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My family has a newspaper cutting from the Romford Courier dated Friday January 29th, 1909. It is an article about my great great grandmother, Harriet Fulcher, born 1811 in Norfolk and died in Romford in 1910. According to the article she had just received the old age pension and she was the oldest pensioner in the Romford Urban or Rural districts.
Harriet and her husband Robert had been Wesleyan in Norfolk (by birth certificates) before they went to London in 1847. They were living in Bermondsey, London, in 1881 but soon after that they moved to Boundary Road, Romford.
A Mr W. Fulcher lent land for the building of 'The Gospel Mission Hall' in Boundary Road, which opened for public worship on 8th January 1888.1 I am convinced that this was Robert and Harriet's eldest son William, who was living in Milton Road in the 1881 census, listed as a dealer.
Harriet lived in the reigns of 5 monarchs and remembered the battle of Waterloo of 1815. She had 9 children, one of whom went to Australia in 1865 (my great grandfather). My family was sent this article in world war one by the Fulcher family in Romford to prove they were English and not German. At this time there was great anti-German sentiment in Australia.
Today there are numerous Fulcher descendants in Brisbane, Australia and most of them have a copy of the Romford newspaper article. Recently a photo was unearthed of this great old lady when she was 99 years. Some of the descendants of her sons, especially William and John, may still live in Romford today. The Australian branch has sadly lost touch with the English branch.
1 History of Romford Evangelical Free Church.
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