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Can Anyone Help Me Find More Information On This Person
« on: Tuesday 02 October 18 18:48 BST (UK) »
I am looking for more information on an adopted child back in 1905. He was a little boy and I believe he was African. He was adopted by the Wilkes family and his birth was registered in 1905 in the Wandsworth district as Sylvester Emmanuel Ohene Kwamina Quarde Wilkes. I presume his original name was Emmanuel Ohene Kwamina Quarde and was adopted at birth. But what confuses me he must have been given his original name prior to him being registered as Sylvester Wilkes. I can trace him at 6 years old in the 1911 census as Sylvester Wilkes but after that I am unable to find anything more on him until his death in 1981. He lived in Friern Barnet, Hendon and his death was registered under the name Sylvester Ohene Quarde so it looks like he may have reverted to his original surname. I have tried all names and I am unable to find him on electoral lists. It is quite sad that there is no trace of marriage etc. I think of him as a lost soul. Is there any family out there? Can anyone help please x

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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 02 October 18 19:04 BST (UK) »
Hi
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He seems to be on the 1939 register, transcribed as Sylvester O Quards an inmate in Friern hospital, Southgate.
Cathy
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http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/06d83b45-54bf-4244-bbc6-eccfe489101f  or more info
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 02 October 18 21:15 BST (UK) »
Friern Hospital (aka Colney Hatch) was formerly the County Asylum. Details here ...
https://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/friern.html

You may want to get the death certificate first, to find out whether he died actually in the Hospital, or whether he just lived in that area.

If he was institutionalised there, he would probably not have had a vote, which may explain why you can’t find him in the electoral rolls.

Patient records for Friern are held at London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) in series H12/CH/B. For the period after about 1917 they are closed to public access, for privacy reasons, under the 100-year rule. LMA staff may be able to extract the details of this person if you ask them to do so, but this is a costly process (£80.00/hour).

You can email them here ...
ask.lma (AT) cityoflondon.gov.uk

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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 02 October 18 22:47 BST (UK) »
If you don't already have his birth cert, then you shoud obtain a copy from the GRO as a pdf for £6

It would have been highly irregular for a registrar to register the birth of a child to adults that were not his birth parents.

The law for registering births was established way back in 1837.

Looking at the GRO website which has its own index now, the mothers maiden surname is given as Sackett.

Adoption didn't become a legal process in England & Wales until 1927.

A possible scenario is that one of the Wilkes daughters found herself pregnant and her parents brought up the child in their family.


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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 02 October 18 23:02 BST (UK) »
Looking at the 1901 census, Sarah Ann Wilkes is already widowed at the age of 33, it is not impossible to suggest that Sylvester was actually her son and the result of a liason.

Or the son of 17 year Gwendoline.

You really should get the birth cert.
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 02 October 18 23:20 BST (UK) »
Mr O K Quarde departed Southampton for Accra, Ghana 12 June 1904 (co-incidence?)
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 02 October 18 23:28 BST (UK) »
Mr O K Quarde departed Southampton for Accra, Ghana 12 June 1904 (co-incidence?)

Another sighting:

Mr O K Quarde, 33, solicitor living in British West Africa, left Liverpool for Accra on 7 January 1914.

Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 02 October 18 23:33 BST (UK) »
There seems to be a photo of an Ohene Kwesi Quarde b 1881 in an online tree on Ancestry, but it is set to private.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 02 October 18 23:36 BST (UK) »
Mother’s maiden name is Sackett on the 1905 birth reg of Sylvester Emmanuel Ohene Kwamina Wilkes.

(sorry dawnsh - I see you already had that)
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)