My brick wall - the first record I have of my grandmothers grandmother is in 1871 census - she is living with her mother and her mothers husband. Mother and daughter share the same name (just to confuse) and I have all but given up trying to find where they were from or find a birth date that would then help prove a birth if I ever find one!
Mothers first appearance in the records, that I have, is her marriage to soldier originally from Fearn in 1856. Married in Berwick. Two male witnesses (soldier friends?)
All censuses for both between 1871 and 1911 say simply England as place of birth. I assume that the child was illegitimate as per her death entry by her husband and the mothers marriage where it is written Spinster.
Daughter on her marriage has given a fathers name and as deceased and this is noted on their children's birth and death certificates - those that I have. Could be a lead but I have searched the name and cannot find anything. I assume that the daughter was illegitimate as per her death entry by her husband and her mothers marriage where it is written Spinster.
Is there anything that I have overlooked that may give either a place of birth or a birth date for either?
Daughter dies first - then step father who leaves everything to his wife (the mother) in his will then three years later mother and son in law in the same year. There is property but no one else has a will, that I can see on SP. The mothers death cert is signed by bank trustee (no info with regard to parents) and the inventory of her late husband is added to after her death.
The daughter and husband along her own daughter and family are living at one of the houses in 1911 . Would there be a legal trail? This daughter (same first name as her mother and grandmother) is 2nd of 4 living girls and there is an older brother, that is owner in the valuation rolls up to 1935 and is where she dies in 1950. ****
Just looking for anything that may help me find where the two were born!
**** - edited to add MJ Stewart is the oldest girl but not oldest child- I had them listed incorrectly.