Mary Slade

Mary Slade was baptised in August 1792 at St Mary Whitechapel in Stepney, London. Her parents were Samuel and Elizabeth Slade.
She married Thomas Bouts in 1811 at St Brides Fleet Street, London. They had six children that we know of. Her husband was a wine and spirit merchant at 25 Barbican in 1846, but her husband was dead by 1849 when her youngest son married.

Thomas Bouts

Thomas Bouts was baptised at St Mary's Church Stoke Newington in London in May 1784. His parents were Richard and Rose Bouts.
Thomas married Mary Slade in 1811 at St Brides Fleet Street, London. their children were William, John, Mary and Rose [christened at St Lukes Finsbury] then Samuel and Maria [christened at St Giles Cripplegate].
The London Post Office Directory 1846 lists Thos. Bouts & Son wine and spirit merchants at 25 Barbican. William Bouts, importer of cigars, is also listed at this address.
Thomas had died when his son Samuel married in 1849.

Samuel Bouts

Samuel Bouts was born in 1823 and christened at St Giles Cripplegate in London. His father Thomas was a wine and spirit merchant at Barbican. He had two older brothers and three sisters.
Samuel married Cecilia Ann Brede in 1849 at St Botolph Without Aldersgate in London. Samuel was living at St John's street. His father was dead and his older brother John was a witness, along with Cecilia's father, a licensed victualler of Carthinian street.

Alice Bouts

Samuel and Cecilia had six children, the first two born in Clerkenwell, then the rest at Islington. He was a collector in 1858 and probably a traveller before he died in 1863 aged 42, as his children later went to the Traveller's School at Pinner which was a boarding school providing a grammar school education to orphans of travellers.
Samuel, Cecilia and eldest son John were buried at Abney Park cemetery in London, a non-conformist burial ground. All three died between February and June 1863, leaving three sisters and their baby brother probably in the care of their maternal grandmother, who died in 1880 and is buried with Cecilia.

Jessie Rose Bouts

Jessie Rose Bouts was born in May 1858 at her parents' home, 6 Cambridge Road, Islington. She had an older brother and two older sisters. In February 1863, her older brother died at age 9, then her father died six weeks later, aged 42. In June of that year, her mother also died, aged 43, leaving the three girls and an infant brother as orphans. It is possible that they were cared for by their grandmother who died in 1880, but the girls always said they came from Pinner and it seems that they went to the school for orphans of travellers at Hatch End, where they appear in the 1871 census. By 1881, Jessie was a draper's assistant living in a draper's establishment on Newington Causeway in Surrey, and her sister Alice was living in an establishment of Lace dealers in Mayfair.
In September 1884, Jessie and Alice arrived in Melbourne as unassisted immigrants aboard the Cathay. At Christmas time that year Jessie married Henry Samuel Wellington, who had come from London the previous year, and also worked in drapery. We do not know if they had previously known each other in London, but they both gave the same boarding house address on their marriage certificate. Alice and Jessie started a ribbon and lace shop and later had The Lace House in The Block Arcade in Melbourne. Their older sister joined them in 1895. She died in 1902. Henry and Jessie had five sons. They all lived at Pinner in Royal Crescent, Armadale, then by 1910 they were at Tivoli Road and Sutherland Road in South Yarra by 1912, the sisters working in the city until about 1920.
Jessie died in 1941 at age 83, six years before Henry.

Cecilia Ann Brede

Cecelia Ann Brede was the eldest child and only daughter of a London vintner. She was named after her mother Cecilia Matthews, who came from Surrey. In 1849, she married Samuel Bouts at St Botolph Without, Aldersgate, London. They had six children, but in 1863, between February and June, the family was devastated by the deaths of Samuel, her older son, aged 9, and then Cecelia. They are buried in Abney Park cemetery. Her baby boy was only a year old and the children were perhaps cared for by her widowed mother, Cecelia, who died in 1880 at Mile End and is also buried at Abney Park.
The three surviving daughters were educated at Pinner, a school for orphans of travellers. Alice and Jessie emigrated to Melbourne in 1884, then Cecelia followed in about 1895. A cousin, Arthur Bouts emigrated to Adelaide in 1881 but we do not know if they kept in touch.

Henry Samuel Wellington

My mother's grandfather, Henry Samuel WELLINGTON, was a bit of a mystery for many years. His marriage certificate and eldest son's birth certificate said he was born in 1858 at West Maitland in New South Wales but his grand-daughters thought he was English. We could not find a birth registration for him in Australia. Then we were contacted with the fascinating news that he had indeed been born at West Maitland, had moved to London, changed his surname and religion, then returned to Melbourne as a young adult.
His parents were Abraham MYERS and Esther BENJAMIN and he was their second surviving son. He had a sister, three brothers and a step-brother. His father in Sydney died when he was 8 years old and his mother remarried in Melbourne in 1869, shortly before they left for England on Swiftsure.In the 1871 census, Henry was a Solicitor's Clerk, living with his family in Newington. His step-father was a draper. His older brother was not present. Henry was not found in the 1881 census. His younger brother Ben appears as Beresford WELLINGTON age 20 working as a draper's assistant in Sheffield.
There is a Henry Wellington listed among the passengers arriving in Melbourne aboard Lusitania in 1883. His death certificate in April 1947 states that he was born in England and had been in Victoria for 63 years.
Henry married Jessie Rose Bouts on Christmas Day 1884 at the Registry Office in South Yarra. She had arrived in Melbourne in three months earlier with her sister. We do not know whether they had known each other in London, but they all worked in the drapery business. They were both living at the same boarding house in Toorak when they married.
Henry was a warehouseman at Paterson, Laing and Bruce in Flinders Lane.
They had five sons who all attended Caulfield Grammar School and they attended the Anglican Church.

Henry maintained contact with his brother Ben who lived in Sydney.
He retired around 1933 and Jessie died in 1941 age 83. Henry was living at 31 Kooyong Road, Armadale, when he died at 90 years of age in 1947.