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The marriage certificate for William Hulbert and Susannah West (1857 in the Parish of Milton and Gravesend in Kent) shows William`s father as David, a "Customs House Officer". William`s occupation was also given as a "Customs House Officer". The 1871 census gives William`s occupation as "Waterman/H.M.Customs". The only David that I could find in previous censuses was in 1841. Living in Jane Street, Tower Hamlets were David Hulbert a Waterman, aged 55; Robert Hulbert, also a Waterman, aged 20; and Elizabeth Graves aged 35, about whom I know nothing further.

I have used the International Genealogical Index to produce what I think is a highly probable tree for the siblings of the 18th century. The dates for the central characters in IGI match the positive identifications in the 1861 and 1871 censuses; and christenings or marriages at the same church are a strong indication of relationships.

There is no doubt about the census appearance in 1861 of William Hulbert (age 44, born in "London, Middlesex"), living in Stepney. William and Susannah are Great Great Grandparents. It seems certain that Susannah`s parents were Henry West (confirmed from her marriage certificate), a victualler, and his wife Elizabeth Ann, revealed in the 1851 census living in Deal. They had married in 1812. I have not discovered Henry`s parents, but Elizabeth has an intriguing puzzle for her ancestry, which I have noted under the West surname.

Great Grandfather, Arthur West Hulbert was born at 3 Bromley Street, Ratcliff, Stepney on 11th September 1861. He had 2 older brothers, William Henry and George Frederick. Ten years later, the same family had grown, adding a further brother, John. They had moved to West Ham. Great Great Grandmother Susannah died on 20th September 1868, aged 41, from tubercular disease of the intestines. Great Great Grandfather William died in 1886.

At the 1881 census Arthur was working as a Milk Carrier with a Dairyman in West Ham.John Hulbert was also a servant Milk Carrier here. Henry Banes was the Dairyman. The Dairy was next door to "The Three Pigeons". In 1890 he married Elizabeth Ann Harbott. He already had his own Greengrocery shop, in Odessa Road, West Ham. Most of the children had been born by the time of the 1901 census, when they were living at 8 Romford Road, West Ham. Arthur now described himself as an independent fruiterer. He died in 1929 at 59 Keogh Road, Forest Gate.

Grandmother, Mabel Gladys, had been born at Odessa Road 9/11/1893. She had an elder sister, Charlotte, Tom`s Auntie Lottie, and two younger brothers, Great uncles Jim and Albert. She married George Ernest Osborn in 1918. Charlotte married Fred Patten and had two sons, Frederick and Arthur, and one daughter, Edna, whose birth I have failed to trace. James married Lucy. They had no children. Albert was married, but divorced, and died in Norwich in 1969.