Here’s the parallel thread:
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=804845.0
The Stanhope St address, as has been pointed out, was not a single family home (far from it) but occupied as tenements. I think most if not all of the old houses there were demolished in the 20th century. Harriet may have found a way to pay her own rent for her room(s), or she may have had it paid for by the man or men who fathered her children. “Sigmun” Murray, the mercantile traveller in jewellery who fathered daughter Eva in 1890, may have been a short-term or long-term fixture in her life, but there isn’t yet any evidence that they all lived together as a family.
Quite right, and that's what I say to the descendants who tell this story : Sigmun DANIELS, "bought" an identity and became Henry Murrey or Murray. Though he is said to be a carpenter on the 1895 birth certificate he worked in the diamond business and may be died in Singapore.At first I did not believe at all in this Sigmun(d) until we found the 1891 birth certificate with a Sigmun Murray as the father.I asked the descendants to gather any bit of data concerning all this and I am waiting for their answer.
I also searched the Singapore press , with the link given on the thread but found nothing .
I agree that there may have been different fathers for Harriett's children.
