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I'm trying to find out about a Mary Josephine Stewart, born 1874 in Burma (I think).

The only census I've found her in is 1911, as Mary Josephine Loveday in Tanshelf and Carleton, Pontefract district, Yorkshire. She's living in a barracks (Yorkshire and Lancashire regiment) with her two children. Her husband, William Henry Loveday, born 1877, Doncaster, is recorded separately, but in the same barracks.

From what I can make out, Mary Josephine's birth place says Burmah. Her later daughter, Hilda Mary Loveday, born 1912, Pontefract has her mother's maiden name as Marshall, yet from the one public tree she's in, her maiden name seems to be Stewart, with Marshall being the name of her first husband. If so, then there's a marriage of a Henry William Lavedey (sic) and a Mary Josephine Marshall in Mhow, India in 1903, and her father is named as Charles James Stewart. However, beyond this, I can't find a record of her birth or her father's presence in India at all. I'm unfamiliar with researching India, so is there anything extra I can do?

She was born Caroline Kramer or Lisette Caroline Kramer (although the only place Lisette is ever used is in the birth index), in Keighley in December 1854, and married as Caroline Krammer, daughter of Louis Krammer, a pork butcher, in Birstall in 1876, to William Broscomb(e). I managed to find what's probably her father in the 1851 census living in Sheffield as Louis Kramer, born in Germany, 1830, occupation journeyman pork butcher. He married a Rose Lair in 1854 as Ludwig Kramer, in Bradford. Rose Lair is Caroline's mother. However, I can't find them on any census as a family, nor can I find Rose anywhere at all. Lair doesn't exist as a surname in Britain and is possibly a spelling error of Lehr, meaning she is also probably German, but when I search for German-born Roses, I don't get much.

One strange lead I found is the Limbach/Limback family. I'll bold the similarities. In 1861, there is a Louis Limbach living in Hull with his wife, with the initials R M. His profession is pork butcher. Two of his children were born in Bradford. There is, however, no Caroline. In 1871 a Limback family is living in Bradford, yet the head's name is George, a shoemaker, but the wife is Rose. A couple of their children were born in Hull, yet there is no Leonard (possibly dead?) and no Caroline. Their daughter, Catherine, was born around the same time as Caroline, give or take, but she was born in Germany, after Caroline's parents were already in England.

Could they be the same people who liked to change their names a lot, including from Louis to George, from Caroline to Catherine and then back to Caroline again, and changing the patriarch's life-long (and ancestral, since his father, too, was a pork butcher) occupation to something completely different in the space of ten years?

I'm looking for the parents of Maria Moscow, born 1855 in Ashton-Under-Lyne. I can't locate a birth record or a census find prior to her marriage to Wright Platt. I'm currently waiting for the marriage certificate. Other trees seem to think she is sister to John, William and Ellen Moscoe/Moscow, who can be found living with their widowed mother in 1871, though Maria is not living with them. Moreover, the birth index of John, William, and Ellen are also not to be found, nor is any earlier census record than 1871. Adding to this, there seems to be no death or remarriage record for their mother, or any record of the death (or birth) of William Moscoe/Moscow, the father stated on several of the siblings' marriage certificates, nor of any marriage between a William Moscoe/Moscow and a Margaret (the sibling's mother).

Margaret, the mother, was Irish, so it's possible that William was too, though the name Moscoe or Moscow is more or less unrecorded in Ireland, and is rare enough in England. There's a spattering of Moscoes in the Lancashire records, but finds are patchy and don't show much sign of a continuous lineage in the area (or anywhere else). Most Moscow families are descendants of recent Jewish immigrants and only appeared in Britain several decades after Maria's birth. There's minimal evidence of Moscows before that time, and when it occurs it seems to be a variation of Moscoe.

I've considered the possibility that all siblings were born out of wedlock and that William Muscoe/Moscow was an invention, which I've seen happen before, but Margaret does claim to be widowed in 1871, and I've not seen lies on a census before. Possibly the Muscoe/Moscow surname was invented after the birth of all children, hence no birth records. But that wouldn't explain the lack of death records for the mother (or father). It also doesn't help me find the family in 1861, since I've searched for the family using only birth dates and birth places, with the surname omitted. Also, I've checked all births in the stated years for each sibling, and none seem to be mistranscriptions of anything close to Muscoe or Moscow.

Any help would be appreciated.