* COMPLETED with thanks *1891 census look up please

[iluleah]

Oh

[iluleah]

And even more puzzling

RG10; Piece: 3403; Folio: 5; Page: 6  Louth

Elizabeth Smith  60  Parish relief and laundress
Thomas Maxey  24  Nephew   joiner
Emily Smith  5 grand daughter

So were Thomas and Ellen cousins?

So is this the 1871 census?

[groom]

Yes

[iluleah]

I think there is more to this than it seems  

Look at this

1881  RG 11/3262/60/18  3, Beaconsfield Terrace

Thomas Maxey  head unmarried  37   Carpenter
Fred Maxey  son   7
Ellen Smith servant unmarried 37  housekeeper

Jan

So these two got married

[groom]

I'm not sure about actually marrying as there are no Thomas Maxey marriages between 1881 and 1891, so perhaps she just took his name.

This might be a connection

1851 HO107; Piece: 2111; Folio: 320; Page: 28

Thomas Maxey  head widow 41  Master joiner
William Maxey son  14
THOMAS  MAXEY son 7
Elizabeth Maxey   sister  unmarried 39  housekeeper

[iluleah]

Yes I think you are right as I can't find a marriage either...so 7 year old Thomas is Elizabeth Smith nee Maxey nephew...which matches the later census...........wow there are lots of visiting going on in this family at census times

[groom]

I wonder who Fred Maxley's mother is as in 1881 Thomas says he is unmarried, but Fred is his son.

There is the birth of a Fred Maxey Smith Dec quarter 1873 Louth 7a 591, so it looks as if his mother was Ellen Smith. Interesting family this one. 

[iluleah]

You are not kidding

It is my grandfathers elder sister husband, I knew all my great aunts and uncles except this one so started researching as Maxey Osbourne's daughter( who I remember visiting) went to live in Northern Ireland........and I researched the line back and I have crossed the Atlantic going back several times back and forth, then decided to come back to Maxey and now all this...it makes my direct line look tame

[groom]

That's often the way isn't it, it is the side shoots that are more interesting.