March was a good month for extending the family tree. I managed to find four older siblings for my great great great grandfather George George. George, son of George George, a baker, and Mary, was born in 1813 and baptised the following the year. There is a candidate marriage between a George George and Mary Fage in 1805, leaving a gap of eight years before the first known child was born. The indexed London baptisms at Ancestry begin in 1813 and browse-able images of registers for Stepney are limited.

Docklands Ancestors provides a search-able database of baptisms for parishes in the Docklands area; a search of St Dunstan’s parish resulted in four children born to a baker named George George and and his wife Mary, beginning in 1806.

• March 22, 1807, Sophia, daughter of George George, baker, and his wife Mary, of Rat[clif]f. Born August 6, 1806.
• March 12, 1809, William, son of George George, baker, and his wife Mary, of Ratcliff. Born November 30, 1808.
• May 26, 1811, Mary, daughter of George George, baker, and his wife Mary, of Rat[clif]f. Born November 30, 1810.
• September 27, 1812, Susannah, daughter of George George, baker, and his wife Mary, of Ratcliff. Born August 31, 1812.

It is probable that these children are the elder siblings of my 3 × great grandfather born to George George and Mary Fage.

A long-standing brick-wall has been Jane Draper, my great great great grandmother and wife to Edward Sanders. Census records indicate that she was born circa 1811 variously in Edmonton and Enfield, Middlesex. While browsing the the baptism register images available for All Saint’s Edmonton, Enfield, Mum found Jane’s baptism in the register for 1810. She was baptised at home in Fore Street on December 16, 1810, the daughter of David Draper, shoemaker, and Jane. The register also records her birth as being on November 17, 1810.

From there it was relatively straight forward to find a probable match for the marriage of Jane’s parents in the IGI. An extracted record has David Draper marrying Jane Catling on 31 December 1809 at Old Church, St Pancras, Middlesex.