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Title: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: Betty.W on Monday 27 April 20 15:58 BST (UK)
Could anyone please tell me when Charles Higgs (born c1857) and Sarah Murray (born c1854) also they had a daughter Ellen who was born in 1889. Unfortunately there were two Ellen Higgs's born during the same quarter in 1889 - who were the parents of these two Ellens ?
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 27 April 20 16:08 BST (UK)
Can you give some info re birthplaces please?  Think some of the first line of your post is missing

There is no Marriage on freebmd between a Charles Higgs and a Sarah Murray

You can use the GRO website to check mmn for births

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/Login.asp
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: Betty.W on Monday 27 April 20 16:11 BST (UK)
Birth places for Ellen Higgs
Ellen iggs    Islington and Ellen Higgs Holborn
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 27 April 20 16:15 BST (UK)
There is an 1891 entry for an Edward and Sarah Higgs both 19 - unmarried brother and sister.  A one year old Ellen Higgs b St Pancras is shown as niece to Edward who is head of household.  Sarah could be her mother which means Ellen was illegitimate
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 27 April 20 16:17 BST (UK)
Get the 2 birth references from freebmd then use the link above to check for mmn.  One will have no mmn which is probably the 1891 entry
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: Betty.W on Monday 27 April 20 16:23 BST (UK)
I have already excluded this one. Sarahs maiden name was Murray.
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: Ladyhawk on Monday 27 April 20 16:32 BST (UK)
I have already excluded this one. Sarahs maiden name was Murray.

Have you excluded this Ellen?

Ellen HIGGS, mmn MURRAY
1889  D Quarter in HOLBORN  Volume 01B  Page 679   

a possible sister

Ann HIGGS mmn MURRAY
1885  M Quarter in HOLBORN  Volume 01B  Page 747   

and a possible marriage entry for parents - FreeBMD

Dec 1884 HOLBRON
Frederick HIGGS
Female name on same page
Ellen MURRAY

Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: Betty.W on Monday 27 April 20 16:41 BST (UK)
The first one is a possibility - how can I find mothers first name?
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: Betty.W on Monday 27 April 20 16:47 BST (UK)
Frederick Higgs and his wife Ellen Murray are from a different branch of the Murray's
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: Ladyhawk on Monday 27 April 20 17:34 BST (UK)
There is an 1891 entry for an Edward and Sarah Higgs both 19 - unmarried brother and sister. 

A one year old Ellen Higgs b St Pancras is shown as niece to Edward who is head of household. 

Sarah could be her mother which means Ellen was illegitimate

and a possibility for Edward & Sarah Higgs bn St Pancras on 1881 census with widowed father & siblings

11 & 12, 11, Fortess Mews, St Pancras, London & Middlesex, England
Edward   Higgs   Head   Widower   Labourer   Tring, Hertfordshire
Harry   Higgs   Son   Labourer   Tring, Hertfordshire
William Higgs Son   St Pancras, Middlesex
Isabella Higgs Daughter   St Pancras, Middlesex
Edward    Higgs Son   St Pancras, Middlesex
Sarah   Higgs   Daughter   St Pancras, Middlesex
Mary   Higgs   Daughter St Pancras, Middlesex
Piece 224 Folio   19 Page   32

1871 census shows Edward Higgs born Hertfordshire is married to Isabella age 32
Piece number   244 Folio   70 Page   53

As Carole mentioned you need to find the correct birth entry for Ellen.

You could check to see if you can find a baptism record for the Ellen Higgs born St Pancras from  1891 census to see if her mother is named Sarah Higgs

Don't know if this is the same Ellen as per 1891 census

Ellen HIGGS bn 1890 Clerkenwell London Niece Head of household is Elizabeth  MURRAY
1911c https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWGJ-5B5
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 27 April 20 18:49 BST (UK)
Baptism of Sarah Ellen Higgs born 27.7.1889 St Pancras baptised 9.8.1889  mother Sarah Higgs address Workhouse
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: Ladyhawk on Monday 27 April 20 19:20 BST (UK)
Baptism of Sarah Ellen Higgs born 27.7.1889 St Pancras baptised 9.8.1889  mother Sarah Higgs address Workhouse

Thanks Carole - this would be her birth entry mmn left blank on GRO indexes

Sarah Ellen HIGGS   - 
1889  S Quarter in PANCRAS  Volume 01B  Page 101
Title: Re: Help with the Higgs family
Post by: Lynne Murray on Sunday 16 August 20 15:35 BST (UK)
Hello, the Ellen higgs mentioned b 1890 with Elizabeth Murray in the census is the daughter of Ellen higgs nee murray.  Elizabeth is the wife of Ellen Seniors brother James. This is my family.