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Old 24-08-20, 19:59
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I’m trying to find out what happened to Arthur Day, who vanishes after 1881.

He was born in Limehouse, Middlesex 23 April 1853, worked as a printer, and married Clara Sophia Church 6 Feb 1875 at St Paul, Bow Common, Middlesex.

They had 2 children that I can find – Charles Christopher Church Day in 1877, and Horace Ernest in 1878.

In 1881 the family are living with Clara’s parents in Limehouse: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...e&pId=15315143

Son Horace died age 5 in West Ham, Essex in 1884.

In 1891 son Charles is in an Industrial School in Islington, but I can’t find Arthur or Clara. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...ce&pId=7989909

In 1901 I think Clara might be the widow in the London Hospital (who dies soon after age 48). https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...e&pId=17746837

It seems likely Arthur died or otherwise disappeared soon after the 1881 census but I’ve drawn a complete blank in trying to pin him down (and so have all the Ancestry trees he appears on). Can anyone find anything to prove what happened to him?

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It's no help, but they also seem to have had a son, Charles Arthur b 1875 d 1876 in West Ham district.

Also, Ethel Constance Victoria Day mmn Church
GRO Reference: 1886 S Quarter in WEST HAM Volume 04A Page 19
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Name: Ethel Constance Day
Baptism Date: 14 Oct 1886
Baptism Place: Essex , England
Father: Arthur Day
Mother: Clara Day
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I don't know where this is going to go and I don't know if I have time to get to the end before I have to go out in the gale to visit my mum, but here goes....!

I didn't think this death was particularly likely to be connected, as the birth date is the wrong year and it just felt like the wrong place in the country. Plus no Day to Mitten marriage:

Name: Ethel Constance V Mitten
Death Age: 96
Birth Date: 7 Jul 1888
Registration Date: Feb 1985
Registration district: Birmingham
Inferred County: West Midlands
Volume: 32
Page: 339

Then, 1939 Register, Ethel's dob gets better:

93 South Road Birmingham

William A Mitten 12 Dec 1886 married postman
Ethel C Mitten 7 Jul 1886 married unpaid domestic duties

Marriage:

Marriages Dec 1918
Freemantle Ethel C V Mitten Tamworth 6b 721
Mitten Albert W Freemantle Tamworth 6b 721

So, wrong surname for Ethel and his forenames switched about. I wondered if she was a war widow, but 1) no prev marriage I could find and 2) two sons born in the 1920s surname Mitten, mmn Freemantle (there are two hidden entries with Ethel and Wm in 1939 who are probably these children).


I spent a lot of time trying to find a birth reg for Ethel Freemantle with no luck. However, I saw this tree:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tr...=successSource

which shows Ethel as being born in Stratford Essex which is where Ethel C V Day was baptised (for some reason when I copied and pasted the baptism yesterday the place didn't copy, but it was def Stratford).

Also, the tree owner has Ethel's mother as a Clara, though surname Marsh and no dates etc for Clara. There's a school admission doc attached to the tree which shows Oliver W Freemantle as the father.

Here they are in 1901 with Ethel b West Ham and Clara about the right age to be Clara Church/Day, b Poplar which is close enough to Limehouse.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...c&pId=15346575

The next stumbling bloc is that Oliver Freemantle and Clara Marsh married in 1890, so who is Clara?

Here's the marriage:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...48&pId=2717673

Woo hoo!! Father of the widowed bride is James Church!!
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So, this is probably the death of your Clara Church:

FREEMANTLE, CLARA SOPHIA 77
GRO Reference: 1932 S Quarter in BILLERICAY Volume 04A Page 508

I can't find her in 1891 or 1911 at the moment, but I've only had time to look for her without any spelling issues!
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and her husband:

ame: Oliver William Freemantle
Estimated birth year: abt 1865
Registration Year: 1909
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Age at Death: 44
Registration district: Mile End Old Town
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1c
Page: 224
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Here's the birth reg for their dau who shows up on the 1901 census (I've not looked for other children)

FREEMANTLE, CICELY MILLICENT mmn CHURCH
GRO Reference: 1893 D Quarter in MILE END OLD TOWN Volume 01C Page 463
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Two half-sisters together in 1911:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...rue&pId=183560
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So, we still don't know what happened to Arthur Day or why Clara was called Marsh in 1890 (no Day/March marriage or Church/Marsh marriage).

I have to stop now!
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