Matthew Travers inherited the house at 1 Clare Street and Hackney Road from his father William Travers. Matthew was living in it at the time of William's death in August 1816. Matthew Travers obtained a marriage licence at the Faculty Office on May 22, 1806 and married Ann Rebecca Goodall. Matthew’s PCC will has been located and provides for his widow, with the estate to be divided amongst his children. After Matthew's death, his widow Ann married Robert Francis Harris on the 14th June 1829 at Saint Clement Danes, Westminster. She died intestate.

Matthew and Ann had five children:

1. 1.Elizabeth Ann Travers
   Born 26 Apr 1810
   Baptised 13 May 1824, St John, Clerkenwell, Middlesex
   Died 9 Jan 1864 at Stockwell Street, Greenwich, Kent
   Buried 16 Jan 1864 at Nunhead Cemetery, London
   

2. 2.George Travers
   Born 4 Sept 1812
   Baptised 7 Oct 1812 at St Luke, Old Street, Finsbury
   Died 14 Sep 1886 at West Ham, Sussex
       George married Martha Heath and had seven children. He was well known in London as a Landscape Artist exhibiting many paintings between 1851 and 1865. One of his works, entitled "Whitsand Bay, Devon - rain passing off" is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
   His works include the following and it would be very interesting to know where they are today.
   
       1851.    The Way Side
       1852.    On the Coast
       1853.    Winter
                    High Beach, Essex
       1854.    Winter -- Essex
       1859.    Evening
   
   a. Rosa
       Born 1840, Ardwick, Manchester
           Rosa married Thomas Robinson at the Parish Church of Stepney, Middlesex on 8 May
           1864. They had six children Rose, Thomas, Ernest, Charles, Alice, Albert
   
   b. Ernest
       Born 1842, Ardwick, Manchester
       Died 20 Jan 1890 at 16 Park Road, Manor Park, Essex
           Ernest married Susannah Simpson and they had seven children Ernest Simpson, Edgar,
           Jessie, Miriam, Harold, Percy and Elsie May.
   
   c. George
       Born 1844, Bethnal Green, Middlesex
       Died 1 Jan 1907, West Ham Registration District, Essex
   
   d. Emma Jessie
       Born 1846, Bromley, Middlesex
           Emma married John Riley on the 13 Aug 1865 at the Parish Church of Stepney, Middlesex
           and died before 1889 as he married Mary Rhoda Scurlock.
   
   e. Thomas
       Born 1849, Bromley, Middlesex
       Died 20 Nov 1895, West Ham Registration District, Essex
           Thomas married Louisa Amelia Fitch in 1873 in Poplar, Middlesex. They had four children
           Thomas, Arthur, Herbert and Edith Louisa.
   
   f. Alfred
       Born 26 Sep 1851, Poplar, Middlesex
       Died 17 Oct 1879, 27 Barchester Street, Bromley, Middlesex
           He married Elizabeth Mary Varran on 14 Aug 1870 at St James the Great, Bethnal Green,
           Middlesex
   
   g. Harriett
       Born 1 Aug 1859, 70 West India Dock Cottages, Poplar, Middlesex
           She married Alfred Thomas Warren and they had three children Hettie, Alice and Rosa.
   

3. 3.Ann Mary Sophia Travers
   Born 5 June 1815
   Baptised 20 June 1815, St Matthew, Bethnal Green
   Died 16 Feb 1876, Hackney Middlesex
       She married Charles Gay Took on 7 Jun 1838 at Saint Dunstan, Stepney, Middlesex
   In the 1851 and 1871 Census she is widowed and living with her sister Harriet and brother-in-law Edmund Boulton at 1 Clare Street. She was a nurse.
   

4. 4.Harriet Travers
   Born 18 Jan 1818
   Baptised 21 Jan 1838 at St Matthew, Bethnal Green
   Died 8 Jul 1885 at 18 Elsdale Street, Hackney, Middlesex
       Harriet Travers (1818-) married Edmund Boulton (abt 1808-) in 1838. He was a silk hat maker. In the 1851 and 1861 Census they lived at 1 Clare Street. This is the same residence that Harriet's father, Matthew Travers, inherited from his father William Travers (1753-1816). Harriet and Edmund had three children including Elizabeth Ann (3 Jun 1840-), Edmund (abt 1846-) and Robert (abt 1849-). Further evidence that links this family to William Travers (1753-1816) and his first wife Frances is that William's son, Robert Wilson Travers died 25 Nov 1870 at 7 Laurel Place with Edmund Bolton present at his death. It is not clear if this is the father Edmund or the son Edmund. In the 1871 Census Harriet and Edmund had moved to 7 Laurel Place. By the the 1881 Census they had adopted another child who was now fifteen years old at the time. At the GRO there is a registry entry for Harriet Boulton who died in Hackney in September 1885 at age 67. There is an 1881 Census record for Robert Boulton, age 31 married to Mary Ann, age 23 in Hackney.
   

5. 5.William Travers
   Born 8 Jan 1820
   Baptised 21 Jan 1838, St Matthew, Bethnal Green
       William Travers married Mary Ann Hornsbury (abt 1829-) on 3 Jun 1850 at Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green. His occupation was shoemaker. Mary Ann was a shoe binder.
   They had eight children:
   
   a. Elizabeth Travers (abt 1849-)
   
   b. Mary Ann Harriet Travers (abt 1851-)
   According to the IGI and the GRO there is a Mary Ann Harriet Travers who married Charles Eady on the 6 Jan 1878 at Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green.
   
   c. Henry William Matthew Travers (20 Oct 1852-)
   Henry William Travers who married Esther Barnard on 25 Jun 1877 at the Parish Church of St. Judes, Bethnal Green, Middlesex and had six children.
   According to the 1881 Census, Henry William Travers (abt 1852-), green grocer, along with Esther (abt 1853-) and their two daughters Esther (abt 1873-) and Alice Mary (abt 1880-) lived at 6 Victoria Road, Hackney. In 1891 there is an entry for Henry W Travers and Esther.
   
   d. Richard Alfred Travers (21 Dec 1854-)
   There is an entry for the death of a Richard Alfred Travers in Hackney, age 12, in September 1867 at the GRO.
   
   e. Edmund Travers (7 Apr 1857 - 15 May 1857)
   Edmund married Martha Norton 21 Mar 1886 at St John of Jerusalem, Hackney Middlesex and had three children.
   
   f. Twin girls Martha Sarah Travers and Susanah Travers (1860-)
   Martha Sarah married Frederick Herse 14 Oct 1888 at the Parish Church of South Hackney, Middlesex and had three children.
   
   g. Charlotte (1868 - )
   Charlotte married George Frederick Robinson 25 Dec 1884 at St Mary, Haggerstone, Middlesex and had ten children.
   

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