1. Jane GUY b 9 Apr 1824, chr 6 May 1824 Stepney, Saint Dunstan, Middlesex, England d/o William & Jane GUY, Abode: MEOT (Mile End Old Town), Brewer's Clerk, Curate: E James [p199 R/N 331 parish record] [also 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, Abode: Ratcliff, Brewer's Clerk, Curate: E James [p139 R/N 1049 parish record] [IGI Batch Number C055762 extracted from parish records] Ratcliff was a hamlet on the north side of the Thames between Shadwell and Limehouse.
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, Abode: Ratcliff, Brewer's Clerk, Curate: E James [p139 R/N 1050 parish record] [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.
Frances GUY m 1859, 2nd Qtr, Islington, Greater London, Middlesex, Andrew LILLY [Vol 1B Page 242] (We have a photo of Great Uncle Lilly)

4. Emily GUY chr 24 Sep 1829 St Dunstan, Stepney, County of Middlesex d/o William and Jane GUY, Abode: Ratcliff, Quality, Trade or Profession: Brewer's Clerk, Curate: E James [p111 R/N 883 parish record] (not found on 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]

5. William Walter GUY b 15 Jul 1831, chr 21 Jun 1833 St George (in the East, Stepney), County of Middlesex s/o William and Jane GUY, Abode: Lucas Street, Quality, Trade or Profession: Gent, performed by Curate (unnamed) [p270 R/N 2156 parish record] (not found on IGI) Lucas Street is present day Lukin Street.

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 - found 29 Sep 2010
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. 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. Stepney has an ancient association with the docks and the river. In his early twenties William sailed to Australia and met up with a mate working in the Melbourne office of the gold escort. This contact found William a job on the gold escort from the Ballarat diggings. He became a miner himself and by the time of his marriage in 1855 he was a storekeeper at Kangaroo Flat (later known as Berringa). He was to remain in this area for the rest of his life.

William Walter Guy story

On 10 Dec 1855 William Walter GUY married Isabella HOCKEY at St Paul's Church of England in La Trobe Terrace, Geelong, Victoria [Vic 3055] He died 11 Mar 1917 aged 86 yrs Staffordshire Reef, about 25km SW of Ballarat, Victoria [Vic 428] and was bur 12 Mar 1917 Staffordshire Reef Cemetery.

William Walter GUY and Isabella HOCKEY

6. Robert GUY b 16 May 1833, chr 21 Jun 1833 St George (in the East, Stepney), County of Middlesex s/o William and Jane GUY, Abode: Lucas Street, Quality, Trade or Profession: Gent, performed by Curate (unnamed) [p270 R/N 2157 parish record] (not found on 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 St George (in the East, Stepney), County of Middlesex s/o William and Jane GUY, Abode: Lucas Street, Quality, Trade or Profession: Gent, performed by Curate (unnamed) [p4 R/N 32 parish record]
Also 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 Page 900]
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 Philip the Apostle, Middlesex, England d/o William GUY/Jane, Abode: 12 Turner Street, Quality, Trade or Profession: Merchant's Clerk, Curate: Thomas Chaffers MA [p7 R/N 54 parish record] [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]

Mary GUY (again) chr 27 Oct 1843 All Saints, Stepney, Mile End New Town, Middlesex, England d/o William GUY/Jane, Abode: 12 Great Turner Street, Quality, Trade or Profession: Brewer's Clerk, by James Harris, Incumbent [p14 R/N 107 parish record] [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 the first time at St Philip in 1838 and for a second time at All Saints in 1843.

9. Lucy GUY chr 27 Oct 1843 All Saints, Stepney, Mile End New Town, Middlesex, England d/o William GUY/Jane Abode: 12 Great Turner Street, Quality, Trade or Profession: Merchant's Clerk, Curate: Thomas Chaffers MA [p7 R/N 1838 parish record][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]

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