Jane Best b.c.1871 Tisbury RD

[Pheno]

Thanks for all your replies and apologies for not replying sooner but I don't receive notifications so have to look at unread posts but was busy sorting something else out this afternoon.

No I don't have William & Agnes after 1881.

I wondered about Jane Best aka Matilda Jane Best who is with William's married sister Emily Gane in 1871 where the relationship is daughter as it is to William & Agnes in 1881 so both seem to be claiming her as their daughter.  Maybe that is what happened - could William have brought up his sister's illegitimate child as he had none of his own?

By 1891 she is married and living in London so only with either family for one census each.

Pheno

[Milliepede]

Do you mean Jane is married by 1891?  Any idea who she names as her father? 

Jane Best 2 with Emily Gane in 1871 is still with Emily Gane in 1881 as Jane Gane age 12 so she can’t be the same Jane age 10 with Agnes in 1881. 

Sorry where does the name Matilda come in?

[Pheno]

Yes she is married by 1891 but I have not had sight of her marriage record to know whom she names as her father.

In both the 1911 & 1921 censuses she is named as Matilda Jane Wigmore (née Best).

Pheno

[Milliepede]

Certainly odd because the Southampton birthplace that Jane had pops up again with Matilda.
Sometimes Tisbury.

Is she alive in 1939 to know an exact date of birth? **

** No she isn’t.

Emily Gane has 8 children all alive in 1911.
Jane, Henry, Charles, William, Anne, Mary, Lucy, Alice. 

So I can’t see where the “other Jane” has gone  .  Disappeared along with Agnes.

[Milliepede]

There’s a William 42 & Agnes Best 40 in Finchley in 1891.  Right ages but says both born London 

[softly softly]

There’s a William 42 & Agnes Best 40 in Finchley in 1891.  Right ages but says both born London 

Deaths Mar 1896   
Best    Agnes    aged 47    Barnet    3a   153

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Marriages Mar 1898   
Best    William Thomas        Salisbury    5a   249    
Soper    Letitia Jane        Salisbury    5a   249   Image on Ancestry

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1901 at same address as 1891


1911 census still at same address
William born 1852 Tisbury
Letitia born Salisbury
Letitia born Finchley

BEST, LETITIA  MARY     mmn SOPER 
GRO Reference: 1908  D Quarter in BARNET  Volume 03A  Page 401 

SS

easily found in 1921 census.

Deaths Sep 1935   
Best    William T    84    Barnet    3a   466

Deaths Mar 1937   
Best    Letitia J    70    Barnet    3a   819

[Milliepede]

Well there you go, two mysteries solved there 

[Pheno]

Well thank you very much everyone for helping to solve this one.

Regards, Pheno

[Milliepede]

Still the mystery of the double Jane (or could be me just not getting it straight) but progress.