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Emma & Nell,
Thanks again for your searching on my behalf - it's cracking stuff! I take Nell's advice on board about the verification, but half the fun of this is the invention of the skeletons. We've debunked several family illusions already, but made sure we've replaced them with other mini-scandals!!
I'm liking the look of Elizabeth's 1874 marriage to William Thomas, but it would be nice to know where she was in 1881. No death to report?
Given that the recorded deaths of the two Charlottes in 1851 (baby) and 1865 (mother) are indeed our people, then I'm not sure where Nell's still coming from with her idea that Charlotte Snr was the mother of the third Charlotte (b.1870). Am I missing something?
Emma's tale of Louis and Charlotte in Widnes is fascinating, however difficult it is to authenticate. Charlotte Thomas (nee Snook) ties in neatly with the third Charlotte in the Bath Rd household, but was she really marrying a Thomas in Llanelli (albeit Louis was born in France), when she used to live in Lymington with a William Thomas (born in Pembury, Llanelli)? If she was indeed William & Elizabeth Thomas' daughter, did she end up marrying her half-brother or uncle or cousin? The woman who died in South Stoneham in 1902 may, I guess, have reverted to her maiden name after hubby's death/divorce/disappearance, but you're right: there were a dickens of a lot of Snooks around in those days!
Any clues to Henry Snook's parentage from the 1841 census?
Cheers,
Brian
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There seem to have been more Snooks in Lymington than there are currently Patels in the whole of India (and when they had their kids they were only ever given half-a-dozen names to choose from)!!
I'm now off to study the Balches.
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Doesn't look like the same bunch of Snooks to me. Thanks for the idea. My mother-in-law tells me that Snook (also Snooke and Snooks) is a derivative of "Sevenoaks", therefore they're probably scattered far and wide.
Anyone know if Bridge Street, Bath Road and Slabro(?) Street in Lymington still exist? Or where they once were?
(I'm in Basingstoke - too darn wet and far to hop in the car and find out for myself!)
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I was simply trying to say that until you verify the facts, you cannot be 100% certain of anything! Yes Charlotte senior seems to have died in 1865, but what if Henry married again after that and second wife died too by 1871 - it could have happened! Let the daughters be innocent until proven guilty!
Snooks - very common in Hampshire and Wiltshire.
Location of streets in Lymington - if you really don't want to move, try either
http://www.streetmap.co.uk
or
http://www.multimap.com
Otherwise, I'm sure Basingstoke Library will have a Hampshire A-Z atlas.
Nell
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Nell,
OK, I'm duly exposed as a lazy old ***!! It's just difficult trying to do all this AND have a life (AND earn a living) at the same time...
I agree that all of us should be assumed innocent until proven guilty. Therefore, I'm happy to assume that Henry's second wife (also called Charlotte?) died in childbirth, but that Charlotte Jnr (Mark 2) survived. But, no, I don't have any evidence of the second marriage. And speculation about in-breeding and deflowering by the local squire is far more entertaining, don't you think? 
And I was hoping there might be some contributors from Lymington who might be able to shed more light than multimap on what these roads were like back in Victorian times.
Cheers,
Brian
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Ow, that hurt!!
As it happens, I'm just about to deliver a lecture on multithreading (aka multitasking) to my class. I generally start with the (pathetic) joke that it's a topic the blokes aren't meant to be able to understand...
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I can find Bath Rd on the old map, but neither of the other two locations. Anybody know whether Bridge Rd was once called Bridge St? Or is it a census enumerator problem?
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Emma (or anyone else interested)...
re Your earlier findings for me, we've now managed to get hold of the birth certificate of Walter Martell Snook. It seems to show that the address in the 1991 census wasn't Slabro Street, but Station Street.
Is it possible that Charlotte Snook's maiden name (m. Henry Snook 1848) was Martell rather than Martill? We're trying to work out where Walter Martell Snook got his middle name from.
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Brian
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hi i see your looking at lymington
i live here if i can be of any help
Angela
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And Bridge Street, Station Road/Street and Bath Road are all still here
I do know a 'Snook' but i'm not sure if that can help
Angela
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Didn't we "do" this family in one of the monthly challenges.
perhaps not. But the names are so familiar.
spoken like a man...... 