Winterbloom21's Scavenger Hunt... Everyone Welcome To Join In

[toni*]

IF Freds mother , whoever she was, died at birth, then there would be a burial for her.
have you looked for burials of Parkman around the time of Freds birth (1830) maybe this is why he wasnt christened possibly being base born and then orphaned.

[Winterbloom21]

It's a thought, Toni.     But the only unmarried single Parkman female at this time was Mary (my ggg grandmother) and she lived into her eighties.

If a female Parkman was buried in 1830, she would have been the wife of Philip Parkman (for whom I can find no marriage).      If Fred was Philip's illegimate son, then it's likely that his mother had another surname, not Parkman.      But, of course, you never know.   Maybe she was using the name Parkman, just as Frederick later used 'Heald'.

I will certainly have a look and see if I can find anything around then.

[janan]

I've been the through the St Pancras baptisms 1829-1831 and there are only 2 illegitimate Fredericks - one Frederick Norris is traceable but I can't find what happened to the other Frederick Scheer Spikesman baptised 6 June 1829 (born April  8th )  mother Ann abode Grove St. Might be worth further investigation?

Jan

[Winterbloom21]

Thanks Janan.  I'll have a look around that.    I went through the baptisms for St. Andrew's Holborn for 1829 and 1830 yesterday, too, and could find nothing helpful there.  Although I know that sometimes people weren't baptised until years afterwards.

A thought struck me this morning, which was that, bearing in mind that my gg grandmother Jane, illegitimate daughter of Mary Parkman, was baptised at St. Pancras (at the age of 5) in 1830 then IF Frederick was another child of Mary's born in 1829, surely she would have had him done at the same time.   So often parents seemed to do them in batches like that.

But I'm only very faintly theorising that Frederick is Mary's child.  It's not my most popular theory.    I think he is more likely to be something to do with Philip.  But who knows....       Yet.

[Spidermonkey]

Re-reading through this to check that we had covered all bases.  I think that you need to get Amelia jnr's birth cert to find out what details are given for the parents.  It might for example show that Eliza Jane had been previously married (and therefore not necessarily permitted to re-marry) etc.

[Winterbloom21]

Yes, you're right Spidermonkey.   Amelia Jnr is definitely on my shopping list, not least because I might find out through that where they were living in 1857 when she was born, which might solve the census absence mystery. 

S

[Tephra]

Here we are with the latest Scavenger Hunt......... Hope you can help.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,590341.0.html

Good luck and Good Hunting

Barbara


As usual, this Hunt will remain open for any further information which might come in.

[catgallant]

Winterbloom 21
I have info on Peter Devlin born 1898 in Toome, Ballymena, antrim.  I'm a friend of his Montreal family.  How can I reach you. 

[Winterbloom21]

Hello Catgallant -

How wonderful to hear from you - I have been trying to trace your line (with some little success) for years!     I shall PM you my email address.     Peter Devlin was my Dad's uncle.    Daddy's mother was Mary Anne Devlin, who married John Hill.   Can't wait to swop some information.  Regards, Siobhan