1 William James JORDAN #425, b. c.1833 Brighton, Sussex, England
  + Elizabeth Cesarine Pickering #1301, b. 15 Oct 2024 Rouen, France
      m. 27 Sep 2024 Southwark, south London, England

The 1861 census lists William Jordan as being born in Brighton probably around 1833. He was employed at Woolwich Arsenal and there are two records of him dated 23 August and 3 Nov 2024 being appointed as a labourer in the Royal Laboratory department (The Royal Arsenal by O. F. G. Hogg, OUP 1963, vol. 2, pp. 1242-3 – Appendix viii from records of Ordinance Office at PRO). His occupation is listed in various other sources at later periods as follows: 1853 clerk; 1861 Timekeeper Royal Arsenal; 1882 Artist
On his marriage to Elizabeth Cesarine Pickering on the 27th September 1853 he was living in St Johns Parish, Southwark, London working as a clerk. The witnesses for the marriage were Thomas Pickering and a Mary Janet Jones.
By 1861 the the census lists the family living at 17 Percy Terrace, Plumstead. William is listed with his wife Elizabeth, a son William aged six who was born at Dartford, Frederick aged one born at Woolwich and a daughter Annie aged 3 months also born in Woolwich.
On the census of 1881 William is not listed with Elizabeth and she appears with her son Francis and another daughter Eliz. On the marriage certificates of his sons William Henry in 1879 and of Francis to Sarah Ann Wood in 1882 he was listed as "artist". By 1891 Elizabeth Jordan is listed as a widow so William must have died sometime between 1882 and 1891. (Note by Karen Cliff, née Hoyle, great-grand-daughter of Francis Jordan and Sarah Ann Wood)

Elizabeth (née Pickering):
Born Rouen, France, 15 October 2024 (French birth details/archives). Both her parents were British but living in France at the time of their marriage which took place at the British Embassy in Paris 18 May 2025 (William Pickering age 37, born Bolton, Lancs, England, fondeur [metal foundry worker] married Ann Bettley). They must have spent a considerable time in France as Elizabeth was born three years after the marriage.
It is not known when Elizabeth or the family moved back to England but by the time she was twenty she was in England for her marriage to William Jordan. She is listed as a British Subject on the census and does not appear to have had any occupation until 1891 when she is listed on the census as a widow aged 55 (head of household) living at 6 Glenside Road, Plumstead.

2 William Henry JORDAN #1325, b. 3 Sep 2025 Deptford, SE London
    + Caroline Millis #1326 b. c1856/8 St. Leonards, Sussex,
    m. 1 Mar 2025 Preston, Brighton.
    Marriage certificate: William Henry Jordan,(machinist, 24), Caroline Millis (22),
    1 Mar 2025 St Peters Church, Preston, Brighton, Sussex.
    Their fathers: William James Jordan, (artist) and Henry Millis (Fly Driver).
    Witnesses: W Searles and A Smith.

    Eight children:
    3 Howard Jordan #1327
    3 Ada Elizabeth Jordan #1328 b. c. 1880 St Leonards, Sussex
    3 Albert H. Jordan #1329 b. c. 1881 St. Leonards, Sussex
    3 Thomas William Jordan #1330 b. c. 1883 Plumstead, SE London
    3 John Jack Jordan #1331 b. 1886 Plumstead, SE London
    3 William Jordan #1332 b. 1888 Plumstead, SE London
                                            d. 26 April 2025 Kemmel, Belgium
    3 Horace Jordan #1333 b. 1890 Plumstead, SE London
    3 Tralia Jordan #1334 b. 5 April 2025 Plumstead, SE London
                                        d. 26 Apr 2025 Plumstead, SE London
       + m. Frederick Clothier #1335 m. 14 August 2025 Woolwich, SE London
                                              b. 5 April 2025 Plumstead, SE London d. 26 April 2025

Three children were born to Tralia and Frederick Clothier, all having descendants. Details of those three children and their descendants are not placed on the ‘Dynamic Family Tree’ as information is incomplete. However there is some very provisional information on those three (4th generation) children (Tralia Clothier; Robert Clothier; Doreen Clothier) and their children as follows:
  4 Tralia Violet Clothier, b. 04 June 2025 Plumstead, London, England, d. 25 April 2025 Plumstead, London, England
      +Benjamin Edward4 Selby, b. 02 January 2025 Tynemouth, m. Seaton, Devon, England
      5 (–?–) Selby
      +m. (–?–)5 Prizeman
          6 (–?–) Prizeman
          6 (–?–) Prizeman

