Clara Glendenning - look up please

[grubheam]

Oh no!!!! 
Thank you for checking so I got wrong Clara. Damn! 
Where on earth did she go?
I give up.....
Grub

[Craclyn]

Donīt give up.
Since you didnīt have a confirmed birth or baptismal record for Clara all we have done is take the information you gave us as a starting point and work backwards to help you find one. The only thing you had not picked up on was that she married twice.

[grubheam]

I have her baptism.

She was baptismed at St Andrew, Holborn on 14/12/1851, daughter of James MacCann (McCann)and Hellen (Helen/Ellen) MacCann (McCann) nee Bridgman. (I have their marriage and death info) - Clara was only one that did not appear with them on 1871.

 I have James and Hellen on 1871. Looking at the image again and saw a Clara lived next door!!! What surname is that? Is it Memro? Married to Alfred?

[Craclyn]

Then if you are sure about that there must be some wrong assumptions in the other suggestions that have been made Just work systematically through and check what fits and what does not fit before you draw your final conclusions.

[sgf28]

Having a closer look at the baptism record of Clara MacCann, 14th December, 1851 at Holborn, it gives her date of birth as being 3rd April, 1837

[sgf28]

Could you let us know how you worked back to Clara baptised 1851 as being your ancestor. It may help us to prove that you have got the right Clara

[sgf28]

Still going over info on Clara MacCann Have taken another look at 1841 Census with James/Ellen and using baptism date of birth, Clara doesn't appear on this census if these James/Ellen are her parents.

Going onto 1851 Census, she doen't appear on this Census with them either, but maybe she would be out working by now

And why would she wait to be baptised until she was seventeen when all the other potential siblings were baptised a lot younger.

Or maybe I'm just trying to find problems.

[avm228]

James and Helen McCann have Edwin 14 and Clara 10 with them in 1861. RG10/216/133/7.

On that basis presumably the baptism register must contain an error as to her birthdate.

There is a birth reg as Clara Maccann, Jun qtr 1851 Holborn.

[sgf28]

Looking at 1871 Census you have referred to above, that James McCann was a goldsmith on the 1861 Census, living with Helen, son William, daughter Clara age 10, who can't be your Clara as she was born 1837.

Can someone go from being a labourer in 1861 to being a goldsmith in 1861

We need to go back to what we definitely do know...and it would be good to crack this one before too long as this is giving me sleepless nights and it's not even my family