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Can anybody out there help me trace this lady?
She was the birth mother of my father-in-law's Dad, Basil Alwyn, who was adopted by the Randall family.
I'm very curious to find out more about her, even though by law we have no link to her any more.
All I have to go on is Basil's birth cert - born 12th Feb 1926 to Gertrude Miriam Bilton, chambermaid at 'The Horns' Hotel, Braintree, Essex. Legend has it that Basil's father was Gertrude's employer, but this is hearsay, and naturally no father's name is given.
I have no idea how old she was when Basil was born, or where she was originally from, but Basil was born at 700 Hucknall Road, Nottingham....which I have discovered was a workhouse at the time of Basil's birth - presumably Gertrude ended up living there when she found herself 'with child' - so I would expect her to be young, and clearly unmarried.
Can ANYONE shed any light on her? ??? ???
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She probably only went into the Workhouse Infirmary to have the child, not to live there. The infirmary, originally known as Bagthorpe Infirmary, was called City Infirmary from 1930-37, then City Hospital.
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Nottingham/
Stan
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Thanks Stan.
All I have to go on is the cert, which says her residence at the time was 700 Hucknall Road.....
If you're right and she went there just to have him, was she likely to have been from the Notts area originally? It seems a hell of a trek to come from Essex to Nottingham just to have a baby...though I guess if she was trying to keep it hidden from her family.....?
I wish I could track her down.
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hi, basil a bilton mothers name bilton born nottingham derbyshire 1st q 1926
vol 7b,page 747
gertrude miriam tennant died 1982 nottingham born edinburgh 1899 do you think these could be the correct people?
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there is a marriage for a gertrude miriam bilton to a samuel j tennant 4th q 1927 nottingham vol 7b page 937
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YES YES YES!!!
What have you found on 1901??
All I've seen on the FREE index list is a Gertrude M Bilton age 16, dressmaker, in Islington. Other possible Gertrudes, but only one with M initial...though I've learned from experience that initials (or lack of) can mean nothing!!
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Hello
I don't think the islington is the right one......this makes more sense..
Edinburgh St Cuthberts
County: Midlothian
Address: 4 Brougham St
Ella B Bilton 25 Master mariners wife b England
Charles V Bilton 4 son b Edinburgh
Gertrude M Bilton 2 dau b Edinburgh
Nora D Bilton 5 Mo dau b Edinburgh
Ella B Bilton died Basford Nottingham 1962
Charles V Bilton died Nottingham 1967 m Langton in 1925
Nora D Bilton m (1) Carlin 1925 Nottingham
(2) Worsop 1945 Nottingham
died 1979 Nottingham
I'm sure you can see a theme here ............
more to follow
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Intriguing!
I thought it would be the Islington one due to her working down in Essex before having Basil - I was just confused as to why she'd come up to Nottingham.
Now I'm confused as to why she'd go down to Essex to work lol!
In fact, where did you find this 1901 record for her?? The list I've seen has only 6 Gertrude Biltons, and none were born in Edinburgh - that's on 1901censusonline.com
I wait with baited breath for your next message!!
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there is a tree online showing another child born 1922 ....Bernard Valentine Bilton ??
Miriam had further siblings ....
Valentine D born 1903 Grangemouth
Elsie S born 1905 Grangemouth
Phyllis Maud born 1907 Grangemouth
the parents were Ella B Ballan and Charles Bilton who were married in Edinburgh in 1899 according to the tree I have found...Charles Bilton snr died in 1908.....if you are looking for Ella in 1911 have a look in the Sunderland area; her two older children are in Essex at the Royal Merchants Seamens Orphange Wanstead ...if you google it it will come up with a rootschat thread showing how to get further information about the children. I think that is where there is an Essex connection ,
According to the tree Miriam had no further children but there are children from her siblings ........I suspect you are lokking at living relatives here
Charles was living at 302 Hucknall Road when he joined the army i 1916....
I'll see if I can find any records for her parents now.
nesta
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1901 census scotland
ella bilton age 25
charles v age 4
gertrude miriam age 2
nora D age 5 months living at 4 broughton street
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It just occurred to me why I never found it - the census I was looking at is ENGLAND, not Scotland! Doh!! :-[
I can only get 1881 and (at the moment) 1911 for free, so have to rely on helpful peeps like yourselves!
