Maud Medlock - birth registration? - Page 9 - Genealogists' Forum

kiterunner · #81 05-10-19, 16:36

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Originally Posted by Phoenix

Clearly something wrong with the dates, and the transcriber could not make out the address either. Coventry?

Ah yes, now we know it should be Coventry, it is clearly Coventry on the tiny image!

https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.u....aspx?ID=51962
(image no 49)

kiterunner · #82 05-10-19, 16:40

Here is a William Taylor, mechanic, in Coventry in 1901:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...=successSource

Phoenix · #83 05-10-19, 16:53

For the record, Edith May's mother was Sophia Mary (or May) Middleditch.

She went through three husbands, starting with Frederick George Mortlock, before ending up in Cane Hill Hospital in 1939.

Merry · #84 05-10-19, 17:04

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Originally Posted by kiterunner

Here is a William Taylor, mechanic, in Coventry in 1901:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...=successSource

And in 1911 he is a cycle frame filer, still in Coventry at 125 Lower Ford St.

Merry · #85 06-10-19, 07:56

I doubt there was a huge need for a loco engine fitter/mechanic in Bulmer; perhaps far more so in Coventry!

I noticed the Medlock's address in 1901 was 138 Station St East in Coventry, but this street seems quite a way from a railway station today. Was there ever another station?

EDIT was it near the (now closed) Coundon Road station? I was just wondering where she might have met Mr Taylor a few months after the 1901 census. Of course we don't know where she was employed as a domestic cook.

Merry · #86 06-10-19, 08:10

Hmm, if that station was where Coundon Road is now, then it's not near the 1901 address either. I know walking a mile or two wouldn't be a big deal, but it does seem odd to have a Station St not near a station!

Merry · #87 06-10-19, 08:12

Station St West is also on the east side of the railway line, so was the line originally further to the east?

Merry · #88 06-10-19, 08:20

Or were the streets named because of a tram line/station?

Anstey Nomad · #89 06-10-19, 09:02

Station Street East/West is nowhere near a station now, but there may have been one in the area in the past. I'm now trying to find out.

It's not quite the same now because of development, but Lower Ford Street was just round the corner from Cox Street - literally.

Anstey Nomad · #90 06-10-19, 09:05

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foleshill_railway_station

This could be the answer.