Elizabeth Blades - Step-daughter

[Annie65115]

So possibly this marriage?

1878 03 10  SNEINTON St Luke
 groom    John   BLADES   
 bride        Elizabeth Ann   UPTON   

[Kay99]

Also possible earlier marriage of a William Upton to Elisabeth Ann Peet June Qtr 1871 Radford    7b 313, so this may well be another red herring 

[Annie65115]

okey doke, let's step back a moment.

To put it bluntly, we don't know which Elizabeth Blades this was, and there's more than one possible candidate.

OP, where did you find the Mather-Blades marriage details? (edited - answered my own q - on FreeBMD)
however there was also the Blades-Upton marriage mentioned above, and a total of 5 Eliza/Elizabeth Blades in the county in the 1891 census. It could have been any of these -- or none!

The Eliza Blades in Snenton in 1891 (geographically the most likely candidate but only because she was in Snenton) was 44, b Nottingham, a lace clipper, married (but not with husband) and living as a lodger with Eliza Horsepool in Snenton. I'm going to go and look for her with a husband to see what her m/name might have been.

[Annie65115]

In 1881, Elizabeth Blades and her husband JOHN were at 68, Manvers St, Snenton.

John BLADES age 56, labourer, b Burn, Lincolnshire
Elizabeth BLADES age 33, b Nottingham

so likely to be the same Elizabeth Blades as in my post above, b 1857-8 in Nottingham; given surname UPTON when she married John.

[Kay99]

There is a death of an Elizabeth Ann Blades age 49  in Jun Qtr 1897   Nottingham    7b   206   that fits with her

Edit - On the image I think John Blades could be 36 in 1881

[Annie65115]

Burial:

1897 04 10   Elizabeth Ann BLADES              
age 49   
address Carlton Rd   Nottm
burial place St Catherine      

[maggie.mae]

George died at 34,Carlton Rd,Sneinton Notts

[Annie65115]

Looks like that's your Elizabeth then.

Unfortunately I can't see a likely candidate for her pre-marriage

[Annie65115]

(Thinking out loud again)  We have Elizabeth on the 1881 and 1891 censuses and in both cases she states her pob as Nottingham (not just the county but the actual town).

Her yob is consistent across the censuses and her burial record as 1857-8.

Neither FreeBMD nor my Notts CDs have an Elizabeth Ann Upton born/baptised in Notts in between 1856-1859, although there is one Elizabeth Upton birth regd in Basford in 1856. There's no matching baptism on my discs to see who her parents were. However I can't see an Elizabeth Upton of suitable age born in Nottingham itself (as opposed to elsewhere in the county) on the censuses.

So to my mind the options are:
1. Elizabeth Ann adopted her middle name later
2. Maybe she wasn't born in Notts
3. Maybe she wasn't brought up as an Upton
(linked to 3) maybe she was was a widow when she married John
5. Maybe she's there and I just can't see her!