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[avm228]

Possible birth/death for Philadelphia's daughter Elsie:

Birth Sep qtr 1897

Elsie GAIN

Marylebone 1a 594

Death Mar qtr 1900

Elsie GAIN, aged 2

Hastings 2b 42a

[ShaunJ]

There were 5 baptisms at that church on 6 October 1897 - mothers are all maids, all with no father named. All living at 157 Marylebone Road

[avm228]

There were 5 baptisms at that church on 6 October 1897 - mothers are all maids, all with no father named. All living at 157 Marylebone Road

157 Marylebone Road seems to have been the address of the St Marylebone Female Protection Society.

[lizdb]

If it IS all the same person she must have been 4 0r 5 mths pregnant when she came back from overseas .... Elsie was born 29 Aug 1897 according to chr record ....went to home for unmarried mothers and had baby (maybe arranged by family who used her original name, rather than the new name she took when in America) then she remains in London as a servent in 1901 before marrying  .....

Lots of theories, need some proof!

[Ebch]

The Era April 1896. 
Miss Kate Gerard amongst list of persons being asked to forward stamped envelope to claim undelivered mail.

[ShaunJ]

The Era April 1896. 
Miss Kate Gerard amongst list of persons being asked to forward stamped envelope to claim undelivered mail.

The Era was the paper favoured by actors and actresses. In May 1896 it reports that Miss Kate Gerard was admirable as Mrs Ralli Carr in a production of Gentleman Joe in Doncaster. 

[ShaunJ]

"The Marylebone Female Protection Society, affords shelter exclusively to those who have recently been led astray, and whose previous good character will bear the strictest investigation"

http://dl.tufts.edu/view_text.jsp?urn=tufts:central:dca:UA069:UA069.005.DO.00080&chapter=front003

[teaurn]

Hi all,

Have had a look at various takes on this and would like to take this in a seperate direction. The 1881 census shows an Alfred age 81 and Philadelphia Ades age 82 living in Brede.


And I have found a Philadelphia Ades born June 1875 in the district of Uckfield which is on the Sussex/ East Sussex border

Probably no connection but maybe worth looking into

[devonblue]

In 1911 a Grace SPRINGATE, was a single  barmaid at the Royal Hotel High St Aldershot.  She was born 1888  Kent Woolwich.

There is a GRO ref for a Grace Daisy Springate b Dec 1887 in Woolwich so this would appear to be the other marriage witness.

Grace Daisy Springate then married an Arthur Bullous in Sep 1912 in Sculcoates.