Ann Elizabeth Latham (1866-1948) married Charles Linford (1865-1942) in their home town, Birmingham, in July 1884. By 1897 they had 5 children.
However, by 1900 Ann had produced a daughter, Annie Elizabeth (20 Feb 1900) sired by one Joseph Perkins, another Birmingham resident. By 1905 Ann Elizabeth and Joseph were living together in Sheffield, where on 8 March 1905 she produced another of Joseph’s children, this time a son, John William (1905-1997). On 18 May 1909 Ann Elizabeth produced a third seemingly illegitimate child whose birth she registered as Doris Perkins Linford, still in Sheffield but this time without a father’s name on the certificate.
Meanwhile in 1898 Charles Linford had married a widow, Elizabeth Jane Parsons, nee Jones, who appears with him in 1911.
By 1921 Ann Elizabeth appears to be back in Birmingham, where she is recorded as E Annie Linford (65), once more wife of Charles, alongside daughter Doris, born Sheffield 1909. She is definitely Charles’s first wife because the 1939 Register of England and Wales records the couple as living in Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire, naming her as Annie E Linford and quoting her correct date of birth.
We have been unable to identify a death record for Elizabeth Jane Jones Linford or any further information on Joseph Perkins.
Please can anyone help to solve this puzzle?
