windsor - Rosina Skinley

[Necromancer]

Tati showed you all the lady's claimed PoBs - not at all unusual to see one off beam - depends on who filled in the Enumeration Form...

Just looking at the censuses where she's identified, we have:

1901 : age 52 born Windsor
1891 : age 41 born Swallowfield 
1881 : age 32 born Swallowfield
1871 : age 23 born Farley Hill 

So I think the Roseena Skingsley age 2 in Swallowfield in 1851 looks pretty good (HO107/1693 61 9)

[Tati]

Yes, I'm pretty sure she's the same person.

Have you managed to identify your Skeldon family in 1891 (RG12/4377 10 12) and 1881 (http://www.rootschat.com/links/065w/), when they're in Wales and when Rosina says she was born in Swallowfield?

[sephton]

I thought it may be useful to share with you the hours I spent yesterday up a wrong turning I think. On the 1901 cnesus I found Eliza Skinley living with Arthur and Fred bot her sons, Rose her daughter, mother in law Elizabeth and visitors Martha Bezznt abd George and Edmund Etheridge, both adult womwn were widowed and the were living at 27 Aspinden Road, Rotherhithe. I got all excited thinking Rose could have been Rosina but realised that the birth date was too late, 1883 and she was born in Newcastle on Tyne, although her brother was born in Windsor, so it may be that they are somehow connected they did tend to stay with the same names in families didn't they, perhaps an aunt, uncle, cousin or some such

[sephton]

Thank you for this link yes this is her, I knew George was a policeman but was sacked for being inebriated, previous to this my mother says he was a gamekeeper in Foy in Herefordshire.
So I can possibly look for her earlier now so I can identify her parentage?

[Tati]

1851
HO107/1693 61 9
Swallowfield, Berkshire
Arthur Skingsley, head, 54, Pensioner, b. Essex Hieson?
Margaret, wife, 32, b. Kent Woolage?
Harriett, dau, 11, school, b. Swallowfield
Cornelius, son, 9, school, b. do.
Samuel, son, 4, school, b. do.
Roseena, dau, 2, b. do.

[Tati]

I really can't find her under her full name in 1861 - wondering if this is her ...

1861
RG9/752 43 32
Wargrave, Berkshire
District School (an orphanage, maybe? )
R S (female), 12, scholar, b. Swallowfield
C S (male), 8, scholar, b. do. (there's a Calvin Skingsley registered in Sep 1851, shown on later censuses as born Swallowfield)
W S (male), 7, scholar, b. do.

 

[sephton]

Harriett, Arthur and Samuel are all names of children of George and Rosina so it feels right as though she named her children after her brothers and sisters, no more Cornelius's though!

[Orpheus]

The District School at Wargrave was a boarding school belonging to both Reading and Wokingham Unions.  Rosina and her siblings were probably there because their father had died in 1853 (Arthur SKINGSLEY, December Qtr 1853, Wokingham Registration District, 2c 725) and their mother might also have died or been resident in the Wokingham Union Workhouse.

Orpheus

[sephton]

Thanks  I do hope this is the right one, I have Rosina, or Rosmeena born at so many different places, all in Berkshire but she really changed her mind everytime a census was filled in!!!
If I get a copy of her marriage certificate, which I know is the right person will it give me her fathers name?