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Leicestershire / Re: Mary JACQUES Hinckley 1785-1865
« on: Sunday 20 September 09 16:20 BST (UK)  »
Dear Xin, thanks for your efforts on my behalf. Mary was born (in Germany or France) in 1785 and died in Hinckley in 1865. We do not know when or where she got married (definitely not in Leicestershire, we checked) but her husband William had already died before 1841. By the way, the name is sometimes also spelled JAQUES. Best regards ! PS I am not a member of Ancestry, unfortunately.


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Huntingdonshire / Re: Emma MERTON (also TESTER) 1901
« on: Sunday 20 September 09 12:30 BST (UK)  »
Dear Anna and StevenG, thanks very much to your both for your help. Interesting about the glitch on Ancestry! It seems though, that there was no husband with Emma on the 1891 Census, only her and the children. I do hope you are right about the paternity situation, Anna, for Emma's sake ! She certainly seems to have been a colourful lady, and Peterborough is a long way from Sussex...

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Huntingdonshire / Re: Emma MERTON (also TESTER) 1901
« on: Sunday 20 September 09 12:17 BST (UK)  »
Dear Anna,

Thanks. Yes, there is something strange about all this. They are indeed all her children but for some reason she has them redesignated on the 1901 Census as her siblings! On the birth certificate for her first child (John Berresford Wellesley Tester) the father shown is in fact Emma's own father! Perhaps this is why she got out of Sussex and moved to Peterborough, i. e. to escape "Fritzl" style abuse ?? The Merton thing is a complete unknown, however, and your guess is as good as mine. Little Edna is Peterborough-born and we think that her father is my grandfather. They all move to Nottingham in 1903 and live happily together there for years afterwards. Best regards.

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Huntingdonshire / Re: Emma MERTON (also TESTER) 1901
« on: Sunday 20 September 09 11:47 BST (UK)  »
Dear Woody,

Thanks for your comments. We know it is the same lady because she took the kids with her to Nottingham and their names in subsequent censuses there match with the ones shown in the 1901 Peterborough Census entry.

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Huntingdonshire / Emma MERTON (also TESTER) 1901
« on: Sunday 20 September 09 11:26 BST (UK)  »
1901 Census shows "Emma Merton" living in Star Road Peterborough with siblings. Her real name was Emma Harriet TESTER, however, and she was originally from Sussex. Why was she in Peterborough in 1901 and why under the name of Merton? She then moves to Nottingham around 1903 with my grandfather Alfred Rollings Sheffield and reverts to her name of Emma Tester. Can anyone help, please? Many thanks.

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Leicestershire / Mary JACQUES Hinckley 1785-1865
« on: Sunday 20 September 09 11:20 BST (UK)  »
Am searching for information on my great-great-great grandmother Mary JACQUES, wife of William Jacques. Shows herself as born in Germany on 1851 Census and then as born in France on 1861 Census. She died in Hinckley in 1865.  Have so far failed to identify her maiden name (she was not married in Leicestershire either, apparently) or where she came from in Germany or France. Can anyone help, please? Thanks very much.

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Northamptonshire / Re: Alfred Rollings Sheffield -Marriage and/or death
« on: Sunday 13 September 09 20:39 BST (UK)  »
Dear cousin,

Have just emailed you with info + photos.

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Northamptonshire / Re: Alfred Rollings Sheffield -Marriage and/or death
« on: Sunday 13 September 09 19:26 BST (UK)  »
Dear relative POSHIMP !

I am the grandson of Alfred Rollings Sheffield. He moved to Nottingham around 1902/3 with a lady called Emma Tester (also known locally in Peterborough - on Star Road - as "Emma Merton", don't ask me why!). On the 1911 Census he describes himself as "Alfred Tester" - that is why you couldn't find him. They finally marry in 1915 when the family name becomes SHEFFIELD. There are a few of us Sheffields in Nottingham and if you look up BT phone Book you will find several Sheffields  dispersed around the county of Cambridgeshire, though no more in Peterborough itself from what I can see. I would like to know WHY Alfred Rollings Sheffield left Peterborough to go to Nottingham - does anybody know?

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