Missing Person

[gnorman]

Hi Everyone, here i am with another puzzle for you. I have an ancestor, Catherine Parr Jones nee Palmer born (according to Census records) in St Helens in 1832. She married Robert H Jones in 1853 being wrongly written down as Catherine Palmer Parr (later birth certs for her children confirm this mistake). The family moved from living at Wavertree Vale in Liverpool to Oldham after her huband died in 1874. She makes appearances on the 1881 census living at 2 Mawbray street in Oldham but then disappears - i cant find any trace of her death or burial or of a marriage leading to a change of name. She also is not buried with her husband which still had space for later burials up to 1920. I've spent ages on this and have got no further. Can anyone help at all please!
thanks, Luke

[Isobelruss]

Shes on 1891 census

same address as 81

Catherine Jones 57 widow b West Derby
Lucy 19 dau cotton cardroon b Wavertree
Thomas Wolfenden 23 boarder b Oldham
Thomas Cordwell 26 married boarder b Oldham
RG12 3298/152/61

[gnorman]

lol typical of me to miss the obvious, thank you Isobel. So the question now is what becomes of her?

[Isobelruss]

i SEE sYLVESTER IS STILL IN oLDHAM AND MARRIED IN 1901 CENSUS.

[gnorman]

Sylvester goes on to have 7 children and is buried in Oldham but shes not buried beside him or with her first son George H Jones - she did have other children tho, Uriah Jones b.1857 d.1922, Teresa Alice Benton nee Jones b.1859, Robert b.1861 and Alfred b.1864.

[mosiefish]

Hi,

She is still at 2 Mowbray Street on the 1901 census too:

Catherine Jones, Head, W, 65, Housekeeper (not domestic), St. Helens
Lucy, Daur, S. 25. Packing Machinist, Liverpool
plus a boarder.

[g eli]

Have you considered that she might have married again.I have an ancestor whom I could find no death for but after years of looking I discovered she re- married at age 72,this after being a widow  for over 20 years.
Liz

[heywood]

There is a death for a Catherine Jones 70 yrs in 1906 which could fit.

[polly88]

There is a death registered of a Catherine Jones in Oldham.  Details are: 

JONES, Catherine, Registration District: Oldham, Lancashire; Year of Registration: 1906; Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep; Age at death: 70; Volume No:  8D, Page No: 446.

As I can't find her on 1911 census, this would fit.