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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: GEJ2 on Sunday 10 January 21 15:02 GMT (UK)
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Hi, can anyone help me trace the early life of Mary Bennett born 30/5/1878 in Newport Shropshire.
She married a man called Edward Bennett and lived in Newport Shropshire, so I have got her DOB from the 1939 census.
On the GRO there is a birth record in 1878 for Mary Bailey with mother's name Moulston, which is what I would expect to see, however in any census record for Evelyn Bailey b 1884 (Mary's sister & my great nan), Mary is not living with her family. Other siblings are Thomas G, Alice, Sarah, John F & Agnes.
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Have you got her parents names?
And the 1881 census entry please?
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Is this a possible for Mary with surname transcribed as Barley - the original has a dotted i so should read Bailey
1881
James Barley 29
Emma 24
Thomas G 4
Mary 2 born Edgmond Shropshire
Alice A 1
Sarah A 6 weeks
By 1891 she could be out on her own as a domestic or similar even at such a tender age.
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Here's a Mary Bailey age 12 in 1891 out on her own living Kinnersley
Elizabeth Davies 55 head
Mary Bailey 12 general domestic servant born Tibberton Shropshire
John Turner 47 visitor
Charles Green 35 visitor
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that 1881 census ties in well with the 1891
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W95Z-P6Z
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baptism 16 March 1883 in Kinnersley for Evelyn Bailey daughter of James, labourer, & Emma, abode Kinnersley.
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Thanks to Millipede and Osprey, mystery solved. I could not find family, as they were listed as Barley in 1881 census.