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Title: bertha albina hughes
Post by: pike123 on Monday 10 September 12 16:44 BST (UK)
loking for information on bertha albina hughes born 1872 hellion bumpstead essex found her on 1881 census and 1891 where she was living with her grandmother in hempstead essexafter that nothing until she died in edmonton in aug she was a widow  married name steward.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: KGarrad on Monday 10 September 12 16:53 BST (UK)
Maybe she married twice?

There's this marriage:
September qtr 1891
Edmonton district    vol 3a, page 607

Hughes, Bertha
+ and on the same page +
Bridge, Aaron
Clark, Frederick Nat

A public tree on Ancestry has this marriage for her.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: PaulineJ on Monday 10 September 12 16:55 BST (UK)
What year was her death?
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: PaulineJ on Monday 10 September 12 16:57 BST (UK)
I can't see her birth registration.
Did you have her certificate?
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: PaulineJ on Monday 10 September 12 16:59 BST (UK)
Odd.

Bertha Albina A Hughes   Apr-May-Jun 1872   Risbridge   Suffolk
Berther Albema Morley
[Bertha Albina Morley]    Jan-Feb-Mar 1872   Risbridge   Suffolk
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: PaulineJ on Monday 10 September 12 17:17 BST (UK)
If she wed Aaron then one kid was Rudolph Oscar Bridge.
RG13/1262; Folio: 42; Page: 23

She's b Helion Bumpstead, Essex in that
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: KGarrad on Tuesday 11 September 12 13:01 BST (UK)
1881 census: reference RG11, Piece 1821, Folio 44, Page 27
Boblow Farm, Helions Bumpstead, Essex
(although Registration District was Risbridge, Suffolk)

Sorell, Charles  Head  M  27  Ag Lab  b Hempstead
Sorell, Harriett  Wife  F  34  Shirt Maker  b Helions Bumpstead
Hughes, Bertha  Step Daughter  F  9  Scholar  b Helions Bumpstead
Sorell, Rose E  Daughter  F  1  b Helions Bumpstead

Next door is Walter (42) & Harriet Hughes (38) and family.


Marriage:
December qtr 1872
Risbridge district    vol 4a, page 835

Sorrell, Charles
Hughes, Harriet



And 1871 census:
Reference RG10, 1711, 11, 10
Boblow Farm, Helions Bumpstead

Hughes, James  Head  M  53  Ag Lab  b Helions Bumpstead
Hughes, Harriet  Daughter  Unmarried  F  24  Shirt Maker  b Helions Bumpstead
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: PaulineJ on Tuesday 11 September 12 13:35 BST (UK)
Looks like Aaron lived till 1945.

He apoears to be living with a Bertha up until 1936 (electoral rolls).

What was Bertha's 1937 death showing as usual address?
If she was a widow, it usually states the widow of (Name , Occupation)
What name notified?

I see Percy George Steward was the executor.
Most likely correct PGS has a Elsie May S registered at same voting address.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: pike123 on Friday 14 September 12 10:54 BST (UK)
thanks for your help ,but who was aaron her adress when she died was 200 silver street edmonton and i believe her late husban who died in 1932 was john steward her cousin ellen was married to a john steward  i wonder if she married him after ellen died ,but i cant find when that was .
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: KGarrad on Friday 14 September 12 11:19 BST (UK)
Aaron was , we think, Bertha's husband.

That's because of the marriage we found in September qtr 1891.

A public tree on Ancestry has Bertha's marriage to Aaron Bridge on 10th September 1891.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: pike123 on Friday 14 September 12 11:33 BST (UK)
at last we are finding information on bertha albina when she died in aug 1937 she was buried whith her husband john steward her sousin ellen hughes was married to a john steward  berthas john steward died in 1932 /john and ellen were still married on the 1911census there  son percy did the probate 
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: avm228 on Friday 14 September 12 12:06 BST (UK)
As you say, Bertha Albina Alma Steward died in Edmonton on 28 Aug 1937.

Letters of administration were granted to Percy George Steward - who was John and Ellen's son, born & baptised in Edmonton in 1894.


Could the same John who was married to Ellen later have married Bertha?

(Added: sorry I see they can't actually have married given that Ellen outlived John).
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: PaulineJ on Friday 14 September 12 12:13 BST (UK)
In 1936 electoral roll,

Aaron&Bertha bridge were at 2 Penn St, Angel road ward, Edmonton
Percy George, & Elsie steward were at 96 park Lane, London silver Street ward.

At 200 silver Street, was
Ellen steward
Frances Emily steward
Rose Ethel steward
Ernest steward
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: avm228 on Friday 14 September 12 12:14 BST (UK)
The 200 Silver Street, Edmonton address showing for Bertha at the end of her life was the address of John and Ellen in more than one census.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: PaulineJ on Friday 14 September 12 12:21 BST (UK)
What was the USUAL address on the death certificate?
Who was she shown as the wife/widow of?
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: PaulineJ on Friday 14 September 12 12:40 BST (UK)
JUST to eliminate .

