Shep's Place Family Tree

During their years in India, Rebecca and William had seven children: Martha Rebecca Eva ‎(Lassie)‎, Charlotte, William Henry ‎(Laddie)‎, Ernest Edward, George Gilbert ‎(Bertie)‎, Elsie Mary, and Charles Spurgeon. All of the children but Elsie and Charles attended school in England.

Rebecca developed breast cancer, and William performed a mastectomy on the kitchen table with the servants holding her down--no anaesthetic. She recovered and lived to be 78!

In the late 1800s the family returned to England to live at Hanworth ‎(West London)‎ to a large country house with a paddock. They later moved to Bolingbrook Grove ‎(opposite Wandsworth Common in South London)‎ when William worked as a locum at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington. The family worshipped at Northcote Road Baptist Church in Battersea, South London.