No trace - what else can I try?

[winston]

Hi

Found Abraham the eldest boy visible in the 1901 census


Here he is in the 1891 census possibly a sister to James Wilkes who Ada Ester was with in the 1901 census also

Everett JJ Kirkham bn 1870 Liverpool

Mary Ann "" bn 1870 Wednesbury

Henry "" bn 1891 Walsall

Abraham Wilkes bn 1889 Visitor bn Wigan Lancashire


Still looking for Maud, unless you have foudn them of course?


As I thought here is the marriage for Everet  and Mary Ann

  Kirkham, Everett James J 1888 December Marriages West Bromwich Shropshire Staffordshire Worcestershire
 
  WILKES, Mary Ann 1888 December Marriages West Bromwich Shropshire Staffordshire Worcestershire


Wendy

[yorkierose]

Hi Wendy.  Yes, I had found the James Wilks record and I have assumed this to be the correct family.  I think the enumerator record that we see on Ancestry was probably mistranscribed from the original census form that the household filled in and were later destroyed.  If you look at James and Samuel written in old fashioned handwriting they do look fairly similar!  Everything else ties in and so I'm going with that...rightly or wrongly!!! lol

I had also found Abraham visiting the Kirkham's but hadn't checked for a Kirkham/Wilkes marriage and I can't thank you enough for that one!  Mary Ann Wilkes was Samuel's (AKA James) sister.   Maud can be found in a nearby hospital as a patient, so she must have been ill and perhaps that is why Abraham was being looked after by his Aunt.

Shelly x

[PaulineJ]

Howdy,
 by putting in Torester as a birth place in the census with nothing else a couple of entries popped up. There is literally 6 or 7

1861 - Ann M Mobbs reckons she was bn in Torester, Northamptonshire.

1871 - Sarah Miller says Torester, Northamptonshire.

1881 - Sarah Barnes says Torrester, Northamptonshire.
no one in 1881

1891 - William G Humphries says Gilsworth, Torester, Northamptonshire
 David Lanspenry says Torester.

1901 - Bertie Says Torester, Staffordshire.
 Edith M Danerfield says Far Torester, Worcestershire.

So I reckon its in Northamptonshire.

Any takers for Towcester, Northants?
(Usually pronounced as Toaster, I believe)

Pauline