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Re: Challis
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 02 September 17 19:14 BST (UK) »
You professionals are getting me going.
The card from my sister says "Daniel West age 84 died 4th April 1949 bury st Edmunds cemetery" who is he?
What relationship could "William Challis West and his  wife Gertrude in Brentford, Middlesex" have to "Rosamond Challis" Later "Challis Booth"? I don't think a brother or father. Could he be a cousin?
All very mysterious.
The family bible got taken by my uncle's new wife (he was about 95 at the time) and she refused to give it back and it was destroyed. Challis Booth was his Grandmother. That's why we are trying to sort it out for our Grandchildren.

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« Reply #10 on: Saturday 02 September 17 19:50 BST (UK) »
Thinking about it, if she was a widow in 1901 then her children must have been born 1900 or before. Which matches up with one daughter who was born about 1880. Still trying to get the connection between Challis, West and or Booth.

Thank god on the other side of the family everything has been done and is at Somerset House.  :)

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« Reply #11 on: Saturday 02 September 17 19:54 BST (UK) »
In 1871, she is down as Roseamond Challis West, living in Dartford Kent and the niece of William and Fanny West
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« Reply #12 on: Saturday 02 September 17 19:59 BST (UK) »
I assumed as at her death she was a Challis Booth her Maiden name would be Challis. Now I am starting to wonder. Could she have had a maiden name Challis West? That would explain after being a widow she lived with her brother or whoever.


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« Reply #13 on: Saturday 02 September 17 20:08 BST (UK) »
I can see two children for her, may be others, These two born in Lambeth, Charles Matthew Booth, born 1886 and Esther born 1887.
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Re: Challis
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 02 September 17 20:18 BST (UK) »
There are two relatives Their names were Nellie and Hettie but what is the correct name Henrietta or? what. I have a suspicion that these are her children. This is one of the problems. Here is a big family all dead. With a lot of girls who changed their names by marriage and I only know them as aunty so and so. As children one accepted what the parents said. So uncle Jim could be the next door neighbour or a great uncle, a cousin, one just accepted it.

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« Reply #15 on: Saturday 02 September 17 20:20 BST (UK) »
Hi in 1891 is she the Rose Booth b c 1857 Essex married to a Frederick in Lambeth?

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Re: Challis
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 02 September 17 20:24 BST (UK) »
  don't think so there is a death card that said "Rosamond challis booth interred in manor park cemetery died 11th march 1947 (born 1858)." 89 years old.

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« Reply #17 on: Saturday 02 September 17 20:31 BST (UK) »
Hi again, the first child on the 1891 is a Rose M Booth b c 1880 London, there is a birth registration of a Rose Mary Booth June qtr 1879 St Olave mothers maiden name West?
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