As promised - sorry for the delay ...
STILL OUTSTANDING
There will be more – please add to this list if you wish.
Most of these have been taken from the previous ‘revisited’ thread, so there is a lot of repetition and most of these have been discussed at length already.
Although many of us have already searched as thoroughly as we can for answers to the mysteries below, might it be worth trying again in case more data has come online over the past couple of years?
Ann Fox:
Birthday 9 Oct 1801 – born where ? Queen St /Green St, Middx according to the 1851 census. Look at image again? Enhance image to try to see it more clearly?
Is there any way to go thru PRs from Queen St? Fox perhaps was her married name? Where is Ann in 1861? She is living with Mrs Kennington in Stephen Street in 1851. If she died before 1861 where is her death/burial? - Can we decipher and locate this and find her birth? Due to the fact that she attended Tottenham Court Road Chapel, it has been suggested that she may have been non-conformist. Are there any non-conformist records for the area?
[Siamese girl has already tried this: I listed all the men with the surname Fox who married plain Anns on Ancestry's London BMDs 1816-1846 made a note of the Anns surnames and then tried to find their baptisms, as many parishes at that time made a note of the date of birth as well as the date of baptism there was a (very) remote chance that I might have found Ann Fox, if she had got married as we know her date of birth. I didn't expect to find her and I was right! It was just too hit or miss.]
Mary Bryceson/Ward:
Still missing from 1841 census. The 1841 census was taken 6/7 June. Mary married Matthew Ward on the 27th June and she said she lived at Dean St then. Matthew Ward is at Richmond Buildings in 1841 and says his address is Richmond Buildings on his marriage cert. Where is Mary? She and Matthew married 20 days after the census was taken and she was ‘of Dean St’. All of Dean St (District 9) has been checked. Are there any missing addresses? Is it worth rechecking?
Nathaniel in 1841:
Where is Nathaniel in the 1841 census? As discussed at length, someone on Ancestry has made an alteration to the 1841 census transcription saying that a Nathaniel Bryceson is living in Shoreditch with someone called Ann, a weaveress, who appears to be his mother, plus several siblings. However we have traced this family and this is not our Nat. There is even some debate over the surname which looks more like Bryan and doesn't appear to be long enough to be Bryceson. Also Nathaniel never mentions any siblings. There is a Vagg family at 13 Richmond Buildings. The head, Richard Vagg is a tailor (as is Matthew Ward so perhaps they knew each other). There doesn't appear to be births/baptisms for any children for the Vaggs. The Nathaniel with them just has the surname dittoed and the age is right to be our Nat so I wonder if he was lodging with or just visiting the Vaggs and the surname was dittoed in error? Can we be fairly sure this IS Nathaniel Bryceson?
