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Miss Poohs
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever
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I think I may have the found the death certificate of my MILs mother.
All I know is she died while my MIL was young, which if this is correct would make my MIL about 4-5 at the time, of the death.
That would have left MILs dad with 3 young children to bring up - between the age of 2 and 8, and possibly another 2 boys born before their parents were married.
Which brings me to my musings - it's unlikely that the children would have remained with their father, isn't it?
I don't know if they were sent to live with someone else, or put into care.
I need to send away for the death cert for Mary Martin and check that first of all.
What would be your thoughts on what happened to the children?
If they were put into care it would have been in the Liverpool area - so I'll get reading.
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Rena
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James McCarthy
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My grandmother was 9 yrs old with 2 slightly older siblings, several younger siblings including a baby of 3 weeks old when her mother died in 1893. The family stayed together.
Four years later her father married a widow who had 4 children: two lived at home and two had been placed in the orphanage. All four children were taken into the family home.
My cousin remembers being at a funeral of a sailor widower who had one small girl - two of the father's siblings offered to take in the child. He said it had been a difficult choice because one couple could not have children, thus could lavish goods on her and the other couple had 3 young children. He asked his sibling who had children to adopt his child so she could grow up with a happy family.
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Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy
Leith area: Mason, Telford, Darling, Cruikshanks, Sime, Bell
Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar
Ross, Urray:Mackenzie
Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell
Perthshire: Brown Ferguson
Wales: McCarthy, Thomas
England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells
Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke
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Miss Poohs
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Beauty fades, dumb is forever
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MIL was born 1924, her paternal grandmother died 1928, and (if my assumption is correct) her own mother died 1929.
Lots of "ifs, ands & buts" isn't it?
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Rena
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James McCarthy
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I got a lot of information from finding and talking to the nieces and step family of my grandmother. Even though they were in their 80's and 90's they still remembered me (!) and were glad to pass on their family stories. Even when they thought they'd told me all they knew they were still passing on nuggets of gold in general conversation which often led them down memory lane. For instance I'd phone on a day when a news item about Iraq took them down memory lane and I got snippets about family during WWI and WWII.
Good luck,
Rena
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Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy
Leith area: Mason, Telford, Darling, Cruikshanks, Sime, Bell
Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar
Ross, Urray:Mackenzie
Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell
Perthshire: Brown Ferguson
Wales: McCarthy, Thomas
England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells
Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke
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netgrrl79
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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would assume MIL = Mother In Law?
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Yorks - Chambers, Burgin, Green, Bradley, Jefferson, Bates, Widdowson, Vickers; Durham - Brennan; Lanarks - Conway, McGunnigal; London - Harrison(?); Glamorgan - Thomas, Jones; Stirling - Conway; Sussex - Coleman, Freeman, Jefferson; Notts - Jefferson, Chambers; Derbys - Chambers, Smith; Northumberland - Harrison; Tipperary - Conway
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