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London and Middlesex / Re: Mansfield Street, Southwark
« on: Saturday 27 January 24 12:16 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks milliepede for your interest.
You have the correct person in 1881. Never found a birth registration and although she was the mother of the Brand children, have never found a marriage  for her. Her death certificate has her as
Lucy Brand Barker , widow of George Brand Barker and her daughter Beatrice Brand Ward ( nee Barker ) registered it.
In the 1939 register she is listed as single.
Such a mysterious lady !!!

Thank you also hanes teulu for the map

erika


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London and Middlesex / Re: Mansfield Street, Southwark
« on: Tuesday 23 January 24 17:30 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Shaun. No names on there that ring any bells I'm afraid.
It's such a mystery, no birth registered and her mother Ellen Barker comes from a village in Essex called Woodham Mortimer. She was there in 1871 census. She didn't have an occupation so nothing to use as a clue to why she may have gone to London.
Lucy(Florence?) Barker had a strange life going on to have an illegitimate daughter herself and then being a housekeeper in the 1911 census and subsequently having children with her employer!!
Love all these challenges

Erika

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London and Middlesex / Re: Mansfield Street, Southwark
« on: Tuesday 23 January 24 17:03 GMT (UK)  »
Wow so many replies, thank you and Shaun you have the correct person.
So Kingsland Road, I'll have a look there. Are there houses there that maybe are the sort that unmarried mothers went to ?

Thank you
Erika

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London and Middlesex / Mansfield Street, Southwark
« on: Tuesday 23 January 24 15:53 GMT (UK)  »
Good Afternoon

I was just wondering if anyone has any information about Mansfield Street in Southwark.
I have a birth in 1873, which I can't find registered . However on the 1911 census the lady gives her birthplace as Mansfield Street, London.
Was there a house there that maybe was for unmarried mothers, the mother herself coming from a village in Essex and aged about 25 at the time of the birth

Would be grateful for any help

Erika

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Nottinghamshire / Re: Schools in Beeston 1920's
« on: Thursday 30 June 22 12:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi deemaj and glenhurst

Gosh can't believe a reply again after all these years!

I never really had anything concrete regarding the school or the pupils and teacher.
Maybe there is someone out there who recognises a face on the photograph and maybe resurrecting this post could lead to something.

Thought the newspaper article was very interesting.

Good luck with your research deemaj

Cheers
Erika :)

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Antrim / Re: Maggie McClure 1889
« on: Monday 12 October 20 18:57 BST (UK)  »
Whoops!!!!

Just found a little titbit, but unfortunately can't read the trial .

UK, Naval and Military Courts Martial Registers , 1806-1930
Edward McGiveran
Court or Trial Date  18 Dec 1889
Belfast
Gordon Highlander
Ref No, WO 86/38

They are on Fold3 which I haven't access to.
Any help anywhere please?

Cheers
Erika :)


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Antrim / Re: Maggie McClure 1889
« on: Monday 12 October 20 18:05 BST (UK)  »
Edward's parents did move to Birmingham where they died. 1911 census has them in Coventry and 1901 they were in Barrow in Furness. Edward wasn't with them in either.

I'm not really sure what to make of it, maybe Maggie died and he remarried. Possible he went to Canada. This whole family has been a mystery always moving around.
I've been searching for my gt grandfather ( he would have been Edward's uncle ) for years, can't find a death and maybe he disappeared to Canada too!!

Cheers
Erika :)

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Antrim / Re: Maggie McClure 1889
« on: Monday 12 October 20 17:45 BST (UK)  »
There have been a few mis spellings of McGiveran whilst I've been doing my research which is quite confusing. I have seen that tree on Ancestry and can't quite fathom it out.
The birth is correct as I have the certificate, although as you say registered as McGivern!
Edward and Maggie's son was born in Crown Street, Glasgow on 7 November 1890 and was called Edward.
I have found so many trees on Ancestry that have the wrong info on them and claim this and that, I'm sometimes screaming at the screen as I have a certificate right in front of me with the correct info on it. I think sometimes people just like to collect names and if it fits it must be right!!!!

Incidentally Edward b.1866, parents were Patrick McGiveran and Matilda Milne m 1863 in Airdrie

Thanks again

Cheers
Erika :)

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Antrim / Re: Maggie McClure 1889
« on: Monday 12 October 20 17:18 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your very prompt replies Carole and heywood.

Firstly Carole, I didn't have any other information about Maggie only what I had on a birth certificate for a son born in Gorbals, Lanarkshire in 1890. On the Scottish birth cert it gives the marriage date and place of the parents, my only clue to this mystery!
I have been looking into the Mcgiveran family, all from Glasgow and Coatbridge as they are a sideways move on my Campbell line, which has been my main family concern.

Secondly heywood, a very interesting marriage cert indeed. Still a little confused though. On the son's birth cert in 1890 Edward's occupation is given as a spirit salesman!, so did he leave the army and move back to Scotland where he was originally from? He also gives father's name as Peter, but it was Patrick, although he did have a brother named Peter. He must have enlisted in the army and been posted to Ireland and met Maggie over there.
 Love all those marriages, must have been lining up at the door ;D

Thank you both again for your help it is very much appreciated

Cheers
Erika :)

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