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LILLY ROSE AND ELIZA THURLOW

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MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 4 Dec 2010 15:31

I can't find any other appropriate marriage record for another Lily Thurlow, and the unmarried ones in Suffolk in 1901 census are with different parents to that 1881 census.

Janice

Janice Report 4 Dec 2010 15:36

No and family history was taboo. on the 1911 census she is Lily Munns in Cropthorne Worcs. and her girls are in an orphanage in Malvern I could never work out why she moved such a way unless Eliza was around but clutching at straws.

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 4 Dec 2010 15:37

Jan, found this on Google:

http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stjbaptipswich.htm

"About half a mile east of the church, along Freehold Road and at the corner of Bloomfield Street, stood the St John's children's home. This must have been the saddest place in the parish. It was actually the Ipswich Poor Law Union workhouse for pauper children. This was not an unusual kind of institution in more urban areas, but it was the only one of its kind in Suffolk, and as such seems to have been the place where poor orphans from all over the county ended up. Built in 1879, it had room for 130 children, and eventually closed in 1930. The site is now covered by sheltered housing."

I don't know anything at all about Suffolk history. I wonder if there's a history society that might know what happened to records from there?

Janice

Janice Report 4 Dec 2010 15:39

THANK YOU

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 4 Dec 2010 15:44

Yes, have just seen that 1911 when she appears to be still calling herself
Lily R Munns (single?) despite:

Marriages Jun 1905 (>99%)
BLACK Herbert Newmarket 3b 1153
Munns Lily Rose Newmarket 3b 1153

Janice

Janice Report 4 Dec 2010 15:48

What a grandmother!!!

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 4 Dec 2010 15:49

Jan, you wouldn't have believed what mine was like - bet she could have taught Lily a few tricks! ;-)

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 4 Dec 2010 15:53

I'm not finding a suitable single Eliza in the 1901. There are a few Eliza Thurlow marriages on FreeBMD but it would be hard to pinpoint which one was hers (if any) without sending for all of them.

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 4 Dec 2010 16:07

Jan, not managed to dig anything useful up yet about eliza.

Meanwhile, why not contact these people if you want to pursue Workhouse records?

http://www.suffolkfhs.co.uk/

Someone there may be able to point you in the right direction.

Janice

Janice Report 4 Dec 2010 16:39

the only other thing I found was a baptism record for LILLY ROSE THURLOW
1898 ST PETERS HAMMERSMITH but the birth date looks like 1881 but unsure