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