Robert Lockett & Ellen Draper

[brisvegas]

Hi Bodger and all,
 
how about this scenario:

Elizabeth Phillipson marries John Draper 1841 / free BMD Liverpool Qtr4, vol20, pg237
IGI ref marriage takes place on 11/10/1841 @ St.Nicholas' Liverpool

1841 census Class: HO107; Piece 561
Elizabeth (1817) and John Draper (1817) living at St Andrews Street
with baby Ann (1 month)
Suggests they weren't wholly truthful on census night.


1851 census as previously discussed Elizabeth is a widow with
daughters Elizabeth and Ellen

[Casey La]

Hi.  I've just begun a root search, and it seems that John Robert Lockett (Robert John?) and Ellen Lockett are my great great grandparents.  Amelia and William Finch Faulkner are  my great grandparents, and their son, who was born to Amelia's sister but adopted by them, was my mother's father.  So, biologically, he was a Cochran, but legally, a Faulkner.  They apparently (Cochran and Faulkner families)lived in the same building.  His name was William Cochran Faulkner.  He was born on March 7, 1912 and died in August of 1968 from liver cancer in Florida.

 I live in Delaware, NJ, USA, but spent most of my life in New Jersey.

Since I'm new at this, I'm not sure how to proceed.  Any suggestions?

[Marj]

Hi Casey, welcome to Rootschat.

here is the marriage found onhttp://www.lan-opc.org.uk/
 
Marriage: 27 May 1899 St Bartholomew, Salford, Lancashire, England
 William Finch Faulkner - 19, Fireman, Bachelor, 24 Cavendish St.
 Amelia Lockett - 19, Braid Tenter, Spinster, 32 Cavendish St.
     Groom's Father: James Faulkner, (deceased), Labourer
     Bride's Father: Henry Lockett, Labourer
     Witness: Walter Walker; Martha Daley, (X)
     Married by Banns by: G. W. Petherick
     Register: Marriages 1897 - 1901, Page 110, Entry 214
     Source: LDS Film 1786465

[Dundee]

Amelia and her family in 1891:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:78XG-ZZM

Amelia's birth

LOCKETT, AMELIA
Mother's maiden surname: BRIERS
GRO Reference: 1879  S Quarter in SALFORD  Volume 08D  Page 122

Her sister Ethel was born after the census:

LOCKETT, ETHEL
Mother's maiden surname: BRIERS
GRO Reference: 1891  S Quarter in SALFORD  Volume 08D  Page 179

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp

Ethel married in Lancashire:

2 Apr 1910 St Peter, Swinton, Lancashire, England

Edward COCKRANE
21, Labourer, Bachelor, 141 Worsley Road
Father: Edward COCKRANE, (deceased), Labourer

Ethel LOCKETT
20, Card Tenter, Spinster, 1 Shaftesbury Road
Father: Henry LOCKETT, Labourer

Witnesses: Fred Ridgway; Edith Hibbert
Married by Banns by: J. W. Clarke

Register: Marriages 1909 - 1916, Page 9, Entry 18
Source: Manchester Central Library

Ethel and family as well as William and Amelia in 1930.  They obviously could not have immigrated in 1919 if William was born in New Jersey c1912.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4FV-19K

Debra 

[Casey La]

Thank you Debra.  The family oral history is that they came here for a few years and my grandfather was born here and they went back to England, and then returned to the US for good.  I have no idea if this is the truth.  The story also went that Ethel got sick after the birth of my grandfather, and they thought she was going to die, so Amelia, who didn't have any children (couldn't for some reason) took William.  By the time Ethel recovered, he wouldn't go back to Ethel, and apparently, Ethel had several children, so Ethel let Amelia and William Finch Faulkner adopt him.  That's how his name is William Cochran Faulkner. (that's how they spelled Cochran here).  They all lived in a two family house and he grew up with 2 sets of parents.  I appreciate all of this information--I can't tell you how grateful I am.