Juliana Augusta Hull

[clandean]

I am looking for my great grandmother Juliana Augusta Hull's first husband William Willis.  Juliana was born in 1849 in Kent and then moved to London.  They had a daughter Maud Annie Elizabeth born 1879 and died 1881.  On her birth certificate it stated that her father was a mercantile clerk.  On the 1881 census Juliana was a widow.  I have not been able to find Juliana and William's marriage.  Juliana married a William George Cream in 1884.

[dawnsh]

Hi clandean

Welcome to Rootschat 

Do you think that she might have made up a husband to cover up an illegitimate child?

You can't find a marriage and there's no obvious death in the Hackney area between the 1879 birth & baptism and the 1881 census

[clandean]

Thank you for replying so swiftly.  Maybe she was not married although it was stated on her marriage certificate that she was a Willis when she married her second husband.

[dawnsh]

Have you got Juliana and her family on the censuses in the years upto 1879?

[jan57]

There  is a tree  on Ancestry  that  suggests that Julianas'   mother    was a Willis  by  birth,   and  she  had a BROTHER called William    she     married a John Hull  who  died 1874,  is that  the  correct lady  ?   

[clandean]

Yes, this is the same lady and I have got all the census up until 1879.

[dawnsh]

It wouldn't be the first occasion of an unmarried mother fabricating a spouse with a similar family name when an event such as a christening took place in a parish (St John Hackney 31 Aug 1879) that they were not known in (Bethnal Green).

[CaroleW]

Juliana Willis is shown as a widow on her marriage to William George Cream in 1884.  Father John Hull deceased

[clandean]

I have the wedding certificate that shows she is a widow.  I am just curious that I cannot find any information of William Willis except he was a Mercantile Clerk.