Trying to find a marriage with very little information

[LyndseyB]

Yes bbart, I was disappointed. It would have tied things up nicely and it would have been lovely to be able to tell Ada's granddaughter that I had found her grandma.

Re. your suggestions, I will see what I can find out.

Many thanks.

[LyndseyB]

I am afraid I have hit a brick wall.

Morden Cemetery say they only have the death information for Benjamin and Amy on their burial records.

130 Wickersley Road no longer exists. The road is much shorter now as much of it was demolished as part of the Slum Clearance. It has been replaced by what looks like council housing.

The only scrap of information I managed to find on Google was an excerpt from a book written by someone whose childhood home was in Wickersley Road in the 1950's in which he mentions they were tenants of Wandsworth Council.

I am open to all other suggestions if anyone has any!

[jonwarrn]

Benjamin had a niece called Ada Freeman who was the daughter of his older brother David (born 1851 in Meesden) and his wife Eliza Law (born  1853 in Langley).

It's all very odd.
Meesden and Langley are so near to each other.
And Benjamin had been down in Edmonton for such a long time.

[jonwarrn]

Possible in free index to 1911 census?
Wembley, Middlesex
Annie Freeman Servant Single 26, born Meesden Green
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW4Z-FPT

Original does not give a county of birth.
Was there an Annie from Meesden? Not finding one!

[jonwarrn]

1891 in Meesden
Schedule 10, The Green - Farm...Edward Walton, Farmer
Schedule 11,  Do. Cottage...David Freeman, Ag Lab

Is that Meesden Green? Ada born there?

[jonwarrn]

Original does not give a county of birth.

The clerk with his red ink pen was in no doubt!
1911 census birthplace codes
310 Hertfordshire

[bbart]

1891 in Meesden
Schedule 10, The Green - Farm...Edward Walton, Farmer
Schedule 11,  Do. Cottage...David Freeman, Ag Lab

Is that Meesden Green? Ada born there?

In 1901, providing David hasn't moved, his "address" was Meesden Green. 

In 1901 Ada was in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire as a servant to Richard Assheton.  Her age is given as 17, so approx. 1884.

Piece:    1527
Folio:    41
Page number:    29
Household schedule number:    198

[bbart]

I wonder if we should be looking into the families of the two gals from Langley, Essex that married into the Freeman family.  Possibly they had much younger siblings?

[jonwarrn]

If Ada was born 16th July 1884, then she should have been age 6 in the 1891 census, and 16 in 1901.
Instead of 7 and 17.
So you could say that the age for "Annie" in 1911 is more accurate!