Mystery lady - Augusta Booth

[01debbie]

Hi Meles,

Ok, I've just checked from Mar q 1870 through to Dec q 1875...not a trace.  Well I did find an Augusta in Birmingham & another that was so far away I didn't even jot it down...did find an Augustus Clinton in Kensington...hey ho.

However, the I spotted the strangest name...twice.      The first time I decided it was a typo, then it appeared again.  Now someone is probably going to tell me it's an abbreviation but for what I don't know 

Here's the entry;

Births Sep 1871 (also seen Jun 1874)

BOOTH  Ass  Bradford Y.  9b  160

The mind boggles!!!

[MJP]

Hi meles,

You might want to consider the 2 unnamed female Booths born in Jun Qtr 1878 and 1879 in St Savour Southwark - not quite the right area, but close (enter female as first name on search)

MJP

[MJP]

You also might want to consider that she was actually born to her mother before she married Henry Booth - so she could be registered under another surname.  There are 9 Gertrude Augustas or Augusta Gertrudes born in the London area 1870 - 1880 on freebmd. 

MJP

[Valda]

1901 census RG13 47 folio 105
81 Iffley Road Hammersmith
in the house of the Clark family

Charlotte Booth 49 Widow Boarder Nurse (sick) Worcester

Regards

Valda

[davidpinkney]

I have been trying to find Augusta's birth. I have been through the records from 1875 to 1879. Nothing. Nada. Nix.

So despite the census records agreeing she was born in or around Pimlico/Chelsea/St Georges (Hanover Sq, I guess), I can't find it.

Any ideas, people?

meles

I checked images from 1875 - 1879 for Gertrude or Augusta as well. Nothing seemed to match

[meles]

You also might want to consider that she was actually born to her mother before she married Henry Booth - so she could be registered under another surname.  

I'm shocked at the very suggestion! 

Thanks for your input again. I'm meant to be cooking for friends tonight and have snuck off for a moment to see if there is any news. Will look properly tmorrow.

Thanks again.

meles

[meles]

Oh, yes, Valda. Thank you. And living in the household of a surgical instrument maker. So maybe a medical connection after all?!

Charlotte is nowhere to be found in 1891.

I think Augusta's origins will remain shrouded in mystery. Possibly illegitimate -another one! 

meles