Wilson family Rochford a A

[nannyj]

Her baptism is 2 Nov 1872 at St Mary the Virgin, Chelmsford.
Parents Josiah and Alice Gage.
Her birth registration is Oct/Nov/Dec 1871.
On all the census returns, her age corresponds with this.
So she would have been either just 16 at marriage or almost.
I wonder if she lied about her age to get married? One family tree suggests that the wedding was at a registry office - what does it say on her marriage certificate 1887.

The other weird bit is that I can’t find George James Wilson on the 1891 census. Alice is living with her parents, but it does say she’s married.

[Curly64]

Registry office in Islington on 15/10/87 — George Wilson ( no middle name) to Alice Emily Maud Gage BUT she signed as
Emily Gage and witnessed by her mother(?) Alice Gage
On my fathers wedding cert 20/10/1918 it has him living at Alderney place Mile End his father George James Wilson

[nannyj]

Yes. She seems to flirt between being called Alice and emily. Maybe she was called emily at home to save confusion between her and her mum?

[Curly64]

Her first born was also a Alice Emily born 1894 died 1895
My fathers birth cert shows he was born in Nicholas street Mile End .
Both my grandfather ( George)  and great grandfather (Thomas) are listed as horse dealers

[nannyj]

I’ve found George’s baptism 5/7/1857.
It’s in Lambourne which is near Chigwell row, which is what he puts as his place of birth.
Parents Thomas and ruth. Place of abode, the cabin, Dagenham forest.
He was baptised the same day as his sister Eliza, and doesn’t say twins, so he could be 1857 or a year or two older.

[nannyj]

Thomas was a labourer in 1857 but might have bec9me a horse dealer later. Checking the censuses now.

[Curly64]

FANTASTIC —thank you so much and I’m sorry that originally I asked for the wrong lineage of Wilson’s from Rochford — at least I now know my great grandfather was a Thomas
Must try to trace him and his family now we are on the right Wilson’s
Thanks a million

[nannyj]

Thomas’s father was also a Thomas. In 1841, it’s just thomas junior aged 15 with his dad Thomas.
They’re all agricultural labourers. I think it was 1851, they call it Wilson’s cabin, Dagenham forest!

[nannyj]

I’ll see what I can find. I found your tree on ancestry. You can add to it now 😊
I’m assuming you have traced the gages back from Alice/emily? And now you know she was actually 16 at marriage. I wonder where george Wilson was in 1891? That’s a mystery for us to solve now? The fact that they didn’t have children til 1894 and that she was living with her parents in 1891 seems odd.