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so she must have had this child out of wedlock
bernard valentine bilton born 4th oct 1922 nottingham mother gertrude miriam bilton
he died in spain 2009
gertrude miriam died 1982 nottingham
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Sorry if I've mis-read any of the messages, but did Gertrude not marry at all then?
If what you've found is right, then Basil's blood half-brother only died shortly after him. Basil passed away in Scarborough in May 2004.
My father-in-law never really got on with his Dad, Basil - apparently he was quite a violent man and my dad-in-law was not at all sorry about his passing as he'd not seen him at all since he was about 18.
I'm not even sure how my dad-in-law feels about me chasing his blood roots, rather than the adopted ones - but I'd like to know a bit more about the family name that would've been mine if Gertrude hadn't given Basil up for adoption....
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gertrude miriams mothers maiden name was
ellen blenkiron ballen born 1882 durham
gertys brothers and sisters were
vincent charles 1887
nora D 1901
valentine deveraux 1902
norah 1903
phylis maud 1906 elsie 1906?
stanley charles redfern bilton 1913 married mary sutherland went to sydney australia on board the P&Oboat ranchie in 1950 died mount elisa victoria australia 2001
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there is a marriage for a gertrude miriam bilton to a samuel j tennant 4th q 1927 nottingham vol 7b page 937
yes she did
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1911 free index
search for Ella B Billon b 1876 resident in Scarborough
search for Miriam Bilton b 1899 Edinburgh in Essex.
Getting a bit tired and my knees are a bit hot from the laptop.....if you want I will get the other census details to you over the weekend.
yes doran - loads of info online about the family and the Nottingham connection ( thanks to you ).
So although Ella put them in the school she obviously kept in touch and they all seemed to have set up home in the same area
Nesta
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Thanks so much - I have so much to look into - but tomorrow, as you say Nesta!
I can't believe you found Ella in Scarborough - if you saw my other post, that is where Basil died!!
Hallelujiah, have you both fixed it for me??
This does make me wonder though - if Basil went back to Scarborough because of the Bilton connection, did he have contact with his blood relatives???? I'll never know now.....
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Interesting twist here
1891 census
Middlesbrough
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Piece: 4010
Folio: 126
Page Number: 25
All born Whitby
William R Bilton 62 head master Mariner
Elizabeth Bilton 57 wife
Charles Bilton 29 single Son Master mariner
Arthur Bilton 24 Widr Son marine draughtsman
Edwin D Bilton 22 single Son mariner
Ella Ballan 15 grand-daughter b Spennymorr
William R Bilton 1 grandson b Middlesbro'
Where did you find the 1913 birth of stanley charles redfern bilton? her husband Charles died in 1908 :-[
I have found Ella B Ballan born 1876 parents George Ballan and Laura Bilton on ancestry family trees and her birth in the Dec quarter of 1875?
N
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after she married mr tennant she had 2 other children
lionel john trevor tennant born 4th june 1928 nottingham he was a merchant seaman and died in germany 1980
then 24 april 1939!! nottingham she had
warren tennant he died nottingham 1980
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samuel jack tennant gertys husband born 1900 nottingham
occupation hotel billiard marker gresham hotel carrington street nottingham
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FREE B M D vol 7b page 897 mothers maiden name ballan
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have now found Ella and her parents in middlesborough in 1881 mistranscribed as Bollon George and Laura.....
Thanks for the bMD info
Goodnight
N
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goodnight :)
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Wow - you two sure have been busy.
Thank you so much for your help - I'm going to try and get some of this down on paper and see if I can make sense of it all :)
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enjoy ;)
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Ella B Bilton died Basford Nottingham 1962
Charles V Bilton died Nottingham 1967 m Langton in 1925
Nora D Bilton m (1) Carlin 1925 Nottingham
(2) Worsop 1945 Nottingham
died 1979 Nottingham
Just writing it all up and was wondering about the bmd records you found for Nora Bilton.
I've seen the first marriage record myself now, but can't see the later one - is this just a possible marriage, or was she now Nora Carlin, marrying a Mr Worsop? Is her death record then in the name of Nora Worsop?