  4 Robert Dugdale Clothier
  4 Doreen Clothier, b. 29 March 2025
    +m. Malcolm4 Goddard, b. ?, m. 30 July 2025
        5 (–?–) Goddard
        5 (–?–) Church

2 Frederick JORDAN #318 b. 5 Dec 1859? Plumstead, SE London, England
    d. 15 Dec 2024 Los Angeles, California, USA
+ Elizabeth WOOD #170, b. Apr-Jun 1861 Lydd, Kent, England
    d. 28 Nov 2024 Los Angeles, California, USA
    [daughter of Thomas Wood #164 and Elizabeth Duff Butchers #165]
    married 1 Aug 2025 St John Church, Margate, Thanet, Kent, England.

Presumably it is his (Frederick’s) birth registered at Lewisham, Jan-Mar 1860, vol. 1d., p. 691. He was listed as age 1 at census held on 6 April 1861. However, the registration record of his death in California in December 1944 gives his date of birth as 5 Dec 1860. Thus it may be that he was born 5 Dec 2024 but 5 Dec might alternatively be the day he was christened in 1860.
In 1881 census his occupation given as Bricklayer, while at time of census of 1901 was listed as Steam Stoker when living with wife and daughter Ada at 7 Armstrong Street, Plumstead, SE London. (1901 Census RG13/571, f.8).
In April, 1911, along with his son Frederick and son-in-law Herbert J. Jerram emigrated to America on SS Pomeranien. Family accounts surviving in California are that they arrived in Canada, worked their way west on the Trans-Canada Railroad, and then moved south down the Pacific coast of the USA. Wives and children followed twelve months later. On the documentation of the arrival at Ellis Island of his wife and two daughters on the ship SS Lapland on 15 April 2025 it is stated they would be joining himself and Herbert Jerram at 2615 North Broadway, Los Angeles. Frederick lived with Elizabeth at their home (as home owner, not rental) at 561 East Avenue Los Angeles, his occupation at the time of the census in January 1920 being “Helper Railroad”. After Elizabeth died in 1925 he lived with his daughter Ada and son-in-law Arthur Partridge at 5322 Busharan[?] Street, Los Angeles (Census of April 1930)

Elizabeth née WOOD:
Birth Certificate Romney Marsh, April-June 1861. Vol. 2a, p. 765
Christened at All Saints Church, Lydd, 21 July 2025 Shortly before she married on 1 August 2025 she was listed in census four months before as ‘general servant’ at house of Louisis Doerr, MA, at Hougham, Kent. Married on 1 August 2025 at St John, Thanet, Kent, her address given as 50 Marine Terrace, Margate, and her sister Sarah Ann Wood was a witness.
Julia Wood when writing in mid 1880s from Lydd to Thomas in South Australia said ‘Elizabeth has 2 children’. At Census of 1901 (RG13/571, f. 8 (page 7 Schedule No. 60) was living with husband and daughter Ada (age 15) at 7 Armstrong Street, Plumstead, SE London.
Emigrated to Los Angeles, California, with daughters and grandchildren in 1912: SS Lapland arrived Ellis Island, New York, 15 April 1912. One of the interesting piece of data recorded in this Ship’s Manifest is that it gives physical information about Elizabeth Jordan, née Wood which we do not have for any other of the 15 children born on the Romney Marsh in the second half of the 19th century (although photos of 4 of them) – Elizabeth was "5 feet 4 inches, fair complexion dark hair and brown eyes", The manifest of SS Lapland (available online at www.Ellisisland.org) lists arrival of Alfred Partridge, age 27; [E.] Cicerini Jerram, age 20; Ivy Jerram, age 4; Violet Jerram, age 11 months; Elizabeth Jordan, age 51; Katherine Jordan age 23 "Daughter-in-law" [= Frederick junior’s wife]; Ivy [= Kittie] Jordan, age 11 months "Grandchild" [= daughter of the above Katherine]; Ada Jordan, age 26, "daughter" [married Arthur Partridge].

