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Re: To fill in the blanks or not?
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 01 March 22 11:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi LizzieL Ann Maria was born Reeves in 1853 and married William in 1873, she died 7 days after childbirth but I can't find any record of the baby. I always assumed it was the youngest daughter Esther but she was born in 1883 and I looked at the GRO records for proof of that. I have come up against bad handwriting, incredibly bad transcriptions and completely wrong details that I know are wrong. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to check out the information.
regards libby56

I found little George on GRO site. see reply #2 for website link. District Leicester mmn Reeves
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: To fill in the blanks or not?
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 01 March 22 13:00 GMT (UK) »
Thank you soooooo much!

I am now looking at the infant John Ward age 21 months buried with the Gamble family, if he was born in 1880 he can't be the son of William and Ann Maria because that year she had a son called Herbert. Thanks everyone I feel like I just got off the merry-go-round!  :)
Ward, Bentley, Reeves, Sharpe. Everett, Rowe.
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Re: To fill in the blanks or not?
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 01 March 22 13:53 GMT (UK) »
Birth reg, Leicester district , all mmn Reeves, all vol 7A

Harley Q1 1874 vol 7A p 287
Joseph Q2 1875   p250
William  Q3 1876    p 272
John Q3 1878   p 294
Herbert Q1 1880  p299
Elsie Maria Q3 1881  p278
Esther Q3 1883   p275
George  Q4 1885  p 280

Eight in total
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: To fill in the blanks or not?
« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 01 March 22 14:03 GMT (UK) »
Harley, Joseph, William and Herbert all baptised at same time on 1st March 1881  by Rev John Charles Crawford, no ages mentioned on baptism register. Address 38 Great Holme street.   Matches with family in 1881.
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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« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 01 March 22 14:05 GMT (UK) »
Elsie Maria bapt 31 Jan 1882, family at same address
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: To fill in the blanks or not?
« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 01 March 22 14:22 GMT (UK) »
Just to confuse matters there is another John Ward born in Leicester in 1878, registered in Q2. It looks like he is the son of John Ward and Anne nee King. Born in May baptised in June and buried in October 1878 age 5 months.

The John buried in June 1880 was aged 10 months, so he would have been born about Q3 1879 not 1878. Could wrong information been given (or recorded) at his death and he was actually 1 year and 10 months. That's the only way he could fit with the birth reg for John b  Q3 1878 with mmn Reeves
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: To fill in the blanks or not?
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 01 March 22 14:32 GMT (UK) »
Hey Lizzie! I'm just going through some records now! Was there reason for all this mis-spelling, bad handwriting and incorrect recording details? I assume no-one back then ever thought people like me would ever want to research their family. It drives me crazy sometimes but I keep forgetting that many people were illiterate so it didn't matter to them.
Thanks again, regards Libby
 
Ward, Bentley, Reeves, Sharpe. Everett, Rowe.
 Cox, Bulgin,

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Re: To fill in the blanks or not?
« Reply #25 on: Tuesday 01 March 22 18:51 GMT (UK) »

The John buried in June 1880 was aged 10 months, so he would have been born about Q3 1879 not 1878. Could wrong information been given (or recorded) at his death and he was actually 1 year and 10 months. That's the only way he could fit with the birth reg for John b  Q3 1878 with mmn Reeves

He was 21 months old when he died in 1880 according to Annie's reply #5.
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Re: To fill in the blanks or not?
« Reply #26 on: Tuesday 01 March 22 19:00 GMT (UK) »

The John buried in June 1880 was aged 10 months, so he would have been born about Q3 1879 not 1878. Could wrong information been given (or recorded) at his death and he was actually 1 year and 10 months. That's the only way he could fit with the birth reg for John b  Q3 1878 with mmn Reeves

He was 21 months old when he died in 1880 according to Annie's reply #5.

No, buried on June 21, aged 10 months.
Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
Kilner/Kilmer (Leic, Notts)
Greenfield (Liverpool)
Holyland (Anywhere and everywhere, also Holiland Holliland Hollyland)
Pryce/Price (Welshpool, Liverpool)
Rawson (Leicester)
Upton (Desford, Leics)
Partrick (Vera and George, Leicester)
Marshall (Westmorland, Cheshire/Leicester)