Waldron help

[looby_lou83]

Oooo it’s getting intriguing. I’ll have to look into it a bit more tomorrow. Thanks for your help so far it’s really appreciated.

[avm228]

Hi,

I wonder about this birth

William Renfred Lavis WEEKS    Sep Q 1874    Launceston    5c  27
mmn:  WILLIAMS

William R L Weeks born May 1874 was admitted 02 Sep 1879 to Sydenham Damerel school. 

Previous school attended: S Petherwin.

Parents: William & Eliza Weeks.

He left in July 1880 (“left the parish”).

[heywood]

1881 2278/138/15

William Weeks 7 yrs is boarding with John and Patience Tucker  in South Petherwin.

[avm228]

1881 2278/138/15

William Weeks 7 yrs is boarding with John and Patience Tucker  in South Petherwin.

Nice find.  Patience’s birthplace is Lifton (c1838), so some connection with Eliza?

[looby_lou83]

Maybe this is the 2nd family bit my nan had heard about. It’s very strange and a few coincidences.

[heywood]

1881 2278/138/15

William Weeks 7 yrs is boarding with John and Patience Tucker  in South Petherwin.

Nice find.  Patience’s birthplace is Lifton (c1838), so some connection with Eliza?

1851 1884/243/3

Patience Williams 13yrs b Lifton with parents William and Elizabeth and several siblings including sister, Eliza 5yrs.

*there is also a P W b Lifton 11 yrs as niece to Jane Sprague 1851 1884/229/14

1861 1510/6/5

Patience Williams 23yrs b Ashwater is a servant in Ashwater

1862 marriage Plymouth
Patience Williams and John Kingslan are on the same page

1871 marriage Plymouth
Patience Kingslan and John Tucker are on the same page.

[avm228]

OK excellent - so Eliza had William in 1874 with the mysterious William Weeks, and boarded him with her married sister Patience Tucker while she worked in service.

Things I am wondering about:

Who was William Weeks (did he even exist?) and are the child’s unusual middle names clues to his identity?

Who was Phillis/Phyllis A. L. Tucker b Launceston abt 1873-4, also living with the Tuckers (as granddaughter in 1881; niece in 1891) - is this another child of Eliza’s?  Just can’t place her at the moment.  I especially want to know if the initial L is for Lavis

[heywood]

Wow - a bit complicated but ...

Birth
March 1874 Launceston vol 5c pg 26
Ada Felis Tucker Lawrence    mmn Williams

Marriage
September 1901 Newton Abbot 5b 201
Ada Phyllis Lawrence and John George Hewitt

Which Williams is mother to Ada Phyllis?

Lawrence has been mentioned earlier as an alternative to Lavis.

[avm228]

The 1939 Census shows his dob as ? ? 1871.  Very unhelpful.

One thing I forgot to mention is that on his marriage certificate he is down as a widower as well. 

His date of death is April 1944 too if that’s of help? One of the certificates I have for him has his name as William Renford Lawrence Waldron.

This makes Ada/Phyllis’s birth surname of Lawrence especially interesting.