Emma Edge help checking please

[Tom Tom]

Yes I agree Kate, it is pulling everything together.

I keep looking for the 1871 census but still can't find them!

[kiterunner]

39 Hercules Road in 1891:
Joseph Pritchard Head M 39 Harness-maker Wilts Corsham
Catherine do Wife M 39 Herts Ware
Walter C Pritchard Son 14 Harness-maker London Brixton
Jane C Do Daur 12 Do Peckham
Lottie L Do Daur 9 do Lambeth
Joseph Renshaw Boarder Widr 66 Living on his own means Do St James
Henry Harris Do S 27 Book-keeper Herefordshire Malvern.

So most likely Margaret was a boarder there but had left by then or was away for census night.

Edit - sorry, there are two other households at the address but they don't look to have any connection with Margaret either.

[Tom Tom]

Thanks Kate. I imagine she was just boarding there. I wonder what hotel she worked at? A book keeper would have been quite a good job for a young unmarried woman I would have thought.

[Tom Tom]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

There is a Margaret Owen birth registered in Shiffnal Oct-Dec 1866 who is probably the one we're looking for, to give us some idea of what age she should be. (Thomas and Emma got married in 1865 so she fits in nicely between that and Sarah's birth in 1868, then John was born 1870). Also gives us someone else to look for in 1871!

It's been a few years and I was up the tree trying to tidy a few bits.

Margaret's birth entry on the GRO website gives her MMN as Edges, so happy it is her.

Now need to find out what happened to her and the the baby!

[kiterunner]

Blimey, this is a blast from the past, Tom! I will read back through.

[kiterunner]

So Marjorie / Margery is the baby you refer to, right? This is what I have gleaned from re-reading the thread:

Margerie Wood Owen born 23 Dec 1890 at 39 Hercules Road, Lambeth. Mother Margaret Owen, bookkeeper at a hotel.

Margery Wood 3 months old on 1891 census with grandmother Emma Owen in Altofts, Yorkshire.

Margaret Owen born 1866 Shifnal district.

And Margaret has not been found on any censuses yet, and her family hasn't been found in 1871 yet - there should be Emma Owen born about 1837 Oakengates, Shropshire, Margaret, and John born about 1870 Oakengates. Is that right?

[kiterunner]

Not sure if this was already on the thread, but it looks as though Thomas Owen married Emma Edge Jan-Mar 1865 Shifnal district.

[kiterunner]

There are an Owen / Edge daughter Sarah born 1868 and a son Robert born 1867 on the online GRO birth index.

[Tom Tom]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

So Marjorie / Margery is the baby you refer to, right? This is what I have gleaned from re-reading the thread:

Margerie Wood Owen born 23 Dec 1890 at 39 Hercules Road, Lambeth. Mother Margaret Owen, bookkeeper at a hotel.

Margery Wood 3 months old on 1891 census with grandmother Emma Owen in Altofts, Yorkshire.

Margaret Owen born 1866 Shifnal district.

And Margaret has not been found on any censuses yet, and her family hasn't been found in 1871 yet - there should be Emma Owen born about 1837 Oakengates, Shropshire, Margaret, and John born about 1870 Oakengates. Is that right?

Yes. Absolutely. I did find a potential for Margaret as a servant in 1881 to a Draper.

Thomas Owen, born 1840, Street Lane, Wellington.
Emma (Edge), born c1838 Shiffinal, Shropshire

Emma's son Henry Edge (born 1859), then Thomas and Emma's children: Margaret (1866), Sarah (1868), John (1870), Thomas (1873), Albert (1879).

Albert isn't Thomas' son as far as I can tell. Father is unknown.

[kiterunner]

There is also a Rachel Harriet born 1865 and died later the same year. Doesn't help with census searching though, but just for completeness' sake.