1871 Census
Charles Blake continued to work as a glass cutter in Bethnal Green, in Cheshire Street and later in Mape Street.
Charles Blake
Head
Mar
41
Master glass cutter (employing 2)
Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England
Mary Blake
Wife
Mar
43
Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England
Charles Blake
Son
Unm
17
Glass cutter
-
Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England
Thomas Blake
Son
-
6
-
Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England
1881 Census
Charles Blake
Head
Mar
51
Glass Cutter
Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England
Mary A Blake
Wife
Mar
54
-
Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England
Joseph S Blake
-
Single
17
Printer & Ruler
Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England
Mape St is just around the corner from Cheshire St. where Charles and his family previously lived.
There are puzzling aspects of the 1871 and 1881 Censuses. I can’t find evidence for the birth of a Thomas Blake (aged 6 according to the 1871 Census)
or Joseph S Blake (aged 17 in the 1881 Census). However, there is documentation for Samuel Joseph Blake who was born on 16 Mar 1865 to parents
Charles John Blake and wife Mary Ann. It seems that these could be the same person with confusion/errors in the Census results. In subsequent
censuses and records this person appears as just Samuel Blake. On his marriage certificate Samuel Blake gives his father as Charles Blake, glass cutter
which provides some evidence for this theory being correct, rather than a major genealogical research error.
Charles John Blake died in the fourth quarter of 1890, aged 60, in Bethnal Green. Mary Ann Blake continued to live at 43 Mape St until her death,
aged 83, in 1910. The 1891 and 1901 Censuses show that the house was shared with other families.