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Hello. I don't have any McWhir connections, but James Byers and Mary Jane Thomson are my great grandparents. Funnily enough, I was just looking at their childrens details this morning and discovered that John Byers was the only one I didn't have any info on. Do you have any more info on the Byers / Thomson connections?

Evie and Willow, in answer to your questions, I don't know if Ethel ever married.  As far as I know, my wife's grandfather fathered Ethel's baby, but Ethel's family didn't wish her to keep it, so he took the baby back to Scotland, as that is where he and his family were from.  So apart from Ethel's name, I know nothing.

It would be good to think that the Ethel mentioned in the 1901 Census was the right one, but she would have been 34 when she had the baby - quite possible I know but I had always thought she would have been 18/19 when she had the baby?  I haven't looked at the 1911 Census yet for Ethel - only the houses mentioned in Bristol.  But I will need to do that.

Thanks again for your comments.

Neil

Hello and this is a long shot.  I'm looking for any information at all on my wife's grandmother, Ethel Emery.  All I have is my wife's mother's birth certificate (January 1916), which gives her mother as Ethel Emery but no details of the father.  Ethel was a general servant at 10 Frederick Place, Clifton, Bristol although she had her baby at 39 Ambra Vale East, Bristol.  Birth registered in the Clifton district of Bristol.

I've already tried the Bristol board, but no luck.  I've tried the 1911 Census for the addresses above and she is not listed at the Frederick Place address (which was a boarding house).  There was a servant there, aged 18, from Timsbury in Somerset.  Now Ethel must have started as a servant by 1915, probably earlier, and a possible theory is that she may have known the previous servant, if she also was from Somerset.  Hence my posting to this board.

A bit of a shot in the dark, I know, but I'm absolutely stumped with this.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Neil

Hello.  Yes, I did look at the 1901 Census.  There was an Ethel L. Emery, aged 19, a domestic servant, living with her widowed mother, Fanny Emery, in Brighton Terrace, Easton, Bristol.  Very little information to go on really, and with almost all my family coming from Scotland, it's quite a bit different looking for someone in England (quite spoilt in fact looking up information on the Scotland Register Office site!!).

Thanks...Neil

Mags, I think we have the same great great grandfather, Robert Johnson.  My great grandmother was Dorothy.  Have just joined this board, but have information going forward on the family, not so much back the way.

Neil