Newman/Brown family from Whittlesford

[wildfiremiss]

Hi All,
Hoping someone may be able to help clear some fog for me!

I am tracing my grandmothers family which has lived in the Whtitlesford area.

I am having trouble locations a couple of my grandmothers siblings.  (Unfortunately Grandma passed away before I developed my interest in family history and my Dad doesn't know much about the family in  England! I am in Australia.)

The two siblings I cant track down after 1900 are Harry Edward Newman, born 1874 and baptised in the Whittlesford Parish Church (From parish register) Mother Clara Ann Newman (no father listed, but highly suspect father is Edward James Brown who Clara marries in 1880 (no proof just speculation on my behalf!) and Gertrude May Brown born 04/06/1885 in Whitlesford.

I have traced both through Census information right up to 1901.
Harry is listed as living in Plumstead London and working as a labour.
I  found Gertrude on the 1911 census as being a domestic cook living in Marylebone, Middlesex, England.

I cannot find a death or marriage index for either person. (nor can I actually find Harry's birth in a index either - I would have liked to order the relevant certificates from GRO....)

Any idea's how to move forward?

Kindest Regards
Sharon

[bedfordshire boy]

You posted a similar request on another board a couple of days ago and someone replied:
"In 1911 living at 60 Beresford Street, Woolwich, which looks like some kind of Lodging House for single men there is a Henery Newman, 38, Single, General Labourer, said to be born at what looks like Midalsford, Cambridgeshire.

As far as I am aware there is no such place but it is possible that someone could misinterpret Whittlesford if the name was spoken in a South Cambridgeshire accent."

Plumstead and Woolwich are next door to each other

With a common name like Brown you have your work cut out, and it could prove to be expensive buying certificates at £9-25 a pop. There are a number of Gertrude M Brown deaths where the implied birth is 1885.  But even if you bought the certificates and they were spinsters you still won't know if it's your Gertrude. Marriages could be more positive, as the father's name is given. There are any number of  Gertrude M Brown marriages 1911-1915, and even more post 1915.