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I have FLORENCE ALDRIDGE (b. 1883) as the informant on her mother's death in May 1903, giving her address as 34 PARKER ROAD, WINTON, BOURNEMOUTH.
Could someone kindly see if she is also there on the 1901 census please? I've tried doing an Ancestry search by address for the first time without success.
TIA.
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I am not getting Parker Road in the Bournemouth District to come up in 1901 - although it IS there in 1911.
Maybe someone else will have some success, OR it wasn't there in 1901 (nor in 1891 either).
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Where was your Florence born please?
There is a Florence Aldridge aged 18, born St Leonards, Sussex - a servant in Sherborne, Dorset in 1901.
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The earliest I can find Parker Road in newspapers is 1903. This is a 1902 map.
Was it Wellington Road pre Parker Road?
https://maps.nls.uk/view/106011303#zoom=5&lat=5308&lon=14245&layers=BT
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What was her mother's name?
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As HT says, Wellington Road maps on to the modern Parker Road
34 Wellington Road in 1901: Henrietta? Covey
34 Parker Road in 1911: Henrietta? Covey
added: on closer inspection the name looks like Fannetta
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1907 map
https://maps.nls.uk/view/105989692#zoom=5&lat=4058&lon=3963&layers=BT
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Thanks everyone for looking, and for what you've found so far. It looks like Parker Road wasn't there in 1901!
It's an extremely messy family story - I'll try to keep it brief.
Her mother was Eliza Middleton b. 1854 Richmond. She was a Nursemaid . On the 1881 census taken 3 April she's a nurse at the Southdown Hotel, Eastbourne. On 23rd May she marries HENRY JAMES ALDRIDGE at Eastbourne Register Office.
Henry James Aldridge is my 2xg grandfather and the black sheep of my family. Changed his name, was with numerous women, fathered lots of children by different women. Changed his name frequently, where he lived and his occupation. In a newspaper report of 1893 (Bournemouth) he is charged with 'neglecting a wife' (Eliza). The court report mentions a daughter (Florence Aldridge, aged 9) and states that from 1881 he and Eliza were to-ing and fro-ing between Bournemouth and Brighton. (He also has a partner of about 7 years living in Brighton with 3 children and another due in Sep 1881!)
I haven't yet found a definite birth registration for Florence, so I can't be sure of her birthplace.
Eliza is on the 1891 census in The Firs Home, Christchurch, Bournemouth with incurable TB.
In 1901 Henry is shown with another woman he calls his wife - and her sister -running tearooms in Woking. On the death certificate where Florence gives the Parker Road address, she states that Eliza is 'the wife of Henry James Aldridge, a Chef from Bournemouth' (how accurate this was is anyone's guess!)
Eliza dies in May 1903, and in September of that year Henry marries the sister of the woman he was living with in Woking in 1903 !
I was hoping that if Florence was at Parker Road in 1901 it would give her place of birth - I've no idea what happened to her while her mother was in hospital all that time, or what happened to her afterwards.
Sorry it's so complicated!
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1891 census
Flora Aldridge b 1883 Bournemouth is a visitor in Holdenhurst, Christchurch in the home of John Waldin b 1832
904/186/26
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1891 census
Flora Aldridge b 1883 Bournemouth is a visitor in Holdenhurst, Christchurch in the home of John Waldin b 1832
904/186/26
Thank you - I'd found that previously and saved as a possibility. It's not far from the home her mother was in.
There's a Flora Colmer b 1887 underneath her entry, I wondered if they were both under guardianship or similar (as her mother was in the home and the father wasn't around). I fund Flora Colmer in 1900, and Reckleford School, Somerset, under the guardianship of a Rev. Lock, so my theory could be correct.
I found an 1883 Eastbourne birth for a Florence Aldridge, but the mother's maiden name was Marchant, not Middleton.
The newspaper reports mention the movements of Henry & Eliza mostly between Bournemouth & Brighton from 1881, until the early 1890s when they go to Cardiff (family connections there), but Eliza returns to Bournemouth and is in the home until her death.
Lots more ferreting about to get on with!
Thanks for your help.
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Baptised Parish of Knighton in Radnor, Wales
on 1 June 1883
Florence Emily Mary Aldridge
d/o Henry James & Eliza Alridge
Father's occ: Painter
Abode: Knighton
Image is on Ancestry
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But her birth was registered...
Florence Emily M ALDRIDGE
Q1 1883 in Hastings v2b p44
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Possibility?
1901 Census - Over Compton, Dorset
Florence Alridge, age 18, kitchenmaid, born St Leonards Sussex
in the household of John R P Goodden (bank director) and family
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Indexed as Florence "Smilie" Marie Alridge on Ancestry
1911 Census, Bridestowe in Kent
Florence Emilie Marie Aldridge, servant (cook), age 27, single, born St Leonards on Sea Sussex
Living in the household of Susan Emily Calmady-Hamlyn (widow, landowner) at "Leawood"
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Dave Francis - thank you....all very interesting, especially that baptism.
Will have a good look at all this over the next few days.
I appreciate your help, and all those who have replied.
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But her birth was registered...
Florence Emily M ALDRIDGE
Q1 1883 in Hastings v2b p44
Eureka! That's her! Checked GRO and when the mother's maiden name of Middleton came up I ordered the digital image there and then - born St. Leonards. Correct parents, father's occ House Decorator (that was his main occupation in the earlier years). He even registered the birth.
So the census you found with the St Leonards birthplace will be her.
The baptism shows father's occ as Painter, too. I'm not suprised with the location of baptism, there were connections with Wales, and he moved around so much.
I can't thank you enough ... this is another brick knocked out of the wall concerning this man and his jigsaw of a life . :)
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Where was your Florence born please?
There is a Florence Aldridge aged 18, born St Leonards, Sussex - a servant in Sherborne, Dorset in 1901.
Thank you - it's turned out to be her! Am almost turning cartwheels - she has been part of an utter jigsaw of a story regarding my gg-grandfather that I've been trying to piece together for years.
I am very grateful to you.