Leslie Owen King Gibson bc 1909 St Pancras

[louisa maud]

1881 RG11/2993 FOLIO 117 PAGE 37 Birmingham
Henry and Ann King, plus 8 children all born Birmingham and uncle Alfred Smallman
occ of Henry coal dealer

Need to go to next census

Louisa Maud

Death of an Ann 1882 aged 43 Birmingham

[louisa maud]

Found a death June qtr 1884 aged 42,
birth estimated 1839 on census
Is this him I wonder?
But then it doesn't give us Mabel's birth which is assumed to be 1885,
One of the children belonging to Henry and Ann were Emma Quilla, married I think 1891, this would reveal her father being alive or not
Perhaps this is barking completely up the wrong tree

Louisa Maud

[avm228]

It may well be a red herring (sorry) but Henry King + coal + having children about the right time was what made me think he was worth looking at if only to rule out.  He certainly seems to have been fertile!  Perhaps he had a girlfriend in Mortlake, or perhaps I am clutching at straws

[avm228]

The Henry in Birmingham is still alive in 1911.  I agree this doesn’t look a promising avenue.

[jonw65]

Any thoughts?
Cr

Yes
I wondered whether Mabel might leave her father's name blank, so anything is an improvement on that.
Age 23 for Mabel ties in with a birth circa 1885, as suggested.
13 Gaisford Street seems to have been a Gibson residence.
Henry King ties in with son being named Albert Harry and (maybe) doesn't rule out some faint connection to Maud Elizabeth's father (not sure, but poss a bit of mystery man?)
Director as in director, owner, even an engineer of some sort? The mine(s) may not necessarily be in the UK.
Pity Mabel won't feature in the 1921 census in case she changed her mind about Mortlake.
Find out where she was buried?

P.S. Yes, she could have made it all up!

[avm228]

More straw-clutching on my part: who is Janet du Cudray b abt 1879 Paddington, a nursechild with a Shepherd family in Willesden in 1881?

RG11/1364/108/37.

[avm228]

More straw-clutching on my part: who is Janet du Cudray b abt 1879 Paddington, a nursechild with a Shepherd family in Willesden in 1881?

RG11/1364/108/37.

Could be Jeanne du Coudray, mmn du Coudray, Jun qtr 1879 Marylebone.

If so she may have been an actress who emigrated to Australia in 1913 aged “29”.

[Cockneyrebel]

There was a Mabel King b q1 1886 at Lambeth, mmn Holbrook, at least Lambeth is in Surrey? Angélique du Coudray c. 1712 – 17 April 1794 was a famous  French midwife, perhaps Mabel's mother had a difficult birth?
Cr

[avm228]

There was a Mabel King b q1 1886 at Lambeth, mmn Holbrook, at least Lambeth is in Surrey.

Parents were Henry King (a cloth cutter/tailor) and Alice nee Holbrook, marr Shoreditch 1870.

Mabel (b Kennington) is still unmarried in 1911 with widowed mum Alice, in Tottenham.