Maud Medlock - birth registration?
 

OK GFers, here is your weekend poser. A brickwall in Mr Nomad’s family this time.

Maud Medlock appears here on the 1911 census, in the bosom of her family in Coventry, place of birth Cambridge.

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...=&pid=21714832

However, although she is listed as such on the census and although she said John J M Medlock was her father when she married in 1923, she was not, as far as we know, his daughter.

Maud’s mother was Julia Mortlock, Jeanette Medlock’s unmarried sister. Julia kept her child with her for several years after her birth, then put her on the train from London and sent her to her married sister in Coventry, who brought her up with her own brood, although she always felt she was treated as a bit of a poor relation. Julia died unmarried in the 1950s.

In time, Maud herself got pregnant and married. She and her husband, with their young daughter, emigrated to Australia in 1927 and their descendants are still there. For the avoidance of doubt, Maud died some years ago in South Australia. There was no birth certificate among her belongings and her daughter, now also deceased, did not remember ever seeing one.

However, we cannot find Maud’s birth. She was not registered as a Medlock and appears not to have been registered in her mother’s name either, so presumably she was registered in the name of her father, whoever he was.

Maud’s granddaughter will be back over here this summer. It would be nice to be able to fill in this gap in her family tree, which still evades us.

Does anyone have any ideas?

AN

Do you know what date she used for her birthday?

Not off the top of my head no.

Her married name was Middleton if you were thinking of trying to look her up from your end.

AN

I was going to sit and go through all the Mauds until i found one (hopefully not too many more) who didn't fit in 1911.

I don't have a life. My footy team's lost their captain to injury again....

Is Julia a 36 year old servant in Essex in 1911?

Thank you.

Yes, I saw that about your footy captain - not good. Don't let the Pies get wind of it!

Yes, that's the right Julia - she was a cook. Died in Huntingdonshire in 1950 someodd.

AN

Did she marry in SA? The marriage cert should give her parents' names and her birthplace.

There's an Ella Winifred M MORTLOCK born 1902 but place of birth doesn't fit.
Did you notice on the census it states Maud was born Cambridge, same as John and his cousin Albert. Could that be made up?

MORTLOCK, Ella Winifred M
Registration district Faversham County: Kent
Year of registration 1902
Quarter of registration Jan-Feb-Mar
Volume no 2A
page no 918

Ella doesn't show on the census in 1911 and there doesn't seem to be a death for her.

Would it be worth getting this certificate just in case?

Sorry, just noticed that she married in England. Pity the Warks marriages on Ancestry only go up to 1910.
Do you have the 1922 marriage cert?

I'm with Daphne.

I've trawled everywhere and can't see any evidence Ella Mortlock existed except a birth.

Was Maud a family name? I notice there is a Doris Maud Medlock born 1900. I wonder if Ella morphed into Maud. Her third name initial is M.