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Re: Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?
« Reply #63 on: Wednesday 20 January 16 22:00 GMT (UK) »
Like David, I've looked on the 1911 for Gun Street as an address but can't see it, although it is there in 1901.

Perhaps it was a shop then. If it was that makes things a bit curious !!

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Re: Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?
« Reply #64 on: Wednesday 20 January 16 22:11 GMT (UK) »
In 1901 it appears to be a house occupied by 3 large families from Russia.

The Rosenburgs  x 5
The Brodtmans   x 10
The Robbinowitz    x 11
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Re: Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?
« Reply #65 on: Wednesday 20 January 16 22:29 GMT (UK) »
In 1901 it appears to be a house occupied by 3 large families from Russia.

The Rosenburgs  x 5
The Brodtmans   x 10
The Robbinowitz    x 11

Excellent , so she could well have been a servant there then. Also the kids in the photo from 1912 look kind of foreign and the little girl she's pushing in the pushchair is definatley dressed in a foreign way.
Anyway if that is the case why would she give that as her home address but not be registered there
when visiting that infirmary in 1915 ?

Perhaps the answer is the 4 year time lapse and could have  lived anywhere from 1906-7 when her mother died, but from her appearance in the 1912 photo ( if its her ), she looks a smart working girl , so probably wouldnt be short of work and good accomodation.

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Re: Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?
« Reply #66 on: Monday 22 February 16 23:53 GMT (UK) »
In 1907/8/9 there's a Mrs Adelaide Springett and a Miss Isabella Baker living at 11 St. Mary's Square, Paddington.  Adelaide would have been 13 years old at the time, so most likely not her.
In the 1939 Registry she is living in Paddington with Frank Harling.  She's a
charlady at that point and Frank is a PO mail porter.


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Re: Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?
« Reply #67 on: Tuesday 23 February 16 17:36 GMT (UK) »
The 1911 England Census Summary Books, show an Adelaide Springett as a lodger in Friern Road, Camberwell.  Can't see her moving south of the river though.

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Re: Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?
« Reply #68 on: Wednesday 24 February 16 11:45 GMT (UK) »
My guess is that she was a servant, then maybe a nurse in WW1. Maybe she'll re-appear in the 1921 census !!

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Re: Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?
« Reply #69 on: Wednesday 24 February 16 12:44 GMT (UK) »
Here's another lead that I've been doing some work on. Who is the other girl and boy in the photo with her. Here's how far I've got.
Assuming that when those photos were taken, Adelaide and her mother were living at the salvation army shelter in Hanbury st. Maybe thats where Horace Warner got some of the kids from for the photo's, as they are all staged !! Plus Adelaide is obviously dressed up and knew the photo's were to be taken, as is the boy. Which suggests an arangement had been made , rather than him just turning up on streets hoping for the best. So I think he had a connection with the shelter. The comment that he had remained in contact with Adelaide and her mother until the mothers death would bear this out.

There are 2 other girls of around Adelaide's age in that shelter in the 1901 census and a few boys. Now I reckon Adelaide would have been friends with any girl roughly her age, maybe best friends. The 2 other girls listed , I've researched a bit and the boy I believe ended up being killed in ww1.As Ive only got Ancestry tracing the other 2 girls lead to a bit of a dead end but I believe the boy was called James and like I said was killed in WW1.

Now when Adelaides mother died she would have been 13, where would she have gone ? Into service perhaps or maybe living with someone from the shelter that she had got to know.

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Re: Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?
« Reply #70 on: Wednesday 02 March 16 02:10 GMT (UK) »
comment that he had remained in contact with Adelaide and her mother until the mothers death would bear this out./quote]
Where is this comment that Horace Warner kept in touch with the family?

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Re: Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?
« Reply #71 on: Wednesday 02 March 16 02:12 GMT (UK) »
Where is the comment that Horace Warner kept in touch with the family, please?