Where is Flora / Flo Layton / Leighton in 1911 ?

[jonwarrn]

Somewhere in Long Street?

In 1912 she had my mother and the birth address was in Long Street, Aston, Birmingham

Fingers crossed Flora can be found in 1911, but you have been looking a long time.

[LaytonLily]

Yes I am very tenacious !    I had forgotten about that entry on Roots.   Saves me going through my pile of papers.   I do not have membership of A at the moment, but when I do, if I put Long Street into search will I be able to trawl through ?   It's having access to the 1921 census has started me searching again.

[jonwarrn]

Hi
1911 and 1921 census are free on ancestry for a bit longer (ends on the 9th I think) so you just need to be registered with them.
You can't search by address in 1911, so you will have to put in keywords. Long St and Long Street. This might bring up a few people called Long living elsewhere in Aston, but never mind!

There is no box for registration districts by name. So either put in Aston as a keyword, or in fact you can put 385 into the Registration District Number box (I think this would be better)

P.S. Don't ask me why you can't search by the name of the RD, but you can by its number (which none of us would normally know!)

[Milliepede]

I tried searching earlier with Aston and Long St and it seemed a really Long St so well named.
No sign of her though.  Pity we don’t have a house number to look for. 

Do you remember if she registered the birth herself?  If not whoever did would be a clue.

[LaytonLily]

I didn't know the 1911 was free as well, today is the last day for free so will try all sorts of combinations to find Flo on 1911.   She was never too accurate in giving her age, usually making herself younger, so will try dates of birth to reflect that.  Because of course, what we put into a search has to tie in with whatever the transcriber has put into A.   Then tomorrow will tackle the Layton documents to find the copy of her birth certificate.   Thank you for all the help.

[Milliepede]

Yes exactly with searching for her, less is more as they say. 

Look forward to seeing the birth certificate.

[LaytonLily]

I tried attaching Flo's Will but too large. So here are the details   -
When / Where born :   8th October 1912  11 Long Street, Aston
Elsie May
Mother :   Flora Leighton, Laundry ironer of 11 Long Street, Aston (also informant)
Registered :  19th November

So long time between birth and registration.
I did wonder if 11 Long Street might have been an unmarried  mother's home, but never found any information on that.
I don't know what help it would be to find Flo on 1911 census because that was taken April 1911 and Flo wasn't pregnant until around Feb / March 1912.  Though of course one wants to find family being researched on every appropriate census  !
Though I might try the FindMyPast website which is available at the library, see if that can offer anything.