Welcome to this weeks Scavenger Hunt, pjbuk thinks it's a bit humdrum, I think you'll get stuck into it!!!
Good Luck and Good Hunting.
Barbara
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This has become a little less of a mystery this very day, see below, but I have been trying to unravel the lives of my maternal g grandmother, Annie Louisa Ellen PERRETT and gg grandmother, Eunice Ann PERRETT for ages.
Eunice Ann PERRETT b Wickwar, Gloucestershire, 14 Dec 1857
Her parents were John PERRETT, labourer and Ann PEARCE. John was in Horsley Jail in 1851! This PERRETT line has been researched and there are trees going back on the net. I have not PROVEN any ancestors myself, but have finally got round to joining the PERRETT society, so will be learning more soon. But going forward….
I have Eunice with family in 1861 and as a servant in Wickwar in 1871 (RG10 2582 7 5). The name is Unice on both these.
In 1881 she is a cook at the Great Western Hotel, Newquay, Cornwall (RG11 2296 81 2)
On 18 Feb 1882, back in Wickwar, she gives birth to Annie Louisa Ellen. No father on cert and occupation servant. Speculation as to whether a posh guest could have impregnated her (Oscar Wilde stayed at the Great Western!!)
On 27 Aug 1882 Eunice Ann PERRETT marries James STRANGE (widower, labourer, resident of Newhaven; father Edward STRANGE, deceased). Marriage in The Parish Church, Newhaven, Sussex. Witnesses Harriet PERRETT and John PERRETT, labourer who is also given as bride’s father.
What are they doing in Sussex? Could he be Annie’s father? When Annie marries William TRASK in Cardiff in 1900 she gives her father as John PERRETT, labourer, deceased. So I think her Dad will never be known, and did the deed when Eunice was at the Hotel.
The plot thickens….. on 1 May 1895 a daughter, Eunice May, is born to Reuben STRANGE and Eunice Ann Strange (formerly PERRETT), at Inglestone, Hawkesbury, Gloucs. Eunice May dies aged 10 weeks, from congenital syphilis!
So, which STRANGE is the daddy? I cannot find James STRANGE, Reuben STRANGE, Eunice Ann or Annie Louisa Ellen in the 1891 or the 1901 (for the first three). There is an Annie PERRETT boarder aged 9 at RG12 1922 34 22 and a Annie E PERRETT niece at RG12 1994 81 17 in the 1891. Could the STRANGES be in a workhouse somewhere?
The congenital syphilis made me think that Eunice Ann must have been infected and died. But lo and behold, the 1911 for Wales comes online and there she is, large as life, with Annie and my grandmother;
William TRASK 40 Quarry Labourer b Dinas Powis
Annie TRASK 30 b Wickwar
William TRASK 9 b Cadoxton
Adeline TRASK 6 “
Eunice TRASK 3 “
David TRASK 1 b Cadoxton
Eunice STRANGE 53 widower b Wickwar
Albert STRANGE 17 labourer b Wickwar
So I looked again for Eunice’s Death Cert and it came today.
Eunice Ann STRANGE d age 65 10 Aug 1922 of inoperable colon cancer. A E STRANGE (son) is informant. Eunice is a certified midwife, wife of Reuben STRANGE, general labourer.
So, where were they in 91 and 01? Who is Reuben, and who is James? Can the 1911 info help to work out which of the many Gloucs STRANGEs married Eunice?
NB there is another, posher Eunice PERRETT from Western Super Mare who is not mine! For extras, can you find the deaths of my Grandmother’s siblings?
