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The Common Room / Re: Orphanages/Children's homes in London?
« on: Monday 18 June 18 19:01 BST (UK)  »
Ahhh I hadn't even considered that...thank you...this thrashing of ideas is so helpful. I find I get stuck on a train of thought and don't seem to consider another option  :-\

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The Common Room / Re: Orphanages/Children's homes in London?
« on: Sunday 17 June 18 21:39 BST (UK)  »
Wow! Thank you for this information.
I do have his birth cert and there is no father named...or mention of his name being Michael! His death cert refers to him as simply Jack Field.

So I need to find out who the Browns were and how Edith knew them..(groan...why called Brown and not something more unusual!!)

Thank you as ever for taking the time to look up details, so appreciated. My nan is still living (96!) and it's great to be abe to tell her things about a half brother she never knew about 😁



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The Common Room / Re: Orphanages/Children's homes in London?
« on: Saturday 16 June 18 11:18 BST (UK)  »
This is an incredible find thank you!

It now looks more likely someone raised him which I am so pleased about.
Edith married a Bertram Watson in December 1917 and she definitely didn't raise John/Jack/Michael at all...  I wonder who John Henry snr was...what does qfa stand for please?
Thank you so much
Tamladawn

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The Common Room / Re: Orphanages/Children's homes in London?
« on: Sunday 10 June 18 22:12 BST (UK)  »
Well lovely, thanks!

Born John Henry Field   31.12.1916
In Fulham
Died 15.5.1989  21 nutbrook rd, se15
On leaving the workhouse he went to 24 bagshot street, walworth

He never seems to have married or had children. He was known as Jack Field.
Mother Edith Alberta Field born in  Plymouth 1893

Thanks detectives!
Tami

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The Common Room / Re: Orphanages/Children's homes in London?
« on: Sunday 10 June 18 21:10 BST (UK)  »
Thanks everyone 😀
After a bit more digging I found that he was admitted to st Luke's work house on the day of his birth... also that both he and his mum were discharged 4 months later and an address has even been provided..very helpful!
The address was in Walworth and I have a death cert for him in 1989 near Peckham. So he didn't seem to move much in his life.
 Just so intrigued as to who raised him as I am almost certain it wasn't a family member..we have no ties at all to this area.
What did people do with their babies back then?! There must be some traceability...mustn't there?!
I'll check out the children's homes next...I take it you couldn't leave a baby at a work house, or I am sure she would have...

Thanks
Tamladawn

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The Common Room / Orphanages/Children's homes in London?
« on: Saturday 09 June 18 14:08 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

I've recently discovered that my nan had a half brother the family knew nothing about.
He was born in Fulham in 1916 and as this was pre adoption time I suppose he would have been given over to a children's home?
Does anyone know how I can find out where any local homes in that time would have been? And also how to go about tracing who was accepted into one?
Thank you
TamlaDawn

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The Common Room / Re: What am I doing wrong?
« on: Thursday 06 April 17 13:18 BST (UK)  »
Thank you jbml  :-)

I hear what you are saying.  I have been back to the lady related to his 3rd (possibly?) wife and she is now more on board with believing, or at least prepared more to delve into, the fact that we share the same Bert.

She is going to contact the children of wife number 2, who are still alive and have families of their own.  So I am on tenterhooks to see if this can be achieved and any information gathered I can give to my nan.
Fingers crossed.
In the meantime I can double check all that I know as you suggest  :-)

Thank you
TD

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The Common Room / Re: What am I doing wrong?
« on: Sunday 26 March 17 21:52 BST (UK)  »
Hello folks - been a while since I could get my mits on the laptop!

So I have 3 certificates here...
Bertram Watson aged 66 marrying a 47 year old Florence Pickering in June 1956- has put his father as Sidney, deceased...as he had on Edith Field's marriage cert in 1917.
However he has put his age in 1917 as 24...so that maths isn't adding up! He should be 63 in 1956 not 66? Why would you lie about that?
So am a bit confused here.
He has stated that he was a widower interestingly..

I also have his birth cert. No father named. Mother's name Edith Watson - no other help here.

Lastly I have Sheila Page's birth cert from 1940 and her father's name is not Bertram Watson...so she isn't his daughter.

I still think he's the right Bertram though!?

 ???

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The Common Room / Re: What am I doing wrong?
« on: Friday 03 March 17 23:20 GMT (UK)  »
I totally agree!
All that time spent when people could be doing their own things. I was thrilled and forever grateful.

Certificates still not arrived. ...maybe tomorrow  ;D

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