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Title: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: sarahbeth on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:00 BST (UK)
Hi, can anyone give a guess at the fourth name down? It's transcribed as Abia, and certainly looks like that, but I can't find any birth for an Abia Cartwright, and she doesn't show up on any future census, or death records. 
 The spelling is quite bad, as the other names are Thomas, Louisa and Silvanus, but if this is a spelling mistake, I can't think what else it might be ???
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/sarah85/silvanus1851.jpg)
Title: Re: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: Necromancer on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:02 BST (UK)
Alice
Title: Re: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: kerryb on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:02 BST (UK)
Hi Sarah

Can't see any other L but it's not Alice spelt Alise is it?

Just a guess.

Kerry
Title: Re: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: sarahbeth on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:06 BST (UK)
Blimey! yes, I can certainly see Alice now you've said it! And look at the l in Silvanus directly above it!
Thank you thank you!
Off to hunt for Alice now lol!
Title: Re: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: Necromancer on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:11 BST (UK)
wondered about Elise too ..... cant see either in the Stourbridge District tho, nor any 'Female' .....
Title: Re: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: Tati on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:15 BST (UK)
Another vote for Alice


 :)

Title: Re: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: Necromancer on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:20 BST (UK)
cant see the Family in 1861  :(
Title: Re: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: Tati on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:25 BST (UK)
Maybe Louisa aged very slowly and they're at RG9/2067 30 8  ;)

(... but the girl isn't there  :P)

Title: Re: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: sarahbeth on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:34 BST (UK)
This is them in 1861, Louisa is now a widow, with three extra children. Oh, and by 1871, she married the lodger ;D
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/sarah85/silvanus1861.jpg)
Title: Re: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: sarahbeth on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:36 BST (UK)
Oops, sorry Tati, I didn't see your post x
Title: Re: Help needed reading name on 1851 census
Post by: sarahbeth on Tuesday 12 August 08 17:39 BST (UK)
The Dorcas in 1861 is another mystery, cant find any trace of her either ???