Please help with suggestions on where i can go with this one.
Annie Florence Blackman.
1881 Census - class RG11 ; piece 654; folio 33 ; page 12............ she was born "at Sea"
1891 Census - class RG12 : piece 426 ; folio 51 ; page 38........... born "jamaica" (british Subject)
1901 Census - class RG13 ; piece 444 ; folio 39 ; page 22........... born "america" Rio Janairo" "british subject" Brazil.
1st marriage i'm aware of.
19th May 1872 St Mary's Lambeth.
Annie Blackman / Of full age/ widow / Vauxhall walk/ father William Blackman (deceased) / Butler
Henry Yeadon jnr/ of full age/Bachelor/ Vauxhall Walk/ father henry yeadon / Blacksmith
witnesses - Thomas Webber and Mary Ann Hallett.
2nd Marriage
7th August 1879 St Phillips, Battersea.
Annie Blackman / age 31/ Spinster/ nurse/ Queens Rd/ father James Blackman/ butler
Joseph Sparkes/ age 29/ Bachelor/ Plate Layer/ 9 Cross Street/ James Sparkes/ Farmer
Witnesses - john Gray and Mary Marchant.
3rd Marriage
6th June 1894 St Mary, Lambeth.
Annie Florence Sparkes/ age 44/ widow/ 14 vauxhall walk/ Isodore ?? Blackman/ plasterer
Jesse Joseph Allen/ age 31/ bachelor/ engine driver/ 14 vauxhall walk/ William Allen/ Butcher.
witnesses - George Whitehead and Annie Robbins/Robbais/Robbuis
1881 Census.
Living at 11 Porson Street, Battersea.
Jo James Sparkes/ head/ mar/ 30/ platelayer/ Cranleigh Surrey
Annie Flor Sparkes/ wife/ mar/ 32/................. / At sea
Hny Edmond Yeadon/ step son/ u/ 8/............./ Battersea, Surrey
Alb Edw Sparkes/ Son/ u/ 11 mnths/.............. /Lambeth, Surrey.
1891 Census.
Living at 16 Ascalon Street, Battersea.
James Sparkes/ Head/ M/ 43/ Plate Layer Railway/ Surrey Cranleigh.
Annie Sparkes/ Wife/ m/ 43/.................................../ Jamaica (british Subject)
Albert Sparkes/ son/ S/ 10/ scholar/ London
Percival Sparkes / Son/ s/ 7/ scholar/ London
John Clarke/ boarder/ s/ 4/ gas labourer/ London
Joseph Allen/ boarder/ s/ 26/ engine fitters labourer/ walington ?
Arthur Marchant/ boarder/ s/ 19/ Railway porter/ Tunbridge wells
Abfaham Simms/ Boarder/ s/19/ Railway Porter/ tunbridge wells
1901 Census
Living at 27,
?, Battersea.
Jesse j Allen/ head/ m/ 40/ electric engine driver/ Oxon Watlington
annie f Allen/ wife/ m/ 49/.................................../ America, rio janaero, british subject, brazil.
Albert a Sparkes/ son in law/ s/ 20/ signalman railway/ london battersea
percival j sparkes/ son in law/ s/ 17/ticket collector railway porter/ london battersea
sarah sparkes/ visitor/ s/ 32/ kitchenmaid domestic/ cranleigh surrey.
i checked the 'born at sea' register but found nothing obvious.
i have played around with the witnesses on ancestry.co.uk without any luck.
her 3rd/4th husband appears to be living with the family as a boarder in the 1891 census.also there is a Marchant living with them as a boarder in the 1891 census and as a witness to the 2nd marriage - i have looked at this but found nothing usefull.
I canot find any trace of Annie Florence Blackman pre 1881 in the census returns and no obvious 1st marriage.
why she gives a different fathers name on each marriage i just don't know.
this is the same woman throughout as there is continuation of evidence.
ie. child from 1st marriage henry yeadon living with the Sparkes family in the 1881 census and then the Sparkes children living with The Allen family in the 1901 census.
I have henry yeadons birth cert. born Henry Edward Yeadon /25th Nov 1872 / father Henry Yeadon a corporal in the Coldstream Guards/ mother Anie Florence Yeadon formerly Blackman/ living at 22, acres grove, battersea.
ANY HELP OR GUIDANCE APPRECIATED.
iAIN.