Hello,
This is one that has stumped me for a while, I’ve revisited it from time to time but without any success.
It concerns Juliana Hinks, born 31st March 1867, in Alton Ashover, Derbyshire to parents Stephen and Ann Hinks (nee Clay). Juliana was the eldest of 2 daughters, her younger sister Sarah Ann was born in Feb 1869.
Her baptismal record shows her as Juliana Eliza Hincks, although this middle name is not shown on her birth certificate.
In 1871, aged 4 she appears on the UK census as Julianna E Hinks, living with her paternal grandparents in Essington, Staffordshire. Her parents have separated, the father, a coal miner, has emigrated to Pennsylvania, USA, her mother is living with the Clay family in Wingfield, Derbyshire, younger sister Sarah doesn’t seem to appear anywhere on the 1871 census.
At that point Juliana disappears and I’ve not been able to trace any record of her subsequent existence on either UK or US census’, no marriage or death record, or on passenger lists.
Juliana’s mother Ann subsequently dies of smallpox, her father Stephen remains in the USA and has a new family there. Sarah reappears in 1881 living with the Clay family – I’ve traced Sarah’s descendants through to the 1950’s, but there is no sign of Juliana.
Any suggestions or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
