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Hertfordshire / Re: SWAIN - Hertfordshire to Islington
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 18:51 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the replies
I've been trawling through the 'James Swain's' born in Herts in the 1850's and Middlesex aswell
I've accounted for all of the one's i have found apart from the James Swain living with Mary Swain (Warby) and Benjamin Lowen
It seems that Mary married William Swain. As suggested in Trish's message she is then living with her father in the 1851 census
She then has Benjamin Lowen living with her as a lodger aswell as a James Swain, who's name subsequently changes to James Lowen (It might be the other way around i haven't got the census sheets to hand)
Mary and Benjamin don't get married until the 1880's...........
I think i'll have a go at Trish's suggestion and order the Birth Certificate for the James Lowen born in Edmonton
What i really need to do is try and find out if James Swain & James Lowen are the same person
The James Swain i am looking for married Eliza Bigg in Islington. Eliza and the Bigg family are from Weston, Herts. On the marriage certificate James father is named as Benjamin, a sawyer, which was suggested as Benjamin Lowen in a previous message.
At some point in the late 1890's the family moved from the Islington Workhouse. Most of their children were christened in Hitchin on the same day and their abode was stated as the Hitchin Workhouse. James and Eliza's oldest son, James (My Great Grandfather) was sent to live with one of his Aunt and Uncles in Derbyshire, which must have been better than remaining in the Workhouse
Thanks again for the replies
I've been trawling through the 'James Swain's' born in Herts in the 1850's and Middlesex aswell
I've accounted for all of the one's i have found apart from the James Swain living with Mary Swain (Warby) and Benjamin Lowen
It seems that Mary married William Swain. As suggested in Trish's message she is then living with her father in the 1851 census
She then has Benjamin Lowen living with her as a lodger aswell as a James Swain, who's name subsequently changes to James Lowen (It might be the other way around i haven't got the census sheets to hand)
Mary and Benjamin don't get married until the 1880's...........
I think i'll have a go at Trish's suggestion and order the Birth Certificate for the James Lowen born in Edmonton
What i really need to do is try and find out if James Swain & James Lowen are the same person
The James Swain i am looking for married Eliza Bigg in Islington. Eliza and the Bigg family are from Weston, Herts. On the marriage certificate James father is named as Benjamin, a sawyer, which was suggested as Benjamin Lowen in a previous message.
At some point in the late 1890's the family moved from the Islington Workhouse. Most of their children were christened in Hitchin on the same day and their abode was stated as the Hitchin Workhouse. James and Eliza's oldest son, James (My Great Grandfather) was sent to live with one of his Aunt and Uncles in Derbyshire, which must have been better than remaining in the Workhouse
Thanks again for the replies