Edward Jones - Page 15 - Genealogists' Forum

Zoemcdougall · #**141** 01-06-12, 17:11

ok Kiterunner, Rose' mother seems as elusive as My great grandfather

kiterunner · #**142** 01-06-12, 18:05

I suppose if you have more money to spend on it, you could order that marriage certificate and see if the age really does say 21, and also if it gives any clues as to whether it is the right couple or not (after all, it could always be the census that has her age wrong?)

Zoemcdougall · #**143** 01-06-12, 18:13

will order the cert, also the sarah jane born in Shardlow, could that be Edwards sister.

kiterunner · #**144** 01-06-12, 18:15

I doubt very much it is her but I suppose I can't be sure.

Zoemcdougall · #**145** 01-06-12, 18:17

on the sheffield indexers one has put another suggestion Edward Augustus Williams b 1873 Bradfield, they say if the edward I am looking was born in Sheffield he wasn't registered there.

kiterunner · #**146** 01-06-12, 18:35

That Edward Augustus Williams died in the same quarter that his birth was registered, Zoe.

Zoemcdougall · #**147** 01-06-12, 19:10

Ok so can definitely rule that one out then, thanks kiterunner.

Zoemcdougall · #**148** 01-06-12, 21:52

I know this probably totally wrong but Edward had been in a workhouse, just an idea that thought of could it have been in Northampton just going off the last child being born in that area, plus I don't know when Henry died, could Edward have been in the Southwell workhouse in Northamptonshire?

kiterunner · #**149** 01-06-12, 22:50

Southwell is in Nottinghamshire. Yes, he could have been in a workhouse in Northampton, but he could also have been in one in Yorkshire (where he was born), Derbyshire (where his mother was born), Bedfordshire (where his stepfather was born) or Montgomeryshire (where he turns up in 1891). Or whatever county his father was born in. Or wherever they moved to after Northampton. That's why I said we don't know what county's workhouse records to look at.

Zoemcdougall · #**150** 02-06-12, 07:28

Hi Zoe,

Looks like a dead end for Sheffield I am afraid.

What I would do is research the others and get them sorted away and maybe by that time something will have surfaced that proves one way or another that he was born here.

It doesn't look very promising though. The Council site that I gave you are the most reliable that is as long as he was registered. If not I dont know what can be done.

I did find two marriages that looked interesting.....

Henry Jones & Hannah Barker June qtr 1880 Northampton 3b 80.
Henry Jones & Hannah Williams Bangor 11b 693 Sep 1870.

The first marriage would certainly explain lots......
and would fit in with Florence Roses birth a few months later. Leaving the other two children to have fathers unknow
probably Williams.

I am afraid thats all I can suggest at this time.

(This was one of the replies on the Sheffield Indexers)