I wonder can anyone help me? My great grandmother Mabel Sophie Fanny Wilson, came from a fairground family, I have found mention of her and her family on the 1901 census when they were living in Gurlings Yard in Battersea. She married Frank Fisher in Battersea in 1908, I don't think he was a traveller. I have her brother's name Charles Wilson (who nobody in the family can remember) and her mother's Christian name Sarah, but no maiden name. I know there is no birth certificate for Mabel as there was confusion when her 100th birthday was (she lived to be 103). She told me when I was a child, her mother used to swing weights attached to her long hair around her head and it eventually crippled her, I've also been told she was a money lender for women. I have an old photo of James and Sarah, which shows him wearing a sash which says 'Pride of Battersea'. Frank Fisher died in 1927, Mabel struck up a relationship with Thomas Penfold which resulted in a child being born. Considering she came from a travelling family, once she married she lived her whole life within a mile of Gurlings yard!
I am completely stuck on this branch of the family and am hoping someone knows something!
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