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Author Topic: Jennie Mac Arthur and Benjamin Thomas m.1900 - Manchester  (Read 898 times)

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Re: Jennie Mac Arthur and Benjamin Thomas m.1900 - Manchester
« Reply #9 on: Monday 31 January 22 22:00 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks Monica, I'll take a look. I've not found anything that looks like possible death records so I will dive into this one and see.

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Re: Jennie Mac Arthur and Benjamin Thomas m.1900 - Manchester
« Reply #10 on: Monday 31 January 22 22:23 GMT (UK) »
The one in Cogan Street is listed as a wine merchant in 1891 and as a ship steward in 1881, but what looks like his daughter Jane/Jean is recorded there in the 1901 census with her older sister Margaret Richmond McArthur.
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Re: Jennie Mac Arthur and Benjamin Thomas m.1900 - Manchester
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 01 February 22 00:05 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Forfarian on Monday 31 January 22 22:23 GMT (UK)
The one in Cogan Street is listed as a wine merchant in 1891 and as a ship steward in 1881, but what looks like his daughter Jane/Jean is recorded there in the 1901 census with her older sister Margaret Richmond McArthur.

Yes, I really liked this one right up to the point she was still there in 1901! I am half clinging to the fantasy that she had run away pregnant the year before and her sister added her to the census even though she wasn't really there, but I know it is extremely unlikely and practically impossible to prove.
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