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May's mother Jane Gaskill was born in 1862 in Burton on Trent. In 1892 she was a dressmaker, and was living at 44 John Street Horninglow Northumberland.
Her illegitimate daughter May was born there in February 1892, and on May's birth cert her mother had declared the father's name to be Colin Sharp (and was calling herself Jane Sharp) though Colin was living in Station Road Burton on Trent with his wife Annie and two young sons. May's name appears on her birth cert as May Gaskill Sharp.
Her mother Jane died in Birmingham in 1897 (and Colin died, a widower, in Stoke on Trent Workhouse in 1902). Little May would have been only five, and newspaper reports say that Jane had a five-year-old daughter living with her when she died, but I can't find out what then happened to her.
She surfaces next in 1911 aged nineteen, working in a prestigious boarding house in Westminster, London, calling herself just May Gaskill.
Fifteen years later in 1926 she was working as a domestic cook for a Kensington family when she married fruit porter John Henry Bentley in Southwark. On her marriage cert she gives her father as 'unknown'
She gave birth to their only child, also John, in 1927, then died two years later in 1929 of liver cancer. Their infant son John was placed in care, his father married again but never reclaimed him, and whilst growing up the child was told by 'the autthorities' that he was there because his parents had too many children already and didn't want another. Thankfully he now knows this to be untrue. John will be eighty-four this year and would dearly love to know who brought his mother up between 1897 when her own mother died, and 1911 when she appears in the Westminster census. Can anyone help please?
Maggie





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