Jenny has taken three families buried in Holy Trinity Church, two Ward families (not related) and one Kreisa family (married into one of the Ward families), and researched their histories in extraordinary detail, here:
The Kreisa family is particularly interesting. Benedict James Kreisa, a tailor, is convicted of stealing a pair of trousers, and later emigrates to Gwalior, India, presumably in disgrace. His father Francis Benedict Kreisa, cuts him out of his will. His son, another Francis Benedict, pictured, stays behind in London as a tailor's assistant.
Later addition: Jenny has now researched another family appearing in the Holy Trinity burial records. Edmund and Frederick Snee were father and son and both worked for many years for the Regent's Canal Company. Edmund was Secretary for 52 years and Frederick was Clerk for 45 years. It was while Frederick and his wife Elizabeth were living in the 1830s at 26 Cloudesley Square that two infant daughters, Eleanora, aged 2, and Caroline, aged 1, were buried in the crypt at Holy Trinity. But other children survived and by 1901 we find three of them living "on private means" with two servants in Chiswick. It seem that the loyal service of this Islington family to the Regent's Canal has enabled them all to live in some comfort! Jenny's account of the family is valuable both as an insight into the family and also the Regent's Canal, which was a major commercial feature of the area at the time and is currently undergoing something of a renaissance.
Download: "The Motorway of the Past" - The Snee Family of Islington.
