Genealogy Chat

Her mother married in 1896, and had two more children. Daisy never lived with her, and there is no one left alive who remembers her. I do have her birth certificate - she was born at the local workhouse, no father named, master of workhouse was the informant. Her mother is described as a domestic servant She lived with a family a little bit away from the village - in the 1891 census she is described as their neice and by the 1901 she has become their granddaughter! I have a contact who thinks that the head of household on the census was probably her father but there is no proof of this. I did check for a marriage under this name and found one - but not the right person unfortunately. Oh well, just keep on looking I suppose! Lisa

Did her Mother later marry? I have a son who was missing on 1901 until I found him with his Mother under her new married name. Perhaps she adopted her stepfathers name.

I've found some quarters missing on the Ancestry data base too. I 've been e-mailing them to let them know exactly which ones are missing, so that they can add them. Particularly frustrating was the quarter they had deaths instead of births.

if 1/4 is missing go to one that is ok click on it then click on year then the 1/4 missing then letter of name then just go through images until you find page hopefully not missing as some of mine where and had to get them on 1837 site jeanette

Lisa, because of the problems with the index, you may not be seeing every quarter. Check the list you get carefully. I've got lots missing. Some quarters they seem to have forgotten to turn the paper over - only odd number pages appear. Some new records were added to FreeBMD yesterday - may be worth checking then again. Jim

Is there anyone in the family who remembers this lady, or is she just a name on the 1901 census? Was she living with her natural mother, or grandparents, or an orphanage? It is very difficult to track people forward in time. If she was known to be illegitimate, if she didn't have friends, she would probably go into service, change employers, move round the country. If she hadn't managed to marry by the end of WW1, then her choices would be limited. In my family, too, you didn't marry until you have saved up enough to set up by yourselves. Most of my granny's generation were late twenties, earlier thirties before they married.

You said she was born outside of marriage.............have you checked if she married under her step fathers name(if she had one), I have 3 that married under their step fathers name and not their birth name.

Not that I'm aware of Heather Lisa

Dont forget that there was a shortage of men around that time, due to the huge losses of the war, people like my nan married a widower when she was single and in her thirties. I take it she has no kids whose birth cert you could get?

It could well be that she never married, though. So if you don't find her marriage, you would have to extend your search for her death. Kate.

I have found some quarters missing - my notes are at home and I'm at work at present! Lisa

My great-great uncle married at the age of 69 and his 'childbride' was 54. They didn't have any children though. If your ancestor did, then she would have probably finished having babies around the age of 45. nell

I have a relative who married at the age of 41 in 1911. Even though I knew both their names, I initially failed to find their marriage because I'd assumed that when she wasn't with the rest of her family on the census at around the age of 21, that was when she'd gotten married. Turned out that she'd gone into service working in the other end of the country! So I'd say, keep searching, it's certainly possible. Less common than might occur nowadays, I guess, but definitely a 'maybe'.

Lisa My ggrandfather's sister married at the age of 43 in 1878. Also, my stepmother married my father (her first marriage)at the age of 41 and then had two children. Lynne

Have you checked that there were no quarters missing from Ancestry for that particular name? I've found there is the odd quarter missing, that I have to search on 1837online for. Kath. x

Hi Sue Mmm, I know, just so frustrating though. The last time I have any trace of her is 1901 census. I've also searched deaths so far until 1905 but nothing there either. I'm starting to think she was abducted by aliens. Lisa

Hi, I have an ancestor born outside marriage in 1888. Since the BMD images were free on ancestry I have searched marriages up to 1924 for her, and found nothing. Do you think its worth going on searching for a marriage for her, as she would have been 36 in 1924, which seems to me a bit old for the era? thanks Lisa