Seeking descendants of Emily Ballinger/Ballenger b.1866 of Kidderminster

[sballinger]

Hi, yes I have ordered Emily's birth certificate. Would it be possible or that easy if Nellie was down as Bellenger and not Cook? Hmmm, have some thinking to do!

[CaroleW]

Found them in 1891 indexed as Corke - names as per image

H B 29 b Kidderminster not sure about occ - could be plumber or printer??
Emily 26 b Bradby Green
Nellie 1 b Kidderminster
J Cranage 24 (male) visitor b Stone Staffs
RG12 Piece 2314 Folio 82 Page 47

[sballinger]

Hi CaroleW,
Wow, thanks!! That is them as the grandfather's birth certificate named Emma Ballinger, carpet printer as his mother. Long ago asssumed that Emma was a nickname for Emily. Wow, again thank you!! Now to find the other sister and Benjamin and the mystery of where they went to!!

[sballinger]

Just had a aha moment!! It is Nellie that became a Dench not a Eva? So looked up on the marriage and found a Nellie Ballinger marrying a Jack Dench! So maybe there was a Eva or Emily or Eva Emily or Emily Eva?? 
Shelley

[CaroleW]

Hi

Henry Benjamin died March qtr 1894 Kidderminster

"Whatever her name"  must have been born between 1891-1894 but there is no birth on freebmd under Cook/Cooke which resembles any variation of her name

However - if Emily had a "fling" after 1894 - she may have been born after HB's death but again - nothing under Cook/Cooke between 1895-1901

I have also dearched freebmd just using Eva Emily and again using Emily Eva - nothing under Cook/Cooke or Ballinger etc between 1891-1901

Notes off reel--illegitimate, both in second standard, both resemble each other. Mother , widow, charged with neglecting her 5 children, received 1 month imprisonment. Parish help stopped because woman would not take a house. Children underfed

I know the documents re: children show her as having 5 children - but where do the names Eva/Emily come from?  Are the children actually named in that document

[sballinger]

Hi Carole,
Just received this in the email from James David's Gr-Granddaughter. It is a letter written from a Edith, doesn't make much sense as I think that there are pages missing.

Except this other information from a lady from British Isles website:

From the application reels of the Middlemore Homes I have this:

Application reel A-2105, vol.246, case number 1541, dated Oct.19/1895
Ballenger-James David age 12 years as of Aug.26, 1895
Ballenger-John Thomas age 9 years as of Aug.?,1895
parent/guardian- Emily Cook of 17 Boulter Lane Kiddenminster
other children, 1 brother and 2 sisters (legitimate)
Notes off reel--illegitimate, both in second standard, both resemble each other. Mother , widow, charged with neglecting her 5 children, received 1 month imprisonment. Parish help stopped because woman would not take a house. Children underfed.

I can not say for sure that the Emily Cook is the mother but I am inclined to think so since one daughter was named Emily.
From Marion( Britsh Isles website)

So dare to think that maybe Edith is Emily who we have been looking for? I looked up Edith Cook and came up with two that were born in Kidderminster 1890 + 1892. Which one is it....
Ah, the mystery deepens.
I still want to find out where Benjamin has got to...I just feel like I have an empty hole in my heart without finding out where these three children have got to and where did Emily get to.
Shelley

[sballinger]

Hi Carole, I tried uploading the letter but the file is too large. There is an address at the top of the letter.
No. 35 St. Abbansly(sp?)
Copenhagen St
Worcester.

[CaroleW]

I am sending you a pm with my email address

Re: Benjamin/Henry  - as he was the youngest of the 3 boys - I would have thought he was more vulnerable than his brothers.  Are you sure he wasn't sent to Canada as well?

His birth was registered as Ballinger not Cooke

[sballinger]

I have searched the UK Outward passenger lists for Benjamin but the closest I came to was one coming from South Africa as a pipe fitter.