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Cabman, that would make sense, thank you.

Thanks for that, I always looked on free BDM, it never occured to me to check out the GRO.

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.

I looked through all of Safron Swatuk's attestation papers and found some other handwritten address which may help, or may confuse things further. These are the adresses of his parents on his will. Also the surname appears to be different on one of these, written as Kantuk.