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Title: Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter
Post by: carzholme on Saturday 11 July 15 19:35 BST (UK)
Any help in finding Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter would be appreciated. 

Fanny Dafter married Berry Houlton Mawer in 1885 in the Bristol area of Gloucester.  (Surname Mawer)

They had a child Fanny Elizabeth Mary Ann Mawer baptised 3 August 1884 at Holy Trinity, Bristol. 

Berry Moore died at Barton Regis in 1893, presumable in the workhouse as he was there in 1891.

My questions are - Did they marry at Holy Trinity, Bristol?  Was anyone named? Where were they living?  Did they have more children?  What happened to Louisa and her child? 

Thankyou.
Title: Re: Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter
Post by: rutht22000 on Saturday 11 July 15 19:53 BST (UK)
There is a marriage between a Henry Houlton Moore and Louisa Dafter on 25 December 1885 at St Matthias, Bristol.

Its only a transcript that I can see at the moment and Henry and Berry could well have been mixed up if the writing is difficult to read.  Henry/Berry son of Peter, Louisa daughter of John
Title: Re: Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter
Post by: heywood on Saturday 11 July 15 19:54 BST (UK)
Hello,
Are you looking for Louisa before and after her marriage?

When you ask if anyone was named, do you mean their fathers?

Here is Berry's baptism, I think.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQ6F-PFG

Regards
Heywood
Title: Re: Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter
Post by: rutht22000 on Saturday 11 July 15 19:59 BST (UK)
Louisa, aged 46, is with Fanny, aged 6, at 23 Hulbert Street, Bristol in 1891 (if she is the Louisa Dafter born in Newport, Monmouthshire?).  Census ref is RG12; Piece: 1982; Folio: 66; Page: 3.

They are down as Moore not Mawer here and sharing the house with a family called Rogers
Title: Re: Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter
Post by: suzard on Saturday 11 July 15 20:02 BST (UK)
There is a marriage between a Henry Houlton Moore and Louisa Dafter on 25 December 1885 at St Matthias, Bristol.

Its only a transcript that I can see at the moment and Henry and Berry could well have been mixed up if the writing is difficult to read.  Henry/Berry son of Peter, Louisa daughter of John

on select marriages Berry is transcribed as Henry Hamilton Mawer!!! father Peter

Suz
Title: Re: Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter
Post by: sugarbakers on Saturday 11 July 15 20:15 BST (UK)
1861 census Anwick, Lincs ... RG9/2342/72

Berry Mawer aged 4, b. Anwick, son of Peter 32 and Elizabeth 31.


** Whilst I have 2 generations of Peter & Elizabeth Mawer of Lincs in my tree immediately before this date, your Peter & Elizabeth do not appear to connect.
Mawer is almost exclusively a Lincolnshire surname.
Title: Re: Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter
Post by: heywood on Saturday 11 July 15 20:17 BST (UK)
'Berti H Moore' in 1881

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X3Y2-9N7
Title: Re: Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter
Post by: carzholme on Saturday 11 July 15 20:26 BST (UK)
Thank you for helping.

Berry Houlton Mawer was baptised at Anwick, Lincolnshire the son of Peter Mawer and Elizabeth Houlton.  Elizabeth is one of my ancestors and because of hitting a 'brick wall' I have decided to try working sideways. 

The marriage at St Matthais Bristol, looks promising, I have used Freebmd and Family Search to help get so far.  In 1881 Berry was at Lincoln with his sister, he was named then as Bertie H Moore.  He was working as a labourer on the railway, which explains how he could have been in Bristol. 

Question why wasn't his wife Louisa in the workhouse?   
Title: Re: Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter
Post by: rutht22000 on Saturday 11 July 15 20:38 BST (UK)
There could be several reasons why Louisa wasn't in there.  If Berry had been ill for some time, it may be that Louisa couldn't look after him and he had go there.

Usually people went into the workhouse through poverty, illness or old age or no family to support them through that.  Getting his death certificate might shed some light on where and how he died and if it was a long term illness.  Its also possible that they could have separated and he had nowhere else to live.

Which workhouse was he in?

Title: Re: Louisa Mawer/Moore nee Dafter
Post by: carzholme on Saturday 11 July 15 20:45 BST (UK)
Thanks rutht22000,

Berry was in Barton Regis workhouse in Gloucestershire on the 1891 census. He was an inmate aged 36 years and a general labourer of Ruskett, Lincolnshire.  Ruskington is a village not far from Anwick where he was baptised with the rest of his family.