Millicent Hart Potter - COMPLETED

[aghadowey]

Friend has family Bible with this name inside- Millicent Hart Potter

Have found in indexes what seem to be references to the same person-
Free BMD- birth- Millicent Hart Potter July/Sept.1846 Wandsworth district
1851 census (Surrey) Melicent Potter age 4
1861 census (Surrey) Millicent Potter age 14 born Surrey?
1871 census (Surrey) Millicent Potter age 24 born Surrey?
1881 ?
1891 ?
1901 census (Sussex) Millicent Hart Potter age 54 born London?

Friend's great-grandmother was Mary POTTER born c1867 in Surrey or London? who married 1890 David COLE. Children: Elizabeth (c1892), Caleb (c1893), Ada M. (c1898), Andrew (1900).
Millicent Hart Potter is believed to be Mary's mother and family story is that there is a Jewish connection.

Can anyone help with census records for Millicent so we can establish that Mary's mother was Millicent (too many Mary Potters to get a birth certificate at the moment) and who Millicent's family were?

[Gaie]

Hi

1861/71/1901 give Millicent's pob as Balham, Surrey or London; 1851 gives pob as Streatham, which is next door to Balham.

There is in 1891:

RG12; Piece 3808; Folio 124; Page 44
24 Kearsley Rd, Ecclesall, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Mellicent H POTTER Head Single 44 Schoolmistress b Surrey, Balham
Elizabeth M B ELAM Niece 8 Scholar b Yorkshire, Sheffield
Joseph W D ELAM Nephew 7 Scholar b Yorkshire, Sheffield
James M ELAM Nephew 6 Scholar b Yorkshire, Sheffield
Clara W PHILLIPS Boarder 23 Assistant Schoolmistress, b London nK

KR
Gaie

[aghadowey]

Thanks so much, Gaie. Yorkshire is certainly a surprise. I'd only been able to find her in index to 1851/1861/1871/1901 census but without having full details birthplace just Surrey/London. By 1891 census Mary Potter (her daughter?) is married and living in Kent. We suspected that Millicent was unmarried but connection to 3 Elam children is also a mystery at this point.

[Gaie]

1851 shows:

HO107; Piece 1576; Folio 216; Page 5
15 Waterloo Retreat, Clapham, Surrey
William POTTER Head 39 Gardener Servant b Suffolk Old Newton
Melicent Wife 29 Gardener Wife b Suffolk Hxxxxx
Maria Dau 6 Scholar b Surrey Streatham
Melicent Dau 4 Scholar b Surrey Streatham
James Son 2 b Surrey Streatham
Mary Dau 1 b Surrey Streatham
John FAIERS Cousin 21 Shoemakers Journeyman b Suffolk Old Newton

1861 Millicent is a servant in Clapham in the house of Edmund & Emily FELL

1871
RG10; Piece 804; Folio 30; Page 2
Orchard Cottage, Staines Lane, Chertsey, Surrey
William POTTER Head Mar 59 Gardener Domestic Servant b Suffolk Old Newton
Maria Dau 26 Domestic Servant Ladies Maid b Surrey Balham
Millicent Dau 24 Domestic Servant Parlour Maid b Surrey Balham
Martha M Dau 21 Domestic Servant Cook b Surrey Balham
Mary Dau 14 Scholar b Surrey Clapham
Emily Dau 10 Scholar b Surrey Chertsey
William Son 12 Scholar b Surrey Clapham
Thomas F Son 8 Scholar b Surrey Chertsey

What does it say on Mary and David's marriage cert for father and occupation if anything?

KR
Gaie

[suzard]

I too think the Elam children are the children of Millicent's sister maria Potter - but in 1901 census she is married to Joseph Taylor- but the children are Elam

Suz

[suzard]

Marriage freeBMD
Sept qtr 1899
Ecclesall Bierlow
on same page
maria Elam
Joseph Taylor
9 655

suz

[aghadowey]

Gets better and better- will take me a few minutes to digest but I found Elam family in 1881 census:
1 Gloucester St., Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire
Joseph ELAM 56 Mirfield Yorks. insurance collector (Baptist Local Preacher)
wife Maria ELAM 36 Balham Surrey
son Robert M. ELAM 20 Sheffield merchants clerk unemployed
son Charles H.C. ELAM 19 Sheffield joiner (apprentice)
dau. Mary ELAM 16 Sheffield
From the ages of these children and the ones in 1891 it's possible that Maria was Joseph's 2nd wife.

From memory I think no father listed on Mary Potter's marriage certificate but will have to get friend to check with her relatives in England to verify.

[suzard]

marriage freeBMD
Dec qtr 1880
Cheltenham
maria Potter
Joseph Elam
6a 831

Suz

[suzard]

death reg
Joseph Elam
age 70
Mar qtr 1895
Ecclesall Bierlow
9c 92

Suz