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Offline Barbara Stanners

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Looking for my great grandmother EMMA RICHARDSON (1853) as a child
« on: Saturday 30 January 16 16:14 GMT (UK) »
Emma Richardson was my great grandmother who married my great grandfather on christmas day 1877.  He was William Arnold born in 1879 in St. Albans Hertfordshire.  I have at last found her birth certificate which tells me her father Benjamin Richardson was a fishmonger in London born 1831 and her mother was called Ann Arnold.  They married in 1851 and Emma was born in 1853.  Unfortunately Ann died in 1856 and Benjamin was married a few years later to Margaret Marshall and they went on to have more children. However I can find no record of Emma on any census or with any relative until her marriage in 1877.  I would love to know what happened to her as a little girl.  Where did she go, who cared for her?  Her mother was ill for 9 months before she died according to the death certificate, so hopefully had time to make arrangements for her care.  Father obviously did not take on that responsibilty.

Any comments or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

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Re: Looking for my great grandmother EMMA RICHARDSON (1853) as a child
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 30 January 16 16:24 GMT (UK) »
Hi Barbara and welcome to RootsChat...where was Emma born and where did her Parents marry?

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Re: Looking for my great grandmother EMMA RICHARDSON (1853) as a child
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 30 January 16 16:28 GMT (UK) »
Welcome !

Is this your Emma's birth (I see that her Parents married in Pancras)


Births Jun Quarter of 1853   

RICHARDSON  Emma     Regn Dist of St Pancras  1b 138   

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Re: Looking for my great grandmother EMMA RICHARDSON (1853) as a child
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 30 January 16 17:31 GMT (UK) »
Correct birth Emma Julia Richardson  Lambeth 1854

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Re: Looking for my great grandmother EMMA RICHARDSON (1853) as a child
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 30 January 16 17:40 GMT (UK) »
Born Emma Julia Richardson 4 park place Roberts Street Brixton 10/2/1854

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Re: Looking for my great grandmother EMMA RICHARDSON (1853) as a child
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 30 January 16 18:30 GMT (UK) »
Who were the witnesses on her marriage certificate? These may have been connected to who raised her - possibly grandparents, aunt/uncle, etc.  Sometimes you find children under different surnames in censuses when they're not staying with their birth parents.

Have you tracked her parents' families and looked at where their parents and siblings were between when Ann Richardson nee Arnold died and when Emma married?
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Re: Looking for my great grandmother EMMA RICHARDSON (1853) as a child
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 30 January 16 18:42 GMT (UK) »
Witnesses Benjamin Richardson and Jane Wright.

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Stevens /Godfrey /Rudgley /Claridge/ Gipson /George /Bliss
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Re: Looking for my great grandmother EMMA RICHARDSON (1853) as a child
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 31 January 16 15:51 GMT (UK) »
Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions.  I have tried every channel mentioned. 
I will go on searching - it is an interesting, but time consuming hobby
Regards  Barbara

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Re: Looking for my great grandmother EMMA RICHARDSON (1853) as a child
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 31 January 16 16:42 GMT (UK) »
Where was Emma living when she married in 1877?
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