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can anyone decipher this 1881 census image?

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JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 01:20


Name: Lillian Gickie
Age: 19
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1862
Relation: Visitor
Gender: Female
Where born: France
Condition as to marriage: Married

Name: Alexr. Boway
Age: 37
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844
Relation: Head
Where born: Islington, Middlesex, England
Condition as to marriage: Unmarried
Occupation: Artist (Painter)

Civil parish: Lambeth
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street Address: 89 Davyell
Registration district: Lambeth

Alexr. Boway 37 ? (artist / painter)
Lillian Gickie 19 ?


RG11; Piece: 620; Folio: 43; Page: 79

in case anyone is looking somewhere other than Ancestry where it might be easier to read.


I can't read the surname for either person! Except that I doubt that either one is what Ancestry says. ;)

It's not so much that the image is bad - I've tried both enhanced and unenhanced - it's more that the handwriting is illegible. I'm usually pretty good at it, but that has me stumped.

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 01:25

I'm thinking this could be the householder:

Marriages Jun 1881
Mowbray Alexander Camberwell 1d 1087


The "B" in his surname in the census doesn't look like a B, it looks like an M: Moway.
(See the B and M, 2 and 3 lines above on the census image.)

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 4 Sep 2009 01:26

Just having a look-see

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 4 Sep 2009 01:30

1881

Alexr. BOWAY Head U Male 37 Islington, Middlesex, England Artist (Painter)
Lillian GICKIE Visitor M Female 19 France


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Source Information:
Dwelling 89 Davyell Rd
Census Place Lambeth, Surrey, England
Family History Library Film 1341143
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 0620 / 43
Page Number 79

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 4 Sep 2009 01:31

it's the same on familysearch


Household:

Alexr. BOWAY Head U Male 37 Islington, Middlesex, England Artist (Painter)
Lillian GICKIE Visitor M Female 19 France

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Source Information:
Dwelling 89 Davyell Rd
Census Place Lambeth, Surrey, England
Family History Library Film 1341143
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 0620 / 43
Page Number 79



sylvia

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 4 Sep 2009 01:33

Alex Monay??????????

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 01:34

I got 'im!

1871

Name: Alexander Rowan
Age: 31
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1840
Relation: Son
Mother's Name: Mary A
Where born: Islington, Middlesex, England
Civil parish: Lambeth

Occupation: ARTIST

Mary A Rowan 69 - Annuitant, born Ireland
(but the neighbourhood is more middle class than "own means" -
but lots of unmarried adult children, so prosperous)
Alexander Rowan 31
Maria J Rowan 35
Emily Rowan 33

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 01:35

Alexander Monay. Younger brother of the better-known Claude Monay.

snort

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 01:38

Heretofore unknown offspring, I wonder? Although the Sep 1882 one had Alexander as middle name ...


Births Mar 1882
Rowan Alexander St. Geo. H. Sq. 1a 495
Deaths Mar 1884
ROWAN Alexander 2 St Geo H Sq 1a 336

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 4 Sep 2009 01:47

I got side tracked on Google and Bing!


but didn't find aything that you ahven't found.


Dinnertime, must go!


I'll see how far you've got in a little while


sylvia

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 4 Sep 2009 01:48

hmmmm......Claude Monay - he's that geezer wot painted them lilies innit?

what's the chances Lilian Gickie was a nude model!!!!

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 01:51

You got 'im, Ann o' GG. ;)

Don't know whether you followed it all after you were so thoroughly dissed, and then it got consigned to the dustbin by its not well pleased author, but I can send you the whole thing if you like. PM me an email address 'cause if I have one, I don't know where it is!

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 01:52

Oh - you edited!

"what's the chances Lilian Gickie was a nude model!!!!"

My thoughts exactly.


Huh!

http://www.askart.com/askart/r/alexander_rowan/alexander_rowan.aspx

Peterkinz

Peterkinz Report 4 Sep 2009 02:11

I know Claude Monet (note spelling) had an older brother named Leon - where did a younger one come from?

Peter

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 02:17

Now now, Peter, don't be getting all serious here.

We're talking about someone who treated us like morons; we don't need somebody replicating the act!

Or -- were you on purpose? ;)

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 02:21

Alive and unmarried in 1891, so not the deceased hubby ... if anyone was:

Name: Alexander Rowan
Age: 47
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844
Relation: Lodger
Where born: Bayswater, London, England

Civil parish: Camberwell

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 02:31

But the big question remains - what was Lillian's surname??

Gickie ... I think not ...

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 4 Sep 2009 02:42

But leaving aside Ms. Gickie, I may just have a better theory.


1881

Name: Lila L. Morley
Age: 24
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1857
(too old - but hey, "you can't trust censuses"!)
Relation: Boarder
Where born: (F), France

Civil parish: Marylebone

Street Address: 29 Charlotte St
Condition as to marriage: Married
> > Occupation: Dressmaker


Elias Ansorge 38
Julie Ansorge 33
Felicity Ansorge 14
Esther Ansorge 13
Annie Thorpe 23
Leopold Bonvalet 29
Abel Inquinbert 27
Ethel Rainsford 21
Lila L. Morley 24


Awfully respectable looking household, though.

Mistycat

Mistycat Report 4 Sep 2009 02:50

!!!!!!!!!!! Could she be in Scotland and England.....!!!!!! or maybe I should be in bed...!!! ;)

1881 Scotland Census about Lillian McKinley
Name: Lillian McKinley
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861
Relationship: Lodger
Gender: Female
Where born: Paris
Registration Number: 685/2
Registration district: St Andrew
Civil parish: St Andrew
County: Midlothian
Address: 28 Greenside St
Occupation: ****** Photographic Artiste*******
ED: 2
Household schedule number: 74
Line: 5
Roll: cssct1881_284
Household Members:
Name Age
Clara Manson 40
Minnie Manson 15
Jane Jooreans 9
Clara Manson 7
James Manson 7
Harry Sullivan 34
Fanny Sullivan 25
Fanny Sullivan 3
Maggie Sullivan 10 Months
Catherine Sullivan 28
Lillian McKinley 20

Misty x

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 4 Sep 2009 03:12

what fun!


lots of candidates for the position




sylvia