Loseby (with a Higgins marriage connection)

[wilcoxon]

I agree, I think every lead has been looked at,  still a dead end..

[PatLac]

Maybe Cissie Higgins left Mr. Whittle's house after his marriage to housekeeper Florence Kilburn in 1914 and went to work at Mr. Edgar Loseby's house? She could have worked until his death in 1921 and maybe inherited some money, enough to start a business in Kells, which would be easier if she was a respectable widow hence why she "borrowed" her late employer's surname?

In the 1911 Census what are the listed adresses of James Herbert Whitle and Edgar Loseby?

[PatLac]

And there's a bigamy case!


Free article on https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000168/18900129/032/0003

[rosie17]

James Herbert Whittle
Address Norcliffe Knowles Blackpool

Edgar Loseby
Queens Road
Blackpool
1911 Census

Rosie

[rosie17]

Edgar Loseby is still with his wife Isabella Cartmell on the 1921 census who he married 1906

Rosie

[wilcoxon]

Edgar Loseby is still with his wife Isabella Cartmell on the 1921 census who he married 1906

Rosie

Lancashire Daily post 28 July 1921
He died in July 1921 , complications following a fall from a train during his work 8 weeks earlier.  Isabella is named .

[rosie17]

Edgar Loseby is still with his wife Isabella Cartmell on the 1921 census who he married 1906

Rosie

Lancashire Daily post 28 July 1921
He died in July 1921 , complications following a fall from a train during his work 8 weeks earlier.  Isabella is named .

Think this is going to be one of these brick walls did she marry or just added the Loseby name to her selection of other first names 

Rosie

[heywood]

I agree Rosie.
Although Elizabeth seems an oddity in 1926 but Cissie can be a pet name for Mary,I understand.
I have searched, with no success, for directories for Kells hoping to find out when she returned.
The younger Edgar Loseby was already married in 1911 and was with his wife in 1921.