Margaret Annie ADAMSON born Normanby 1885

[Pinetree]

A bit of a long shot but I was wondering if anyone has this lady in their tree.

Her parents were John ADAMSON and Eliza Jane STRUTT.  Eliza died shortly after Margaret was born.

The last "sighting" I have of Margaret is in 1901 working as a domestic servant in York.  I'd love to know what happened to her after that.

There are a couple of possible marriages in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1903 to Joe YEO or Andrew STEEL or in 1907 to Edward ATKINSON or Thomas Henson HARRIS but I do not know if either of these are her.

Any information would be very gratefully received.

Pinetree

[Pinetree]

A bit of an update on this one thanks to 1911 census.

In 1911 Margaret was living at 7 Learoyds Row, Leeds Road, Huddersfield.  She has two children Albert Edward Adamson age 1 and Gwynneth Janet Adamson age 10 months.

Also in the household is Harry Martin b, 1883 in Huddersfield,  Harry and Margaret married in 1916 and went on to have other children.

If this fits in with anyone's tree I would love to hear from you.

Pinetree

[Mr. Tibbs]

Hello there
I have been researching John ADAMSON and his family in the 1911 census today and discovered that he and his wife had an extra daughter: their oldest child, Margaret Annie.  She appears to have been born a year before they married (Dec quarter 1886, Middlesborough) so immediately I suspected that John or his wife Emma Elizabeth WALDRAM had a previous marriage.  Yet, on the 1911 censu, Emma states that she has born eight children and all have survived. There are indeed eight children named on the census.  Now, I am beginning to think that she counts Margaret Annie as her own child even though she is not living with the family in 1901 (in fact, I can't find her in 1901) nor in 1891.  In 1891, if I have it correct, she is living in Bugthorpe named as Annie, with an eighteen year old Harriet ADAMSON and John ABBOT, Harriet's stepfather and Margaret Annie's grandfather.

Quite a rigmarole and I'm not sure that I have the facts right but it may help you.

[Pinetree]

Dear Mr Tibbs,

Thank you for your help with this one.

John was shown as a widower on his marriage to Emma Waldram so I am pretty sure (although I don't actually have her birth certificate) that Margaret was his daughter from his first marriage to Eliza Strutt.

In 1901 Margaret was a domestic servant in York (RG13; Piece: 4439; Folio: 14; Page: 19) listed as Maggie Adamson.

I don't think she ever lived John and Emma, of course I only have 10yr snippets of her life from the census, but information from the family also makes me think this was the case.

Do you have a link to this family at all?

All the best

Pinetree

[Mr. Tibbs]

Hello again, Pinetree

Having read my message again, it doesn't all make sense so here goes:

Linkswise,  there is a tenuous connection but no blood relationship.  My husband is the great great grandson of Alfred WALDRAM (1837), who was the brother of John ADAMSON's second wife Emma Elizabeth WALDRAM.

I failed to mention that I was checking the 1911 census to bring my family history up to date and having reached Emma Elizabeth discovered that since 1901 census, an older daughter has joined them-Margaret Annie-and 9 years after their daughter, Gladys another daughter, Muriel (unless Muriel belongs to Margaret Annie or John and Emma's oldest daughter, Alice). My point of reference was Ancestry.  1911 Census>Yorkshire-East Riding>York>York East>20>315/756.  The no. of schedule is 154, the address 38, St. John St. York.

[Mr. Tibbs]

I'm here again, Pinetree, and thinking that I shouldn't have mentioned my source when chatting. However, I have looked again at the relevant page of the 1911 census that I have used (RG14; piece:28403 is the best I can do for the reference because I don't really know what to look for)AND at Margaret Annie as a teazer with two children as you found.  They appear to be one and the same.  Back to the York address again and, for the first time I have noticed that there is a note in the margin saying that she is away?!  That might explain it.
Regards
Mr. Tibbs

[WizzyMidd]

Hi Pinetree (better late than never …)

I have links with that tree via the STRUTT family and am researching John ADAMSON, his wife Eliza Jane STRUTT and their daughter, Margaret Annie ADAMSON. Yesterday I learned Eliza is buried in a second class grave ref E/161 at Eston Cemetery.

[Pinetree]

Hi WizzyMidd,

Welcome to Rootschat.

Sorry for the late reply but I have only just seen your post.

My family connection is through John Adamson and his second wife so I have not done a great deal of research on the Strutt family.

Eliza's grave in Eston does have a memorial, I will try to attached a copy.  From what I have found Eliza and her elder sister Frances were the only children of Thomas Strutt and his first wife Margaret Clampett that survived to adulthood.  Frances married William Barker in 1871 and died in Rufforth near York on 13 March 1934.  She is buried in Rufforth along with her daughter Frances Elizabeth Barker who died in 1953.

I do have further information on John Adamson if it would be of interest.  What is your connection to the Strutt family?

All the best for now,

Pinetree

[Pinetree]

A bit more on Margaret Annie Adamson.  She married Harry Martin in 1916 at Huddersfield Register Office and died on 29 February 1944.  She is buried at Longwood Wesleyan Methodist Burial Ground, Golcar, along with Harry who died on 26 February 1950.

Pinetree