Wear Gifford

[Trees]

Yes that looks good Now I wonder if Mary Jane was daughter of Jane BLIGHT ie dau of John Blight and Betsy she was known as jane Arnold when she was with her mother and Step father but married as BLIGHT so this may explain the name change we see in her censuses as Grand daughter What do you think? Or has one of the Arnold daughters /step daughters married a Blight or oh lor has Betsey Blight  b 1839 married another Arnold? I'd forgotten about her

[deb usa]

Hummmmmm

I am thinking that she may be Betsey Blight jnr's ilegit dau.

Why would Betsey Snr. emunerate her as a BLIGHT and NOT ARNOLD in 1881?

will investigate LOL 

deb

[Trees]

I think this is her birth mar qtr 1867
Arnold    Mary Jane B        Bideford    5b   551

[deb usa]

oooo good one Trees!

So now errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. who does ahe belong to?

 

[deb usa]

1881
11 Providence rd
Joshua ARNOLD 47 shipwright, b WG
Jane Wife 46 b WG . nee HOOKWAY...........................Betsey Hookway/Blight/Arnold's SISTER
MARY JANE ARNOLD dau 19, unm, assist school mistress, b BIDEFORD
Rose Ellen dau 13, dressmaker, b Bideford

12 Providence
1881
12 Providence Rd, Bideford
Betsey Arnold, head wid, 68, gen labourers widow, b Wear Gifford ..living next door to her sister
Mary Jane Bright, 14, grand dau, b Bideford


deb

amended

[deb usa]

 

birth
Mary Blight
june q 1868
Bideford
5b 541

[Trees]

oh heavens not another pair with the same name to confuse things need to check laundry desperate for clean things back in a bit

[deb usa]

I think you have the right birth reg.

Mary Jane B(light) Arnold

 

[deb usa]

 

1891
25 Torrington street. Bideford
William Prust 44 b Northam
Ann wife 45 b Monkleigh
Mary Jane Bright, 23, single, step dau dressmaker b Bideford
Alfred William son 19 , mason b Monkleigh
Bertie son, 17, mason, b ditto
Chales son 14 errand boy b Bideford
Carmila? G dau 12 b ditto

1881
25 Honiston Lane
William Prust 36
Ann wife 35, b Monkleigh
Thomas BLIGHT 11, b Bideford .... relation to head column is blank
Alfred W Prust, son 9, b Bideford
Bertie son 7, b Monkleigh
Charles son 3, Bideford
Camilla G dau 2, b Bideford

at this stage, in 1881, Mary Jane Bright/Blight is with Grandmother Betsey Arnold
Maybe Betsey forget to mention that Mary Jane had the surname Arnold and gave her full forename  ie; Mary Jane Blight [Arnold] 

oh my