Joan Wickstead (1921-1941?) No trace

[elinor14]

Sometimes it's possible to get an inkling of a redacted name if there are any "tails" of letters ( such as g, j, p, q or y) spilling over on to the line below.

Hi! I've tried but it well and truly covers all of it

[lancsann]

She may not have been on the 1939 register at all. As a girl aged 18 at the start of the war she may have joined one of the services before 29th September and her name would not then be recorded.

[lancsann]

a possibility?

1939
Name:   Joan Hughes
[Joan Morris] - (married name)
Gender:   Female
Marital Status:   Single
Birth Date:   6 Feb 1921
Residence Year:   1939
Address:   18
Residence Place:   Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales
Occupation:   House maid
Schedule Number:   101
Sub Schedule Number:   3
Enumeration District:   ZKJD
Registration district:   621 3
Household Members:   
Name
Baden Powell
Elsie Powell
Joan Hughes

I cant see a birth for a Joan Hughes in Mar qtr 1921 that looks likely as they were all in London

edit:- possibly not as on her marriage to Robert Morris she gives her father's surname as Powell

[LizzieL]

Did she have siblings?. I can see several Wickstead children with mmn Sheridan a little older than Joan. If her siblings, who looked after them?

[LizzieL]

How do we know she was born in 1921? If she was registered in Q1 1921, she might have been born in December 1920.

[elinor14]

Thank you all so much for the help,
Joan had 6 siblings:
Bertha Sheridan (1907-1973)
Thomas Sheridan (1909-1994)
Samuel Wickstead (1911-1912)
John Wickstead (1914-1914)
Edward Wickstead (1915-1934)
Ernest Wickstead (1918-1990)
However as Samuel and John died as infants, and Edward and Ernest were placed in an orphanage, whilst Thomas was in the navy and Bertha had her own family to look after, she wasn't placed in their care. We have spoken to Bertha's family about it and they didn't know what had happened to Joan, but my uncle Thomas recalled that she came to visit in the late 30s when he was a child.

[chempat]

Suggest you get her birth certificate for exact date of birth to help in identification.

[Tall Al]

Hi,

Another possibility?

A Joan Wickstead married Michael D Jones in Birmingham in June Qtr 1961 (see Free BMD). Subsequently a death of a Joan Jones (date of birth 3 Feb 1921) in Jan 1987 in Dudley, West Midlands.

Worth investigating?

Alan

[elinor14]

Hello everyone! Thank you for your help, upon searching for a Joan Hughes I've found a death in 1945 which matches her age and registers her address as 126 Smithdown Road, which is Sefton General Hospital. So sadly it seems that she died at the age of 24, and must have changed her surname to that of her guardian, Rachel Hughes (her aunt). I'm going to keep searching but unfortunately I have a feeling that this is her.