In respect of daughter Emila Jane Gardner referred to in my first post in this thread, the 1861 Census has a family named Partridge living at Sheepcote Street, Birmingham. The family includes head Joseph, wife Jane, daughter Amelia (aged 19, unmarried, born B'ham) & another daughter Emma aged 6 months. Seems as though this could be the Amelia Tysall who married James Gardener in 1862 in B'ham, because the marriage register gives her address as Sheepcote Street & her father John Tysall in the marriage register died & her mother Jane re-married a Joseph Partridge.
The Emma Partridge aged 6 months living with them is listed at the bottom of the family, below the lodger. Might this suggest that child Emma Partridge was perhaps the illegitimate daughter of Amelia (Tysall/Partridge), rather than the daughter of head Joseph Partridge & his wife Jane? Were illegitimate children often "separated" out in this way on census returns?
FindMyPast has a death & burial of an Emily Tysall Gardner in 1865. The deaths register entry is Q2 1865, Birmingham, volume 6d, page 101. The burial entry refers to Witton Cemetery, Birmingham with a registry reference 9400 (the record set is described as "Warwickshire, Birmingham Burials, 1833-2010"). I wonder if there is a parish burial register image available which might reveal more (eg her age, residence)? Would the middle name "Tysall" & surname Gardner suggest that she was indeed the illegitimate daughter of James Gardner & Amelia (maiden name Tysall)?
It occurs to me that Emila/Emily's baptism took place on 26 Feb 1865 & her death was registered Q2 in the same year, so she had died before July, therefore aged 4 years (dob on the baptism register is 21 Aug 1860, assuming it is correct). Unless it was a sudden death (eg accident), she may have already been sick & close to death when she was baptised. How sad.
