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Hi i've got a wedding certificate that shows a family living at 3 Ashford Street, Shoreditch in December 1902 and for the life of me I can't work out where this family are in 1901 or any proceeding year, sadly they're a family that at some point have changed their names for some unknown reason.

Can anyone tell me roughly where I might find Ashford Street on the 1901 Census as (fingers crossed) they might be there and their names have just been recorded wrongly.......

The wedding was for a John White Hankin (born approx 1882) and the certificate states that he is a stonemason and that his father is John Hankin. By the time John White Hankin was a father the Hankin was dropped and never used again....... so I really need to link with the right family.

John White Hankin married Ellen Jane Hale.

Any help in solving this mystery would be fantastic as I'm gonna have a big bald patch soon.

Jan

Hi David it is great to hear from you.

I descend from John Bouverie Skelton and Frances Barker Blewitt as well, whose daughter Frances Harriet Skelton married Frank Smith. Their daughter Beatrice was my grandmother, sadly she passed away many years before I was born.

Recently I made contact with someone else on your family line. She descends from Charles Bouverie Skelton's son Charles. She is eager to know of any cousins she may have.

I hadn't realised that your grandmother had emigrated, this is so exciting to hear. You may be interested to know that I am doing a lot of research at the moment on the Blewitt line.

Frances Barker Blewitt's father Charles Blewitt was in the 10th Hussars and was stationed in the Gorbals, Glasgow when he married  Margaret Hall(s?) in 1836.

Whenever I get a chance I pop to Kew to view the army muster records for the 10th Hussars and so far I've found him in service between Christmas day1820 and 1840. I keep going backwards in hope to find out when he signed up to help hopefully shed some light on as to where he was living at the time of signing up. I know he must have died by 1853 because his wife remarried stating she was a widow and that he father deceased was a silk weaver names John. She married a Henry Pemberton Smith in London also a widower. She passed away in Enfield Middlesex same as her son John and was burried at St.James church, Enfield Highway, Enfield, Middlesex.

I can't wait to hear more about your line. I do have a photo of your grandmother's grandmother. I also have photos of Keturah and George Skilton.

You may already know that Skelton was originally Skilton and that Blewitt. On the army musters, the spelling Blewitt was used from 1821, the one musters I read that went back to 1820 christmas, Bluett was used.

Jan

Hi if you check out this msn group they might be relatives of your Edward as they are all related to Bailey's of Furneux Pelham.

http://groups.msn.com/BAILEYSFROMFURNEUXPELHAM

Sorry if its not helpful

Jan

I can't believe this information and also did a google, wow and they reckon it could happen again!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6276291.stm

Hi I'm starting to build up a one place study of Enfield, Middlesex. All information donated will be available completely free of charge to anyone that visits the site.

If anyone has any information, certificates, Wills, Photos etc of Enfield that they would like to share with everyone, please do email me as I'd love to hear from you. Jan[at]enfieldmiddlesex.com

I'm currently building my website, so if you visit please do bookmark it as I have plans to include a lot of information on Enfield, Middlesex.

I'm also looking for volunteers that might like to help me transcribe the parish records, photograph headstones and memorial etc etc (Parish records are at the LMA)

www.enfieldmiddlesex.com

Jan