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Notes to Introduction part i A Canadian’s Story 1 For a discussion of how families made the decision to emigrate, see B.Maas, Helpmates of Man: Middle Class Women and Gender Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (Bochum: N. Brockmeyer, 1990), 22, 78. 2 H.J. Dyos, Victorian Suburb: A Study of the Growth of Camberwell (London: Leicester University Press, 1961), 33, 37, 50. See also J.S. Dearden, John Ruskin’s Camberwell (St. Albans: Brentham Press, 1990). 3 Mary’s grandfather, James Wickson, who died in 1815. This James married a woman named Sarah. They lived at 7 Baker’s Row and had three children: James junior (born c.1794), Hannah, and Sarah. All three married and produced children of their own. See aafp: Wickson folder. 4 The family was living at 20 Alfred Place, Newington Causeway, in 1826–27, and in 1832–34 they lived at Aylesbury Place, on Old Kent Road, where they seem to have been since at least 1829. See aafp: Wickson folder; wfp: transcript of indenture between James Wickson, Edward Taylor, and William Maidlow, 21 August 1829. See also Holden’s Triennial Directory for 1805, 1806, 1807, 4th ed., vol. 2 (London: sold by the proprietor, Messrs. Richardsons & H.D. Symonds, printed by W. Glendinning et al., 1807), page unnumbered, see entry under Wickson; Holden’s Triennial Directory for 1809, 1810, 1811, 5th ed., vol. 2 (London: sold by the proprietor, printed by J. Davenport et al., 1811), page unnumbered, see entry under Wickson; Pigot and Co.’s London and Provincial New Commercial Directory for 1826 –27, 3rd ed. (London: J. Pigot, 1826), 132; Pigot and Co.’s National London and Provincial Commercial Directory for 1832–33–34 (London: J. Pigot, 1834), 329, 341. The directories listed above are held at the London Metropolitan Archive, the Southwark Local Studies Library, and the British Library. I am grateful to Alexander Baron for locating them for me. 5 On his father’s death in 1815, James the coal merchant inherited a sixty-eight-year lease, dating from 1809, for property on Mount Street in Walworth. See wfp: transcript of indenture between James Wickson, Edward Taylor, and William Maidlow, 21 August 1829; gafp: birth certificate of Mary Wickson, dated 6 July 1825. See also 1859 diary, entries for 18 February and 25 April. 6 The Wicksons were married on 28 November. Jane Tuesman, the daughter of John Tuesman and Mary Hardwidge, was from Reigate parish in Surrey. Reigate is about 161 Notes ❈ twenty-five kilometres south of Camberwell. See aafp: Wickson folder; tna: baptism register of Mansion House Chapel (Independent), Camberwell, pro Cat. No. rg 4/4381, 5–10; R.A. Ford, Camberwell Green Congregational Church, 1774–1966 (Broadstairs , Kent: Westwood Press, 1967), 5–13. I am grateful to Alexander Baron for locating this publication. 7 The chapel hosted a debate on this issue in August 1832. See S. Isaacson, A Vindication of the West-India Proprietors (London: James Fraser, 1832); for a discussion of the abolition debate, see L. Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), 350–59. Abolition was one of several volatile public issues around which the evangelical churches (such as the Congregationalists) and the Anglican Church co-operated, from the 1820s to the 1840s, to promote order, stability , and peaceable Christian behaviour. See L. Davidoff and C. Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 92–95. 8 Colley, Britons, 321–24. See also Davidoff and Hall, Family Fortunes, 92–95; Maas, Helpmates , 15, 83. 9 This melee took place in St. Peter’s Fields and became known, sardonically, as “Peterloo .” 10 Colley, Britons, 264, 321–24; D.G. Wright, Popular Radicalism: The Working Class Experience , 1780–1880 (London: Longman, 1988), 86–91; C. Harvie and C. Matthew, Nineteenth -Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 31–38; H.I. Cowan, British Emigration to British North America (Toronto: University of Toronto Library, 1961), 18–39. 11 Colley, Britons, 321–24; D.G. Burley, A Particular Condition in Life: Self-Employment and Social Mobility in Mid-Victorian Brantford, Ontario (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994), 63–64; N. Macdonald, Canada 1763–1841, Immigration and Settlement (London: Longman, 1939), 10–31; Cowan, British Emigration, 179–82; Maas, Helpmates , 15 n. 41; P. Russell, Attitudes to Social Structure and Mobility in Upper Canada, 1815–40 (Lewiston, New York: E. Mellen Press, 1990), 88–91. See also C. Gray, Sisters in the...
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