Lost my Gt Grannie... Kate Williams .. Princes Risborough

[toni*]

do you have the marriage or birth cert for Kate ?
does she have middle names?

[ANYAS]

Hello Lesanne,

I found this:

1891 Berkshire Census
Ada Williams  Age 21
Born Pr. Risb.
Servant
Bridge Street, Bray

Kind regards,

ANYAS

[Lesanne]

Hello Anyas,
Thanks for your trouble.
The rest of them have gone... I know not where......  

Dad shows up in the 1901 workhouse and Kate is married to William Coxhead.


All the stuff we've found on those Scavenger Hunts,   argh !!
   Lesanne.

[Lesanne]

     OOooH !! Yikes !!   Toni, I'm so sorry. Just seen your posts..... 

I went for the birth cert of William and Kate's first son, also William 22 Oct 1899.
It gave the most info... cheep skates aren't we.     

William Jnr was only 17 when killed in WW1 and his place on the CWGC didn't give his family or next of kin. It's taken 2 yrs to accept my info for him.

Did you type in PRINCES Risborough? wiv an 'n' 

Last night, I found a Rose Anna in Shoreham and a Kate in Brighton. No B/p and the ages ? Typical, I didn't take much notice until 4.30 am this morning, now I can't find them.... Was I dreaming, that I have come down to Sussex from the Thames Valley too!!
                 Kewl.

[toni*]

HI Les, yes I did spell Princes correctly! and Risborough too i hope 

there were two Ada Williams b. 1870 one belonging to Reuben & Edith and the other to John & Ann (your one)
the Ada who doth belong ot Reuben & Edith is with them again in 1891.
but your Ada could quite possibly have been married by 1891 as she would have been 21 then [in 1891]

I thought that maybe the children had been intutionalised and put down by their initials mand maybe born Bucks. but again no positive matches.
if they were with other family members particularly their mothers they could quite easily have been put under that surname as opposed to Williams

there is a Kate Whiting adopted child in Hastings b circa 1877  but i wondered if she had taken on the Whiting name but it appears Whiting was her birth name as the family she is with have a different surname.
hold on will try to find her again


re William Jnr, did his parents die before him? this would explain the 'missing' info from the CWGC site.

where was William Jnr born and what did the birth cert give for his mothers name?



 

[toni*]

clutching at straws:

Kate Elkins Orphan b. Bucks Guard .... aged 15
in the orphanage in Hastings
1891
 RG12;  760;  6; 6;

image clearly says Elkins and she has been placed alphabetically before H .

but there doesn't appear to be a matching birth for her (bucks 1877-1878)

[toni*]

well i can't find the adopted child census entry for Kate Whiting 

so ignore that until i find it

[Lesanne]

  Hiya,
William Jnr parents were alive and I remember seeing a Glass fronted case with a big brass disc and letter with a photo too!! No idea where it is... 

The birth cert(1899 Maidenhead) is Kate Coxhead formerly Williams. It gives addy as 58, Garden Cottages. They are in Garden Cottages on 1901 with a Williams family next door.
It's not John, her father, but, could be another family member.

Off to find those refs from last night.... 

[Lesanne]

This is Kate in abt 1930.