Kate Green is not a direct ancestor of mine, but she has been bugging me for a long time. I have been looking at Ancestry to see if the free weekend might throw up a new lead, but no luck.
This is what I have. It's a complicated family of boatmen and watermen living between Stourport, Worcs, and Birmingham. They didn't seem to take much notice of civil registration, which doesn't help either. I have several members of the family living together as man and wife but no marriage to be found, and a good many illegitimate children as well.
1871 census, St. Thomas, Birmingham
Benjamin Preston head
Jane Preston wife (née Rowley, no marriage found)
Thomas Rowley son (Jane's illegitimate child)
Martha Preston daughter
Kate Green aged 2 niece b. Birmingham
1881 census, Hartlebury, Worcs.
William Corbett head
Jane Corbett wife (Jane Corbett, formerly Rowley, née Nott)
Edward Rowley stepson
Kate Green aged 12, granddaughter b. Birmingham
1891 census, Lower Mitton, Worcs.
Jane Corbett, head
Edward Rowley son
George Rowley son
Jane Preston daughter
Ernest Ball grandson
Kate Green aged 22, granddaughter b. Stourport, Worcs.
That's all the definite information I have.
There are various possible Kate Green births in the Birmingham area at the right sort of time. The best bet is a Kate Green born in Aston in 1868, mmn Rowley, but I can't identify a possible Rowley mother. If she is Jane senior's granddaughter and Jane junior's niece, it seems logical that her mother is one of Jane junior's sisters. The only possibility is Elizabeth Rowley b. 1842 in Lower Mitton but I can't find a Green-Rowley marriage (possibly they never married).
A Kate Green b. 1868 marries James Smith in Birmingham in 1888, but this can't be her since she is still single in 1891.
So I can't find a marriage, death or census entry after 1891.
Am I missing something really obvious, or is this another unsolveable mystery?
Thanks in advance
Bev