Conway

[gillybumble]

Trying to track the wife and parents of Edward Conway born 1863 deptford London. He married Elizabeth (born 1868) from Leytonstone. I have their whereabouts in 1891 and 1901 censuses, but none before that.

[CaroleW]

Have you looked for their marriage on freebmd?

Marriages September qtr 1886   
 
Edward Conway   Greenwich  1d 1429   
Elizabeth Sullivan

A copy of the marriage cert will give their fathers names

Have you seen the 1871 entry for Edward Conway b 1861 St Pancras

[gillybumble]

Thanks, it was a possible answer, but still wonder why not included on earlier censuses 1871 and1881.. any ideas carol.

[CaroleW]

Hi
 
For the period he was born - Deptford was Kent.  There is no birth on freebmd and no Edward Conway on the 1871 that matches a Kent birthplace

You may have to consider the possibility that he was illegitimate and his mother married after his birth.  He may be shown under her married name in 1871/1881

[gillybumble]

Thanks Carole, but how can I find out who she married

[CaroleW]

Being honest - with difficulty.  I should also have mentioned the alternative scenario which is that he may have been legitimate but his father died and mum re-married before 1871.  Same problem in finding him though.

It means checking freebmd for all female Conway marriages in that area between his birth and the 1871 census - but that assumes she married in the Deptford area which was in the Greenwich registration district

I have just checked freebmd and there are only 2 in Greenwich between 1862-1871 - both males

As there is usually more than one male name on the same page - you have to lookup all of them on the 1871 to see if they had a wife with the same christian name as the female Conway you found

You then check the household to see if there is a son Edward born before the marriage date

It can be very tedious - believe me - I have had to do it a number of times

[Valda]

Hi

There is this birth registration

Births Dec 1860 
CONWAY  Edmund     Greenwich  1d 576

Greenwich would be the registration district covering Deptford.

Nothing for Edmund in the civil registration or censuses - just the birth registration.


Regards

Valda

[CaroleW]

I found this marriage which you may want to bear in mind when you get his fathers name from his marriage cert

Jeremiah Conway to Mary White 22.1.1863 St Paul Deptford - fathers Edmund White and Edmund Conway

As Edward shows his birthyear as 1863 - it's a possibility