Who were their parents?

[Merry]

Interesting.

I've just realised there's a very good reason Clara is not on the 1851 census. Her bap says she was born 31st March and the census was taken on.....

30th March lol

So, you would think her mother might already be at Oval Cottages where Cuthbert Anderson is a visitor on the census:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...cklabel=Return

The other visitor is aged 48, so it would seem unlikely to be her. I wondered about Charlotte Garrett (or Angelina!)?

Originally Posted by Merry

Interesting.

I've just realised there's a very good reason Clara is not on the 1851 census. Her bap says she was born 31st March and the census was taken on.....

30th March lol

So, you would think her mother might already be at Oval Cottages where Cuthbert Anderson is a visitor on the census:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...cklabel=Return

The other visitor is aged 48, so it would seem unlikely to be her. I wondered about Charlotte Garrett (or Angelina!)?

Yes I think I saw her birthdate some time back and I mentioned it and why not on census but I couldn't always open the links because it was the Australian Ancestry and couldn't be bothered to faff about to go back and check as to why I said it.

[KiwiChris]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

Probably he had left money in trust, which changed on death of beneficiaries. Selby Heles were a dodgy lot. A Devonshire family whose ancestors dun my family out of their rightful inheritance.

I don't think that William Cheek Bousfield thought a lot of the Selby Heles either. In his will, if at the time of his death, his niece Margaret Rebekah Clara Anderson was married to William Heles without his permission, then she would get nothing. So she waited until after he died!

[KiwiChris]

Originally Posted by Merry

Interesting.

I've just realised there's a very good reason Clara is not on the 1851 census. Her bap says she was born 31st March and the census was taken on.....

30th March lol

So, you would think her mother might already be at Oval Cottages where Cuthbert Anderson is a visitor on the census:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...cklabel=Return

The other visitor is aged 48, so it would seem unlikely to be her. I wondered about Charlotte Garrett (or Angelina!)?

Minnie Anderson is probably here (hopefully I have made the link readable)
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bi...IxMTE0LjAuMC4w

[suzeeB]

Hello fellow geneaologists
Just found this site and the Bousfield/Anderson ongoing mystery piqued my interest again
I am a descendant of Octavius L W Bousfield,but not done DNA.

[suzeeB]

Sorry should have added Sue B (Barnfather/Bousfield) from New Zealand
Interesting about the Selby Hele's

[KiwiChris]

Welcome to the site SuzeeB from another Kiwi.

I must go back and read through the thread, I had forgotten about them!

[KiwiChris]

Goodness, we did go round in circles! I never did solve the mystery of the parentage of Philip Cuthbert Anderson and how he might link to the Bousfield family!

[suzeeB]

Neither have I. Circles must get smaller over time surely LOL

[KiwiChris]

Just to put this into the thread so it does not get lost

Clara Rebekah Margaret Anderson who married William Selby-Hele appears on the 1880 census in Iowa as Maggie RS, they have a son called William Cuthbert Selby Hele b c1875 Iowa

Margaret Selby-Hele died June 5 1882, buried Iowa