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...yes, thank you, the answer will appear with some of those birth certificates...assuming ggran Alice had one!

as per the 1881 census...it is most likely the Atcham 1875 March certificate (as Alice appears as Alice MORRIS born Shropshire, age 6)

as per the 1891 it is most likely Wolverhampton 1874 (as Alice appears age 17, born Wolverhampton, therefore 1874)

1901 - age 26, therefore 1875

death 1931 age 58 on gravestone (therefore 1874), BUT!! as per my gran (Alice's daughter), Alice died age 57 therefore 1875

...one or the other!!!   

...Alice may well have been Joseph's daughter, they often married the father after a first child or so...

...but I just don't know why his name didn't pass down the family...or why Alice put Frederick MORRIS on her marriage certificate (not say Joseph MORRIS or even Joseph LAIGHT).

...the Jane location is rather a long shot at the moment 

...re: Alice MORRIS, 1873 Atcham entry...

In 1861, Ann, (the aunt, possible mom) was working in St. Chad Shrewsbury...however, she ended up in Wolverhampton by her marriage in 1879...

...Ann's sister Sarah is working in Frodesley (another possibility)

...another sister Jane is in the village of Forton, Montford as a milk maid.

The family were from Forton, so the mom may well have gone home for the birth, I would have thought...


...it's such a wide target, I know...I just looked at those registration districts and I'd like to try and narrow down the search a little more...but, at the moment, I'd have to say St. Chad and Montford...   



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...on the 1881 the Alice MORRIS, b. 1875 niece just had Shropshire on the birth entry

...on the 1891 the most likely Alice MORRIS, a servant in Codsall, has Wolverhampton as the birth entry (presumably because that is where she had been living).

...on the 1901 my ggran Alice ELLIS (MORRIS), has Wolverhampton also as her birthplace...I know for sure this 1901 Alice is my ggran as she is with her husband and children...

thanks for looking at this...I'll post back, after more research on the siblings...

...thank you for adding Alice MORRIS, 1873 Atcham to your list...


...my best guess for a mother of the Alice MORRIS niece born Shropshire on the 1881 is the aunt: called Ann..then two of her sisters Sarah and Jane...


(other siblings of Ann were: an Eliza, Martha, William, Mary, Esther and John.   Ann's parents were: Thomas and Sarah.)


...my ggran Alice's children's names were, Martha, Charlotte, Eva, Agnes, Annie, Dorothy, George, Clifford and Sydney...

...ggran's dad on 1898 marriage certificate was listed Frederick MORRIS, gardener, deceased (but it is most likely fictitious in some way...)
 
...in the meantime, I'll keep at it myself and post if I find further info....

...interested in information on the Shropshire Parish Records...in particular the records from Atcham including:



...Alice MORRIS, 1873 Atcham, 6a 716 (free bmd)



...this may be the record for my ggran Alice Edith MORRIS, b. 1873c. Staff. Wolverhampton (census 1901)

...the most likely Alice MORRIS for my ggran was living in Wolverhampton on the 1881, with Ann LAIGHT, as a niece, and has a Shropshire (1875) birth entry...