Rosina Baker b 1842 - Genealogists' Forum

Phoenix · #1 12-03-10, 16:58

Rosina Ann Couzens (on the Freebmd scan she has an illegible third name - possibly her father's) was born in Portsea in 1842, daughter of Rosina.

Her mother married Edward Dodge in 1844, so in 1851 she is living with them (as Rosina Dodge) in Chance Row, Portsea aged 9.

In 1861 she is with her mother's new husband, Reuben Russell in Oxford St, Portsea (as Rosina Dodge) aged 19.

In 1862 she married William Henry Jones (as Rosina Couzens).

In 1871 she is in Brighton Street, Portsea as Rosina Jones, sailor's wife.

In March quarter 1880 she marries Walter Baker.

In 1881 she is in Arundel Street, Littlehampton as a monthly nurse.

And then she vanishes.

I thought she had died, till I found on the 1911 census:

Rosina Ann Baker aged 71, widow, maternity nurse, born Landport.

And Rosina A Baker dies in Portsmouth in 1930, aged 86.

So where is she in 1891 and 1901?

Help, please!

ElizabethHerts · #2 12-03-10, 17:05

Phoenix, her third name looks like "Kenderine". It's fairly clear on FMP.

Sue from Southend · #3 12-03-10, 17:15

I think this is her in 1901

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...00896&recoff=4

If you look at the original image it's clearly Mrs R A Baker not M U R Baker the 58 yr old daughter of a 45 yr old man!!

Still looking for 1891!

Sue from Southend · #4 12-03-10, 17:24

A possible for 1891. Could she have gone by the name Ann?

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...739&recoff=1+3

It's the closest I've found....

Phoenix · #5 12-03-10, 17:35

Hi Sue. I've got fmp, not ancestry. Do you have a ref for either of those entries?

Sue from Southend · #6 12-03-10, 17:43

1901 = Class: RG13; Piece: 980; Folio: 57; Page: 56 (transcribed on FMP as My R A Baker)

1891 = Class: RG12; Piece: 856; Folio 103; Page 13; (transcribed on FMP as Ann R Bakar)

Hope it helps!

Phoenix · #7 12-03-10, 17:54

It does indeed! Thank you very much! Having found her in Littlehampton, in 1881, instead of being cosily shacked up with hubby, I did wonder which counties she might have wandered into.

But those two are definitely her, safely back in her old stomping ground.

I felt that has a monthly nurse, she would have to demonstrate respectability & not change name, but she was sadly mistranscribed. She should, of course, be Boarder, not daughter!