I’m trying to find if Louis J Ruelens (abt 1856 in Brussels, Belgium – 1926 in Southwark?) a photographer in Barking and then Tottenham married Mary Bull (1847 in Bath, Somerset – 1913 in Southwark ?), the wife of Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813 in Sweden –18 January 1875 in Clapham, London).
I have found mention on Bev Parkers’ excellent website on Oscar Rejlander, that Mary ‘moved to a little house near to her old home in Tottenham’, after her husbands’ death.
I have (Lucien) Louis J Ruelens AKA Joseph Louis Ruelens as the son of Joseph and Victorine Ruelens (He and his father’s occupation as Printer/Compositor) living in Bermondsey circa 1871. He is then shown as ‘Louis J Rejlander’ (photographer) with Mary as his wife in Barking (1881) and in Tottenham (1891). There is a marriage in1900 of Mary Rejlander to Joseph Louis Ruelens in Camberwell. Joseph Louis Ruelens (Photographic Operator) is shown resident in Camberwell in 1901.
Was Louis a relation of Oscar’s or did he just pinch his surname? Did he and Mary live together prior to the marriage?
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