June 2005 RootsChat Challenge

[Burrow Digger]

Hey BD - half-days aren't fair!  You get ahead of us Europeans during our night as it is!  I couldn't believe how much I had to catch up yesterday and this morning. 

Rambler

he he he you gotta be fast to keep up with me. 

BD

[Jan42]

please check out may's last message from me-- full details will be posted soon
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[Paul E]

1. - First of all they said he was born 1857 - but it is very plain on the image AGED 4
2. - Then he's Robinson not Robertson
3. - Then I believe he was born too soon....

1871

Mary Ann Reading   1849 age 22 Poplar, Middlesex, England Servant CamberwellSt Giles
Claud Robinson   1857 age 4   Peckham, Surrey, England   Son Camberwell St Giles        
20 Wilson Road Lambeth Camberwell

Apologies to Liverpool Annie who posted this yesterday and I missed it.  She's right that the image says 4, hence an 1867 dob.

But its a bit of a mystery.  There's no head of household.  Whose 'son' is he?  This is at 20 Wilson Road Lambeth.

Number 19 is uninhabited.

At number 18 Wilson Road, Lambeth there's the following family...

William ? Symons, Head, 51, Commander Royal Navy, Plymouth Devon
Georgiana, Wife, 60, Devonport, Devon
Mary, Daur, 20, Pentonville
Elizabeth, Daur, 17, Peckham
Jesse, Daur, 16, Peckham
Georgie, Daur, 12, Peckham
Maria, Daur, 10, Peckham
Eliza Cranmer, 23, Servant, Essex

Wonder if these properties are really part of the same household?

Well done, Annie, if you have found Claude!

cheers

Paul

[liverpool annie]

Thank goodness now Paul E and Jonathan W can come back to the real world



 

Annie

keziah found!!

[liverpool annie]

Wonder if Mary Ann is the mother Mary

Annie

[Manchester Rambler]

Re Claude home alone (with servant): I've occasionally come across young children of well-off families who are recorded like this on the census with parents absent and child still described as "son".  Claude's mother and brother were together in Liverpool, so perhaps the family was in the process of moving there? 

Rambler

[Paul E]

I'm happy to accept that MR - if only so I can get some sleep tonight!

Paul

[Manchester Rambler]

Children of Thomas Muir and Mary (Dale) in Whitby - IGI extracted records:
 
MARY JANE MUIR - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 15 DEC 1829 Whitby, Yorkshire, England
 
EMMA MUIR - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 03 AUG 1843 Whitby, Yorkshire, England
 
THOMAS MUIR - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 07 DEC 1832 Whitby, Yorkshire, England
 
JAMES MUIR - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 03 NOV 1827 Whitby, Yorkshire, England
 
ANN ELIZABETH MUIR - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 14 JAN 1826 Whitby, Yorkshire, England

HANNAH MUIR - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 31 MAR 1836 Whitby, Yorkshire, England
 
RICHARD WILLIAM MUIR - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Christening: 01 OCT 1839 Whitby, Yorkshire, England

Rambler

[Manchester Rambler]

Another user-submitted IGI entry for a marriage between Mary Elizabeth Wilkinson and James Willam King - sounds possible, but don't know how to confirm/disprove it:

MARY ELIZABETH WILKINSON 
  Female   

Parents:
  Father:  JONAS WILKINSON   
  Mother:  CHARLOTTE SAINTJOHN   

Marriages:
  Spouse:  JAMES WILLIAM KING
  Marriage:  08 MAR 1830   Christ Church, Barbados, Caribbean
 
  Husband Age at Marriage:  31   
  Wife Age at Marriage:  24

Paul - were the dobs in your Ancestral File extract definite, or estimates?

Elizabeth also found this:

IGI Entry for James William King, son of
James Martin King and Margaret Leslie Forte,
Married Mary Elizabeth Wilkinson 8 Mar 1830

Rambler