Recruitment pre WW1 ?

[kr236rk]

Margaret Nellie's baptism, April 1898: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-896W-FCWY?i=564

Thanks, I got all those.

[Spidermonkey]

I am struggling to see Margaret on the 1881 census - do you have her?

[kr236rk]

From what I know about Arthur he was a carpet layer and probably a carpenter as well, his appointment to an asylum is also something I would like to understand.

Is Reigate anywhere near Folkstone? There was a big army training camp, Shorncliffe, near Folkstone.

Thanks. 70 miles, so not really that close. I want to find out what took Arthur to Reigate / Kent before he met his Reigate wife. There's no logical link between his parental home in north London, and the 'Garden of England', that I can think of.

[kr236rk]

I am struggling to see Margaret on the 1881 census - do you have her?

Not yet. She would have been at her parent's home in 1881?

[Spidermonkey]

I am struggling to see Margaret on the 1881 census - do you have her?

Not yet. She would have been at her parent's home in 1881?

Should be.  The might some utterly mangled enumeration, but I can't find them just yet.

[kr236rk]

I am struggling to see Margaret on the 1881 census - do you have her?

Not yet. She would have been at her parent's home in 1881?

Should be.  The might some utterly mangled enumeration, but I can't find them just yet.

Thanks, I have her parents down as Thomas Humphrey and Charlotte Humphrey - maiden name unknown at present.

[Spidermonkey]

Charlotte's maiden name was Ford - if you have an Ancestry subs then you'll be able to see their marriage cert from Croydon.

[Spidermonkey]

Untangling the Humphries side - Thomas Humphrey (Margaret's father) dies in 1875.  Charlotte (Margaret's mother) remarries in 1877 to William James Lewis in St John's Church, Croydon.

[kr236rk]

Charlotte's maiden name was Ford - if you have an Ancestry subs then you'll be able to see their marriage cert from Croydon.

Found the transcript but not the certificate.

Name:   Charlotte Ford
Gender:   Female
Marriage Date:   20 Oct 1866
Marriage Place:   Croydon, Surrey, England
Father:   David Ford
Spouse:   Thomas Humphrey