I have come across another mystery here in Leicester. I have been examining the Beadsworth family who moved into the town in the early 1800s. I have found one useful source to be the burial indexes for Welford Road cemetery where many of the family ended up.
Joseph Beadsworth married Margaret Ann Goddard in September 1862 and produced 13 children of which 7 died in infancy.
Margaret's father William was a butcher, living in East Bond Street. He died aged 35 years in April 1853. He was buried in Section L Plot 298 of the cemetery. It is one of the other occupants who caused this mystery. As well as Catherine, William's mother in law and John, William's father in law, there are Kate and Joseph, two Joseph and Margaret's infant children.
The sixth occupant is the curiosity. John Thomas Tilley aged 8 months died in East Bond Street and was buried on April 25th 1854. His birth certificate shows that he was the illegitimate son of Ann Tilley who was residing in the Leicester Union Workhouse at the time of his birth.
I have many members of the Tilley family in my database but I cannot place Ann in any censuses or bmd indexes.
Any thoughts would be helpful
Alan
