Can anyone trace Adelaide Springett?

[groom]

The biggest proof I think comes from that bona vacantia site where her date of birth is given as 19.2.1892 and Aliases:   Adelaide Ann Springett Adelaide Anne Harling Adelaide Ann Harling

[nwill12]

The biggest proof I think comes from that bona vacantia site where her date of birth is given as 19.2.1892 and Aliases:   Adelaide Ann Springett Adelaide Anne Harling Adelaide Ann Harling

So you're just going to ignore the evidence that her birthday is 19/02/1893 and there is no other mention of her having a middle name let alone it being Ann.

How do you explain the discrepancy in the birthday ??

However I do concede that the reference to the alias is strange ! Wonder if she had been in trouble with the law for her to have an alias ?? Why else would you use one other than to cover up sme sort of crime ??

[groom]

Birth

ADELAIDE ANN SPRINGETT
Birth year   1893
Birth quarter   2
District   ST. GEORGE IN THE EAST London
Volume   1C  Page   348

The first post gives her birth as Feb 1893.       

How do you explain the discrepancy in the birthday ??

My grandmother lost a year, she claimed she was born 1883 and that is what my uncle would have registered her death as, if he hadn't found her birth certificate.

As I said, I don't think we'll ever get 100% proof either way.

[groom]

However I do concede that the reference to the alias is strange ! Wonder if she had been in trouble with the law for her to have an alias ?? Why else would you use one other than to cover up sme sort of crime ??

I don't think so, I think she was just living with Frank Harling (see 1939 register and 1940s electoral registers) but never married him, just used his name. Then when she dies intestate, she is recorded under her legal name of Springett, but the name she was known as was also recorded. Any heirs would have to come from the Springett family.

[nwill12]

Have you seen the death certificate ?

[groom]

As this isn't any relation to me, or anyone on the thread I doubt if anyone is going to spend money on it!

To my mind, and several others on here, Adelaide Harling and Adelade Springett are one and the same. However if you want to send for the certificate and prove us wrong, I would be the first to admit I've made a mistake. Can you come up with any better proof?

Added: Just thought, as she was on the Bona Vacantia list her death can't have been registered by a relative or anyone who knew her well, so the certificate may not help much.

 

[nwill12]

As this isn't any relation to me, or anyone on the thread I doubt if anyone is going to spend money on it!

To my mind, and several others on here, Adelaide Harling and Adelade Springett are one and the same. However if you want to send for the certificate and prove us wrong, I would be the first to admit I've made a mistake. Can you come up with any better proof?

Added: Just thought, as she was on the Bona Vacantia list her death can't have been registered by a relative or anyone who knew her well, so the certificate may not help much.

But you said both her names were recorded on the death certificate !!!

I m happy to order a copy but I think the only thing I'm going to see is the name Adelaide Ann Harling which of course proves nothing !

[LizzieL]

I suspect that the BV list gets its information from the death cert - informant listed on BV site is London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Social Services Department

[groom]

But you said both her names were recorded on the death certificate !!!

Then when she dies intestate, she is recorded under her legal name of Springett, but the name she was known as was also recorded.

No, I said when she died intestate she was recorded under both names. That wouldn't be on the death certificate, it was from the bona vacantia list.