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Hi Potty,
thanks for looking for me. I don't think that this is Alma's father. She was supposed to have been born at sea in 1857,so if he was born 1843,he would be too young.

I think Alma made herselp up!


Thanks again
Blue1

Having searched further, I don't think the Francis above is Alma's father. I can find him on all censuses and his marriage in 1873 gives him as a bachelor.

Possible for Francis - a sailor:

1861 England Census
about Francis Finch
Name: Francis Finch
Age: 18
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843
Relation: B 1 C
Gender: Male
Where born: British Subject, Bouloogne

Civil parish: Vessels
Town: English Channel
County/Island: Royal Navy
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage: View image

Registration district: Royal Navy
Sub-registration district: Royal Navy
ED, institution, or vessel: Edgar
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 1
Piece: 4439
Folio: 29
Page Number: 33

Hi
Just needed to up date this very old post of mine. and get my findings off my chest!

I have at last gotten hold of the marriage cert of William Pimlott Stephens and Alma Sabastopol Whitehead.
She is indeed a Widow as my helpers thought. She names her father as Francis Finch,deceased.

Other than that, I'm looking for her marriage to Mr Whitehead,which I can't find,her birth,which even with the maiden name I can't find and I can't even find her on a census before her marriage to William Stephens.

So, may be in another three years I will have something more to add to my thread !

Frustrated
Blue1

Hi ErinGoBragh1916,
if i pm you with my e-mail could you let me have a copy of your list please.
This falls in with the dates that i have
The plot thickens
Cathie

well Maureen,
what can i say,looks like any one who was in those battles named their children Alma Sabastopol!
Cathie

Catherine...Dont know if this helps you at all but I have found only 1 Whitehead listed for the Battle of Sebastopol (20Sept.1854-24Nov.1854)..
Thomas Whitehead (Private) 33 Regiment of Foot. (Wounded)
I have the full List of Battalion Casualties and Regiments etc.

Just to confuse things even more, there's a tree on Ancestry that has a Albert Alma Sebastapol Axell, born 1856, Rye, Sussex.

Well,i think i have lost the plot,suppose i had better take a break
Cathie

Cathie

No worries as you sent it in a PM

TC Julie

HI Julie,
of course i'll keep you updated.Don't know what just happened but i did post a reply to some while ago and it didn't add
so sorry for that
Cathie

Would you mind it i know too please lol, as this sounds very interesting

thanks so much Sue,she must have married before.Will be biting my nails now waiting for the cert.Hopefully not to long
Cathie

PM me by all means.....not a problem. No guarantee that she will be on the overseas bmd, but worth a look.

Sue,
if this doesn't come through from rele today or if i have to wait a week or so for the cert,can i pm you please with the info or would it be easier to add to this thread
cathie

Once we can establish her maiden name, I can have look on FMP for births at sea. I can't see one for an Alma Whitehead.

Julie,
i think i can eliminate the man as she was defiantly a woman,ha ha.her name seemed very unusual to me,but not so it seems
Cathie

I was working on the theory that she might have been married before so was off cross reffing some marriages

I have found 2 young ladies with the name Alma Sebastopol
& 2 others with Alma Sebastopol among their name
Oh and 1 Man

Just ignore me with that birth i think i was getting carried away lol

Julie,
i may be thick,but i don't understand what this is.Is it a birth and is that all of her name,forgive me for being not quite with it
Cathie

Thanks Sue,
thats good news,with all these certs i am collecting to buy my husband will have to get a second job
Cathie
but this one is the top of the list as my son is into military history and would love to have an ancestor in it even if only step.She must have been nice to have her step grandson name his daughter after her