:Thank you for replying...
Maysie Anna, born Aug. 1905, was the illegitimate daughter of Nellie (Boote) STRATFORD. Maysie was born in New Shoreham Sussex and I have her birth Certificate. Obviously Nellie never told Thomas, her husband whom she married in 1906 about Maysie Anna.
Thomas was posted to Ireland in 1906 to Curragh Co. Kildare with the 20th Hussars.......I found Thomas's Army records and he had listed all his dependants which were Nellie, Maud Nellie, Olive Norah, Leslie Dick and Sadie Josephine but Maysie Anna was not mentioned......what I'm hoping to do is to seek the 1911 Co. Kildare Census to determin if Maysie Anna was with the family or not.
If she's not there, then I'm slowly breaking down my brick wall and she could very well be my mother in law who came to Canada in 1907 under a different name and was raised by Nellie's older brother Arthur and his wife.
Maysie Anna aka is Hilda May....hope not to confusing.
I'll keep looking for the 1911 census on their web site.
Thanks again for your help
Cheers
Dave