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Offline Lesanne

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WESTON Family ~ Berks ~ Need help to find them.~
« on: Wednesday 06 July 05 20:34 BST (UK) »
:D Hiya,

       Can anyone help to find, Florence Louise Weston (b Dec quart 1893) Cookham. Berks.
                                                 This is from Free bmd site.

       I have a marriage cert for 1919. Put's her father as George Ernest Weston ( cabman).
              The marriage was in Maidenhead Berks.

        Thank you for even the smallest piece of info.
            :) Lesanne.   :)
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Berks Bucks Oxon= Norris Coxhead Turner Cox Weston Baston Simpson
Kent= Nicholls Mepstead Watts   Mile End=Craze Wood Bennett
Cork=Howe   NZ=Coxhead   Canada=Fenn Cox Turner

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Re: WESTON Family ~ Berks ~ Need help to find them.~
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 06 July 05 21:07 BST (UK) »
1901 census RG13 1159 folio 30 Cox Green Bray St Michael  Berkshire   
Sarah Weston 44 Bray, Berkshire, England Head  Married Laundress
Joseph D Weston 11  Bray, Berkshire, England Son 
Louisa Weston 8 Bray, Berkshire, England Daughter

1891 census RG12 1150 folio 66    17 Denmark Street Cookham  Berkshire 
Weston, Edward 36 Cookham, Berkshire, Head  Widower General Labourer
Weston, Charles 14 Maidenhead, Berkshire, Son Mill Assistant
Weston, Emily 11 Maidenhead, Berkshire, Daughter 
Weston, Daniel 8Maidenhead, Berkshire, Son 
Weston, Lucy 7 Maidenhead, Berkshire, Daughter   
Weston, Violet 5 Maidenhead, Berkshire, Daughter
Weston, Ivy 4 Maidenhead, Berkshire, Daughter   
Weston, Claud 2 Maidenhead, Berkshire, Son 

Weston, George 44 Bray, Berkshire, Head   Married General Labourer
Weston, Sarah Ann 34 Bray, Berkshire, Wife  Married
Weston, Mary Ann 12 Bray, Berkshire, Daughter 
Weston, William T 10 Bray, Berkshire,  Son 
Weston, Joseph D 1 Bray, Berkshire, Son 


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Valda








 
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Re: WESTON Family ~ Berks ~ Need help to find them.~
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 06 July 05 21:29 BST (UK) »
Hey Valda, Thanks for that.
                                   How you doing.
                            These Weston's are a complicated bunch.

                 Could you tell me if they were all in 17, Denmark Str (1891) ?

                 and was Sarah a widow in 1901? as George didn't sign
                        Florences wed cert. I wonder when he died.
     
                     Do you think that, that Louisa, is Florence Louise ?

          Wow, it looks more like an interrogation than a big thank you.

                            :D  Lesanne.
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Berks Bucks Oxon= Norris Coxhead Turner Cox Weston Baston Simpson
Kent= Nicholls Mepstead Watts   Mile End=Craze Wood Bennett
Cork=Howe   NZ=Coxhead   Canada=Fenn Cox Turner

