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« on: Sunday 11 October 20 21:53 BST (UK) »
Posting here as it includes Brecon and Radnorshire and Liandod, and Hereford, and London, and Gloucestershire!
Greensleeves and I are working on the history of a mill in Wales. We have discovered a mystery with one branch. This is what we know:
Beatrice Mary Selena Renders was born September quarter 1869 Builth, Brecknockshire, Wales., mother’s maiden name Phillips. We can find no marriage of a Sarah Phillips and a Renders apart from one in Kensington, London in March quarter 1869 when a Sarah Louise Phillips married and Alfred Hector Maximillian Renders. There is no sign of this man either before or after the marriage.
In 1871 Beatrice (listed as Mary Renders) and her mother Sarah Renders (married) are with Sarah’s mother Selina Phillips in Builth. No sign of her father, but Sarah says she is a seamstress, wife of a teacher.
In the June quarter 1872, Sarah Renders married Alfred Handley in Builth. They are together in 1881 with several children. Beatrice is still with her grandmother.
1891 Beatrice is back with her mother and stepfather in Maesmynis.
In 1911 Beatrice is in Gloucestershire with her "husband" Henry Froggatt, born 1862 Holme Lacy Herefordshire, a commercial traveller in farm machinery. They claim to be married 15 years, but again no sign of a marriage. Interesting that in this census Beatrice claims to be born in London. They don’t have any children. In 1901 Henry is lodging in Cumberland but it doesn’t give his status.
Beatrice M S Froggatt dies in Abergavenny 1933 aged 64.
Can anyone find:
Another Phillips/Renders marriage.
A marriage for Beatrice Renders to Henry Froggatt
Beatrice Renders/Froggatt in 1901
Any sign of the mysterious Alfred Hector Maximillian Renders.
We know we could get the marriage certificate and Beatrice’s birth, but as it is a distant branch don’t want to unless really necessary.
Thanks