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Norfolk / Re: Louisa Sarah Coldham
« on: Wednesday 18 October 17 17:45 BST (UK) »
Crucial update.
Having recently been in touch with my great aunts granddaughter with regards information on our family tree it turns out that Sarah Coldham ! was born to Ann Elizabeth Halls a single woman who was born herself in Norfolk but was living at the time in London. She had returned to Norfolk and her family where my Grt Gran Louisa Sarah or Sarah Louisa was born. She was baptised along with her cousins who had also been born out of wedlock on 17th Oct 1874 at Downham though she was born on 8th September 1866. Her mother married Walter Covington in 1876 at St Marks Bow in London whilst louisa was left in West Dereham with her granparents George and Charlotte Halls. They all turn up together on census records in and out of Downham Union workhouse. Her mother remains in London with Walter Covington and has further children. He was a policeman. We are summising that my Grt Gran was told that her father was a Thomas Coldham hence her using that surname on her wedding certificate. It states on that certificate that her father Thomas Coldham is dead. In the 1881 census she was still living in West Dereham under the name louisa Halls 5 years later she is married using the surname Coldham. I have traced a possible father to her who had died in 1877 he being a travelling letter sorter by the name of Henry Thomas Coldham who lived in London in the same area that my Grt Grans mother was living in he was married. He died away from his wife she in London whilst he was living in Preston . trying to make some sense of this all after so long. Input welcome and thanks for all interest in this
Having recently been in touch with my great aunts granddaughter with regards information on our family tree it turns out that Sarah Coldham ! was born to Ann Elizabeth Halls a single woman who was born herself in Norfolk but was living at the time in London. She had returned to Norfolk and her family where my Grt Gran Louisa Sarah or Sarah Louisa was born. She was baptised along with her cousins who had also been born out of wedlock on 17th Oct 1874 at Downham though she was born on 8th September 1866. Her mother married Walter Covington in 1876 at St Marks Bow in London whilst louisa was left in West Dereham with her granparents George and Charlotte Halls. They all turn up together on census records in and out of Downham Union workhouse. Her mother remains in London with Walter Covington and has further children. He was a policeman. We are summising that my Grt Gran was told that her father was a Thomas Coldham hence her using that surname on her wedding certificate. It states on that certificate that her father Thomas Coldham is dead. In the 1881 census she was still living in West Dereham under the name louisa Halls 5 years later she is married using the surname Coldham. I have traced a possible father to her who had died in 1877 he being a travelling letter sorter by the name of Henry Thomas Coldham who lived in London in the same area that my Grt Grans mother was living in he was married. He died away from his wife she in London whilst he was living in Preston . trying to make some sense of this all after so long. Input welcome and thanks for all interest in this
