1. Jane GUY b 9 Apr 1824, chr 6 May 1824 Stepney, Saint Dunstan, Middlesex, England d/o William GUY/Jane [IGI Batch Number C055762 extracted from parish records]
Census ages indicate a birth year of 1826 (1841), 1828 (1851)
Jane was last at home in the 1851 Census.

1861 Census [RG 9, Piece 1074, Folio 82] taken 7/8 April
Civil Parish of Mucking, Registration District and Sub-registration District of Orsett, County of Essex, England
Living at School House:
GUY Jane, Head, Unmarried, 35, School Mistress, Born Stepney, Middlesex
GUY Emily, Sister, Unmarried, 29, School Mistress, Born Stepney, Middlesex

2. Maria GUY chr 28 Sep 1827 Stepney, Saint Dunstan, Middlesex, England d/o William GUY/Jane [IGI Batch Number C055762 extracted from parish records]
Census ages indicate a birth year of 1826 (1841), 1828 (1851), 1830 (1861)
Maria was last at home in the 1861 Census.
Possible marriage at abt 36 yrs: Maria GUY m 1863, 1st Qtr, Croydon, Greater London, Kent, Surrey [Vol 2a Page 204]
Possible marriage at abt 40 yrs: Maria GUY m 1867, 2nd Qtr, Pancras, London, Middlesex [Vol 1b Page 77]

3. Frances GUY chr 28 Sep 1827 Stepney, Saint Dunstan, Middlesex, England d/o William GUY/Jane [IGI Batch Number C055762 extracted from parish records]
Census ages indicate a birth year of 1828 (1841), 1830 (1851)
Frances was last at home in the 1851 Census.
Possible marriage at abt 32 yrs: Frances GUY m 1859, 2nd Qtr, Islington, Greater London, Middlesex [Vol 1B Page 242]

4. William Walter GUY born 16 Jul 1830 (day and month from GUY family birthday book, birth year from age on marriage certificate) at Stepney in Middlesex (1841 and 1851 Censuses)
Census ages indicate a birth year of 1832 (1841), 1831 (1851). William was last at home in the 1851 Census.

Birth Record - not yet found
William Walter GUY was the informant for the following certificates:
1855 marriage, his birthplace stated as Chichester, England
1857 birth of dau Emily which gave his birthplace as Chichester, Sussex, England
1861 birth of son Alfred which gave his birthplace as Sussex
1880 birth of dau Florence which gave birthplace as Sussex
His wife Isabella GUY ms HOCKEY was the informant for:
1867 birth of son Walter which gave her husband's native place as London, Middlesex, England
Son Walter was the informant for:
1917 death of William Walter which gave his father's birthplace as London, England
So on balance it seemed that William Walter GUY was born in Chichester, Sussex. However a researcher failed to find the birth of a William Walter GUY in any of the Chichester parishes or surrounding ones and two census records say he was born in Middlesex.

In London William GUY was working as a clerk in a law office. In his early twenties he sailed to Australia in 1852/3 and became a storekeeper on the goldfields near Ballarat, Victoria. We have no shipping record and according to a family story he worked his passage to Victoria as a galley hand, which is quite believable as he lived so close to the London Docks on the River Thames.

William Walter Guy story

Death 1917
William Walter GUY died 11 Mar 1917 aged 86 yrs Staffordshire Reef, Victoria, Australia, Father: William GUY, Brewer, Mother: Jane GUY formerly YOUNG. Cause of death was senile heart. Deceased was born London, England and had lived 65 years in Victoria. He was married at St Paul's Church, Geelong, age not known, to Isabella HOCKEY. Eleven children listed. Informant was Walter GUY, Son, Staffordshire Reef. Buried 12 Mar 1917 Staffordshire Reef Cemetery. [death cert 428, entry number 184]

Marriage 1855
William Walter GUY, Bachelor, Birthplace: Chichester, England, Occupation: Storekeeper, aged 25 years, Present and Usual Address: Woady Yallock, Father: William GUY, Brewer, Mother: Jane ms YOUNG, married 10 Dec 1855 St Paul's Church of England, La Trobe Terrace, Geelong, Victoria, by License according to the ceremonies of the Church of England, Isabella HOCKEY, Spinster, Birthplace: Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, aged 17 years, Father: Samuel HOCKEY, Storekeeper, Mother: Bridget ms BARFOOT. Both signed in the presence of witnesses Samuel HOCKEY and Eliza HOCKEY. [marr cert 3055, entry number 145]

Isabella HOCKEY b 1840 Launceston, Tasmania d/o Samuel HOCKEY and Bridget BARFOOT (no record of birth has been found)
Isabella GUY died 5 Oct 1904 aged 64 yrs Staffordshire Reef, Father: Samuel HOCKEY, Brickmaker, Mother: Bridget HOCKEY formerly BARFOOT. Deceased was born in Launceston, Tasmania and had lived 57 years in Victoria. She was married in Geelong, aged 16 years to William Walter GUY. Eleven children listed. Informant was William Samuel GUY, Son, Staffordshire Reef. Buried 8 Oct 1904 Staffordshire Reef Cemetery [death cert 14006, entry number 207]

