Genealogy Chat

Oh, well done, AQ!

I was pretty sure Alfred's YOB must be wrong, but couldn't see him or the others anywhere.

If Percy was in the workhouse/children's home aged 8, perhaps that looks as though one or both parents had died.

So this might be Elizabeth Harriet in 1911:

Lizzie Mitchell
in the 1911 England Census
Name: Lizzie Mitchell
Age in 1911: 15
Estimated birth year: abt 1896
Relation to Head: Inmate
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Carshalton, Surrey, England
Civil Parish: Croydon
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England
Street address: 316 London Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey
Occupation: School
Registration district: Croydon
Registration District Number: 39
Sub-registration district: West Croydon
ED, institution, or vessel: 38
Household schedule number: 76
Piece: 3360

Head of household is a foster mother, working for the Poor Law Service.

As below...

(and hope you get back to FMP soon AQ, lol)

Chris :)

1939 Register (Find My Past)

Queens Road Homes Queens Road , Croydon C.B., Surrey,
Elizabeth H Mitchell 28 Mar 1895 Female Single
(Incapacitated Detained In Under Prov of S24 Lunacy act)


http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Croydon/

(some info. on above mentions 1930)

Elizabeth Mitchell
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Elizabeth Mitchell
Birth Date: abt 1895
Date of Registration: Jun 1958
Age at Death: 63
Registration district: Croydon
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 5g
Page: 2

A possibility for Emma Jane's death - though she wasn't the only Emma Mitchell born in 1st or 2nd quarter of 1899:

Emma Mitchell
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Emma Mitchell
Birth Date: 26 Mar 1899
Date of Registration: Dec 1981
Age at Death: 82
Registration district: Surrey North Western
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 17
Page: 0559