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Offline MKG

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Filling an 1851 hole *COMPLETE*
« on: Monday 24 November 08 12:11 GMT (UK) »
I now have an almost complete picture of my GG grandmother, Isabella Magee (or McGee or McGhee) - with help from you lovely people. In 1841, she was a 5-year old inmate of Berwick Workhouse. In 1861 she was married to my GG grandfather, Thomas Kyle McLeod, and living in Spittal.

Can anyone help me with the 1851 gap - where was the 15-year old Isabella?

Thanks ... Mike
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Re: Filling an 1851 hole
« Reply #1 on: Monday 24 November 08 12:28 GMT (UK) »
nothing obvious - where was she born?
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: Filling an 1851 hole
« Reply #2 on: Monday 24 November 08 12:32 GMT (UK) »
In my index to Berwick 1851 Isabel McGee 15 born Berwick was a house servant.
HO107/2421 folio 372.

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Re: Filling an 1851 hole
« Reply #3 on: Monday 24 November 08 12:34 GMT (UK) »
She was born 21 October 1835 in Spittal. As she was brought up in the workhouse, which pushed girls towards domestic service, I wondered if she could have been working outside the Berwick area - not too far outside, though, else she would never have met Thomas.

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Re: Filling an 1851 hole
« Reply #4 on: Monday 24 November 08 12:35 GMT (UK) »
Graham - that looks like her. Is there any more detail there?

Mike
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Re: Filling an 1851 hole
« Reply #5 on: Monday 24 November 08 12:37 GMT (UK) »
The index I have doesn't allow more detail, but someone could probably look up the reference number I gave to see the family she was servant to in Berwick

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« Reply #6 on: Monday 24 November 08 12:47 GMT (UK) »
The full reference is HO107/2421/372/7

Isabel (enumerated as Isabl) McGee is a house servant to a Samuel Fisackerley, 32 b Scotland, house carpenter & auctioneer employing 5 men, his wife Helenor (sic) and their five children aged 1-11. There are no other servants in the household.

The address is simply given as "Castlegate".

Anna :)
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Filling an 1851 hole
« Reply #7 on: Monday 24 November 08 13:03 GMT (UK) »
Spot on, Anna.  :D

Thanks a lot everyone. Job done!

Mike
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