And The Wifes Name Is ....? (Sorted. Thanks!)

[Steve G]

  I'm sure someone here will see it straight away. I can't. Nor can I guess it. Just tell me it Doesn't say " Mrs " Curtis?! 

 Thanks 

[C P Rayson]

Hi Steve G

Sorry to say it looks like Mrs C Curtis to me

Happy Hunting

Chris

[madpants]

It looks like Mrs C Curtis to me too    Any clues as to who she is?

[cathaldus]

This looks like the 1911 census when the "head" of the household filled in the census form.  That being so then I go along with the flow and say that this is Mrs. C. Curtis!

Bill

[madpants]

In that case the marriage should be relatively easy to find as it will say how long they have been married.  FreeBMD with his name and C* in spouse should narrow it down, especially as Steve will know the general area it might have taken place.

[avm228]

The 1911 enumeration seems to be in Portsmouth.  The details available on the free 1911 index are consistent with this family in the 1901 census:



1901 census: RG13/979/15/22
52 Buckland St, Portsmouth

James Curtis Head M 30 General dealer
Caroline do Wife M 27
James do Son S 4
Elsie C. do Daur S 3
John do Son S 5mo

all born Portsmouth


and a possible marriage:

Marriage Sep qtr 1893

BALL Caroline
CURTIS James   

on same page, Portsea 2b 934


Anna

[Steve G]

  Anna; I think I love you!  Thanks, So Much for a brilliant bit of work there! Sorted!

 And, yeppers, 'tis indeed from the 1911. I was up half the night pulling them out of there ~ great, isn't it?  ~ and that was the first one I started working with today.

 I would say, of course, that I'd have done what Anna did, if I'd stopped to think about it. Only, I honestly doubt I would have! I really must learn to check FBMD again. I've become too much of an A.com blind man. Used to check FBMD, Saints, the lot. Now I'm in a rut of A.com and FindMyPast.

 Cheers, all! Oh; And the MC's already on my latest list