Going back over 8 year old stuff as Ive recently received some photos of my Great Aunt (or Grand aunt) for the first time ever. However, now I am looking at the records I added back then, it doesnt make sense. Can anyone help here please.
Emily Ann Elizabeth Horstead was born in Rotherhithe, London in 1868 daughter of my GGP Edward Horstead and Emily Steers.
Now, I found Emily Horstead (mistransed as Emily Horstus) in Thetford, Norfolk in the working as a cook for a farmer
She marries a Frederick John Elinor - who I had presumed (!) was the Fred Elinor living in East Harling which is a stones throw from Thetford in Norfolk. HOWEVER
In AUGUST :( 1891 they marry in St George in the East - both give the same Wapping address. Frederick John Elinor gives age as 27 and occupation as shoemaker and father as John, deceased.
There is a bunch of baptisms in the Rotherhithe area for their children, all of whom, except one seems to die in infancy. Oddly, the same girl is baptised twice as Ellen Beatrice Elinor and then again in 1904 as just Beatrice Elinor. In 1901 Emily is working as a barmaid in a Rotherhithe pub and claiming she is a widow.
I cannot find a death for Fred Elinor but I did find a Fred Elinor living in suffolk about right age with a son, Fred junior born in Dorking, Surrey. Now, wrongly of me, I assumed this was the errant husband as I could find no other records to match. Remember this was when I first started, so forgive me.
Emily Elinor goes on to marry an Alexander Davies Cooper in 1916 but has children by him from 1911.
I would be grateful for any help tracking down Frederick John Elinor please as I cant even find a suitable 1864 birth for him.
Emily Ann Elizabeth Horstead was born in Rotherhithe, London in 1868 daughter of my GGP Edward Horstead and Emily Steers.
Now, I found Emily Horstead (mistransed as Emily Horstus) in Thetford, Norfolk in the working as a cook for a farmer
She marries a Frederick John Elinor - who I had presumed (!) was the Fred Elinor living in East Harling which is a stones throw from Thetford in Norfolk. HOWEVER
In AUGUST :( 1891 they marry in St George in the East - both give the same Wapping address. Frederick John Elinor gives age as 27 and occupation as shoemaker and father as John, deceased.
There is a bunch of baptisms in the Rotherhithe area for their children, all of whom, except one seems to die in infancy. Oddly, the same girl is baptised twice as Ellen Beatrice Elinor and then again in 1904 as just Beatrice Elinor. In 1901 Emily is working as a barmaid in a Rotherhithe pub and claiming she is a widow.
I cannot find a death for Fred Elinor but I did find a Fred Elinor living in suffolk about right age with a son, Fred junior born in Dorking, Surrey. Now, wrongly of me, I assumed this was the errant husband as I could find no other records to match. Remember this was when I first started, so forgive me.
Emily Elinor goes on to marry an Alexander Davies Cooper in 1916 but has children by him from 1911.
I would be grateful for any help tracking down Frederick John Elinor please as I cant even find a suitable 1864 birth for him.
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