Charlotte Mackerell and Family

[clayton bradley]

It's too early for you, but I'll mention it just in case there is a link. A Charlotte Mackrell was confirmed at St Mary's, Enfield in Clayton le Moors, Lancs in 1825, cb

[aghadowey]

It's too early for you, but I'll mention it just in case there is a link. A Charlotte Mackrell was confirmed at St Mary's, Enfield in Clayton le Moors, Lancs in 1825, cb

Wrong country and Charlotte's maiden name was Searight 

[Revolution]

Ive had a look through New Zealand records and there are next to no people with that surname. Theres a few under Mackrell but no Charlottes in the b,d or m

I tried Mackrell, Mackerell, Mackerel

QLD BDM - no
VIC BDM - no
NSW - one Robert Mackerell, a few Mackrells but none of the names Im looking at
SA - one Ellen Mackerell death, husband of John. A John Mackrell died in the same year 1878. Theres a few Mackrells in the births and marriages and deaths.
WA - next to no records for those names.

[Revolution]

Charlotte would have been without an income with at least 3 children. Unless she was helped by her family she would have had to remarry and I cant find a record of her remarrying.

It would be interesting but not unheard of for a single woman with young children to emigrate.

[Revolution]

Today I went back through rhe PRONi BDM indexes for marriages and deaths.

I searched for Mackrell, Mackerel, Mackerell, Mackral, Mackrel, Mackarel, Mackarell, Mackerl and McKerell

A Charlotte Mackrell died 1 June 1921 aged 48 but this is the only one that I could find. The birth date is completely wrong so not even  few years out.

I found a James Mackarel marrying on 11 May 1869 to someone named Brown and another James to a woman named Neilson. Another James died in 1870 in addition to the one who died in 1869 in Magherafelt so it was a popular name for the district.

James Mackerell deaths

1841-1869
1847-1870
1871-1871
1798-1871

[aghadowey]

Wonder if she could have gone to Scotland?

here were probably more than 3 children since marriage was 1858 and civil registration started 1864 but it's possible that some, or all, died young.

[Revolution]

I wonder why a woman with 3 young kids would want to move away from family - assuming that's the death of the right James in 1869.

I've tried USA and Scotland records via Family Search but no luck.

Its a shame the baptismal records were destroyed in 1922. So much family history lost.

[aghadowey]

At this point we don't know if any of the children were with Charlotte but if she had a chance to go somewhere where she could support the family then she would probably have considered moving away. Will keep looking...

[Revolution]

Finding Charlotte is like finding what happened to her mother. I thought it would be easy but alas they just seem to vanish.