children:
Sarah Ann about 1884
John Henry about 1886
Henry John about 1887
Edwin Herbert about 1889
Maria Margaret 1892
Jane Elizabeth about 1894
George about 1896
Edward David 1899
Annie Elizabeth about 1901
Martha about 1903
Eveline about 1905
Alfred Henry about 1907

They lived in Bethnal Green in east London - in 1891 and 1901 in a small house in Cudworth Street - in 1911 and for the rest of their lives in nearby Somerford Street.

Henry worked in the railways. In the 1890s he was a porter; from at least 1901 to 1921 he was a shunter.

Henry died in 1945 and Maria in 1950.

Edward served in the Royal Navy in the first world war, escorting convoys along the south Atlantic coast of Africa. After the war he worked in a factory, along with a young woman, Maud Louise TILLBROOK, who lived in the same street where he had grown up. Maud was about three years older than Edward. They married in February 1921 in Bethnal Green.

Edward and Maud had three children, but I don't put full details of this generation on the web as some are living today. They had a girl later in 1921, a boy in 1924 and another girl in 1927.

Edward had various jobs as a young man - hot metal stamper, then the navy, then the factory mentioned above, then meat porter. But by the mid 1920s he had become a London bus driver and he stayed in this career until he retired. He became very active in the Transport and General Workers Union, organising sports and social events, being involved in medical and old-age care for the workers, as well as industrial action.

I haven't quite untangled when Maud changed jobs and what is just the same job with different descriptions, but I think she may have been a worker in garment factories for much of her life. She didn't work when their children were young but did go back after that and during the second world war worked in a shirt factory.

Maud and Edward lived at several addresses, moving when Edward worked out of different bus garages. Their moves took them in a north-west direction around London's suburbs, eventually settling in Hornsey after the children left home.

Edward died in 1971 and Maud in 1981.