Kate Scott BLAIR (born 1869, Scotland) in Upper Baker St 1911

[JonathanC]

I'm trying to trace a marriage for Kate (her birth name was registered as Kate, not Catherine, Katharine etc.), the birth of her two children and her husband's death.  Kate's parents were Allan BLAIR and Agnes Wier SCOTT.

Kate appears (as Kate S BLAIR, mistranscribed on Ancestry as Kate S BLAVI) on the 1901 census at 4e Blenheim Mansions, St. Marylebone, aged 32, widowed, born Scotland, with a daughter (also Kate S) aged 6, born East Ham.  I think this is likely to be my Kate, but cannot be certain.

Kate appears on the 1911 census (as K Scott BLAIR) at 31(?) Upper Baker Street, (Marylebone), aged 42, widowed (does not give number of years married, states 2 children, both alive), with a son Andrew Scott BLAIR, aged 17, born East Ham.  This is certainly 'my' Kate as her nephew, Stuart BRIERLEY is with her.

On both census records Kate gives her surname and that of her children as BLAIR (ie her maiden name, unless she married a BLAIR).

I cannot find a marriage for a Kate Scott BLAIR on ScotlandsPeople.  The only marriage in Marylebone which could(?) fit the bill is a Catharine BLAIR with either Arthur Edward KEYS or Richard Lewis ROBERTS Q2 1895 Marylebone 1a 1061, but I can't find deaths for these men which would make Kate a widow by 1901.

I have searched FreeBMD for births of Kate (Scott) and Andrew Scott without a surname, born West Ham RD (which I think is where East Ham would be) in the 1890s.  Both these searches come back blank.

Any help much appreciated.

Associated thread:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,526286.0.html

[andycand]

Hi

I wonder if she used the surname Scott to register the childrens births. FreeBMD has the following births in the West Ham Reg Dist

Dec Qtr 1893 Andrew SCOTT Vol 4a Page 523 (I think the page number should be 223 as 523 is outside the page range for West Ham)

Mar Qtr 1895 Kate SCOTT Vol 4a Page 245

These would be the correct ages on the censuses.

There is also a Kate SCOTT Sept Qtr 1895 4a 290 but she would only be 5 in the 1901 census.

Andy

[bikermickau]

Father of  the Catharine BLAIR spinster aged 25 who married Arthur Edward Keys 1895 is Hugh BLAIR

Mick

[JonathanC]

Father of  the Catharine BLAIR spinster aged 25 who married Arthur Edward Keys 1895 is Hugh BLAIR

Thanks, that's not her then.

[JonathanC]

Starting to look like maybe she didn't marry (as per 1911 census, nothing entered in the years married column) and registered her children as SCOTTs.  Kate is quite an unusual name at that time.
 

[aghadowey]

The 1911 census asked married women how many years married but if she was widowed that would have been left blank.

[JonathanC]

The 1911 census asked married women how many years married but if she was widowed that would have been left blank.

Thanks, I'm aware of that, but a lot of widows (and some men!) filled in the 'fertility' questions, and Kate answered the 'children born' & 'children still alive' questions, but left the 'married years' blank.  All the fertility questions state 'married woman', but many of the users of the form seem to have got it wrong (sometimes very usefully!).

[aghadowey]

Yes, but the fact that she didn't fill in number of years married doesn't mean she wasn't widowed.

[Valda]

Hi


28th October 1913 St Stephen, Paddington
Andrew Scott-Blair 19 Minor Traveller31 Upper Baker Street Andrew Scott-Blair (Deceased) Captain Merchant Service
Florence Kathleen Davis 20 Minor 48 Westbourne Place Villas John Edward Davis Printer
Both signed
Witnesses Marion Salter Davis and Kate Leonard


Regards

Valda