Methusalem Woodcock, a shipwright, and his bride, Mary Ann Ford, married at Christ Church, Watney Street, in the parish of St George in the East on 25 September 1864. The couple then spent the first years of their married life living at Patterson Street in Mile End, where their daughter, Hannah, was born. She was baptised at St Thomas, Stepney, in 1866. Sadly, both of the churches were destroyed by bombing in the Second World War. There is also no trace of Patterson Street on any modern-day map.
To find these locations and see where they were in relation to each other, I consulted an Ordnance Survey map of Stepney, surveyed between 1868 and 1871. I also found information about Christ Church, Watney Street, on the parish website of St…