The Children of Jacob Valentine and Amelia Gertrude Wombwell

1901 census for central Hackney. By now the Valentines had moved outside the heartlands of the Jewish community to Clifden Road. The 1911 census records the family in Winchester Road, Edmonton, Middlesex. Jacob was not present on the day of the census, and Amelia Gertrude is listed as a tailoress. 

Amelia Gertrude Wombwell and Jacob Valentine had six children, namely:

i. Gertrude Adela Valentine, born 1892 in Islington, London. She married George James Evered in Poplar in 1915. They had three children: Gertrude Frances, George and Benjamin.

ii. Benjamin George Valentine, born 1894 in Hoxton, London.

iii. Leah Valentine, born 1898 in Clapton, London, died 1988 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. They had at least one child, Lawrence Edward Maund.

iv. Esther Rosina (or Roseno) Valentine, born 1900, Hackney, London.

v. Joan Frances Valentine, born 1903 in Tottenham, London.

vi. John Herbert Valentine, born 1905 in Tottenham, London, died 1977 in Shoreditch. He married Doris Mary Hall in 1942 in Bethnal Green. They had a son, John Henry Valentine.

These children are all x1 removed fourth cousins of Hetty Jane Owen, their children her fifth cousins, and they are an entirely unexpected family link to the Sephardic Jewish community of the Iberian peninsula and quite possibly to Lamego in the heart of the Douro valley in Portugal (see: http://www.ianhandricks.com/136/valentine-part-1/)

Jacob Valentine died in 1926, but Amelia Gertrude Wombwell lived on until 1958 when she passed away in Shoreditch, by which time the Wombwell menagerie in its entirety had itself faded into history, a curiosity merely of a bygone age.