Looking for Robert Wiltsher bc 1860

[louisa maud]

9 Blomfield Place
1891,
Family of Norris living there

Strange coincidence that Dorothy was born and baptised in Paddington not far away from addresses previously listed

I cannot find Dorothy on 1891 or 1901 so far,

LM

[heywood]

There is a death:

Dorothy Margaret Wiltsher 5 yrs Windsor - June quarter 1894 vol 2c pg 243

There are later deaths for adults but they could be married names.
There are variations of Wilsher in Windsor 1891 but none that would fit.

[louisa maud]

Strange isn't it that we can find none of them even with birth dates near to 1891, perhaps they saw the census man coming and disappeared?

LM

[sre]

Hi everyone

The good news is I have at last got a copy of the birth certificate for Edward Thomas McRae details as follows

Registration district = Chelsea
Date and where born = 25th July 1895, 66 Harriet Mews (sound familiar?)
Name = Edward Thomas
Sex = boy
Name of father = line through
Name, surname and maiden name of mother = Arabella McRae, domestic servant
Occupation of father = line through
Signature of informant = A. McRae, mother, 66 Harriet Mews
When registered = 2nd September 1895

This confirms everyone’s suspicions about Robert Wiltsher and Arabella McRae not marrying, (I have yet to find a reason).

The bad news is that my friend seems to have lost interest in going any further at the moment, (his uncle who he was doing this for died recently).  Maybe once he receives his grandfather Edward Thomas McRae aka Wiltsher's army records his interest with be re awakened!!!!

Once again thank you to all who contributed, without your help I would never have got this far.

Kind regards
sre

[louisa maud]

I have helped quite a lot of people with their family tree and I find half way through they lose interest, I really never understand why, but your friend might get his interest back but I must admit it has been an interesting discussion, at least you have some information of Wiltsher family

Often there is no reason why people haven't got married, possibly didn't get round to it, I have seen 2 couple who didn't get married till they reached pensionable age, in both cases single people and this goes back to about 1930's, living together is not a new thing

Happy hunting

Louisa Maud

[robertwiltsher1959]

If it helps, Robert Wiltsher (b. 1859) was one of my ancestors on my father's side and married (Ara)Bella Mcrea. Their children were Edward Thomas Wiltsher, May Elizabeth Wiltsher, Florence Margaret Wiltsher and Frederick Henry Wiltsher. Let me know if I can help further as I have quite a large family tree plotted for my name.

[Annie65115]

Hello and welcome to RC.

Do you have details of a marriage beween Robert W and Arabella Mcrae? Because as you may have seen, hunting for this defeated rootschatters over 8 pages of responses!

[robertwiltsher1959]

Hello and thanks for the welcome - I seem to have a bit of history on the Pryke side but Robert Wiltsher is the furthest I have managed to get on my father's side I am afraid. However, I don't give up easily and will be using all the resources I have to go further - I will of course be back in touch as soon as I find something ! Let me know if you need any further help with anyone else.

Best wishes

[sre]

Hi and welcome to RootsChat

If you make 1 more post here I will be able to message you - My research into this family stopped in 2015 as my friend had no interest in going further but I still have quite a bit of data if you are interested

Regards
sre