inGeorge DAY grew up with his parents in Evesham. His father was a millwright and it is likely that he was encouraged to learn that trade.
At some point he decided to spread his wings and took a job as a postman. He may have been working in Evesham, or started carrying letters further afield.
George married Ann ELCOCK in Worcester in 1836, and in 1837 they christened a daughter Esther Ellen. George must have been working on the mail coaches by 1837 as his eldest son, Thomas, was born in Loughborough Registration District, (more specifically, according to the 1851 census, in Stretton, although that record is ambiguous). In 1841 Ann, Esther and Thomas, now aged 1, are living in a cottage in Litchborough, a small village on Watling Street, now the A5, but then the main road from London to the Midlands. Perhaps he was posted there to relieve mail coachmen on their way to and from London.
In the early 19th century the carriage of mail across the UK was run by the Inland Office. Their headquarters was in St Martin's le Grand, close to St Paul's Cathedral, and close to the end of Watling Street in London.
This life may not have suited Ann and their growing family, and the family moved to London. Their second son George is born in Stepney Registration District, and dies there at age 1. Stepney R.D. included Shadwell parish which is less than 2 miles from St Martin le Grand.
Susannah is born in John's home town, Evesham, but Elizabeth and John are both born and christened in Bermondsey. Bermondsey is across the river, 2.5 miles from St Martin le Grand, but the quality of housing might have tempted them further from the centre of London.
That said, by 1851 the family are living at 6 Cambridge Place, in the parish of St Pancras. St Pancras Church is a few minutes walk from St Martin's le Grand. Cambridge Place no longer exists in St Pancras, there having been much redevelopment in the intervening years.
Despite having moved closer to the Inland Office, George appears in the 1851 census return as a carpenter and millwright, like his father. They are still there in 1861 with George working as a carpenter.
No records for George or Ann have been found after 1861, so it is possible that they died or emigrated.
There are deaths registered in the name of George DAY in St Pancras R.D. in 1861 and 1864, and for Ann DAY in 1863.