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Sarah Catherine Patston was born 11 March 1838 in Gibraltar Row, Bethnal Green.
In 1851, still in Gibraltar Row, she lived only two doors away from future husband Robert Baker!
She married Robert in 1858 at St Matthias , Hare St, Bethnal Green.
Right, Sarah's husband Robert Baker and children Samuel and Mary
1960s shop in Artillery Lane,
Sarah was the sixth daughter of Samuel Patston (baptised at Christchurch Spitafields in 1802) and Sarah Catherine (nee Arnold) who was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1797.
The couple also had one son Samuel John in 1826.
Sarah's father Samuel was a scale maker and traded at Gilbraltar Walk, Bethnal Green. His son Samuel John went on to become a scale maker and take over the business. Samuel John's sons Samuel John, John George, Alfred and Arthur all went on to become scale makers too. The business continued until the 1960s
avoirdupois weights
16 drams = 1 ounce
16 ounces = 1 pound
7 pounds = 1 clove
14 pounds = 1 stone
28 pounds = 1 tod
112 pounds = 1 hundredweight
364 pounds = 1 sack
2240 pounds = 1 ton
2 stones = 1 quarter
4 quarters = 1 hundredweight
20 hundredweight = 1 ton
However in the mid 1800's Bethnal Green was becoming increasingly overcrowded, and conditions could be ppoor
1848
"GIBRALTAR-WALK, 52.-Upon this street refuse and garbage are
continually being thrown. All the slops of this, and a majority, I might
almost say the whole, of the houses of this district, are thrown upon
the streets; these remain on the surface, and become thoroughly incorporated
with the mud, forming a thick, semi-pultaceous black foetid mass. When
the streets are cleansed, this matter is swept with brushes into the centre
of the street, to remain in a heap till the cart shall come, into which
it is to be thrown. As these streets are very imperfectly paved, a very
considerable quantity of this putrid refuse still remains on the surface,
and in the hollows between the boulder-stones. The first shower of rain
washes this mud up, and renders the streets as filthy as if they had not
been cleansed for months. The odour of these streets is always most offensive
and disgusting. Near the southern end of this filthy walk are two gully-holes,
which constantly emit the most abominable stenches, and give rise to fever
in their neighbourhood.
GIBRALTAR-PLACE, 55.-This place is gravelled in front, and has a good
fall, so as always to be clean; the chapel and Sunday schools and a large
burying-ground are here
GIBRALTAR-GARDENS, 56.-The yards in front of these houses are partly very
filthy; to the seventeen houses there is but one stand-tap."
Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - Sanitary Ramblings, Being Sketches and Illustrations of Bethnal Green, by Hector Gavin, 1848 [Districts 3-5, pages 34-64]
1871
"Granby-street, Gosset-street, Thorold- square, Nelson-street, Essex-street, Gibraltar-walk, and the lanes, courts, and streets leading off these places, we found in an unclean and filthy condition. In all our walks about Bethnal-green, we did not meet more than half a dozen scavengers at work. Gibraltar-walk dips down into a hollow from Bethnal-green road, and here and there are brokers, furniture-dealers, bird-fanciers, and cage-makers. If their health is good, they must have iron constitutions. The Bethnal-green vestry ought to take a walk round this quarter, and see whether its condition will have any effect on stirring them into action; but these last-named places are beauty itself compared with other unmentionable localities, where the "social evil" and the small-pox are killing bodies and damning souls together."
The Builder Jan 28th 1871