Louisa Sarah Coldham

[chempat]

1901 census
Thomas Coleman
   50  Relation to Head:    Boarder   Widower   Carter
Birth Place:    Shegate, Norfolk, England
   Rotherham     Masbrough St John the Evangelist
   Rotherham      Yorkshire 
   Rotherham  North West Rotherham
   4396/32/27/    160

Frederick Buck    48  Head
Ann Buck    45
Robert Buck    21
Ellen E Buck    18
Harriett Buck    16
Frances E Buck    12
Annie E Buck    7
Thomas Coleman    50

[keyboard86]

Hi again, so the Thomas possibly in 1891/1901 and deceased aged 75 in Rotherham is this therefore the same man as described as "Dead" at the marriage of a Louisa Sarah Coldham in 1886?
Keyboard86

PS do you agree Mary E Coldham b 1866 is Susannah's prior to marriage?
Keyboard86

[daisy59]

Hi  yes the Thomas we are talking about does seem to have been alive still after sarahs marriage. I have looked at the census for Rotherham and also a Thomas coldham registered in the deaths there age 77 in march 1918. 

[keyboard86]

  So if Susannah was not apparently the mother of Sarah/Louisa possibly, who was?
Could Thomas Coldham at marriage have been a "made up" name for decency sake or a completly different Thomas you have followed?

This girl is a real puzzle isn't she!
Keyboard86

[daisy59]

I agree the funny thing is we are having a very similar problem with my nan, though in her case we are sure of her siblings ect just no record of her birth but that's another on going quandary ah!

[daisy59]

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