Charlotte Searle

[HarrysMum]

It's on FreeBMD

Dec 1901 Holborn. 1b 1210

[HarrysMum]

Looks like Bridget wasn't born either.....lol

[kiterunner]

Oh well, don't worry about her.

[HarrysMum]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Oh well, don't worry about her.

lol.....I'm not now...I'm off to bed.

[kiterunner]

And I've got to go shopping, thanks for all your help.

[Merry]

Charlotte senr was 42 in 1881, 45 in 1891 and 51 in 1901, so it's hard to know how old she might be at death! However, if this isn't her I'm not sure who this person is? I don't see a likely match in 1901 though I've not looked at Charlotte to Searle marriages between 1901 and 1904.

Deaths Sep 1904
Searle Charlotte 51 Holborn 1b 425

I wondered if Thomas Hopkins and possibly also her children thought she was legally the widow of Wm Searle and so registered her as such?

Not that it helps one jot with the birth regs for her children

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Merry

I wondered if Thomas Hopkins and possibly also her children thought she was legally the widow of Wm Searle and so registered her as such?

Or she was no longer with Thomas by then and had changed her name back to Searle.

I've found Thomas Hopkins' marriage to Sarah, 25 Dec 1868, St Pancras Church, Thomas Hopkins Junr, bachelor, Piano Forte Maker, father Thomas Hopkins, painter, and Sarah Ann Rourke, spinster, father Martin Rourke, smith, deceased. There's a possible death for Sarah in Hackney in 1883 - Sarah Anne Hopkins age 34, so the age is a bit out, but if her death was registered without the Ann there are too many possibles.

(Edit) found a couple of possibles for Sarah on the 1891 census - there's a Sarah A Hopkins age 43, married, born Euston, living Clerkenwell that could well be her.

[Merry]

Would Sarah have easily 'escaped' from the establishment she was in in 1881?

I had another go at cross referencing the three lots of birth regs, but knowing I have (like you) often seen records where the year is one off, made it difficult to focus!!

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Merry

Would Sarah have easily 'escaped' from the establishment she was in in 1881?

I don't know, but maybe she was only temporarily paralysed? Anyway, if that death you found is Charlotte, it doesn't look as though there is a marriage between Thomas and Charlotte to look for, so I suppose the date of Sarah's death isn't really relevant.

[Merry]

True.

What else can we do? Do you think what you have is enough to prove what seems to make sense?