Keeping it in the family *UPDATED - now with birth certs*
 

Okay - here goes. I suspect there may be something slightly dubious about a relationship in a tree I'm doing for a friend. I'm probably missing something fairly obvious so thought I'd throw it all at you guys and see if you can spot what I'm missing....

Henry Titus Higgs and Jane Godden married 29 September 1836

They have three children:
Harriet Ann Higgs born 1838 Hartley Westpall, Hampshire
Ellen Emma Higgs born 1840 Hartley Westpall Hampshire
Titus Higgs born 1843 Heckfield Berkshire

Henry Titus Higgs dies in 1845 and Jane remmaries to Alfred Halford.

They are on 1851 census living in Hartley Westpall with her father
HO107; Piece: 1681; Folio: 361; Page: 16


Ellen Emma appears to marry in 1858 in Colchester, Essex to a John Shaw.

This is backed up by 1861 and 1871 census:
RG9; Piece: 431; Folio: 65; Page: 6
RG10; Piece: 1195; Folio: 83; Page: 17

John works in the Army Hospital Corps


Their children:
Henrietta Rosa Shaw 1861 born Aldershot
John Titus Shaw 1864 (can't read birthplace)
William Henry Shaw 1866 born Barbados
Ann Shaw 1867 born South Wales ???? Dock



Meanwhile - Titus Higgs has disappeared but re-appears in 1881 living in Newark, Notts, also a member of the military.


Titus' family on 1881 are:

Ellen Emma Higgs, wife, born Hartley Westpall, c1841, Dressmaker
WIlliam Henry Higgs, son, c1866, Barbados
Annie Higgs, daur, c1867, Newark Notts
Edwin Charles Higgs, son, c1880, Newark Notts.


In 1891 Titus and Ellen Emma are in Jersey, still down as married and with "son" Edwin Charles although Ellen is now saying she was born in Colchester, Essex.

Then I lose them all again (although still looking for the children at the minute).

Normally I'd just put it down to enumerator error and write it off but it's the new child born 1880 that's got me thinking.

Am I way off the mark?

I doubt I'll ever be able to prove it I'm just intrigued by it all

Z
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I'm at football all day Saturday and have a party for 120 kids to help with on Sunday so apologies in advance if I don't get a chance to come back in before Sunday evening

Titus Higgs married Ellen Emma Shaw in 1875.

I don't want to go there........lol

So it looks like he eventually married his sister!

:eek:

It'd be interesting to see who they both named as father on the cert :)

I'd be buying that cert!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me too :)

Zoe.................you can't put up a thread like this then take off for the weekend.........you just cant!!!!

Is there a cert???? I missed that. Can someone post me the ref and I'll order it today. I'm nit getting it on ancestry but it was playing up for me yesterday

Titus Higgs and Ellen Emma Shaw

Dec 1875 Farnham 2a 194.

Zoe - you'd better come back when you've got the cert and tell us what it says!