Does anyone have any knowledge of the Beck family at 2, Devonshire Place, St Helier?
Thomas Beck was born in 1842 and married Emily Fillieul in February 1863. They had children and one of them was also Emily.
From the 1881 Census, Thomas Beck was a widower as a printer compositor. His daughter, Emily aged 17, two sons aged 10 and 5 as well as Thomas' mother in law, Elizabeth Fillieul, were in the house that night. Also, another resident was Myra Jones aged 4 listed as a 'lodger'.
There is a birth certificate made out in St. Helier for Myra Jones in 1876, being the daughter of Edwin Jones and Helen Hughes. Also in the baptism register for Myra, her godparents or sponsors were listed as Thomas Beck and daughter, Emily. A possible explanation for being a lodger in the Becks household in 1881. Did something happen to either or both, Edwin Jones and Helen Hughes? Don't think that they were Jersey residents.
Myra Jones was taken in by the Wright family at Longstone Hall in Derbyshire, taking on the Wright family name. It was such a taboo subject with my grandparents' generation. My grandmother was never able to find out the story of how she came into the family from her husband, being a 'brother' to Myra. My parents met another 'sister' of Myra when she was in her nineties. She made it quite clear to my parents that she was the youngest member of the family when born in 1873.
As far as people in the village of Great Longstone were concerned, she was a bonafide member of the Wright family.
I acknowledge that this is an exceedingly long shot to get to the bottom of the mystery associated with Myra Jones. My great grandparents obviously took her in as a member of the family in rather mysterious circumstances.
