Baby Annie Jones 1911 who is she .& why crossed out ?

[brigidmac]

Hello
Ive had another look at 1911
Birkenhead census for my grandfather and his family

Its quite a messy family & totally mistranscribed on ancestry as elder brother George Jones is head of household and  *his sister appears as his daughter
The 2nd line has his mother Maria nee Smith down as having been married 28 years and having 8 children 7 living 1 dead

She had 2 children with her first husband Joseph LEA  and 7 with her second husband Abiah JONES who is staying nearby in 1911
There is a line thru those figures and across a sentence which i think was "separated for ...x ? years

There are also crossing outs and rewritings to get her childrens professions correct .
  The youngest of  my grandfathers brothers is aged 10

Under him is Annie Jones No age given
Her name is then crossed out .
Does this mean she was a baby ? Did she die ?
Could she have belonged to one if the jones elder siblings ?

Any ideas ...?I.d like your theories .?

[rosie99]

Under him is Annie Jones No age given
Her name is then crossed out .
Does this mean she was a baby ? Did she die ?
Could she have belonged to one if the jones elder siblings ?

I think she has died and that is why she is crossed out - Also check the children who have died against her.

[brigidmac]

All the other children  from this 2nd marriage are on that census
And a half sister .

BUT  if she was a baby and Maria and Abiah JONES had been separated for several years it does leave question of who was father .

We know great grandmother  Maria as a very staid no nonsense old lady its very hard to imagine her having a fling aged 51

[rosie99]

Have you confirmed the numbers regarding children of the marriage for Maria that lived/died

[brigidmac]

She is listed as daughter to head of house which would be George  aged 22 single grocers assistant

But as there are so.many other mistakes on the page its a bit of a mystery .

She could also be a child of the elder Jones half siblings
David Abiah JONES aged 25
Mabel Rebecca or Helen who were in their 30.s

[tazzie]

I think Rosie meant she died as a baby.
The 1911 census was the first to ask how many children to the marriage. Annie could have been born any  time during the marriage not necessarily since the 1901 census.

Tazzie

[brigidmac]

We havent come across a baby that died before .grandad always said he had 5 brothers George Jo Ewert William &Arthur  and 1 sister Winifred .
He had 2 older sisters on his mothers side Lizzie and Henrietta LEA they didnt use the Jones surname .
The older brother on his fathers side grew up with him and was in army by1899 and married in 1911.with a babyof his own  born
Dec 1911

[brigidmac]

Tazzie thanks for that suggestion ...so you mean people may have put their deceased children on tbe census hence not giving an age ?

[BenRalph]

Tazzie thanks for that suggestion ...so you mean people may have put their deceased children on tbe census hence not giving an age ?

One of my direct ancestors listed every child they had in their marriage in age order. Next to about 4 were 'died'. It was very helpful as I had no idea about some of them.