Unable to find death for Ellen Nicolson

[Tickettyboo]

Jane Victoria Nicolson (nee Poulton) who lived at 16 Clydesdale Road, Byker declared on the 1911 register that she had been married (to Jeremiah Nicolson, though he wasn't at home for the census) for 6 years and in that time had two children one of whom had died.

Her son, John, was listed in the house with her.

The GRO index search gives a birth registered Newcastle upon Tyne in Q1 1906 for an Ellen Nicolson, MMN Poulton.

Try as I might I can't find a death registration for Ellen. I've tried Free BMD, GRO, FindMyPast, Newcastle registrars search - nothing -  and its driving me crazy :-)  I've even tried Scotlands people (in case they went to visit Granny and Granda in Leith and the child died there) but nothing coming up.

They were married at St Silas, Byker in Dec 1905, she was still in Byker in 1911 so I am starting on the assumption that this little girl died in Byker.

If anyone can see something I have obviously missed I'd be interested.

Boo

[emeltom]

The closest I can find is

Ellen Nicholson aged 0 Sep 1906 Gateshead 10a 561

Emeltom

[Tickettyboo]

Bless you!
I just knew I was missing the obvious but got so bogged down with it I was cross-eyed.

I can check that one out but it looks likely, I think her family were in Gateshead.

Boo

[Tickettyboo]

hmm, nope.
According to GRO there was only one Ellen Nicholson death, Gateshead 1906 and Durham Records Online burial record tells me her Dad was Alfred.

Thanks though Emeltom, it was a possible and I appreciate you looking.

Back to the drawing board.

Boo

[Skoosh]

If it was Nicolson's in Leith they probably came from Shetland, try Tony Gott's excellent website,

https://bayanne.info/Shetland/

Skoosh.

[Tickettyboo]

The Nicolsons did originate in Shetland but Jeremiah was born in Leith and his parents were still there in 1911. If this child did die on Shetland I'd expect to find Ellen's death in the statutory registers on Scotland's people and there's no sign of it.

Jane Poulton (Jeremiah's wife) was born in Newcastle.

Its a puzzle.

Boo

[Radcliff]

Eleanor Nicholson , perhaps ,Newcastle Upon Tyne aged 0 Dec 1907 so still under 1 yours would have been older

[Skoosh]

There are a few Jeremiah Nicolson's listed I see, my own Shetland Nicolson was a seaman named Olla, his family went to Leith, he is a mystery.

Bests,
Skoosh.

[Tickettyboo]

Eleanor Nicholson , perhaps ,Newcastle Upon Tyne aged 0 Dec 1907 so still under 1 yours would have been older

Thanks for looking, next time I go to our local FHC (wont be till September as they close for the school holidays) I'll start trawling through the burials in the Byker area to see if I can find anything. It seems so odd! I've even even tried (ever one to clutch at any straw) using the surname Poulton in case it was inadvertently registered with an incorrect surname but no joy there either.


Boo