Hi all,
I'm researching Lizzie Bradley for her granddaughter, who remembers her well but din't know her family name until recently. Lizzie (or Elizabeth or Eliza, depending on which record you look at) married Francis James White in London in 1909. Francis James was killed in action in 1917 and Lizzie raised five children on her own. She never married again and died in 1967 in London. I've been able to find some records for Francis James and his family, but Lizzie's family is not so easy.
The 1911 census gives Lizzie's birth place as Tobmore, Derry, but I think it's likely to be Tobermore. She was born around 1886. She doesn't appear in the 1901 England census so I had a look at the 1901 census for Ireland and found Eliza Bradley, aged 14, living in Tobermore Town with her father James (named on the marriage certificate of 1909), mother Eliza, and siblings Anne and John. All were Church of Ireland and born in Derry.
The same family was still in Tobermore in 1911 minus Elizabeth, who was in London with her husband by this time. James Bradley,who was 60 in the 1901 census, is now recorded as 80 and an old age pensioner. In both censuses the form was filled out by the enumerator because the Bradleys were not literate - maybe the enumerator had to guess his age because James couldn't tell him, I don't know.
I tried some Google searches for Bradley and Tobermore but I don't know enough about the family to be able to tell which ones are relevant. I'm not in a position to subscribe to Irish websites. I do share a subscription to Ancestry but have found the civil registrations unhelpful - marriage records don't give a spouse and birth records don't have anything helpful, such as parents' names. I live in Australia and know I'm spoiled with Australian indexes...
There are many hits for the Bradley + Tobermore search - is anyone else researching the Bradleys who might be able to point me in the right direction?
Many thanks...