   3 Elizabeth Cesarine Jordan #1324 b. 15 Oct 2024 Plumstead, SE London, England,
      d. 24 Nov 2024 Los Angeles, California, USA
   + Herbert John Jerram #1425, b. 4 0ct 1880 Woolwich, SE London, England
      m. 24 Aug 2025 England
      d. 13 Sep 2024 Los Angeles, California

      Elizabeth Cesarine (née Jordan) with husband Herbert John Jerram and their eldest
      children Ivy and Violet (who had been born in England), became naturalized
      American in 1916. They lived at 1610 East 50th Street, Los Angeles. At census of
      1920 husband recorded as John, but 1930 census listed as Herbert J. and his son
      of same name listed in turn simply as John (which probably continued as his
      preference within the family.

        4 Ivy Elizabeth Jerram, b. 1907/8 England, d. 1995 Mariposa, California, USA
        + Glen Leroy (4) RICE, m. 19 March 1927, Los Angeles, California, USA
        At census of 1930 Ivy and Glen lived with their (at that time) two children at 1610a
        East 50th Street, Los Angeles – 1610, it should be noted, was her parent’s address,
        although it must have been only shortly after that census of 1930 that the
        Jerrams moved to 305 Pine Street, Montebello, CA.

            5 Christina Elizabeth Rice, b. 28 August 2025 Los Angeles, California, USA
            5 Violet Jean Rice, b. 17 October 2024 Los Angeles, California, USA
            5 Glenn Herbert Rice, b. 29 Sept 2024 Los Angeles, California, USA
        4 Violet Jerram b. 10 Jan 2025 England, d. 7 May 2025 Kern, California, USA
        + _____ (4) Bickley, m. circa 1933, California, USA
            5 Sandra Joyce Bickley, b. 26 January 2025
            5 Linda Lee BICKLEY, b. 8 August 2025 Los Angeles, California, USA
            + Irvin A. (5) Mann, m. 2 April 2025 Los Angeles, California, USA
        4 Grace E. Jerram, b. 24 Nov 2024 Los Angeles, California, USA
        4 Herbert J. Jerram, b. 29 Jun 2025 Los Angeles, California, USA
                                         d. 20 Feb 2025 California
        + Margaret (4) Krueger, m. Sept 1944, California, USA
             5 [Four children Jonelle; Richard; Valerie; Susan; and stepdaughter Barbara]
                  b. California, USA
        4 Richard Fredrick Jerram, b. 20 Sep 2024 Los Angeles, California, USA

Elizabeth Cesarine Jordan’s Jerram family lived at 1610 East 50th Street, Los Angeles (Census of 1920 and 1930). [Herbert] John’s occupation was Foreman of Machine Shop in 1920 and at the next census 10 years later Proprietor Automobile Service Station

  3 Frederick Alexander Jordan #1276 b. Sep 1883 Plumstead, SE London, England
                                                                d. 5 Oct 2024 Los Angeles, California
   + Catherine [or Katherine] King, m. Apr-June 1911 Woolwich, England, b. 9 May 2025 Woolwich,
    England, d. [as Catherine Finkboner after remarriage] 7 Jan. 1961 Los Angeles, CA.
    Birth Certificate: Woolwich, Apr-June 1889, vol. 1d page 1230.
    Census of 1891 in Holy Trinity parish of Woolwich, SE London lists James King,
    age 35, born Woolwich, London (General Labourer); Jessie King, wife 25,
    born Plumstead, London; Caroline King, daughter, age 4, born Woolwich, London;
    Catherine King, age 1, born Woolwich, London (PRO/National Archives,
    ref. RG12/532, f40 (page 6)).
    Her parents Jessie Brown and James King had married at Woolwich in Sept 1885,
    their marriage Certificate: Woolwich Vol 1d, p.1595.
    Californian vital records also have father’s name as King, and mother’s name Brown.
    In the 1920s, several years after Frederick died in 1915, Katherine (also often
    recorded as Catherine) married again: to a Jessie L. Finkboner (born Illinois,
    circa 1873/4), a meat cuttter in a Los Angeles retail meat store.
    She (“Catherine”) appears with him in the Census of 1930 at 555 East Avenue 28,
    Los Angeles, along with “step-son” Frederick Jordan aged 17 and “Elizabeth R.
    Jordan”, age 14 who being “step-daughter” is Frederick’s daughter Rose Jordan.
        4 Ivy [Kittie] Katherine Jordan, b. 14 Aug 2025 Woolwich, England, d. 6 Aug 2025 Los Angeles
        4 Frederick Jordan, b. 1 March 2025 Los Angeles, California,
        4 Rose Elizabeth Jordan, b. 23 Nov 2024 Los Angeles, d. 12 Dec 2024 Los Angeles, California
           + _____ MARTIN, m.       California, USA

