Census & Service Families

[jennifer c]

Margaret Ruth Drury born 1910 was it seems their daughter and it says online that they were killed in their shoe and leather shop in Finchley.

So I assume it was the daughter who registered the death.

Jennifer

[Coffee Lover]

As you may have guessed this is the first time that I have done this and I have spent the last two weeks or so trawling through totally irrelevant records!  I do so wish I had sought your help earlier.

So after destroying a few trees, because I can't read too much information on the screen, what was I doing wrong?

I was brought up within a stone's throw of where they lived and am absolutely amazed at the probate details.  Might that have been compensation for the loss of their house?  It would have bought the whole street several times over!

Know that I know who he was, is there an easy way to determine his regiment so that I can cross reference back to my list from the LG.  Am I correct in believing that men enlisted or were conscripted into local regiments in WW1?

Which brings me to my final (in my dreams!) query.  I have a number of issue and page numbers from my LG search.  These lead me to, by date, issue number, & page number a long list of names by army number, rank, & name.  I then get the option to look at the .pdf or to buy the LG.  Neither of these options give me any further information.  In just one instance it led to a paragraph some three months later giving details of the event.  Is this because of the high number of casualties or that generally only details are given for officers?

I am staggered at the information that you have given me and the speed with which you have achieved this. Thank you all so much.

[Coffee Lover]

So sorry if these are inane questions but when you are quoting 25.12.1909 is that the marriage date or the end of the quarter recording the marriage?

Is the discrepancy in their ages i.e. at marriage  he is 24 and she 19, a 5 year difference not 2 years as shown by CWGC, merely a clerical error?

Is this a different marriage to the one found by KGarrad?

JenniferC where did you get information on Margaret Drury from?  Sign of the times maybe there was another cobblers two doors from me, 100 yards or so from the High Road.

If you weren't all so clever in identifying the daughter how should I have gone about finding any children from a marriage?  I had enough trouble trying to go back never mind going forwards!

How do you know that in between any two census dates there haven't been births who sadly did not survive the intervening 10 years?

Were the censuses always conducted in April the year after the decade i.e. 1891, 1901, 1911 etc.?

I'm sorry if my questions are a bit jumbled - kind of reflects the state of my brain at the moment!

[Joy45]

Yes the two marriages are the same and date when they got married.

Margaret Ruth Waite was name on the probate calendar wife of Maurice Vernon Waite in both entries. So just looked for the marriage of Maurice V Waite and Margaret Ruth Drury was who he married.

The amounts of money is what their estates where after death. In 1911 the wife's maiden name was added to birth entries so it became easier to look for birth's did have a look but did not come up with any births for Drury and mother been Lancaster from 1911 onwards.

Any information is only as good as person giving it and if they did not know person very well you can get different ages and people also gave wrong information...

Joy

[Coffee Lover]

Thanks Joy - guess I want to run before I can even crawl nevermind walk!

Part of the learning curve I suppose but I had found the Lancaster / Drury marriage and dismissed it with nothing helpful like a note as to why!  Similarly I found Alfred in Esher as a boarder on the 1901 census but I think at the time I was of the opinion that he originated from Castle Hedingham and so again dismissed it.  Good job I'm not a detective!