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Re: WESTON Family ~ Berks ~ Need help to find them.~
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 06 July 05 21:53 BST (UK) »
There were two households at 17 Denmark Street in 1891 both with the surname Weston.
On the 1901 census Sarah gave her status as married not widowed which I put down (though as with any census the information is only as good as the person giving it and the very busy census enumerator recording it in his notes and then tired copying all his notes up into the census books when he got home).
Ditto for the name Louisa on the 1901 census. I checked the actual page and it clearly is Louisa which would be the more usual form of the name in the Victorian period and early C20th, only to be replaced in popularity by Louise later on in the C20th.
Second names are often given as first names on the census as families or the person concerned chose to be known by that name and not their first name at least at that particular time.
Florence's father not signing a marriage certificate is also not unusual. He would only have done so if the young couple had chosen him as one of their witnesses. You also cannot tell from a marriage certificate whether a person's father is deceased unless the person filling in the certificate chooses to ask or be told that that is the case and it is written down as an optional extra. There is no requirement on a marriage certificate to put whether a father is deceased or not, just his name and occupation. So the absence of the word deceased does not prove one way or the other whether he was or wasn't.
If Florence's father died when she was young she also may have made a mistake on her marriage with his name. Perhaps not George Ernest but just George. If you have had difficulty finding a marriage of a George Ernest Weston, I would also look for a George Weston marrying in the Cookham area pre 1881. People sometimes did not use their full set of names when they married or someone else registered their death, when a middle name had been long forgotten, or Florence got the middle name wrong.
The 1881 census RG10 folio 97 gives the family of the 1901 and 1891 censuses at
Bray Town, Bray, Berkshire
George James Weston 30  Bray, Berkshire, Head Married Labourer
Sarah Ann Weston 25 Bray, Berkshire,  Wife  Married
Mary Ann Weston 2 Bray, Berkshire,  Daughter

To know for certain this is really the right family, I think you will need to purchase Florence's birth certificate and check her mother's and father's names.

Regards
Valda
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Re: WESTON Family ~ Berks ~ Need help to find them.~
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 06 July 05 22:09 BST (UK) »
        :D  Lot's of good information for me, again, thank you.

              On this cert, Florence is a widow. at 28 yrs!! So she is marrying with her first husband's surname of Blackburn Levitt. I have been on Genes, Google, searched on here but to no avail.
                So, I'm asking of you, again, is there Blackburn Levitt on any of your papers.

                         My kindest regards,   Lesanne.
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Berks Bucks Oxon= Norris Coxhead Turner Cox Weston Baston Simpson
Kent= Nicholls Mepstead Watts   Mile End=Craze Wood Bennett
Cork=Howe   NZ=Coxhead   Canada=Fenn Cox Turner

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Re: WESTON Family ~ Berks ~ Need help to find them.~
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 06 July 05 23:03 BST (UK) »
Without a first name it is difficult to do a search. There are over 13, 000 people with a surname which includes or exclusively has Blackburn within their surnames. There is nobody with a first name of Blackburn and a surname of Levitt

Regards
Valda
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Re: WESTON Family ~ Berks ~ Need help to find them.~
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 07 July 05 07:31 BST (UK) »
:D  Morning to you...

                    "Blackburn Levitt"  the two words is the whole surname.

                        She has put her name as Florrie Blackburn Levitt.
          I wonder then if he came from Blackburn, or mother Blackburn and father Levitt,
             which I find happens quite a bit.. he would of died prior to this wedding which
               was Nov 1919.
                             Looks like we're in for more rain today, not a glimmer of sun.

                              Have a good day. Lesanne.  :D
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Berks Bucks Oxon= Norris Coxhead Turner Cox Weston Baston Simpson
Kent= Nicholls Mepstead Watts   Mile End=Craze Wood Bennett
Cork=Howe   NZ=Coxhead   Canada=Fenn Cox Turner

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« Reply #7 on: Thursday 07 July 05 19:33 BST (UK) »
From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website

LEVITT, JOHN BLACKBURN
Initials: J B
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 13/05/1918
Service No: 17741
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: 1410.
Cemetery: SALONIKA (LEMBET ROAD) MILITARY CEMETERY 

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Valda
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Re: WESTON Family ~ Berks ~ Need help to find them.~
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 07 July 05 20:14 BST (UK) »
    Hi Valda,
               How daft am I?   Thanks so much.
   Now we have the first husbands death record.. I did have Florrie's birth cert, but can I find it, can I 'eck.

               I must have left it at Gran's. So I shall have to make a phone call.

                     Thanks for your help on this one.  Lesanne.
Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Berks Bucks Oxon= Norris Coxhead Turner Cox Weston Baston Simpson
Kent= Nicholls Mepstead Watts   Mile End=Craze Wood Bennett
Cork=Howe   NZ=Coxhead   Canada=Fenn Cox Turner