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London and Middlesex / Re: Great-nan was an orphan - STUCK!!
« on: Monday 29 December 14 07:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Lucy
Wow! That's be awesome. Do you think your Archibals could be the same one my great-nan lived with?
MissT

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London and Middlesex / Re: Great-nan was an orphan - STUCK!!
« on: Monday 26 August 13 03:54 BST (UK)  »
Ok... confused now, and not near my computer to jump straight on ancestry.com

I received Jessie Gow's birth certificate. Great-nan always recorded her name as Jessie Elizabeth Anderson and her DOB 13 August 1894.  For some reason I started recording her name as Jessie Isabella when I started research a year or so ago. Can't remember where I got that from.

Birth cert details
Jessie Isabella
13 August 1894
Born 19 Lambeth Square (residence)
Father James Gow, Lieutenant King's Own Light Infantry
Mother Jessie Elizabeth Gow formerly Smith

Was Jessie Gow my Jessie Anderson? Were the Gow's and Anderson's neighbours, relations, colleagues? Or have I taken the wrong path in my search?!

Time for some more hunting I think. If you discover anything of relevance I'd love to hear from you!! I'm determined not to give up finding my great-Nan's story until I have exhausted all options!!!!

(PS, I've been adding information to a tentative Gow tree on ancestry, so if you find it, it's me!)

Thank you all for taking an interest.

MissTrace

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Stirlingshire / Re: Where did my nan get her name "Silcock" and her sister "Flood"
« on: Sunday 18 August 13 08:03 BST (UK)  »
*sigh*  So difficult when it appears almost no one in our family spoke about history, traditions or our ancestors.  It is all about guessing and hoping the records I find match and make sense.
Thanks Malky.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Where did my nan get her name "Silcock" and her sister "Flood"
« on: Sunday 18 August 13 07:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi Malky
How did you find this out?!  I wouldn't even know where to look if the name isn't from the family somewhere.

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Stirlingshire / Re: Where did my nan get her name "Silcock" and her sister "Flood"
« on: Sunday 18 August 13 06:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi again

GR2 - thank you for this information.  I will continue to research and look through census records.  Perhaps I will never find out!  My nan was always very specific about her name, I always got the sense it was meaningful to her.  All other relatives as far back as I can go seem to be named after family members.  I am still so curious!  :)

Forfarian - thank you for this!  I have gone back as far as James Nicol and Helen Mitchell, they are my ancestors.  I guess I get stuck with the less obvious stuff... and the little anomalies that don't seem to follow family traditions.  Thank you very much for the advice though.

MissTrace

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London and Middlesex / Re: Great-nan was an orphan - STUCK!!
« on: Friday 09 August 13 12:30 BST (UK)  »
Dawn... have been doing some searching... and I may well be jumping the gun...

But if Jessie Elizabeth Gow is my great-nan's mother, and she got married just over a year after my great-nan Jessie was born... my Jessie may well have a sister or half-sister, Maggie Emily Broad.

And she immigrated to Australia... and has family in Newcastle very close to where my great-nan lived in Sydney.  And we have family living up in Newcastle now.

I've ordered Jessie Isabella Gow's birth certificate to see if it may be my great-nan.  Thank you for looking into this. It feels really great to be honouring a part of my family that has never been spoken of, and long forgotten.

Miss Trace


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London and Middlesex / Re: Great-nan was an orphan - STUCK!!
« on: Friday 09 August 13 11:13 BST (UK)  »
Dawn... you're amazing!  Thank you for this... looking forward to looking into it more.  :)

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London and Middlesex / Re: Great-nan was an orphan - STUCK!!
« on: Friday 09 August 13 08:54 BST (UK)  »
Can't seem to find her in the 1901 census... *sigh*... this family research stuff can be hard going!

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London and Middlesex / Re: Great-nan was an orphan - STUCK!!
« on: Friday 09 August 13 08:37 BST (UK)  »
The other witness was my great-grandfather's brother.

I think I found Jessie in the 1911 census... she was visiting a friend and was on the same street that my great-grandfather lived on, so I'm assuming this might be how they met.

This entry says Jessie was born in Bristol... but I'm not sure how she would know this for definite.

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