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Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« on: Thursday 21 February 08 14:51 GMT (UK) »

I am looking for information on Frances Dunbar I have found her on the 1891 census living with her daughter son and son in law in Kempston bedford.She was a widow living on own means did find her on another census but can not find it again remember it said her husband was a gentleman(whatever that means)Her daughter was born in Brockley Kent.
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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 21 February 08 15:52 GMT (UK) »

In 1891 she is shown as Frances M Hill 49 widow born London.

Her daughter Frances Clementina Hill married Thomas Carson in Bedford registration district in Sept quarter 1890 vol 3b page 627. Her marriage certificate should give her father's name. The daughter appears to have been born in the June 1874 quarter in Greenwich reg district vol 1d page 854. This certificate would be of more use than her marriage cert.

How do you know the mother's maiden name was Dunbar?

I can't find her marriage to Mr Hill

In 1881 I can see a Francis (sic) Hill niece 6 born Brockley living in Walworth with William & Harriett Brockwell, which may be the daughter.

in 1901 RG13/3224 folio 123A
44 Church St, Derby
Frances Carson wife 26 b New Cross Brockley
Lillian Carson dau 9 b Kempston
Mary E Carson dau 3 b Derby
Frances M Hill mother in law 60 parish relief b Bermondsey
(no head of family is shown)

Finally found her in 1881
142 Albany Rd, Camberwell, Surrey
Frances Hill head widow 40 b Southwark
Thomas Hill son 3 b Peckham
Mary Ann Brockwell niece 16 b b Newington

So it looks as though Harriett Brockwell may have been the sister of Frances's late husband (there's a marriage on Free BMD in 1851 in Lambeth where two of the parties on the page are William Charles Brockwell and Harriet Elizabeth Hill)


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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 21 February 08 16:53 GMT (UK) »

Hi,
Thanks for your reply will send for her marriage  and birth certs
The name   Frances Dunbar-Hill was passed on to us through Lillian I presume the Lillian on the 1901 census!
Thanks again now I have some thing to work on.
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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 21 February 08 17:06 GMT (UK) »

this one is well worth looking at the husband is Thomas C same as son of Frances in 1891

1871
6 Canterbury Villas Lambeth st Mary Brixton RG10/687/5/2

 Thomas C Dunbar head mar 45 Lt on half pay b.Cape Good Hope
 Caroline  A Dunbar wife mar 40                      b.India Bengal
Richard t dunbar     son         15 merchants clerk        do
Matilda D Dunbar     daur       13 scholar          b.        do
Frances E Dunbar     daur        6   do              b.St Georges Pimlico
Clement a Dunbar     son       under 1 month   b. St Matthew Brixton
Frances M Hill            servant   29 general servant ( no indication as to marital status given)
b.Bermondsey
Anne Haydon nurse mar 34 monthly nurse b.West Walton Norfolk
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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 21 February 08 17:10 GMT (UK) »

Having looked at this for half the afternoon (it was better than talking to the ex wife who was visiting!) I question whether she was Frances Dunbar. There's no birth of a Frances Dunbar, nor a marriage (to anyone, let alone Mr Hill), nor any Dunbars worth speaking of south of the river in London in 1841 or 1851.

Her census ages give a birth of 1841/2

A Harriot Elizabeth Hill is on the IGI baptised at St Mary Magdalen Bermondsey 6 April 1828, daughter of Rowland Hill and Elizabeth (was he the post office man I wonder?), and in 1861 the eldest son of William and Harriet Brockwell was Roland Brockwell, so it looks as though this is the right baptism.

Interestingly Rowland and Elizabeth Hill also baptised Frances Margaret Hill, same church, on 19 June 1842.

What odds that Frances was telling porkies to the census enumerators when she said she was a widow? She may have been unmarried

David

Since typing the above that yonder peasant has come up with a very interesting scenario! It looks as though there might have been a bit of extra marital going on with Frances the servant (Caroline Dunbar may have died of course)

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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 21 February 08 17:34 GMT (UK) »


it has been driving me mad too beds  boy!

1851Surrey Newington St Peter Walworth HO107/1567/868/6

Rowland Hill head wid 45 leather dresser b.Surrey Bermondsey
Harriet Brockwell daur mar 23 painters wife               do
George   Hill       son  U Potman                               do
William   Hill       son U 18 Floor cloth printer              do
Richard  Hill        son     14 scholar                            do
Sarah     Hill        daur    11                                      do
Fanny     Hill        daur    9                                        do
Henry     Hill         son      7                                       do
Rowland  Hill          son      4                                  b.surrey Newington         
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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 21 February 08 17:44 GMT (UK) »

Some might think it surprising that it didn't occur to me to look for Fanny Hill in 1851! That pretty comprehensively proves the relationships I think. Very civilised of Harriet to have stayed with dad just after she'd got married.

I think the detour through Kempston in 1891 must have been as result of son-in-law Thomas Carson's occupation as a soldier. Kempston barracks was built in 1874-6 for the 16th Regiment of Foot, and in 1881, it became the Depot of the Bedfordshire Regiment.

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"her husband was a gentleman (whatever that means)" - I fear he was no gentleman, and not her husband either!
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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 21 February 08 17:46 GMT (UK) »

yes there is a suspicioius military theme to this mystery
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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 21 February 08 17:53 GMT (UK) »

Its driving me bonkers beginning to wish I `d left this alone(lol) Frances Clementina's father was Frances Clem?(Clement?)going back to the census`s and bmd got to find something.
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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 21 February 08 18:03 GMT (UK) »

Odd that one of the Dunbar children was also a Clement

Where did this information come from Susan?
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« Reply #10 on: Thursday 21 February 08 18:12 GMT (UK) »

The fact that her birth was registered as Frances Clementina D HILL speaks volumes. (was the D for Dunbar, giving a big clue as to the father?). It will be interesting to see if a father is named on the birth certificate. Her marriage cert is a different matter as a father's name was often invented to hide illegitimacy, making life complicated for 21st century genealogists.
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« Reply #11 on: Thursday 21 February 08 18:23 GMT (UK) »

There's a death of Thomas Clement Dunbar age 71 in March 1896 in Holborn. Is this where Clementina comes from (and more subtle than Thomasina)?

It might be interesting to see if he left a will and whether any illegitimate children are mentioned

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« Reply #12 on: Thursday 21 February 08 18:33 GMT (UK) »

Glad you posted this on the Beds board Susan - notwithstanding, as it turns out, that the Beds involvement was probably merely being stationed at Kempston barracks for a year or two. One of the more interesting/challenging queries!

I'm off now down to the bistro hopefully, between us all,  leaving no loose ends

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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 21 February 08 20:08 GMT (UK) »

Ordered birth and marriage cert for Frances Clementina D Hill lets hope it throws more light on the subject!!
Meanwhile if any one finds any info please please let me know
Also going to see if I can find any thing about his will (that I will find challenging)not the best with searching.
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Re: Dunbar-Hill Help needed
« Reply #14 on: Friday 22 February 08 17:12 GMT (UK) »

Hi

Interesting thread, hope that certificate comes up trumps Cheesy

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