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- There is no record of the Mallen family in the 1871 census, which is a great pity. Dorinda became Derenda when she wed Enoch, but the puzzing thing is that she seems to have called herself Ellen by the time of the 1881 census, when she and Enoch were living in West Wickham, in the High Street. They had a son, Henry, who was then nearly 12 years old, having been born in 1869. Enoch was working as an Engineer, and 'Ellen' was not working. The next appearanc seems to be Drenda Mallen's death in the March Q of 1887. She died in Romford, Essex. It may not be a relation, but there is also the death of a baby of less than a year old, called Drenda Agnes Mallen in 1872 in West Ham. It is such an unusual name that it may well have been Dorinda's daughter. I may get this certificate later. Enoch seems to have remarried in the September Q of 1887, barely 6 months after his wife's death. He married Alice Dover, who was 10 years younger than he, in Romford, Essex. By the time of the 1891 census, he and Alice were living in West Ham, and he was still working as an Engine driver. The census shows that there were 4 children living with them,but whose were Derenda's and whose were Alice's remains to be seen. Harry, Derenda's son was still living with the family, aged 25 years. He was then a fireman. Earnest, 15 years old, was probably Dorinda's son, and Amy, 11 years old, her daughter, and Alice and Enoch had 3 year old Alice D. By 1901 the family had grown again. [1]
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