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Title: Did Ada Julia Napier exist?
Post by: Ashnz on Tuesday 17 June 25 03:01 BST (UK)
Hello there :)

I have been doing research on the Napier family who were originally from Surrey - pleas find them here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190039653/william_henry-napier (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190039653/william_henry-napier)

I did find on FamilySearch a record of a tree that seem to show the baptism of a girl named Ada Julia Napier (I will attach) but I cannot trace its source. Can anybody verify this record or anything to state she existed?

Thank you kindly

Ashley
Title: Re: Did Ada Julia Napier exist?
Post by: Dundee on Tuesday 17 June 25 04:28 BST (UK)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGZP-Y8LJ

The baptism was at Holy Trinity, Lambeth, Carlisle Lane.  Indexed on Ancestry as RAPIER and looking at other entries by the same clerk it is hard to say what the first letter is.  It doesn't look like either his R or N. 

Debra  :)
Title: Re: Did Ada Julia Napier exist?
Post by: maddys52 on Tuesday 17 June 25 05:47 BST (UK)
Looking at the Parish record, I think it is RAPIER. The R is very similar to the "Royal Cottage" on the previous page by the same hand - J GILLMAN.

William Henry RAPIER is a civil engineer on the baptism record if that helps.
Title: Re: Did Ada Julia Napier exist?
Post by: LizzieL on Tuesday 17 June 25 08:49 BST (UK)
Ada Julia bapt 1858
William Henry (on the Findagrave website referenced) born 1864
Doesn't fit
Title: Re: Did Ada Julia Napier exist?
Post by: LizzieL on Tuesday 17 June 25 09:02 BST (UK)
Surname Rapier on FindMyPast and on 1861 census
9, Hardings Terrace, Newington,
Mother Julia - Engineer's wife b Haddington, Scotland
Older sister Julia, younger brother Alexander b Lambeth
Ada and sister Julia b Italy. can't find on later censuses.
May be abroad