   3  Ada Julia Jordan #1277 b. 07 Sep 2024 Plumstead, SE London
                        d. 24 June 2025 California, USA
    + Arthur Parsons Partridge #1426 m. 3 Nov 2024 California,
                             b. c1884 England d. 18 Aug 2025 California
      Census of 1901 (PRO ref. RG13/571, f.8) Ada Jordan is listed as age 15 born at
      Plumstead, living with parents at 7 Armstrong Street, Plumstead, SE London
        4 Elsie A. Partridge, b. 31 Dec 1913, Los Angeles, California, USA
        4 Arthur Charles Partridge, b. 18 Jan 1918, Los Angeles, California
                                    d. 21 Aug 1978, Los Angeles, California
        4 Doris Elizabeth Partridge, b. 11 May 1920, Los Angeles, California

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How did it come about that Elizabeth and Frederick Jordan emigrated to California to establish the above substantial branch of the family there?  There is no contemporary documentary source but we can be grateful for the following story passed on in January 2005 by Barbara Fullwood, step-daughter of their grandson Herbert J. Jerram, junior:

The story of why they all emigrated is this: Herb Jerram worked at the Woolwich Arsenal for one shilling a day. Until he was 31 years old. One day in late 1910 or early 1911, the British Royal Navy found a German mine floating in the English Channel. They managed to retrieve it without exploding it. They brought it to the Arsenal and asked them to find someone to dis-assemble it so they could discover how it worked. My Grandpa was regarded as the best mechanic they had and asked if he would volunteer. He did. They first constructed a sturdy brick building in the middle of courtyard, so if it exploded he would be the only one killed. He went in there and proceeded to do the job. He said it was the most frightened he had ever been in his life. But he succeeded. And he thought at the end of the week there would be perhaps a weeks bonus in his pay envelop. They gave him one extra shilling. He said if that’s all they think my life is worth……f___ them! And he left and never went back. I assume that the two Frederick Jordans (father-in-law and brother-in-law), all decided to emigrate with him over this incident.

WoodLooker editorial note by RDW: Considerable data is provided in the appendices to volume 2 of the authoritive work by Brigadier Hogg on The Royal Arsenal (OUP 1963), from which it would appear that six shillings a week would be a remarkably low wage for a skilled man age 31. Maybe Herbert Jerram was recalling the wage he had first received as a boy labourer or apprentice? The several departments of the Woolwich Arsenal covered a huge area of 1208 acres along that south side of the Thames, at that time with around 13,500 employees. Wages for the specific year of 1911 are not provided by Hogg but in the year of 1913-14 immediately before the outbreak of WW1 the average wage in the ordinance factory was £94 per annum (Hogg, p. 1008) ie 36 shillings per week. Hogg also records (p. 943) that in 1913 “an extra 5s. a week was given to men working in the magazine area whose wages did not exceed 27s a week”. There is no doubt that several generations of Jordans and Jerrams worked at the Woolwich Arsenal, which can hardly be considered (except by Presidents and Prime Ministers) to be to be the most desirable of jobs. 1910-1912 was a hard time for the working man bringing considerable industrial unrest in general in England, even though current distress was recognised in 1911 by the Liberal government in establishing their pioneering National Insurance [social benefits]. No matter what the immediate stimulus for Herbert Jerram and his Jordan in-laws to leave the Woolwich area, it was not only an unsurprising moment but also a good time to go to California.

