John, Emma and Rosina Riboldi on the 1861 Census, with Emma’s sister Mary Welch. They’re sharing the house at 19 Hardinge Street, Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, with another young family from Ireland.
We’re on the move again. It seems only five minutes since John Anthony Riboldi rocked up in Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, in the summer of 1858 and married a local girl barely half his age – Emma Susannah Welch, my 2x great-grandmother.