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Offline Silvercup

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Where did Sophia Roffey go?
« on: Monday 10 January 22 22:33 GMT (UK) »
Sophia ROFFEY, born 1844 in Bermondsey to George William and Eliza.

I see her on the 1851 census with her parents (mistranscribed as Raffay) but can't find her after that.

other siblings are with the parents in 1861. I can't find a plausible death record, marriage record or on the census.

Help!


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Re: Where did Sophia Roffey go?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 10 January 22 22:42 GMT (UK) »
She could well have been out on her own at 17 working and her name has been mistranscribed.

Can look for just her first name with birth place and year in 1861 to see if any likely options come up.
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Re: Where did Sophia Roffey go?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 11 January 22 08:50 GMT (UK) »
Thanks. I've looked extensively on the census but can't see her. But even without that you'd think there'd be a marriage or death. She just disappears!

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Re: Where did Sophia Roffey go?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 11 January 22 09:33 GMT (UK) »
She's a bit of a mystery, isn't she?.
She doesn't seem to feature as a witness on any of her siblings' marriage records. She doesn't have a middle name she could have used instead of Sophia.

Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Where did Sophia Roffey go?
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 11 January 22 20:27 GMT (UK) »
Emigrated, maybe?
Bev
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Re: Where did Sophia Roffey go?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 12 January 22 10:53 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: bevj on Tuesday 11 January 22 20:27 GMT (UK)
Emigrated, maybe?
Bev

I wouldn't have thought so...she would have been awfully young to have emigrated before the 1861 census. I haven't seen any other emigration in this family and they were very poor - the younger siblings in and out of the workhouse through the 1860s. I can't imagine that there would be the funds for that?
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