India: Help please with Baker 1880's West Bengal

[hepburn]

Hi Chris,
          are you happy with this lot so far......Whats new your end..

[chris2705]

Hi

Sorry been away from this for a little while. So from the top:

-I think that there must be a few relatives out there as my G, Grandmother Ethel Sheppard was one of 11 children but I have no idea as to what became of any of her siblings, so I am sure there are a few to add to the Christmas card list!
-I have got them on 1851 and 1861 (have a nose through my Ancestry tree to see where I have got to)
-"Fewkes" and "Fenkes" both appear depending on the index but seems to be the same chap. It does not help either that his wife appears as "Boroden" and "Bowden" as well.
-I had George back to the Coventry Bricklayer as well but not gone any further. I will have a look at the IGI records as I had completely missed these.
- I am amazed at how much you manage to turn up!

It is interesting that a great number of the streets in Fenton had their names changed in the 50's. Was there a reason for this?

Take care and thanks again

[hepburn]

Hi Chris,
          they seemed to be changed all over Stoke,I don't know why.


Gosh it's been so long since you've been on, Ive forgotten where we up to..

[chris2705]

Not much progress really on the Baker side. We are stuck with trying to find the marriage of WHB and Helena. Lou has found half a match in Ireland but we are working on the idea that they were married by an army chaplain either in England or India. The GRO are not being terribly helpful and much seems to rest on going to Kew to try to find her father Patrick's army records for a clue as to where Helena might have been at the time.

I have not heard back from Cedric's daughter so nothing new to report there.

I have also been doing a bit of work on my grandmother's line which has proved quite fruitful as I have managed to find the first two family graves (cheerful subject!)

[chris2705]

Found another Fenton address; Walther Sheppard in 1911 was in Market Street now King Street

[chris2705]

Hi,

I am stuck! Alfred George Sheppard b Dec 1872 in on the 1901 with wife Martha at 54 Frederick Street, Fenton. I can't find them on the 1911 though there is a curiously similar chap in Islington. Any ideas?
Also seem to be stuck with trying to find any of them in 1871

[hepburn]

Hi Chris,
       do you mean you can't find Alfred George's(born 1872) Father in the 1871..

[chris2705]

Hi

I was just editing my last post to say that I have found them in 1871. They are in Penkhull but the census record had been transcribed as "Shepherd". I will see how this fills in some of the blanks that I was stuck on.

[chris2705]

Hi

These are the Sheppard oddities/wish list/work in progress;

-Charles b. 1861 got him in 1871 but not after
-Phebe b. 1855 only appears on 1861 then nothing
-Arthur b. 1857 nothing after 1871
-Charles b. 1861 nothing after 1871
-Emily b. 1866 appears on 1871 but not 1881. Would she have left home by the age of 15?
-Sarah Ann b. 1868 nothing after 1881
-Walter b. 1871 any other children apart from Ena Mary?
-George b. 1873 is not on 1881 so presumed to have died but can't find a death