Searching for Mabel Boyd

[*Sandra*]

David Richard Boyd -

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1850-01-01/1899-12-31?basicsearch=david%20richard%20boyd&exactsearch=false&retrievecountrycounts=false

[Dundee]

The Essex born Mabel was only 20 when Dorothy was born, perhaps a bit young to be a boarding house keeper?

Debra 

[chris_49]

i just remembered that Boyd is a Scottish surname. There are 4 Mabel Boyds born there between 1869 and 1882 per Scotlandspeople

[chris_49]

i just remembered that Boyd is a Scottish surname. There are 4 Mabel Boyds born there between 1869 and 1882 per Scotlandspeople

OK one died and one wed but still two to investigate

[Johnsdaughter]

Gosh, I’m amazed at what you lovely people have discovered. If my Mabel is the one born in Forest Gate I certainly don’t need to look any further for info as you’ve done it all for me!

Interesting about Chester being mentioned on Dorothy Mabel’s baptism record as it is much closer to Oswestry. I guess she could have made that up as she didn’t want people to know who she was or where she came from. Sad to think that whoever she was, she had to give up her child.

Thank you everyone.

[Girl Guide]

This is totally off the wall but there is a Mary C Davies who is a boarding house keeper living in Chester in 1901.

5, Paradise Row, Chester, Cheshire

She is single, born 1854 in Llangollen, Denbighshire.

Registration district   Chester
Archive reference   RG13
Piece number   3372
Folio   90
Page   2

Interesting that her surname is the same as Thomas's!  Perhaps she was a cousin.  Distance between Llangollen and what I think is Thomas's birthplace of Wroxeter is only 36.5 miles.

Could that be where Mabel was staying and her occupation was put down as boarding house keeper as that was the occupation of the head of the household?  Pure speculation but something to bear in mind.

[Tickettyboo]

Another off the wall one :-)

Cheshire Directory 1902
Commercial listing for Chester has :
Boyd, Ellen (Mrs) apartments 11 Egerton St.

Not quite the same as a boarding house but its close so is another random thought.
1901 census shows the family (husband was Edward Boyd) at 11 Egerton St,  checking the GRO births for the children  MMN was Edwards, no sign of a Mabel being their daughter and I can account for all the children they said they'd had on the 1911 census (still at 11 Egerton St)

Boo

[Girl Guide]

We could go all round the houses with this, couldn't we Boo    The main problem is that Mabel's age when she had Dorothy is unknown.  If we had an age we may be able to narrow it down a bit.

[Tickettyboo]

We could go all round the houses with this, couldn't we Boo    The main problem is that Mabel's age when she had Dorothy is unknown.  If we had an age we may be able to narrow it down a bit.

Unfortunately yes, we could, and I am sure Johnsdaughter has too.

All we can do is find possible (no matter how tenuous) avenues to explore, but I get the feeling we are unlikely to get to the bottom of it.

Boo