June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[Keziahemm]

I have found a birth for Agnes

Agnes M Robertson  Sept. qtr 1866  3a  305  Watford

The census says pob Hertfordshire and as Watford is in Herts .......

and I reckon this could be reg. for Alice

Alice Maud Johnson  Dec. qtr 1860  Mile End 1c 533

Alice Johnson was living Mile End 1861 RG9/293  folio 177 page 12


Susan   

[MaryA]

Well everybody, I managed a quick hour in the records office and came up with two jackpots ..... well one could be a bit of bad news, in fact .... so could the other, but at least I found what I went for.

St Peter, Liverpool
Jessie Robertson Johnson, birth 17/11/1858, christened 28/5/1861, parents Charles and Alice, Abode: Prescot Street, Occupation is BOOK KEEPER.

No sign of Charles christening there by the way.

and there is no dratted Jessie living with those parents in Liverpool in 1861, I'm trying to find Prescot Street in the 1861 enumeration districts but its going to be a long job ...... unless anybody has access to the street index, I know there is one on one of the genealogy sites but its a subscription access and I don't have it.

If Charles and Jessie were in London in connection with his work in 1861 then where is he???

The other piece of  information I have, so that we can put this poor wee mite to bed finally is:

Deaths
Hugh Moody Robertson 1869 (oh blast I forgot to write down the quarter, it must have been December cos I found it first off) Mile End 1c 435 AGE 0.

[liverpool annie]

This has nothing to do with what you're talking about Mary -  but this is a site that's worth taking a look at -  if you want to know about streets in old Liverpool might even find something of interest there 

Annie

http://liverpool-1825.tripod.com/

[MaryA]

Annie, that looks like a good site to have a ramble through, I have details of my own family earlier than the censuses so I'll see what I can find on there.  Thanks

Mary

[CatOne]

MaryA, Its only Charles that missing in 1861 isnt it?? Alice (23), Charles Junior (3), Jessie (2) and Alice M (6mths) are the ones in Stepney aren't they, William Street North, Mile End Old Town RG9/293 Folio 177 Page 12. (sorry to be thick but its hard to keep track of who we're still looking for.....except Claude......no one could forget him 

[MaryA]

yes It seems to be a Charles Johnson we're missing and if we have the right Jessie, as in the christening details I found in St Peters, then he should be a book keeper. 

What I'm trying to do is figure out whether this Jessie, with parents Charles and Alice are different ones to those you have listed.

Mary

[CatOne]

Oh right......theres an interesting Charles Johnson (35) and wife Alice (29) on the 1871 census, in Mile End Old Town, Stepney, Rigger and Mariner, but his birthplace is Sweden!!! Got a child Alice M too, aged 1 though (+ other children and lodgers)......wonder if they're connected in anyway..... (RG10/556 Folio 85 Page 53 if anyone wants to take a look) Probably just a coincidence to confuse me!! 

[MaryA]

I hope it IS just to confuse you as if the older children aren't in evidence then there is no connection, it's only when we found Charles together with family that we made the connection - that is Charles ROBERTSON by that time.

Mary

[CatOne]

Why are all the Charles Robertsons/Johnsons I find Master Mariners/Mariners/Riggers??!! Cant find any bookkeepers!! (just found one lodging on 1861 census in Stepney, plus several others in the area!!) oh well, gonna take a break and see whats been found in the morning.....no doubt there'll be 2/3 more pages by then