I am trying to trace the baptism of my mother, born Eleanor Hoggarth in March 1901 a few days before the census, in Ellel, near Forton Lancashire. She was the youngest of 7 children.
According to the school records her brothers and sisters left Forton school at Easter which was in early April that year, so presume they moved around that time, to Moor Green farm, Whitbeck in Cumberland. There may not have been time to have her baptised before they moved.
In 1903 her father Lancelot Hoggarth died of pneumonia aged 47, in Whitbeck, he had been ill for a month. It must have been a very traumatic time for the family as her grandfather, another Lancelot Hoggarth, died aged 77 just 3 days before his son.
At some stage my mother was 'adopted' by John Bargh Garnett and his wife Ann Elizabeth who were members of the family. She next appears on the 1911 census as Eleanor Garnett adopted daughter of John and Ann, living in Leck near Kirkby Lonsdale. She may have been adopted soon after birth or perhaps when her father died. I don't know where or when she was baptised and if it was as Eleanor Hoggarth or Eleanor Garnett. If I can find a baptism it may help show when she was adopted. Incidentally on her Marriage and death certificates, she is shown as Eleanor Hoggarth.
I would be glad of any help. Thankyou
