The Clerks Croft, Bletchingley

[suds]

Hello

I'm still a bit flummoxed by this.

By the time Gran married Grandad she was already pregnant with Uncle George. Grandad was a private in the Grenadier Guards, I guess not much money. He certainly didn't come from a wealthy family. But why the workhouse? I wonder if it was a place that you could get medical care when none was available elsewhere? You'd have thought that the army might have helped in some way. And why the name Parry? Parry of Caterham. Presumably Grandad was stationed at Caterham, so maybe she'd lived the awhile but as far as I know she always lived in and around Reigate. Family history, which I know is extremely unreliable, tells me only about Reigate and nowhere else.

Many thanks for your help, please keep the ideas coming.

MaureeninNY

This s intriguing, I can't find any related baptism yet.

Regards

Suds

[suds]

Hello

I've been having a look around and come across this page:

https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/heritage-culture-and-recreation/archives-and-history/surrey-history-centre/surrey-history-centre-help-for-researchers/archives-and-history-research-guides/poor-law-records/godstone-poor-law-union-application-and-report-books

The lists here seem to list all the people who applied to enter the workhouse. Unfortunately there is no entry for my Grandma under the name Wallis, Hill or Parry.

Suspiciously there seem to be no people from Caterham who apply in 1906/7/8/9, so perhaps there is some data missing. Or, if you just went in to have a baby, perhaps they didn't record it as an application.

Regards

Suds

[Milliepede]

Would you mind posting a copy of the info that says "formerly Parry"?

[suds]

Millipede

Please see attached.

Regards

Suds

[Milliepede]

Thank you 

No mention of Wallis at all is there 

[suds]

Millipede

No mention at all. Blimey what a web. Interesting though.

Regards

Suds

[Milliepede]

It is puzzling.  Don't seem to be any Parry/Wallis marriages.  Bit stumped and don't know what happened to Elizabeth either.  I wonder why she baptised her years later...

[suds]

Millipede

I had the odd thought that she might have changed her name by deed poll. Why she would do that, I have no inkling. It could result in what we see though.

Regards

Suds

[Milliepede]

Been puzzling over it with a cuppa and what if Elizabeth didn't marry a Parry but told Alice that was the name of her father? 

Naturally she couldn't put father Parry on her marriage certificate if she was Wallis as the names wouldn't match so she made up a Wallis father - just a theory! 

I wish we could find what happened to Elizabeth.