Hi, thank you for your quick reply. My husband and I are interested in the inhabitants of Luccombe Chine and Chale/ Blackgang as part of our research of the loss of properties due to landslips on the Undercliff'. My husband is a geologist and islander with a life long interest for Chale, its history, geology and its shipwrecks!
I am a long standing FH researcher so still have access to Ancestry and have recorded all the different census returns. My current searches for Charles Kingswell, his wife Jane and the other closely related Kingswell families in Luccombe Chine started as idle curiosity as to why Jane Milligan was born in Jamaica. I have checked as many of the BMD's available from Ancestry, familysearch, the Isle of Wight Family History records and Jamaican Family Search records without any success. Jane appears firstly in 1841 living with her family in Whippingham. Because there is no relationship in 1841 as their daughter, available I acquired her marriage certificate to Charles which, of course, states the names of both fathers. Jane's father, James Milligan married Elizabeth Wills on 1 March 1823, a date which is not readily compatible with her ages on the census forms. If Jane was born before 1823, and all her census statements hover around 1813, then who was her mother and why was she in Jamaica? What was James as a Labourer on the certificate, doing out there ten years before his marriage? Working briefly on a plantation perhaps?
Somebody has entered a brief family record on Familytree Maker but makes no mention of Jane at all and no mention of Henry the youngest child of James and Elizabeth Milligan Farmer of Brigbury, Whippingham either. There lies the conundrum.
There is a little more info from Jamaica about a Jane Sophia Milligan in 1823, but not for today.
The two dates of death which you have kindly given me do not apply to our Jane who appears in all censuses up to 1881 after which date both Jane and Charles die. According to IOW FHS
Charles died age 73 in 1890 recorded in Newport.
Jane [possibly the correct Jane] died age 81 in 1892 at Godshill but why have I not yet found her mentioned in the 1891 census and why in Godshill instead of Luccombe or Newport like Charles?
Neither have I been able to find any children for them. All their neighbouring Kingswells produced plenty of kids, but nothing for Jane and Charles. The only possibilities may be the following names from the IOW FHS. but they would need to be verified by entries in the parish registers for Bonchurch to establish who the parents were of these infants, all of whom fall between the census dates.
William Henry 1849 Godshill 4 months.
Female 1852 Godshill 1 minute
William 1855 Ryde 4 yrs.
Charles 1858 Ryde 11 months
George Henry 1858 Cowes 1 yr. but unlikely as the name pattern is wrong
Female 1861 Ryde 1 day
I am also puzzled by the place names. Were those simply the places where the names had to be registered, where the register Offices would have been? If so, then no reference to Luccombe or Bonchurch would be available except through baptismal records.
I apologise for this long ramble but it really is quite a big puzzle!