For about 20 years I have been trying to find out what happened to my granddad's aunt. She disappears from the records in 1901 and I am wondering if a new pair eyes might please help me crack it.
Emma Eliza Colman was born in Clapham, Surrey, in 1879.
Her parents were Alexander Colman and Jane Sarah Smith who married in 1878 and separated in 1886.
In the 1881 census she is with her family at The Bull's Head pub, 39 Rectory Grove, Clapham.
In the 1891 census she is with her family at 45 Belvoir Road, Dulwich, Camberwell, London.
In the 1901 census she is at 10 Ethelbert Terrace, Margate, Kent. She is with her mother and two boarders (her aunt by marriage Lilian Colman & Frances M. Graffon).
After this I have never found any trace of her.
Her mother Jane Sarah Smith|Colman died in 1910 and her death certificate show she was living with her son and died at The Albion pub, 155 Commercial Road, Peckham.
The Colman and Smith families had various burial plots at West Norwood Cemetery which they first used in the 1860s and family members including Emma's mother were buried there. If Emma had predeceased her mother between 1901 and 1910 I would have thought she would have been buried there too. She however is not there.
There is a 1915 marriage in Hampstead of an Emma Elizabeth Colman who was married to Richard James Adams, but this is not her as this Emma is younger and her father was Henry Colman.
If anyone is please able to help crack this mystery and find out what happened to her, I would be most grateful.
With thanks and best wishes,
Jon
