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Hi,
I am struggling to establish any further positive (or otherwise) evidence that the 1851 household including my gg-grandmother Eliza Hughes (b 1836) is the same as one in 1841. Are there any other potential leads I haven't considered?

1851
HO107/1490/21
34 William Street, Marylebone
Ann Morris, Head, widow, 70, housekeeper, b Middlesex, St Clements Strand
Thomas Morris, son, unmarried, 35 Master Butcher, b Middlesex St Giles
Eliza Hughes, head, widow, 35, laundress b Isle of Wight, Hampshire
Eliza Hughes, daughter, 15, house servant b Marylebone

In later censuses Eliza senior and Thomas Morris are living as man and wife but I can't find a marriage between them. Eliza senior later variouslly gives her birthplace as "Odiham, Hants" and "Hampshire".

1841
HO107/732/2/44
4 Osnaburg Row, St George Hanover Square
Eliza Hughes, 25, drop maker, not born Middlesex
Eliza Hughes, 5 b Middlesex
George Hughes, 3, b Middlesex
Ann Ashford, 60, Laundress, not born Middlesex

I have a probable birth for Eliza
St George Hanover Square
Eliza, of John and Eliza Hughes, Baptised July 31, born July 13, 1836 - father's profession, servant.

At her marriage to William Thomas Reynolds, Eliza junior gives her father as John Hughes, soldier

I feel I could make a breakthrough if I could find:

• Any other references to Ann Ashford - birth, death census
• Any other references to George Hughes, b circa 1838 - birth, death, census
• Any birth for Eliza senior in Odiham or Isle of Wight
• Any death for John Hughes, father, between 1836 and 1841

Any help gratefully received!
Rob

   

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