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Merry · #11 31-12-13, 09:15

Me neither!

I do feel there is a key to this......it's just finding it that's difficult. I wonder if they were using a different surname on the census to all other records. I have an example on my tree where a family use the husband's step-father's surname on the census but his birth surname on everything else. The children gradually switch over to using their step-grandfather's surname for everything. It took me ages to find mine but once the elusive other surname was discovered everything fell into place!

*crosses everything*

Asa · #12 31-12-13, 09:23

I've wondered that - I've tried searching for baptisms and marriages without surnames and so on but that's a bit of a task. It seems odd that there isn't a likely death reg for Mary. I'm hoping I find something when there are more poor law records indexed - I have very high hopes for them all round lol

Margaret in Burton · #13 31-12-13, 11:17

Yes, my OH has one. His grandfather. I won't say the name but Merry knows full well his name.

He joined the army, married, died but was never born. He's on the 1911 census, but not the 1901 or 1891 which suggests he was born 1885 in Rotherham. His marriage cert and death cert all corroborate the age.

No birth record.

kiterunner · #14 31-12-13, 12:25

I don't think Eliza's poor law records are likely to have much information about her parents as she will have acquired her husband's settlement. But you never know. Mary might turn up in the poor law records in her own right, though.

kiterunner · #15 31-12-13, 13:04

There is a Mary Ann Whitty death Jan-Mar 1910 Shoreditch, age 88; have you looked into that one?

Asa · #16 31-12-13, 13:20

I've seen him, Marg :-) My great grandfather - born 1875/6 - has no birth record nor any of his siblings but I have enough stuff on him otherwise and I should get his baptism eventually when the RC records are released on disc.

Kate, I don't know why I haven't tried that - I must order it. I think the district through me, although Holborn union is in Shoreditch. I was hoping Eliza's records might lead me to Mary and if that's the death it looks like Mary might have gone into City Road Workhouse as well. I'll have a look in the records before I order the cert.

JBee · #17 31-12-13, 16:25

My ggm's birth wasn't registered in 1876 - however I did find her baptism in the RC parish records.

Merry · #18 31-12-13, 23:14

Well, I did spend a good while looking for more on Henry and Mary today, with no success whatsoever!!

Hope that's not an omen for the new year!! lol

Asa · #19 01-01-14, 06:34

Thanks you, Merry and I'm sure it isn't:-)

Julie, that's what I'm hoping for with my great grandfather.

Asa · #20 01-01-14, 07:17

I think the death Kate found is Mary! Admitted to City Road Workhouse from St Andrew Holborn parish in 1909 and died 4 Feb 1910 aged 86.

Can anyone read the address on this image? I thought it looked like Hewitts Street but I can't find anything on that -

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/15...6_189689-00177