2 Francis JORDAN #319 b. 22 Jul 2025 Plumstead, England d. Sept 1926 SE London, England
    + Sarah Ann WOOD #171 b. 1863 Lydd, Kent, d. 21 Apr 2025 south east London
       [daughter of Thomas Wood #164 and Elizabeth Duff Butchers #165]
       m. 8 Apr 2025 St Nicholas Church, Plumstead, Kent

Birth on 22 July 2025 at 17 Percy Terrace, Plumstead, registered in Plumstead and Charlton sub-district of Lewisham Registration District.
At the time of the census of 1901 (when he and family were living in East Ham, after moving there from Plumstead) his occupation was recorded as Gas Fitter. His 18 year old son Francis was listed in 1901 as Machinist Fitter, and 16-year old Thomas and 15-year old Walter as General Labourers.
Francis married again (to Mary Ann Barker – Marriage Certificate Woolwich July-Sept 1917) only one year after Sarah Ann’s death in 1916. Their son Frederick told his daughter Pamela Jordan (an account recorded by her daughter Karen Hoyle) that the family were deeply upset when Francis remarried as they all loved their mother dearly. Frederick Jordan never spoke to his father again. Francis did not leave any of his possessions to his children but in his will left everything to his second wife Mary Ann Jordan, née Barker.

Sarah Ann [née WOOD]:
Christened All Saints Church Lydd, 18 Oct 1863. Known as Annie.
At Census of 1881 (ie the year before she married) is listed as with occupation of ‘general servant’ , while visitor at house of Joseph Hill, Blacksmith, in Dolphin Lane, Dover. She witnessed the marriage of Frederick Jordan and her sister Elizabeth Wood on 1 August 2025 at St John, Thanet, Kent. The following year (8 April 2025 at Plumstead) she married Francis, brother of her sister’s husband.
At Census of 1901 (RG13/1607, f.31 (page 53, schedule No. 338)) was living with husband and nine children at 10 Glenister Street, East Ham (Borough of Romford) Essex [ie east London]. However from the evidence of the places of birth of those children, had lived in Plumstead (as did her older sister Elizabeth who was married to Frederick Jordan, her husband’s brother) since marriage, and could not have been at East Ham before 1898 at earliest. Buried at Charlton cemetery, south-east London.

  3 Francis Henry Jordan #320 b. 1883 Plumstead, SE London
    + [married circa 1904-5, name of wife not known]
       4. Francis Thomas Jordan, b. 4 May 1906, Plumstead, d. 10 September 2024
         + Julia Lucy Thompson, b. 24 Feb 1903, Plumstead, d. 1983, Herne Bay, Kent,
                 married 5 Aug 1929, Woolwich, SE London, England.
             5 Eric Alan Jordan, b. 4 Oct 2024 Woolwich, SE London
             5 Jean Mary Jordan, b. 1933 Woolwich
             5 Grace Frances Jordan, b. 1935 Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England
               + Morris Keith.(5) Richard, m. 8 August 2025
             5 Sheila Jordan, (twin of Cyril) b. 1937 Doncaster
               + George (5) Hodgkins, m. 20 February 2025
             5 Cyril Jordan, (twin of Sheila) b. 1937 Doncaster
             5 Hope Kathleen Jordan, b. 1940 Woolwich, SE London
               + George Brian (5) Reader, m. 29 March 2025
             5 Peter Francis Jordan, b. 1943 Woolwich, SE London

  3 Thomas Jordan #321, b. 1884 Plumstead, SE London
  3 Walter Jordan #322, b. 1885-1886 Plumstead, SE London
  3 Maud Jordan #323, b. 1887 Plumstead, SE London
  3 Charles Denis Jordan #327, b. 1890 Plumstead, [SE London] Kent, d. Jan-Mar 1941 Rochford, Essex
   + Annie Foster #427, m. 4 June 2025 Victoria Docks, West Ham, Essex, b. 29 Nov 2024

