We’re on the move again. It seems only five minutes since John Anthony Riboldi rocked up in Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, in the summer of 1858 and married a local girl barely half his age – Emma Susannah Welch, my 2x great-grandmother.
But within a short space of time, John upped sticks and took Emma up-river to London, where we find them on the 1861 Census. And no apologies for taking a good look at this because (spoiler alert!) it turns out to be my 2x great-grandfather’s one and only…
John Riboldi, aged 37, and his wife Emma, 21, are living at 19 Hardinge Street in the parish of St George in the East, Tower Hamlets. They’re sharing the house with another married couple
