Robert and Harriet haskins Blunsden St Andrew 1891

[queenswood 1]

i have a conundrum.

In 1881 I have Harriet King (aged 24)  with her husband John King at GloucesterStreet Swindon.

In 1891 I have Harriet Haskins (age 35) living at Blunsden St Andrew with her husband Robert Haskins (aged 71) and 3 stepchildren to robert- Lucy King (, Blanche King (6) and Elizabeth King (age 2).

Harriet King married Robert Haskins in 1890 at Highworth so presumably John King died between 1888 and 1890.

Robert Haskins then died in 1893 March Q at Highworth- aged 74.

However I find Harriet in 1901 still at Blunsden St Andrew (aged 43 and a laundress) with no husband listed but 3 more children- Edith Haskins aged 6 registered June 1894), Harriet Haskins aged 4 and Rose K Haskins aged 1.

How can this be- how can I find out who the father of Edith, Harriet and Rose were?

Edith Haskins married in March q 1915 Swindon- would it be possible to see who she stated as her father at the time of her wedding?

All a bit confusing!!

Harriet King/Haskins then married again in 1914 to George Beechey and died in 1951 at the grand age of 83.

Suggestions as to what was happening here would be so helpful!

Thank you.

[Capetown]

GRO Index

KING, Lucy Anne (no mother's maiden name given, which usually means she's not married)
GRO Refence: 1882 J Quarter in Highworth Volume 05A Page 7

KING, Blanche (no mother's maiden name given)
GRO Reference: 1884 J Quarter in Highworth Volume 05A Page 10

KING, Elizabeth (no mother's maiden name given)
GRO Reference: 1889 J Quarter in Highworth Volume 05A Page 2

1891 Census, Blunsdon St Andrew

Robert HASKINS - 71 - Retired Market Gardener - born Wilts, Stanton Fitzwarren
Harriet - 35 - born Wilts Blunsdon
Lucy Anne KING - step-dau - 8 - born Blunsdon
Blanch KING - 6 - born Blunsdon
Elizabeth KING  - 2 - born Blunsdon


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There is a Public Members Tree on Ancestry and when Harriet marries Robert HASKINS, it says her names on Family Search is: Harriet Ann KING.

The tree on Ancestry gives her on the 1881 census

Berkshire, Shellingford, District 1, Page 7 of 15

at Holme Farm, working for Benjamin Sharpe

Harriet Ann KING, aged 22, Domestic, born Wiltshire, Broad Blunsdon

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Another tree on Ancestry

Harriet Ann KING, birth 23 December 1858, Broad Blunsdon, Wiltshire
Death: April 1938, Cricklade Wiltshire

Baptism:

20 March 1859 - Stratton St Margaret, Wiltshire England

parents: Robert JENNER 1816-1882 and Elizabeth KING 1818-1906

1875 - birth of Son, William Charles KING - 12 December 1875, Stratton, Wiltshire
(1875-1942)

[Capetown]

Working from the Public Members Tree - on Ancestry

Baptism at Stratton Union Workhouse

Harriet Ann KING, mother Elizabeth KING (Spinster) 20 March 1859

and Harriet's son......

1881 Census, Highworht, Broad Blunsdon

Village

Elizabeth KING - Head - unmarried, aged 66 Agricultural labourer, born Wiltshire Blunsdon
William KING - Grandson - age 5, Scholar, born Wiltshire, Stratton.

[queenswood 1]

Thank you! That has put me on the right track- but still does not advuise me who the father was tho the 3 later children Edith, harriet and Rose 'Haskins' as shown with their mother Harriet after the death of Robert Haskins in 1893!

seems like Harriet King was quite a girl!
Caroline

[Capetown]

The father's name might be on the birth certificates!!!

Seems John KING aged 25 on the 1881 census was from Leicester - Ladies Cap Maker and was Harriet (may be a family connection)!!

What happened to John KING  ??



GRO Index

KING, William (no mother's maiden name)

GRO Reference: 1875 D Quarter in HIGHWORTH Volume 05A Page 7

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Are you sure the 1881 Harriet in Swindon is the same one? Just ask as there's also a Harriet Ann King b Broad Blundsden c1859 working in Shellingford as a servant. Given the King children appear from the GRO index to be illegitimate I wonder if there's some confusion here, particularly as the Swindon Kings have a son born in Warwick, and GRO suggest two potentials, neither of which have mmn King

[queenswood 1]

Yes i am beginning to think that harriet king had her first 3 children illegitimately and that my 1881 info was the wrong harriet. Thank you all so much for pointing me in the right direction. It would also explain possibly why her 3 children born after 1893 have been given her late husbands surname for the sake of respectability maybe. 

[Annette7]

Her youngest 3 children would have been registered as Haskins as that was their mothers legal surname.

Annette

[queenswood 1]

Yes they were registeredas haskins but having followed harriett through the censuses and events through bmd the three children were born after her husband died. It is very complex as her husband was twice her age. Dont worry about it any more as i am gradually working it out.
Thank you for your help.