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Merry · #41 11-09-20, 06:32

Yes, that's what I thought. Maybe she had a Welsh name the enumerator was unfamiliar with?

Merry · #42 11-09-20, 08:13

I had hoped Mrs Sarah Lloyd on the following page to Ethel Alice, same address, separate household, might be connected to Ethel, but she is Robert's daughter, so that's no help.

Phoenix · #43 11-09-20, 09:09

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Originally Posted by Merry

Yes, that's what I thought. Maybe she had a Welsh name the enumerator was unfamiliar with?

Given that dreadful handwriting, it's probably we who don't recognise a Welsh christian name.

Merry · #44 11-09-20, 09:18

I agree.

I did check 2 Skinner St in 1871 and 1891 just in the case there were any clues. Nothing.

Merry · #45 11-09-20, 09:35

Do you know who registered Robert's death?

Phoenix · #46 11-09-20, 10:06

We may have to wait for Michael's trip home- I think he said he didn't have his notes or certs with him.

Michael · #47 13-09-20, 11:21

Yes, hoping to pop home sometime this/next week (depending on what demands job interviews make on my time!) so I'll have to check the original then.

I notice that the first letter of Robert's wife's name doesn't look like the first letter of his birthplace (or indeed the first letter of Edward Williams, the first name on the same page) - so maybe not an E? But I can't immediately think what other letter it might be. There are five death records of Normans in Swansea between 1881 and 1891 which would fit a DOB a few years either side of 1810, but only one is a woman - Anne Norman d Q3 1885 aged 80 - and whatever the name is on the census return, it certainly doesn't look like Anne! Then again, if she and Robert weren't legally married, the name recorded on her death certificate might have been something completely different... and it looks like they probably weren't, because there's only one marriage of a Robert Norman in Swansea in between Catherine's death and the 1881 census, and I can exclude that one because I already know that the Robert who married Ann Grey was the son of Robert and Catherine.

Coincidentally, one of the potential jobs is in Exeter, although I'm not sure how much use "on the spot" research will be when so much stuff is online. I might possibly find a Norman gravestone or two which might give a clue.

kiterunner · #48 13-09-20, 13:07

I don't think the first letter of Robert's wife's name is that different in construction from the E's on the page:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...rn&pId=5834383

Phoenix · #49 13-09-20, 16:54

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Originally Posted by Michael

Coincidentally, one of the potential jobs is in Exeter, although I'm not sure how much use "on the spot" research will be when so much stuff is online. I might possibly find a Norman gravestone or two which might give a clue.

Masses of stuff not available online. Land Tax, will transcripts, etc etc etc.

Michael · #50 13-09-20, 18:53

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Originally Posted by Phoenix

Masses of stuff not available online. Land Tax, will transcripts, etc etc etc.

Not denying that, I was thinking more specifically of something which might enable us to pin down the birth of Robert Norman. I suppose it's possible that the Devon parish records on Ancestry may be incomplete, and if I head to the RO I might find a baptism under that name which slipped through the net.