~Rachel~ Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In

[~Rachel~]

Have we found out where the daughter was born?

Nope, not yet anyway.  

It's one of the points I should be able to prove - I KNOW she existed so somewhere there must be something about her birth!

Debbie - it's an idea! I was thinking Temple Blackwood could have been surnames for Sheilas grandparents prehaps?

Now I have a bit more time will look back at previous replies and respond to bits I've missed.

[jensquest]

Ive got visitors due anytime so I will see where you are up to in the morning.

Ive looked at freebmd for all variations of Sheila's name that I can think of, taking Sheila, Joan and Mary all as first names plus using Temple, Blackwood, Fitzgerald, MacDonald and McDonald as surnames but nothing stands out.
Another possibility of course is that it wasn't her given name - we've all come across the ones who are known as one thing and registered as something totally different!   

[~Rachel~]

Yes could be Jen! Although it seems quite a complicated name to take if it's not the registered one, if you see what I mean?

I also found the link to the Sixsmiths that looks at some of this that may be of help or interest to people.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,369546.0.html

[Lesanne]

  Probably completely off track but Bout-Budd-Rudd.. 

Marriages Sep 1901
 
Edwards  John Goodwin   
Fitzgerald  Bridget     
Newton  Teresa Maud     
Rudd  Thomas Walter 
 
  Mutford  4a 2074
Norfolk/Suffolk

[ammonite]

Another that is probably completely of track but there was a Sheila Joan Fitzgerald b. Eastbourne district Jun 1904 2b_85.

It is too early but there can't be many Sheila's around.

Edited to say there is also a
Sheila Mary I  TEMPLE b 1909 Eton 3a_922 - What hapens if that I was supposed to be a J

[jaywit]

Going back to Sheila, did she ever say how old she was when she went to Wales? Could she ever remember anything or anywhere before Wales?

[Lesanne]

Ammonites reply 40
this birth cert could be worth a look.... Windsor/Eton has plenty of army happening around that time...

Who's wedding was Bridget a witness. A friend -a relative. Have you got the details?

Why adopt? and from a mother/baby refuge.... was she in this situation herself?

1891 Bridget Fitzgerald - 8 - bShadwell - St Marys Orphanage Walthamstow.
1901 Bridget Fitzgerald - 19- b Ireland - Bartestree Hereford - Convent of sisters of charity refuge.
          (Is this same person? +  Hereford not many miles from Wales)

             Over to you  Lesanne..

[DJFRENCH]

not helpful .....but just looked at the Sisters of refuge /Bartestree pages....6 pages of really young women in need...


   very sad...

ref to Temple Blackwood, there has to be a link, you don't just dream up those names........

[jaywit]

Looking at Wiki there is a tenuous link here.

Lady Hermione Catherine Helen Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (1869–19 October 1960) trained as a nurse and qualified in 1901, serving in France during the First World War. She was awarded the Medaille de Reconnaissance Française for her services. She died unmarried.