Lovett/McQueen Battersea

[Kylee]

Hi all - heres to hoping I have placed this query in the correct section! (I am not from Uk so Im unfamiliar with counties etc but Im learnin!)

My query is for any information on William Henry Richard Lovett and his wife May Madeline Lovett nee McQueen. I have a birth certificate for their son Henry George Lovett born 1911 which states William was an Omnibus Driver and they  resided at 44 Henley St Battersea. I would like to find out if I could anything on William and May if they had any other children (believe there was an Edward Charles son) and William and Mays siblings and parents if the information is available.

Thanking you all in advance

Kylee

[bjo]

Hello Kylee,
I am quite new to the family research too.
In the U.K. our census records are only published after 100 years and so there would not be a census recording the family for your persons birth in 1911.
You could try looking in the last published census for 1901 for the parents if they were either single or married and maybe trace their families back.
We have a Family Records Centre in London that records most births/marriages/deaths from around 1837 to the present day. Obviously you could not come there to search for free.  There are some websites that you can subscribe to that will give you the index of an event and then the only way forward is to order the relevant certificates for these events.
There are electoral rolls for the more up to date stuff in the relevant areas where your family lived, but as yet I haven't quite learned how to use them.
I am sorry I can not be of any help in your quest, but hopefully would have quided you to what is available.  Perhaphs someone with a little more knowledge than myself can guide you further.
Brenda

[Meliora]

Hello, Kylee,

I am very annoyed with myself, I had a long post ready for you with info on you William Henry Lovett & May Madeline McQueen, census years 1891 & 1901 & briths & marriages.
I pushed the wong button & lost the lot, I haven't recovered from Christmas & New Year yet, so bear with me, I will retype it & make sure this time I will not do the same again.

By the way, bjo, 
electrol rolls for Greater London are available at the London Metropolitan Archives,  if you have the name of the street & disrict, there are index books to check for the rolls to order from the Archives, fill in a form, these are collected about every ½ hour, sent down to the Archives when the books are ready for you that are in the Reading Room adjoning the Search room.   

Meliroa

[Meliora]

Hello, Kylee,

Info on William Henry Lovett & May Madeline McQueen

Marriage
Dec ¼  1906   Kingston  2a  823
(Kingston upon Thames, south of the river Thames, Surrey)

1901 census
RG13/69   folio 111  page 30
Langford Road,  Fulham

William Lovett  age 37   Carpet Planner  b  Belgravia(Westminster, north of Thames)
Annie   wife  age 32    b    Camden Town, Middsx
George  son age 11    b   ditto   (north of Thames)
Isabel  dau  age 10   b    Wandsworth (south of Thames)
William   son age 9   b   ditto
Walter Santage ?   age 36 visitor   Bus Driver  b  Camden Town

1891 census
RG12/447   folio 115  page 17
3, Colman,  Wandsworth

William Lovett  age 27     Car conductor  b  Chelsea( same district as Belgravia,Westminster)
Ann C.  wife age 22    b  Kentish Town(same district as Camden Town)
Robert G    son age 2    b   ditto
Isabel   dau age 7mths,   b  Wandsworth

Interesting here that William is down as a Car conductor , also there was a visitor who was a Bus Driver in the 1901 census & son William went on to be  an Omnibus Driver himself.

Possible marriage for William Lovett
Sept. ¼  1887  Pancras  1b  168
 ( close to Kentish Town & Camden Town)

The family for May Medeline McQueen apperas to be complicated by widows remarrying thus creating stepchildren.

1901 census
RG13/606  folio 145   page 26
Croft Rd., Godlaming, Surrey

Henry Jones  age 26     Leather Cutter  b  Northampton
Alice    wife  age 35        b  Northampton
Edith McQueen  step dau age 13   b  Chelsea
Florence  McQueen  step dau  age 11   b   ditto
May  McQueen  step dau  age 10  b   ditto
Henry Jones  son age 5   b  Hants. Southampton
Frank  Jones  son age 3   b  Hants, Portsmouth
Mildred Jones  dau  age 1   b  Surrey, Godalming

1891 census
RG12/669   folio  98  page 12
4, High St., Snodland,  Kent

Thomas Stevens  age 57   retd Ship Inspector b  Hants, Portsea
Eliza A  wife  age 46  Draper & Milliner  b  Northampton
Annie C Walton   step dau  age 20  Dressmaker b  Kent Old Brompton
Amy  Walton step dau  age 19       b   ditto
Fanny  Walton step dau  age 18    Draper's Assist  b  ditto
John H Walton  strep son  age 13   b  Snodland
Alice M M  Walton  step dau  age 11  b   ditto
Nellie  Walton   step dau  age 10   b   ditto
Eliza Jones  mother in law  widow age 73   living on own means,  b  Lancs Liverpool
ALICE M McQUEEN  sister in law age 27   visitor  b  Northampton
Edith A  McQheen  niece  age 3   b  Chelsea
Florence M  Mcqueen  niece  age 1  b   ditto
Emmie M B McQueen  niece  age 3 mths  b  Battersea

Births

Edith Alice McQueen
Sept. ¼  1887   Chelsea   1a  3?8

Florence Beatrice McQueen
June ¼  1889   Chelsea   1a  340

I could find no Civil Registration birth entry for May Madeline McQueen but there was one for
Emmie May B. McQueen
Mar ¼  1891  Wandsworth  1d  585
(I would think these are the same person, a mixup of names somewhere)

I hope this is clear & not too confusing,  if you wish to find siblings for Henry George Lovett, born 1911 Battersea, it would mean searcihng the pay to view site

www.1837online.com

& look thro' the surname Lovett for the mother's name McQueen shown alongside as after this date mother's names were shown.

I would suggest that getting the marriage cert for William Henry Lovett & May Madeline McQueen, Dec ¼1906 as this would give you their father's names & would confirm or not the info I have given you.

This can be purchased online.  price £7,  from
www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificate/index.asp#0

Any problems get back to me.

Have fun   

Meliora

[Kylee]

Wow thanks guys I wasnt expecting a reply so soon! I shall have to get the marriage certificate like you said first then work from there...thanks again for your help!


Kylee