Hi Kerry & Andrea
Margaret Dorman (nee Fenwick) was married to Jacob Dorman (my GG grandparents) and 4 of their children were born in Constantinople 1856-1863. So they don't seem to show up in 1851 or 61. They have been very difficult to trace. Apart from the births of their children they apparently left no trace. There is a probable sighting of Jacob in 1841 in Rotherhithe Surrey but nothing else so far
In 1871 the oldest son, Jacob, is in an Orphan Asylum for the children of deceased merchant seamen in Wanstead. Three of them are with their Aunt Eleanor Fenwick Miller in Stepney: Margaret 14, Robert 8, and Amy 7m
(I didn't know of Amy's existence until I saw this entry!).
I had assumed both parents had died but I have found a biography of a cousin (Florence Fenwick Milller) which mentions that her grandmother Margaret Fenwick lived in Brighton - and there is a death of a Margaret Ann Dorman Dec Q 1874 which I had previously discounted, not knowing of any connection to Brighton.
So if Margaret Dorman is not in London with her kids, and not in Brighton with her Ma, Where the Heck is she
Happy though about the will. The book mentions that Eleanor inherits money from her mother. I had checked previously, but not for a Fenwick in Brighton
Cheers, Jane
