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I read all the time about hitting the wall and I've certainly hit one now. My gggGrandfather was married and had 6 children. His wife died 7 days after childbirth of the 7th child in 1885 at the age of 32. In 1886 the youngest 2 children were baptised and on the baptism record the mother's name appears, it's not the same name as the mother who died! I thought maybe he'd remarried but at the 1891 census the family are lodgers in a neighbouring house and there is no woman, just the father and 5 of the children. He's disappeared by the 1901 census and the children have gone their separate ways, the father died in 1904. I'm at a loss what to do next so can anyone point me in the right direction. Please ? Or in fact should I not even try to fill in the blanks ? Any response would be appreciated
Possible for 1901, lodger with Badham family, Occupation Pipe cleaner elastic braid machines, b Loughborough
Piece 3008, Folio 183, Page 28
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