Sorry to keep hassling you both like this - just trying to get it all right in my mind!
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i can see the 2 marriages and would think her death would be with the name worsnop but can't find it i'm going to have another look
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thank you - its so hard when I can't see all the records....hate having to rely on people to do it for me..
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I CANT FIND HER DEATH CARLIN OR WORSOP >:(
lets hope nestagj comes on soon and tells us where she found it
dont worry about asking for help only to pleased to do so ;)
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Hello - can't stop but..................
Nora Douglas Warsop
born 1900
died 1979
its not on freebmd but on the free search on the paid sites.
Nesta
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right found it so warsop worsop i wish the spelling was better save a lot of trouble :)lol
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too right it would - thanks again.
Been looking at a Bilton tree on Google - I may have looked at it before as it seems to ring a bell with me.
It has un-nerved me because it shows Samuel J Tennant married to Gertrude M Bilton - but has her born c1912 in Nottingham!!!!! Can't get any more info from it - it's just somebody's tree, but surely they'd have got confirmation via certs and stuff before posting it on the web???
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not necessarily, if you see some of the trees on anc***ry ::)
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so we could still be talking about the same family - she just has a date wrong??
I hope so...you've done so much work for me and I'm beginning to build up a picture of Gertrude's family....be a shame for it to be wrong :(
I've left a message on the link you mentioned about the Seaman's orphanage to see if I can get contact details for the man who seems to know all about it...hopefully I'll get a reply and can ask him what info he has for 'Gerty'
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i hope that gerty is yours lets hope its not long before he answers you ;)
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Thanks - if I do find out anything I'll post on here (if I remember lol - back to work on monday after six weeks hol so won't have as much time to spend on my trees!)
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oh dear all good things come to an end!!!! sorry you have to go to work ::) :-\
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Hi All
This is Andrea, im Gertrudes grandaughter! Daughter of Lionel J Tennant. Im trying to find more info about her as she died when i was young, i think the info you have (that maybe flakey) is the info i was peicing together many years ago whewn i started this, i have taken it up again!
First! I had, but now cant find, my mothers and father marraige cert, this is where i got the info about jobs places etc, and im sure i retrieved from this that Gertrude was born in durham? no one really knows that much about her, i wish i could find this darm certificate as i have durham and everyone else has scotland. I have never once heard scotland talked about in the family, but do recall her being from up north west. Then again we had no idea either that she had so many eligit children either! shocker!
Secondly im looking for death certificate of her son (my dad) Lionel Jt Tennant known as Trevor my mum divorced him when i was born and me and my brothers would like to find out what happened to him, we THINK he died in germany, but it could be Amsterdam, circa 1980
Lastly since this thread was started a year back can any of the original posters help me shed some light please as im desperate to peice together this tree - and finally find more about my dad resting place.
Thank you
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after she married mr tennant she had 2 other children
lionel john trevor tennant born 4th june 1928 nottingham he was a merchant seaman and died in germany 1980
then 24 april 1939!! nottingham she had
warren tennant he died nottingham 1980
Doran how did you find that Lionel died in Germany?
Sacred G is looking for him as he was her dad !
Carol
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The Original poster,Pocket Dragon hasn't been online since 2 October 2012 ,but as long as she hasn't changed her email address ,should be notified of the most recent responses to this thread.
Carol
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Just a bit of facts about Gertrudes sons, after the two illegitimate boys, she met Samuel had lionel in 1928, then twins in 1934 Warren and Edward,( warren died by committing suicide in 1980, Edward died old age in 2003) she then had gilroy Charles. I remember Warrens death I was 8 it was a shock. My mum spoke fondly of all my dads brothers she also was deeply fond of her mother in law Gertrude who loved her grandchildren and liked to spoil us. She also warned my mum against marrying my dad!!!
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Don't know if anyone is still working on this...ANDREA (SacredG) in particular...
To be honest I had lost the link to this website and thread....I only just found it again.
I've recently started looking into the Biltons again for my father-in-law and have found a wealth of information...and even one of his relatives on Facebook!!! Please, please get in touch!!