Children of William Walter GUY and Isabella HOCKEY

5. Emily GUY b abt 1831 (not IGI)
Census ages indicate a birth year of 1831 (1841), 1832 (1851)
Emily was last at home in the 1851 census. In the 1861 Census Emily was aged 29, a school mistress, living with her older sister Jane in the school house at Mucking in Essex.
1871 Census: Emily GUY aged 39 (marital status was blank, apparently unmarried) was living with her widowed mother Jane GUY at 26 Clarence Road, Parish of St Mary Stratford Le Bow, District of Poplar, Sub-District of Bow, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. Emily is still to be found in 1881 Census.
Possible death: Emily GUY (estimated birth year 1833) died 1905, 1st Qtr Jan-Feb-Mar, aged 72 yrs, Stepney, London, Middlesex [Volume 1c, Page 254]

6. Robert GUY b abt 1833 (not IGI)
Census ages indicate a birth year of 1833 (1841), 1834 (1851), (not yet found 1861), 1834 (1871), 1836 (1881), 1833 (1891)
Robert was last at home in the 1851 Census in which his occupation was Clerk (Wool Merchant)
1861 Census [RG 9, Piece 778, Folio 93] taken 7/8 April
Living at Ealing Lane, Civil Parish of Ealing, Ecclesiastical Parish of St George, Town of Old Brentford, Registration District and Sub-registration District of Brentford, County of Middlesex, England
GUY Robert, Head, Unmarried, 25, Clerk at the Soap Works, Born Middlesex, London, Commercial Road, England (b abt 1836)
GUY Mary, Sister, Unmarried, 19, Housekeeper, Born Middlesex, London, Commercial Road, England (b abt 1842)
Marriage at abt 27 yrs: Robert GUY m 1861, 3rd Qtr, Bethnal Green, Greater London, Middlesex [Vol 1c Page 522] Sophia LIVERMORE [Tower Hamlets BMD Ref /C3 2/305/]
Sophia LIVERMORE b abt 1840 Chiswick, Middlesex, Father not yet known, Mother: Mary A (1901 Census)

Robert GUY m 1861 Sophie LIVERMORE

7. Eliza GUY b 1 Oct 1835, chr 11 Nov 1835 Stepney, Saint George in the East, Middlesex, England [IGI Batch Number C055783 extracted from parish records]
Census ages indicate a birth year of 1835 (1841), 1838 (1851), 1838 (1861)
Eliza was last at home in 1861.
Possible marriage of Eliza GUY 1863, 1st Qtr, Mile End Old Town, London, Middlesex [Vol 1c Page900]
Also Eliza GUY m 1863 Henry L PHILLIMORE [Tower Hamlets BMD Ref /C43 2/471/]
Also Eliza GUY m 29 Jan 1863 St Peter's Stepney, Middlesex to Henry Lewis PHILLIMORE [IGI Batch Number M042681 extracted from parish records]

8. Mary GUY b 27 Dec 1837, chr 15 Nov 1838 Stepney, Saint Phillip the Apostle, Middlesex, England d/o William GUY/Jane [IGI Batch Number C042691 extracted from parish records]
Census ages indicate a birth year of 1838 (1841), 1839 (1851)
Mary was last at home in the 1851 Census. In the 1861 Census she was aged 19, unmarried and living with her brother Robert as his housekeeper in Ealing Lane, Old Brentford, Middlesex.
Possible marriage: Mary GUY m 1867, James MANNING [Tower Hamlets BMD Ref /28 6/154]

9. Lucy GUY chr 27 Oct 1843 Stepney, All Saints, Middlesex, England d/o William GUY/Jane [IGI Batch Number C042671 extracted from parish records]
Census ages indicate a birth year of 1840 (1841), 1841 (1851), 1841 (1861)
Lucy was last at home in the 1861 Census.
Possible marriage: Lucy GUY m 1870, 2nd Qtr, Pancras, London, Middlesex [Vol 1b Page 99]

10. Mary GUY chr 27 Oct 1843 Stepney, All Saints, Middlesex, England d/o William GUY/Jane [IGI Batch Number C042671 extracted from parish records] In the census records there was only one Mary (who was consistently 2 yrs older than Lucy) so she was most likely christened for a second time at a different church.

GUY family photos
We have six old photographs of GUY family members taken by Barnes and Son Photographers, Mile End Road. (poss taken abt 1860). They are of William GUY Snr, his wife Jane GUY (ms YOUNG), son Robert GUY, Robert's wife (unnamed, now known to be Sophie), daughters Marian GUY and Lucy GUY. GUY family photographs