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Where is Flora / Flo Layton / Leighton in 1911 ?
« on: Friday 07 March 25 19:48 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone find my grandmother Flora sometimes Flo Layton sometimes spelt Leighteon born 1889 in Malvern Link, Worcestershire.   The only census I cannot find her on and I wonder if she was a supporter of Suffragette Movement, as I have read they refused to be entered onto a Government census report in 1911.  It is particularly significant  (to me) as my mother was born in 1912 - no known father - and it would be interesting to know where Flo was the year before.  Not as the miracle will happen of course, and I can identify her father / my grandfather !  Thanks for any help / ideas.
ASTON, Birmingham : TWIST, B.ham: HUNT, B.ham: LAYTON, Worcestershire: LAYTON, B.ham: BISHOP, Leic.: TYSALL, B.ham: BURLEY,B.ham: SCOTT,B.ham: FISHER, B.ham : PRICHARD,Wales: BEARD,Worc. : SCHREDER, USA

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Re: Where is Flora / Flo Layton / Leighton in 1911 ?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 07 March 25 19:58 GMT (UK) »
Who were her parents?

1911 entry Florence Layton b 1890 Malvern Link living with parents Fredk & Mary

Ref piece 17655
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Carlin (Ireland & Liverpool) Doughty & Wright (Liverpool) Dick & Park (Scotland & Liverpool)

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Re: Where is Flora / Flo Layton / Leighton in 1911 ?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 07 March 25 21:27 GMT (UK) »
I think it's the Flora/Flo daughter of Matthew and Caroline that we might be looking for

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Re: Where is Flora / Flo Layton / Leighton in 1911 ?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 07 March 25 22:46 GMT (UK) »
The 1901 & 1911 only have one Flo* L* b Malvern Link

b 16.10.1889

The one with parents Matthew & Caroline shows 1891 & 1901 birthplace as Leigh although she is not with family in 1911
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Re: Where is Flora / Flo Layton / Leighton in 1911 ?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 08 March 25 09:37 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for the replies  - yes her parents were Matthew and Caroline.  I should have included that.   I seem to remember an address for her as The Star (pub I presume) Bransford Road, Worcester  - how might I find that on the 1911 census ?  I have her - and mom - on the 1921 census.  Mom is with grandparents in Malvern aged 6 yrs (doesn't fit in with her birth registration), Flo is a Boarder in Birmingham working in laundry, she used to send money back for mom's 'keep'.
Interesting aside  -  three sisters each had an illegitimate child, each went on to marry in later years and none had another child.  Two of the sisters acknowledged they were the mother, Flo never did and mom always called her Aunty Flo. Only in Flo's Will did the truth come out.
Anyway back to 1911  -  mom's birth (Elsie May Leighton) was registered in Aston, Birmingham so Flo might have been shipped off to a mother and baby home .
ASTON, Birmingham : TWIST, B.ham: HUNT, B.ham: LAYTON, Worcestershire: LAYTON, B.ham: BISHOP, Leic.: TYSALL, B.ham: BURLEY,B.ham: SCOTT,B.ham: FISHER, B.ham : PRICHARD,Wales: BEARD,Worc. : SCHREDER, USA

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Re: Where is Flora / Flo Layton / Leighton in 1911 ?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 08 March 25 15:43 GMT (UK) »
Star Inn Bransford Road in 1911 has

Edward Brown 48
Mary Ann Brown 47 wife
Edith Annie Taylor 32 servant

In theory she could have been living with the father in 1911 and be listed under his surname  :-\

When in 1912 was her child born?
Hinchliffe - Huddersfield Wiltshire
Burroughs - Arlingham Glos
Pick - Frocester Glos

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Re: Where is Flora / Flo Layton / Leighton in 1911 ?
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 08 March 25 15:48 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for the info on Star Inn - no Flo Layton there then.
ASTON, Birmingham : TWIST, B.ham: HUNT, B.ham: LAYTON, Worcestershire: LAYTON, B.ham: BISHOP, Leic.: TYSALL, B.ham: BURLEY,B.ham: SCOTT,B.ham: FISHER, B.ham : PRICHARD,Wales: BEARD,Worc. : SCHREDER, USA

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Re: Where is Flora / Flo Layton / Leighton in 1911 ?
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 08 March 25 16:01 GMT (UK) »
No afraid not.  To search I just typed - Lived in Worcester 1911 and Star in the keyword box and it popped up straight away.

Have you got the exact birth address for where Elsie was born?  We could search that in 1911 - or was that where The Star address comes in?
Hinchliffe - Huddersfield Wiltshire
Burroughs - Arlingham Glos
Pick - Frocester Glos

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Re: Where is Flora / Flo Layton / Leighton in 1911 ?
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 08 March 25 18:00 GMT (UK) »
Thank you. I will make a note of how to search for a place on Ancestry for the future.
I just have a memory of that address from arrange that time, on a postcard, but don't know what happened to post card.  I need to get out mom's birth certificate - which is somewhere in a large box of papers waiting - and waiting - and . . . . . to get sorted and put into a proper book form with photos etc.   I have done that for family on my father's side.  I will find it and see if there is an address.
When I think back over the years, the amazing help given by folks on this website it has been family history life changing !   I have been able to go on with the research and find the impossible (what seemed to be).
ASTON, Birmingham : TWIST, B.ham: HUNT, B.ham: LAYTON, Worcestershire: LAYTON, B.ham: BISHOP, Leic.: TYSALL, B.ham: BURLEY,B.ham: SCOTT,B.ham: FISHER, B.ham : PRICHARD,Wales: BEARD,Worc. : SCHREDER, USA