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25-09-21, 10:29
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John and Adeline Billington
This couple were actors.
It's rather convoluted, but my great-great-aunt Fanny Eddy Quintrell married Dr Charles Knott. They met through their association with Portsea Island Workhouse, where Fanny's father was Master. Charles Knott had been previously married, to a lady considerably older than him. Her maiden name was Eliza Jane Harding. Her first husband was George Robinson Bromley, whom she married at Strood, Kent in 1844. In 1881 Eliza is absent from the marital home and can be found with John and Adeline Billington in London. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...0?pId=13985785 Her relationship is given as sister-in-law. I'm struggling to find the connection. John was born at Goole, Yorkshire and Adeline at Southsea. Newspaper articles give her maiden name as Mortimer, but I haven't found a marriage. The only marriage I found was in 1876 for a woman with the surname Carn. 
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25-09-21, 10:35
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Well, Ancestry links me to the baptism of Adeline Harding, parents John and Ellen.
It's on FMP and the father John is a boatswain, the same occupation as on Eliza Jane's marriage. It appears that Eliza and Adeline are sisters. Where did the Mortimer come from?
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25-09-21, 10:36
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Interesting. According to FreeBMD a John Billington and Adeline Harding married at St Pancras in 1891!
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25-09-21, 10:44
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Eliza Jane Harding was born c. 1824 at Deptford, Kent and I have no baptism for her.
In 1841 Adeline appears in Portsea without any family. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...0?pId=13985785
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25-09-21, 12:25
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Is your post on another thread saying something like "mystery solved" intended for this thread, Elizabeth?
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25-09-21, 12:33
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I found another (half) sister - Mary Ann Gibson who married John Furney Brown.
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25-09-21, 12:44
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So is there anything you still want help with?
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#8
25-09-21, 12:57
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Not really, Kate.
I've sorted out the Gibson and Harding families. They moved around a lot as they were seafaring families. Ellen or Eleanor Mortimer (born c. 1784 at Whitby) married first Joseph Gibson in Norfolk. They had a daughter Mary Ann Gibson who later married John Farney Brown, born in Cornwall. Joseph died and Ellen married John Harding in Kent. There were two Harding daughters, Adeline and Eliza Jane. They all appear on the 1891 Census together. Next job is to find Ellen Mortimer's baptism. Then I really should leave them alone!
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