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How do I find someone without surname?

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Gee

Gee Report 10 Jan 2011 19:30

Where did you get the actual DOB's from for Josephines children please?

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Melissa

Melissa Report 10 Jan 2011 19:29

I'm not sure about Abraham, but have found all three of Josephine's siblings in1911 and none of them have their nieces and nephew living with them. I think her mother had already dies having possibly remarried a frederick wedgerfield?

chrisa

chrisa Report 10 Jan 2011 19:23

Have you found her parents & siblings in 1911?

Melissa

Melissa Report 10 Jan 2011 19:20

Thank you, yes I have found that, and all records for her parents Abraham and Esther Harris, and her siblings Alexander, Florence and Bertha - but nothing for the children. It was never talked about by my nana and her siblings so no one knows what happened before 1911 when she married Robert Mott and they became Motts....
can someone just not exist??

chrisa

chrisa Report 10 Jan 2011 19:14

Here's Josephine in 1911.. No children with her


Name: Relationship to head: Marital Status: Years married: Sex: Age in 1911: Occupation: Where born:
PURKISS, WILLIAM HEAD MARRIED M 58 CAB DRIVER HILDERSHAM CAMBS
PURKISS, SARAH WIFE MARRIED 34 F 59 MILDEN HALL SUFFOLK
HARRIS, JOSEPHINE MARTHA BOARDER SINGLE F 24 WAITRESS LONDON WHITECHAPEL


HARRIS JOSEPHINE MARTHA (RG14PN172 RG78PN6 RD2 SD3 ED8 SN230)
Address 295 LADBROKE GROVE NORTH KENSINGTON W County London
District Kensington Subdistrict Kensington North
Enumeration District 8 Parish Kensington

Melissa

Melissa Report 10 Jan 2011 19:02

I am trying to find my grandmother, Doris Florence, who was born on August 17th 1906, her sister Mabel who was born on 10th August(?) 1905 and her brother Frederick James Alexander who was born on September 11th 1907. The only problem is that I don't know what their surname was as they seem to be born "out of wedlock" to possibly 2 different fathers and they don't seem to be registered under their mother's maiden name of Harris (Josephine Martha Harris, born 1887, Whitechapel I think). Therefore I cannot find them in any of the censuses. Their mother married in 1911 and the husband took them all on and they changed their surnames to Mott which was his name, which is the only name any of the family know.
Very confusing, but is there any way I can find out their original surnames?

Thanks,
Melissa