Author Topic: Jessie Harriett Rolfe 1871  (Read 1275 times)

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Re: Jessie Harriett Rolfe 1871
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 07 August 18 09:46 BST (UK) »
1871 178/58/40
Great Carlisle Street, Marylebone

Charles Jackson   23 yrs Bricklayer b St Pancras
Harriett Jackson   21 yrs b St Botolph Cambridge
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Re: Jessie Harriett Rolfe 1871
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 07 August 18 09:53 BST (UK) »
Divorce papers are on Ancestry , including a copy of the Hitchcock / Scarr marriage certificate :

Charles Hitchcock full age bach joiner Cambridge George Hitchcock chemist
Harriett Scarr 20 spinster Cambridge Joseph Scarr publican
15 Jun 1865 St Andrew the Great Cambridge, witnesses Henry Scott , Amelia Scarr
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Re: Jessie Harriett Rolfe 1871
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 07 August 18 09:54 BST (UK) »
If you need them, the divorce papers are on Ancestry - England and Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858 -1916 - Charles Hitchcock, 1871 - spouse, Harriett Hitchcock
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Re: Jessie Harriett Rolfe 1871
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 07 August 18 11:02 BST (UK) »
Agatha Christie herself couldn't have come up with this.

Am I correct in thinking that Jessica was born Jessica Harriett Hitchcock  (14th Aug 1871)

By 1881 she had morphed into Jessica Harriett Rolfe Jackson and by 1891 into Jessica Harriett Rolfe.

Jessica's mother was Harriet Scarr (sister of Elizabeth (1840) and her birth father was Charles Hitchcock ... her step father was Charles Rolfe Jackson .... later Charles Rolfe.

Thank you all for your "detective" work.

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Re: Jessie Harriett Rolfe 1871
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 07 August 18 11:08 BST (UK) »
Her father seems likely to be Charles Rolfe (Jackson) but registered as Hitchcock because the divorce was not finalised.

See 1871 - reply #9
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Re: Jessie Harriett Rolfe 1871
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 07 August 18 11:10 BST (UK) »
I'm not sure Charles Hitchcock was her father , although she was registered as Hitchcock. The Divorce papers mention one daughter of the marriage , called Ellen , born about 1867 ( I think registered in Cambridge - GRO has mmn as Searr , instead of Scarr ). Charles claims that Harriet and Charles Rolfe were in a relationship from some time in 1871 as per 1871 census quoted by Heywood.
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