To theirchild, sorry I don't know your name. My name is Rosie. Although I am quite experienced with Ancestry, Findmypast and a few other sites I have found helpful researching my family history such as freeBMD and britishnewspaperarchive, "RootsChat" isn't something I've really come accross or used. As you can tell by my profile. As such, I really haven't gotten used to using the site and find it a bit confusing. I'm sure it's easy once you know how but I really don't know my way around it. Hence why I have only just come accross your reply to my thread and your message telling me about your reply. (I also have dyslexia which does make things more difficult sometimes). I am sorry it has taken me such a long time to get back to you. Trust me, it isn't you.. I often reply to long written messages in an unusually long time even ones I have seen straight away because it takes me a while to take in all the information.
I would like to thank you so much for taking the time to research the baptisms.. especially trawling through to 1924 to find Frederick John and John Ernest. You were so thorough, including other baptisms with the name Rensch (who are all related to me). And including all the details word for word. Having the confirmation of names, birth dates, parentage as well as address and occupation of the father gives such a good insight into my family research.
The first baptism, Charles Henry b 1907 is my mother's Grandfather who she remembers well. He and his two siblings were orphaned, and he was in a boys home as a child. At some point he moved to Southampton and married my Great Grandmother in 1932. I believe that him, his brother and sister were all sent to different homes and very possibly didn't have contact again. He was about 10.
Although their mother died in 1917 and their father was in Her Majesty's Army I don't know why the children couldn't stay with an aunt or uncle, or their father couldn't take them when he returned. (It was an aunt who took them to the Hackney Union Workhouse, from where they were transfered to Homes). The story as passed down through the family is that their father died on a boat coming back from the war.. but I have searched high and low for a death record and the only one I can find possibly matching Arthur is in 1961.
Frederick John was a driver and garage worker, who lived in Essex and Ethel Rosina was a Loom Weaver, living in various places in London before marrying Leonard Harding and dying at an old age in Sussex. John Ernest unfortunately died the same quarter and year he was born. Seeing as his mother also died in 1917, i thought perhaps their deaths are related but I haven't looked into their death certificates. The last 3 entries you found were children of 2 of my GGGx Uncles.
With Regards to Frederick John and John Ernests baptisms, I have found this page on St Barbanus, Homerton Records (
https://aim25.com/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=15153&inst_id=118&nv1=search&nv2=).. would the reference code for those records be GB 0074 P79/BAN1?
I would like to thank you again, wholeheartedly, for your time, effort and research. It really is very much appreciated.
PS. Rensch is the surname my family have used, but since I've researched them, on multiple records for the exact same people (for multiple people throughout time).. the name has at multiple times been recorded as Reusch (and at other times Rensch). Even with fairly recent family members, such as my Great Uncle. Unfortunately there is no one now to ask why.. do you have any ideas (or any one else reading this?)
I have traced the line back to a Hermann Heinrich (or Henry) Conrad Rensch (or Reusch) who married Maria Anna Langvillie (surname difficult to read so may be incorrect) in 1771, Christ Church, Spitafields. Hermann was my 7x Great Grandad. Due to their names and that they were in another record members of a German Lutheran Church I believe they (or at least Hermann) were originally from Germany but have no other records of them (apart from the baptisms of their 2 children in Spitafields). If any one has any idea how I can find out more, that would be gladly appreciated.
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