was my great great grandmother addopted .

[WHITSTABLE]

hello, i have a mary ann cave born in sommersett i think wincanton area no one in my family know much about her apart from thay said she was addopted  born roughly 1870s i have info  she married lewis whiteheadfrom chatham in kent then my great grandmother was born 1900 her name was caroline alice whitehead. can anyone find her for me sorry i have no more info ;)liz

[CaroleW]

1901 census for Kensington

Lewis Edward Whitehead 29 coachman b Mortlake (Surrey)
Mary A   29 b Blackford
Lewis E   2 b Lambeth
Caroline A  11 months b Marylebone
RG13 Piece 27 Folio 35 Page 10

The enumerator shows Blackford as Somerset 

[Astoria]

Do you have her birth certificate, this looks likely.

Mary Ann CAVE Sept 1872 Wincanton 5c 500

[CaroleW]

You will find her on the 1881 census which you can search yourself for free at

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp

Birthplace is Blackford

[Astoria]

Just in case you need this one too

Caroline Alice WHITEHEAD June 1900 Marylebone 1a 524

Both birth entries from FreeBMD - http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

[WHITSTABLE]

hi thankyou , no i do not have any birth cert for this lady just info from what relatives have told me, it does sound like it couled be her as my greatgrandmother caroline alice did live in london most of her life

[CaroleW]

If you check the 1881 census you will find a stepson surname Grish

John Cave married Mary Grish/Grist in 1869 in Wincanton so no question of daughter Mary Ann being adopted as she was not born until 1872

You can check the marriage out on freebmd

[bicker]

Have you thought of joining the Cave Family History Society.

Their web site is at www.cave-fhs.org.uk

Heather

[WHITSTABLE]

hi, thank you all, o so she was not addopted, may be my family heard something simmular, unless maybe it couled have been the stepson thay was talking about and as it went down through the family got mixed up and thought it was mary ann and thought she was addoped, i did see a marriedge for john and mary grish , so mary had a chlid before she married john ,