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Just looked at the BOSWELL SMITH births in Bethnal Green and around can only see two males on FreeBMD.

John 1915 March

Charles J 1915 December

No Lily or any other's that would of been the sister.

The Boswell/Smith marriage looks correct. Occupation of groom - carman, father deceased. The witnesses were what looks like Huggins. Her father Richard Smith

All this ties together quite well but I still have this name WHITLEY and a known sister that cannot be found under any of the names.

I just called my husband's only living relative -an aunt and she looked at the sister's memorial card and it just names her as GINNY. The aunt is going to have another look through the paperwork she has to see if she can find a real name for her.

I just searched all the SMITH WHITLEY marriages just in case Rosetta had been previously married but nothing.

Where on the birth cert does the name Whitley appear? I think it might be a good idea to contact the Mile End Registrar's office and ask them to check - it is possible that the original entry was omitted from the GRO index.

Mile End registers are now held at Tower Hamlets:

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Can the 1911 Census be searched by address??

If so can someone have a look at 60 and 61 Sceptre Street, Bethnal Green, Middlesex as my husbands aunt believe's that someone in the family owned that house and many relatives lived in it over the years. Unfortunately she doesn't know whether it was her mother's or father's side of the family that the house belonged to.

Thank you for all your help. I will order the John Boswell birth certificate, if it's not mine I am sure I will find a home for it on Certificate Exchange.

Thanks Potty I thought that as Mile End closed I could only do things through the GRO. I will give them a ring now.

As for the WHITLEY it doesn't appear on the certificate at all, only on the GRO reference as mother maiden name.

Sceptre Street is hiding in 1911 census.

Ok thanks

Well thank you all for your help. The register office closed now but I will call them in the morning and hope I get someone more helpful than I did at the GRO.

The saga continues but thanks again to everyone that has helped.

This is where Whitely comes from (FreeBMD)

Births Jun 1919 (>99%)
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Boswell Doris E Marsh Mile End 1c 461
Boswell Lily J Whitley Mile End 1c 432

Could this be Ginny

Births Mar 1910 (>99%)
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BOSWELL Eugenie Rosalind Mile End 1c 423

60 Sceptre Street is where Rosetta Smith was living when she married John Boswell.

Let us know what happens please Kim.

Yes that is the only reference to WHITLEY.

That other birth look a possible Eugenie to Ginny certainly could be right.

I will certainly update you all once I can speak to them.

Thanks again for all your help.

1911 census - household transcription
Person: BOSWELL, Eugine Rosalind
Address: 68 St Anns Road


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BOSWELL, Fredrick Richard Head Married M 36 1875 Bricklayer Labourer M E O T VIEW
BOSWELL, Mary Ann Wife Married
10 years F 30 1881 Bethnal Green VIEW
BOSWELL, Florence Ethel Daughter Single F 8 1903 School Stepney VIEW
BOSWELL, Elsie May Daughter Single F 6 1905 School Stepney VIEW
BOSWELL, Fredrick Richard Son Single M 4 1907 Stepney VIEW
BOSWELL, Eugine Rosalind Daughter Single F 1 1910 Mile End VIEW

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There is a tree on Ancestry that has Eugenie Rosalind Boswell as the daughter of Frederick Richard Boswell and Mary Marsh and married to George James Satterley Smith. No sources are given but exact dates of birth and marriage are.

I just a marriage for Eugenie Roslind BOSWELL to George J S SMITH in 1937, Stepney, London.

Can anyone see the details for it as in parents??

That is definitely not the same family then.

No need for the marriage details.

Thanks

Right off to sort some dinner now.

Thanks again for everyone's help. I will update once I have spoken to register office tomorrow.

Two families living at 60 Sceptre Street in 1911

Severn and Parker,

61 not showing.

Something isn't right. You say the birth was registered 27th February 1919. This means it should appear in the March quarter of 1919, not the June quarter.

Births Jun 1919
Boswell Lily J Whitley Mile End 1c 432

Rose

The old Mile End registers are now held by Tower Hamlets. See:
http://www.thbmd.co.uk/