I have been searching for my partners grand mother in the 1921 census and she is not there. Alice Elizabeth Sands Thorpe was born in Nottingham 1898 her mother was Kate Thorpe, she was illegitimate. She was brought up by her grandfather George William Thorpe. In 1921 she married Percy Frederick May. She was living at 85 Southwold Mansions, Wildley Road Paddington.
I thought I would try looking at that address on the 1921 census, living at that address is a Percy Wilfred Brown (School teacher) aged 35 and a Betsy Brown formally Slack, wife, aged 22. There is also a daughter Joan Veronica Brown aged 11 born Isleworth Middlesex. Now Joan cannot be Betsy's daughter and Percy was not married before as far as I can tell. I have searched for Joan but there is no one of that name anywhere.
My partners father was always talking about a Mrs Brown who would visit his mother Alice, and Betsy was also born in Nottingham and they were a similar age.
How feasible is it that Alice is in fact Joan Veronica Brown? It just seems too much of a coincidence that I cannot find Alice in the 1921 census and yet she states when she marries in 1921 that she was living in the same address as the Browns. Any suggestions please.
