My great aunt Norah (Hannah, Hanorah) Bradshaw was living in Canning Town in 1893 - according the catholic census 1893, found on FindMyPast. She was living with her son and her husband, who was a sailor.
There are two other women living with her. Ann(e) Williams and Margaret Barrington. Norah's maiden name was Williams and I'd hoped that Ann, having the same surname, would be able to lead me to Norah's father - the long-lost and still-not-identified John Williams.
Rootschatters did an amazing job of discovering loads of information about Norah, and at the time the thread was active I was certain I'd discovered the identities of both the other women.
In January this year I had a computer disaster. Some of my information was not backed up (just one more cr**py happening in the years 2020/2021)
I've gone back to the register of the 1893 catholic census and discovered that some of the information I'd followed may in fact be incorrect. The Margaret Barrington I'd identified as living at 56 Baron Street, Canning Town in 1911 was a widow from Limerick. However, looking at the register there is no cross under the "married" column. I'm not certain if this means Margaret had never been married or no longer had a living husband at the time of the census.
Ann Williams is still not identified to my satisfaction. I can see from the register that she was married at the time of the 1893 census and that she was over the age of 21 but that's about it.
Norah's mother was born in 1832 and her father in approx 1831 (his age calculated from his death certificate) Norah was born in 1865 so I've gone along the lines that Ann and/or Margaret might be an older relative and born around the 1830's or of a similar age to Norah, born in the 1860's.
The only thing that I can say with certainty is that they were born before 1872 and were catholic.
If anyone has any ideas how to positively identify these ladies I would be very grateful.
