Margaret Lynch

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Merry

I'm back!!

Two little things:

The Margaret Lynch who died in 1911 in Lambeth aged 43 was registered in Q1, so unless someone had a premonition or she was dead in her coffin on the dining table for the census she can't have been registered for death in Q1 and be on the census too, as it wasn't taken until 2nd April.

Secondly, the business about requests for copy certs to be directed to the GRO is probably just because the vicar hadn't signed the register (if you look his sig is missing for both the Lynch marriage and the one on the following page). I expect the new vicar (or whoever that was who wrote in the margin) felt he couldn't say for definite who performed the ceremony and hoped the correct name would be on the GRO copy, given that should have been filled in by the incumbent at the end of the Q the marriage took place.

Aha ! That makes sense Merry - thanks. I'll go and dig out my GRO copy.

[Rick]

Signature is on my copy so looks like you've explained that one Merry.

I've ordered the marriage cert for JTP Lynch and Grace Crompton so lets see if that gives us any more clues.

Interesting twist - I've always assumed that Margaret Lynch's illegitimate son Alfred Leon was the son of Alfred Leon born around 1854 in Bath. Seems like he got 5 years for bigamy at the Old Bailey in 1886 !!

[kiterunner]

Where does Alfred Leon jr say he was born on the 1911 census?

[Margaret in Burton]

Can someone direct me to Alfred Leon Jnr on the 1911?

I can't find him

[kiterunner]

He's listed as Alfred Boyle, age 11, in Fulham with Margaret Boyle 39, Arthur Boyle 39, Edith 6, George 4, and Margaret 3.

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Where does Alfred Leon jr say he was born on the 1911 census?

Found it

Alfred was born in Sittingbourne in Kent

[Rick]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Where does Alfred Leon jr say he was born on the 1911 census?

He was born in Sittingbourne and is recorded as Alfred Boyle. His granddaughter says he was born "on tour" and they didn't register the birth, causing him problems when he applied for a passport some 50+ years later

Alfred (Herbert) Leon senior seems to have fathered a couple of other illegitimate children too. He bigamously married Emily Elizabeth Elisha in 1885 as Herbert Lyons and they had Winifred May Lyons in 1886. There's also a widowed Annie Selina Thorn who remarries in 1902 to Arthur Cooper, naming her father as Alfred Leon, commercial traveller.

Seems like my great grandmother was one in quite a series of conquests !!

[Margaret in Burton]

Been an interesting one Rick and Jan

Anymore to find?

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Been an interesting one Rick and Jan

Anymore to find?

LOL Marg - this one hurts my head every time I look at it. Jan and I have been chipping away at this one for years.

I'm thinking now that JTP Lynch who married Grace Compton is going to be Margaret's brother as they are both born Bradford and both artistic. Where are they on the censuses though ? We've now got them both in 1911 (thanks for the images btw) and possibly him in 1901 if he is the same one who married Margaret Swallow/Ralph.

Where is Annie Selina Thorn in 1901 and who was her husband ? And what was she known as before that as it doesn't seem to have been Leon ?

Rick.

[Margaret in Burton]

OK

I'm off to bed, I'll have another look tomorrow.

LOL