Help searching for Dorothy Drew

[AlanBoyd]

Looking at the Drew family in Chobham in 1891, the next oldest child is Alice M Drew aged 4
She was baptised by Henry and Elizabeth Drew.

A Henry Drew died Q4 1888, Chertsey

In 1881 at Chobham
Henry Drew 39
Elizabeth Drew 35
Robert Stevens 7 step son [matches Robert Drew on the 1891 return with Rosina]
Florence M Drew 1 daughter [she is on the 1891 return]
Infant Drew son, 2 weeks
John Wm Stevens grandfather

I wonder if we are looking at a widow partnering with her brother-in-law? And perhaps that’s why there is no father on the baptism record?

[gc1]

Odd post Sorry
Following on from above Surrey birth record

1891 Census Surrey, Chertsey, England, United Kingdom

Rosina Drew Birth Year (Estimated)   1891

Father Stephen Drew
Mother Elizabeth Drew

Could she be miss named as Rosina daughter of Stephen Drew which became Rosina Stephens-Drew

Long shot but might explain the lack of other Stephens-Drew


https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QFCJ-SW2?lang=en

[AlanBoyd]

gc1 see my reply #9

I think Elizabeth was originally Elizabeth Stevens. The mmn on Rosina Drew’s birth registration is Stevens, and in 1881 there is a Stevens stepson, plus the grandfather{?) Stevens.

[osprey]

Henry married Elizabeth Stevens 5 April 1879 in Chobham. He was a widower. Her father is William John Stevens - in the 1881 household.

Elizabeth died age 47 march qtr 1892 Chertsey vol 2a pg 60

Can't see a marriage for Elizabeth Drew after Henry's death, hence no father on the baptism record.

[osprey]

Alice M(atilda) is in the Muller orphanage in Bristol in 1901
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS67-29S?lang=en

She's a servant in Hove in 1911
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X719-634?lang=en

[AlanBoyd]

I haven’t got the stamina to prove they are definitely brothers, but both a Henry and a Stephen Drew were baptised at Chobham St Lawrence by Henry and Mary Drew

Henry — 2 October 1842
Stephen — 3 August 1851

[osprey]

both birth regs have mmn Duffin
Henry sept qtr 1842 Chertsey vol 4 pg 75
Stephen sept qtr 1851 Chertsey vol 4 pg 100

parish marriage 21 Oct 1838 Chobham
Henry Drew 24 bach labourer Chobham father James Drew labourer
Mary Duffin 16 spinster Chobham father Jonathan Duffin labourer
witnesses Mary Duffin & Charles Howard

[AlanBoyd]

Well, you proved it!

[osprey]

Stephen had been in the army and had spent over 16 years in Burma & India. He left 14 May 1889.
Explains his lack of appearance on some census entries.