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Hi,
I have inherited some research from 1946 to the present day. The days of evidence obtained by visiting the records offices and churches etc. I have been helping over the past ten years so have got some idea of what I am doing.

I have found a reference to "intermarriage".Does that just mean marrying ?

She was my great grandmother and in her early life had a daughter that she kept until the child was about fourteen. I have the birth cert and the mother's name is partly changed .She names herself Parker and the fathers name James William Parker. In the indenture he is James William Perry and she is Mary Sarah Sissons Parker (formerly Percy).This is from around the 1871 census when the whole family can not be found any where else in the country.They appear to have changed their name probably because of the baby who may be illegitimate.I can find no record of a marriage.Also,in varying indentures she refers to herself as a spinster and a widow .She has two half sisters and she also refers to the fact that she is the only true child of John Perry.

How easy was it to give false information during the 1860s and 70s? How easy was it to change your name on census records ? She was the only surviving Perry through three or four generations and so was to inherit the money and lands of William Clare The Coroner of Devizes.She inherited.

They appear to always use the same solicitor.Could the solicitor be complacent in the declarations ?
They must have known she could not be a spinster and a widow !

Any hints or ideas gratefully accepted !

My thoughts without proof are that she had a liaison with a cousin ,the baby Lilian was born,they moved away to avoid the shame and when the child went to a residential school they moved back to Devizes.

Hi!
All thoughts and suggestions please.


I am searching for my Grandfather's half sister.Her name on the birth cert. was Lilian Perry Clare.
Birth registered in 1866 in Watlington County of Oxford.
Here after it gets very complicated!
Her mother is on the birth cert. as Mary Sarah Sissons formerly Park (crossed through) then Percy is written. She claims the child's father is James William Parker.He never appears and there is no evidence of a marriage.

The family are missing from the 1871 census.
(More complications!)

After many months of searching I found the family In Watlington Oxfordshire.
Father's name should be John Perry but recorded as Samuel Percy
Wife as Louisa Percy should be Louisa Perry
Daughter Anne Parker
Daughter Emily Percy ( Emily Imison is the illegitimate daughter of John Perry)
Daughter Alice Percy    Alice      "                    "                "             "       "
Lilian Parker Grandaughter of Samuel who is John !
Matilda Imison Servant. She is the mother of the illegitimate girls Alice and Emily and turns up on other census records living with the family!
The ages and places of birth are all correct.

Lillian turns up in the 1881 census and 1891 census.Then she disappears until 1911 when she is married to Albert Edward Deadman and living in Hambledon Hants..I sent for the marriage cert. all correct. They are both living in 20 Amity Street Reading on the wedding cert.. The two witnesses have the same address on the 1901 census but Albert and Lillian are no where to be found.
I have tried links to other family members,different names,etc etc. I can not find them in the 1901 census. At this point they were not married  but I tried married name too.

Please has any one got any suggestions as where they might be?
I can't think they were abroad as she was a milliner living with her Aunt who she thinks is her sister and he is an AG.Lab. in 1911 census!

Thank you for reading this ramble !  I have become like a dog with a bone!

I'd just love to know where she is in 1901.

Miggs.

Hi,hope I'm doing this correctly.Never sure of the right way to ask for help.

I am searching for the birth of Louisa Elizabeth Maslen born around 1820 .In every census record from 1841 onwards she gives Covent garden as her place of birth.

I believe that this was Westminster and Central Middlesex ?

Two wonderful Roots Chatters have told me that it could be St Paul's listed as the Strand but later came under Westminster and the records are held at St Anne's library Westminster.

They also suggested looking at Family Search from which I guess they mean LDS.

I also believe that it could be other churches in the area and would like to know those names.

I understand that the records are not online.I do not expect anyone to go and get them for me but would be grateful for suggestions of where and how to search as I hope to be visiting London at the end of this month.

Thank you.M.

Thought I had better start a new thread. I am awaiting birth ,death and marriage certs for a William John Neate Perry but have seen on Roots Chat that others are linking Perry and Neate to All Cannings.
I know it is just outside Devizes , on the Southbroom side I believe , and wondered if any one else has a Perry /Neate connection. I have been to Devizes but never to All Cannings so I guess that needs to be the next trip. Any info. gratefully received. As always thank you.
M.