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Can anyone help - I am looking for the whereabouts of Rose Elizabeth Eileen Collis. She was born in Epsom in 1906 and was known to have lived there until at least 1915, she then seemed to disappear until turning up in Bognor Sussex in 1927. if anyone can shed any light on where she was between 1915 and 1927 it would be absolutely wonderful.
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I can see her baptism in Epson in 1906, but not her birth.
Have you got that record?
When she 're-appeared' in 1927, was she married, and what was her occupation?
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For ref:
Marriage
Rose E E Collis
Spouse Thomas L Baker
Registered Jan-Feb-Mar 1927 at Westhampnett Sussex
Volume Number 2b Page Number 665
Dies 1957 in Chichester?
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Hi the birth reg was Rose Elizabeth E COLLISS Epsom 2a 28a
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Her fathers Probate died at 2 Portland place Lintons Lane Epsom Admimistration to Edith Mary Collis widow
Henry Joseph Augustus Collis
Probate Date:
11 Oct 1949
Death Date:
31 May 1949
Name gleaned from Rose's baptism record
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By disappeared do you mean that people at the time didn't know where she was? Is there any reason to think she wasn't with her parents in Epsom?
It would be surprising if she had left home in 1915 aged about 9. Was there a family upheaval at that time?
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The address given on Her fathers Probate is very close to 1911 address , and from his occupation , it doesn't seem as if Rose was sent away to boarding school !
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Parents' marriage was Dec qtr 1904 Croydon.
Henry Joseph A E Colliss
Mary Eliza Milsom
Their last child appears to be Henry F T Collis mmn Milsom, born & died Epsom 1914.
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By disappeared do you mean that people at the time didn't know where she was? Is there any reason to think she wasn't with her parents in Epsom?
It would be surprising if she had left home in 1915 aged about 9. Was there a family upheaval at that time?
I did notice that her mothers name on Baptism is Mary Elizabeth, but Henrys probate gives the widows name as Edith Mary maybe there was a separation and Rose went with Mum ??
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A wife Edith first appears with a Henry Collis at 6 Nonsuch Cottages, Epsom in the 1924 electoral roll.
Henry was at that address (as Harry) from 1921, but without a wife's name listed until Edith's first appearance in 1924.
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Perhaps they married as Henry E Collis and Edith Knowles, Sep qtr 1920 Epsom?
Not at all sure these are the right people.
Better for yscollis to come back & tell us what is known of the family after 1911, I think.
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Perhaps they married as Henry E Collis and Edith Knowles, Sep qtr 1920 Epsom?
Not at all sure these are the right people.
Better for yscollis to come back & tell us what is known of the family after 1911, I think.
Did you get a PM from Yvonne (yscollis) ? The marriage in 1904 Croydon is the correct one , Rose's mother died in 1914 , and they moved in with Emma Collis ( Henrys mother, but she died , Henry went off to war , and Rose' disappeared' till marriage in 1927 She didn't return to her father after the war or stay with him with his second wife Edith . So you were correct in the 'upheaval' theory
I suspect that as she was a child someone either 'took her in' , or the authorities sent her to a home till she was older then she probably went into service