The OTHER Bertha Albina (Morley) appears to have wed Albert Edward Butler in 1894 Cambridge,
but I can't see them in census.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: MaureeninNY on Friday 14 September 12 13:55 BST (UK)
 ??? So who was the Bertha A A BRIDGE who died in Edmonton March Qtr 1952?

Maureen
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: KGarrad on Friday 14 September 12 14:09 BST (UK)
As far as I can tell, we have not yet found a marriage for Bertha Hughes to a Mr Steward?

So, are we chasing the wrong Bertha?
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: avm228 on Friday 14 September 12 14:16 BST (UK)
I think we are chasing the right Bertha but she was lawfully married to Aaron Bridge and never married a John Steward (although a John Steward was married to her cousin Ellen at his death) although she was apparently buried with John. Why her death was registered in the name Steward, and on what basis letters of administration in relation to her estate were granted to John Steward's son Percy, are currently unexplained.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: KGarrad on Friday 14 September 12 14:27 BST (UK)
The 1911 census has Aaron Bridge with his wife Bertha Almasphere Bridge?!

It's the only Bertha I can find, who was born in Helions Bumpstead.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: [Ray] on Friday 14 September 12 16:31 BST (UK)
Hi

For what it is worth . . . . .

Death
Bertha A A BRIDGE 79 years   
Mar 1952 Edmonton 5e 344



Bertha Albina Alma Thea Hughes?


Birth
Bertha Albina A Hughes
Jun 1872 Risbridge 4a 437

Risbridge covers Helion Bumpstead


Ray
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: avm228 on Friday 14 September 12 16:36 BST (UK)
Aargh.

I see that Maureen had also picked up on the 1952 death.

So: is the 1937 death of "Bertha Albina Alma Steward" in fact that of Ellen Steward? With some funny business going on?

Can Ellen be traced alive after 1937? (Or a separate death found)?

Who was the informant on the 1937 death?
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: [Ray] on Friday 14 September 12 16:45 BST (UK)

Alternatives?

Deaths Sep 1937   (>99%)
Steward    Bertha A A    65    Edmonton    3a   703

Marriage?
HILLYER    Bertha Blanche
STEWARD    John        
1937 Mar Mile End 1c 658

Ray
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: avm228 on Friday 14 September 12 17:02 BST (UK)

Deaths Sep 1937 
Steward    Bertha A A    65    Edmonton    3a   703


For those who have not seen them, here are the probate register details corresponding to this death registration:

STEWARD Bertha Albina Alma of 200 Silver-street Edmonton Middlesex* widow died 28 August 1937 at North Middlesex County Hospital Edmonton.

Administration London 4 December 1937 to Percy George Steward grocer's manager.

Effects £92 15s 1d.

*This address was the address of John and Ellen Steward from (at the latest) 1901. They are still there together in electoral rolls up to 1931.  John is thought to have died in 1932. Ellen Steward still appears there in the electoral roll of 1936.  They had a son called Percy George Steward (among other offspring); when Percy married in Edmonton in 1915 he was a grocer's assistant, of 200 Silver Street, son of John Steward, carman.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: pike123 on Monday 17 September 12 15:36 BST (UK)
??? So who was the Bertha A A BRIDGE who died in Edmonton March Qtr 1952?

Maureen
dont think this is the right bertha as she died aug 1937 aged 67
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: PaulineJ on Monday 17 September 12 18:03 BST (UK)
There's no documented evidence in marriages that the 1937 death is the woman born as Bertha albina Hughes.
I'm really at a loss to see why you are convinced that she is.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: pike123 on Monday 24 September 12 14:28 BST (UK)
There's no documented evidence in marriages that the 1937 death is the woman born as Bertha albina Hughes.
I'm really at a loss to see why you are convinced that she is.

i have looked at the church register in  church street cemertary and is says we was burried with her husband john steward who died 1932 i know he was married to berthas s cousin ellenas they grew up together in hellion bumpstead  .perhaps they were living together as i have found ellen on electral roll up yo 1937.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: pike123 on Monday 24 September 12 14:44 BST (UK)
Aargh.

I see that Maureen had also picked up on the 1952 death.

So: is the 1937 death of "Bertha Albina Alma Steward" in fact that of Ellen Steward? With some funny business going on?

Can Ellen be traced alive after 1937? (Or a separate death found)?

Who was the informant on the 1937 death?
  the informant on berthas death was her cousin ellens son percy they were all living at 200 silver street. idont think bertha was married to aaron bridge in 1891 she was living with her grand mother in hempstead essex  there are a lot of hughes in hellion bumpstead.
Title: Re: bertha albina hughes
Post by: avm228 on Monday 24 September 12 14:52 BST (UK)
You'll see from earlier in the thread that the marriage of Bertha Hughes to Aaron Bridge took place in the September quarter of 1891, so it was after the 1891 census.

Did Percy state his relationship to the deceased on Bertha Albina Alma Steward's death certificate? Have you identified in what capacity he obtained letters of administration in respect of her estate?

Have you traced Ellen Steward after 1937?