RootsChat.Com

Yes.. I backtracked the grandparents Stephen & Elizabeth Stroud through the census and found the girls Martha, Rose & Alice.  In 1901 Martha is living with her parents with her daughter Vera (8m) and she is Martha Westall, wife of a serviceman - so that ruled her out and again, like you said Rose is too young, so I thought that would probably leave Alice..

Well done Cathy  

Forgive me, I am now confused!

Martha Westall, on the 1891 Census was a single woman, working as a servant.  She didn't live with the Strouds at that time.  So, if she was a single woman, she can't be their daughter, can she?  Or her name would have been Stroud?  So maybe there was no husband...

Also, I can't find a birth or death for William Cooper, Alice's maybe husband.  I've spent a couple of days on this now, have ordered certificates but have to wait now!

Hence the fact the children live with their Grandparents?!  That all makes so much sense! 

Thank you.

Craclyn, thank you!  That's where I've been going wrong.  Froxfield is Wiltshire but Hungerford is Berkshire, so they weren't coming up in my Wiltshire searches.  I'll order birth certs for both of them.

Cathy - How did you find all that out?  Thank you!  But it still begs the question; why does Albert have no father on his marriage certificate?  I suppose he could have found out William wasn't his biological father at some point.  And, where were his parents for the census of 1901 and 1911?

Off to do some more looking, thank you both x

Thanks for replying 

I'm sorry, I think I may have been a bit jumbled in my rambling.  I can't actually find an entry on the birth registers for either Albert or Bessie, so I can't order their certificates.