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I recently stated looking into my London ancestors called Derby. My great-great grandmother Lucy Derby had a sister called Winifred (b1848 in Marylebone). She appears on two censuses, the last one in 1861 where at 12 she is listed as a servant to her sister Lucy who had married John Wisby (also called John Howard) in St Pancras.
But after that she disappears and I can find no record of a marriage or a death or an emigration. One thought occured to me and that is she lived with a man without marrying him and took his surname, so I searched again for a Winifred with the surname blank (and other details the same) and came up with Winifred Farrier living as wife to a man called Joseph Farrier in Paddington. She is the right age and born in the right place, so this looked like a stong possibility. However after that the trail goes cold again and she is not on the 1881 census and beyond (and Joseph also disappears) and I can find no record of a Winifred Farrier who died or married.
Can anyone suggest how I can find what happened to her? I felt sorry for her being listed as a "servant" at the age of 12 to her older sister and hoped that she had a better life when she was older. Any help would be appreciated.