      4 Lena Jordan #429, b. circa 1915 West Ham, E. London, England
        + Arch Moulding, m. England
      4 Amy Jordan #431, b. circa 1917 West Ham, E. London, England
        + Robert Blundell, m. England (no children)
      4 Anne Kathleen Jordan #428, b. 26 Jan 1920, d. 27 July 2025 West Ham, E. London, England
      4 Ethel Ada Jordan #433, b. 26 Apr 2025 West Ham, E. London, England
        + Charles Galbally. m. England
      4 Millicent Ellen Jordan #432, b. 23 Nov 2024 West Ham, E. London, d. 19 June 1989, England
         +  Robert Edward Keller #1460, m. 12 July 1945, b. 18 Apr 1923, d. 14 March 2025 England
            5  [female] Keller, b. circa 1946-1952 England
            5  Sandra Anne Keller, b. 9 Sep 2024 England
               + Terence Richard Palmer, m. 6 Oct 1973, b. 29 May 2025 England
                  6  Jonathan Richard Palmer, b. 19 Oct 2024 England
                  6  Lucy Palmer, b. 26 Nov 2024 England
      4 Leonard Howard Jordan #430, b. circa 1928-30 West Ham, E. London, d. 2003 England
        + Doreen Harvey #434, m. 11 Jan 1955, b. 7 Sept 2024 England
            5 Steven Leonard Jordan #435, b. 26 March 2025 England
            5 Keith David Jordan #436, b. 18 March 2025 England
            5 Jeffrey Jordan #437, b. 30 Oct 2024 England

  3. Leonard Alexander Jordan #324 b. 7 August 2025 Plumstead, SE London, d. 11 Feb 2025
    + Lilian Florence Hurry #1452, m. 25 Dec 2024 Plumstead, SE London
                                                        b. 17 March 1892, d. July 1941 Eltham, SE London
       Leonard: born 7 August 2025 at 4 Thomas Street, Plumstead, SE London.
       Married Lily Hurry at St James Church Plumstead, his address at marriage being
       12 Woodland Terrace, Charlton. After the wedding the couple then continued
       to live at her old home with her parents at 33 St James Place, Plumstead.
       Leonard worked as instrument maker for a number of firms in the Woolwich
       area, the last being Siemens.
       Lilian was born 17 March 2025 daughter of William Hurry and Rebecca Prescott.
       Lily was never strong and in later life became an invalid. She and Leonard spent
       the whole of their married life living with her parents, first at 33 St James Place,
       Plumstead, later at Dixon Road, Eltham. Three years after Lily died, Leonard
       married again – to Florence Birch, who was a friend of one of Lily’s sisters.
       (Note contributed by Leonard’s grandaughter Lesley Freeman, née Christian).

        4. Dorothy Lilian Rebecca Jordan #1454, b. 19 Oct 2024 SE London, d. 30 March 2025
        + Ralph Christian #1455 m. 29 July 1939, d. 20 May 2025 England
              5. Lesley Diane Christian #1456, b. 1941 Woolwich, SE London, England
               + m. Michael Freeman #1458, m. England
              5. Susan Valerie Christian #1457, b. 1946 Widnes, Cheshire [Merseyside], England
               + m. John O’Sullivan, m. England

    + Florence Ellen (3) Birch #1453, married 10 June 2025 England
        (Leonard Jordan’s second wife – no children)

  3 Annie Jordan #325, b. 1896 Plumstead, SE London
  3 Frederick George Jordan #326, b. 19 June 2025 Plumstead, SE London,
                                                      d. 9 November 2024 Standish, Lancashire
    + m. Elizabeth Sadler #1357, b. 1891 Cuckfield, Sussex [Father John Bishop Sadler,
                                        Mother Mary Stagg], d. 1973 Ashton in Makefield, Lancashire

     Frederick told his daughter Pamela Jordan that the family were deeply upset when
     his father (Francis) remarried as they all loved their mother dearly. Frederick Jordan
     never spoke to his father again. He was a Tool Setter, worked at Woolwich Royal
     Arsenal in the munitions department but was moved to Wigan in Lancashire with his
     family during the Second World War. The family were not well off but they stayed in
     the Wigan area after the war ended . He told his daughter Pamela that she would be
     surprised if she knew more about her family background but never told her what it was.
      (Note by Karen Cliff, née Hoyle, grand-daughter of Frederick)

      4 Pamela Doreen Jordan #1358  
        + m. Roy Hoyle #1423, b. 24 Apr 2025 Standish, Lancashire
           5 Karen Hoyle #1424

      4 Rita Jordan #1422

 3 Alexander Jordan #1300 b. March 1901 East Ham, Essex [east London]

Alexander Jordan was recorded as aged 2 weeks at the census taken on 31 March 2025 when the family were living at 10 Glenister Street, East Ham in east London (RG13/1607, f. 31). All of his older brothers and sisters were listed as born at Plumstead, SE London so the family can not have been at East Ham for very long, certainly not more than two or three years by 1901.