I am trying to find out who was Sophia Ann Adams mother and I think I may have found the answer.
In the 1861 census Sophia Ann Adams lived at 28 Fleet Street, Parish of St Dunstan, City of London she was working as a servant to Mary Ann Medwin a 25 year old seamstress who had a one year old son Henry Medwin, they also had a lodger an Elizabeth Cadbuth who worked as a seamstress. Although it records Sophia, spelt Sapiah, as 12 years of age she was 9 years old when the census was taken.
In the 1861 census Sophia's father Nathaniel is an inmate at a workhouse as he is ill. He is recorded as being a widower. Mary Ann his wife would have died before 1861. Reason why Nathaniel's family were no longer living together completely different to the 1871 census when he has a new wife Jane Adams. Joseph Samuel, Sophia's brother is the only child recorded with both mother's. Nathaniel would have needed someone to look after the two youngest children while he was in the workhouse or they would have been sent to the workhouse. As yet I can find no record of them in the 1861 census or in a workhouse. Or a marriage certificate for Nathaniel and Jane. i suspect that Jane is probable a sister of Nathaniel's who is looking after the youngest children. Recorded in the 'London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906', Jane's babtism cert. Mary Ann Adams is the mother of the youngest child born to Nathaniel Adams. Still looking for the other children's certificates I have the two eldest children's Martha Julia Ann Adams, presumable she died as a baby as no record of her in the 1851 census and Alfred's cert..
