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Births Dec 1911 (>99%)
Nunn Joseph Hanson Hemsworth 9c 349 Scan available - click to view

Jude

I wonder if that birth in 1911 with the maiden name given as Hanson rather than Williams was registered by Amos instead of Elizabeth?

Perhaps because Elizabeth married using the name Elizabeth Williams Hanson, Amos didn't know that her maiden name was actually Williams. Just an idea really???

Kath. x

Patchem, my father was Douglas Nunn b 1919, siblings Amos Nunn b 1910-1911, Joseph Hanson Nunn b 1911-1911, Arthur Williams Nunn b 1914-1915, Albert Nunn b1924, Kenneth Nunn b 1926, Dolly Nunn 1925 ??

My father Douglas, Albert, Amos, Dolly ? Harriet Hannah, Kenneth, parents Amos Arthur Nunn And Elizabeth Williams Hanson, do not know about the rest, Elizabeth Williams gave them her maiden name as their middle name for some reason ?.

Kath, I think you are right in saying that Elizabeth must have used the name Hanson when her mother married Samuel Hanson :-S

There is not a birth to match "Dolly" in 1925. The only Nunn birth in 1925 of a girl in Hemsworth was Joyce mother's maiden name Young. It's already been "proved" Harriet Hannah was the first born and the living child of the two born to the marriage at the 1911 census.

So as suggested earlier the only way you are going to ascertain if Harriet Hannah could possibly be Dolly who "gassed herself" is to buy the death certificate - good luck!

Jude

Pam,

I don't think Elizabeth gave the children her maiden name as a middle name.

What you are seeing in the birth index is:-

Nunn (surname), Douglas (first name), Williams (mother's maiden name - which is always in the birth index after 1911). So your father is just Douglas Nunn as per this entry:-


Name: NUNN, Douglas
Registration district: Hemsworth
County: Yorkshire
Year of registration: 1919
Quarter of registration: Apr-May-Jun
Mother's maiden name: Williams
Volume no: 9C
Page no: 232

It's just that when you look at the entry on FreeBMD it is all put together on one line so at first glance it looks as it the mother's maiden name could be a middle name (but isn't).

Kath. x

Yes, Kath, me thinks I should drop the name Hanson from my family tree, and keep Williams, makes more sense, I think. - Hannah Williams b 1865 Ossett, spouse Samuel Hanson b 1859, child- Samuel Hanson b1890 Thorpe arch, Kitty Nunn b1894 Ossett, Samuel Hanson b 1896 Ossett, Emily Hanson b 1896 Ossett.

am going to drop Hanson from my grandmother name , Elizabeth Williams. :-) :-S :-S

Hi all, you have all been brilliant helping me, cannot believe the support I have had, and still getting, you all deserve a medal, well at least some kind of recognision, , I wonder if WHO DO THINK YOU ARE would be interested, do not think so, cos me is not in the limelight, But , my mums cousin is Christopher Walker, who plays a policeman in Doctors on telly.

Pam :-)

Pam - if you definitely think that it was Benjamin Exley's wife that gassed herself and you decide to buy the death certificate of Harriet Hannah Exley please come back to this thread and let us know what it says.

I, for one, would be interested to see if this death certificate confirms or refutes the theory that she gassed herself. If she did then perhaps she WAS the person known as "Dolly".

Names, dates and stories often get mixed up as the years go by.

Kath. x