I have spent years trying to track down what became of my grandfather's 8 siblings and have accounted for six only. Recently, however, I learnt that one, Frances Margaret ASHE, who had been present in the family household in 1911 Belfast census, aged 30, had died as Frances Margaret BLOOMER and been buried as a 'widow' alongside two unmarried siblings, rather implying that she had no children to bury her.
Searches have been made for an ASHE/BLOOMER marriage without success. I cannot imagine that Frances would not have actually been married.
A recent find was a Telephone Directory entry for Mrs F M BLOOMER at 4 Roslyn Ave., Bangor.
Would anyone be able to find me a husband for Frances, maybe using an Electoral Register for earlier than 1949? Better still, a marriage between 1912 and 1949...
It has been disappointing so far to find that, of the 9 ASHE family members of that generation, only my grandfather had offspring and the assumption is that the two other 'missing' girls, namely Margaret Jane and Mabel left Belfast for Canada or US perhaps, the eldest brother having gone to Montreal in 1890, married, but had no issue. Two registered marriages for a Margaret J ASHE have been sent for, but neither is mine!
I am based in England, so NI records not so accessible to me.
Chilis
