Yes,
Alice E. (Edith) ELLIS (Morris/mmn Dayus) b. 1874 Bridnorth, Shropshire was listed as Alice E.
Dayus, age 7, b. Bridgnorth on the
1881 census and then as Alice E.
Morris, age 17, b. Bridgnorth, on the
1891. By the
1901 census when Alice E.
Ellis (now married) was listing her birthplace as
Wolverhampton (not Bridgnorth), her parents were still alive and, by then, living very close to
Wolverhampton, after having moved around in the Bridgnorth, Shropshire area.
Presumably that was the reason for the birth location change (if Alice E. wasn't very sophisticated and she confused herself with where her parents were currently living with where she had been born).
The change of birth location (from Bridgnorth to Wolverhampton) from
1901 onwards made identifying Alice E. rather difficult on the previous censuses.
I definitely knew who Alice E. was on the
1901 census because, by then, she was married and some of my great-aunts had already been born.
There were also Alice E.'s three surnames to contend with on the various censuses/other documents (brought about by Alice E.'s illegitimacy):
Dayus (mmn),
Morris (maiden name on 1898 marriage certificate, Salford), and
Ellis (married name - George W. Ellis, b. 1872, Leeds).
My family finally!!
confirmed Alice E.'s identity through a
DNA match between my mum (a granddaughter), and another of Alice E.'s sibling's descendants. There were eight siblings who were all recorded accurately throughout the censuses.
Alice E.'s parents were
Thomas Morris b.1852 Worfield/Louisa nee Dayus b. 1849 Chelmarsh, m.
1875, Bridgnorth, Shrewsbury area.
Their (
Thomas and Louisa) two children (of the eight) born before
1875 (including Alice E.) are listed with the mother's maiden name in
1881. Louisa Dayus's (b.1849) mother was
Jane Dayus, washerwoman.
Thomas Morris's (b.1852) parents were
John Morris = Elizabeth.
Alice E.'s younger sister (Fanny)
Louisa Morris, age 15, b. 1876 Bridgnorth, in
1891, was also a servant living reasonably close by to Didsbury, in Chorlton.
Both sisters, Alice E. and Louisa Morris b.1876, stayed in the Manchester area but my mother/grandmother couldn't name/never mentioned Alice E.'s sister (Louisa).
Alice E. was my great-grandmother and in 1891 she was a former servant in Didsbury, Manchester, 67 Clyde Road.
As no other member of Alice E.'s family were present in the 1891 household it was difficult to connect her (to herself) on all the other censuses.
