Morning everyone
I would be really grateful if you would give me your advice and tell me where you would look next. I have been stuck on this for months and was hoping my latest find was the answer but this latest death cert only provided me with more confusion and not answers.
My Great Grandfather Edward John Hall stated on his WWI service records that he was born in the year 1878, but the London England School admissions and discharges shows 7 Feb 1883, his marriage cert and census up until 1911 would also appear to put him around 1883 as well.
His marriage cert states Henry Lofthouse Hall as his father, but, I do not believe he is. I applied for a birth cert for a Edward Hall with the father Henry Hall from 1878 to 1883 for the area Bloomsbury which is what he states on the census returns as his place of birth and nothing.
When I tracked down the burial record for Henry Lofthouse Hall (died 24 Dec 1901), he is buried with a Mary Ann Lofthouse Hall AKA Hampson. I applied for Mary Ann's death cert and it arrived last week. She died 13 June 1923 in Tooting Bec Mental Hospital and in the surname column it says Mary Ann Lofthouse Hall or Hampson and in the Occupation column it says 6 Linver Road, Fulham wife of James Hampson. I am confused.
Now a while ago, I had found a birth record and census for a Michael Hampson which matched my Great Grandfathers brother Michael, with a mother Mary Ann Mcgee and father James Hampson in Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland with the same dob as I found on the school records and I was leaning towards this being the Mary Ann and Michael I was looking for.
I didn't expect Mary Ann's death cert to show she was still the wife of James Hampson but I had always thought Mary Ann and Henry were never married because I could find no trace of a marriage record. The birth I found for Michael made me wonder if Henry was also not the father of Edward. I checked BMD records for the years 1878-1884 and found 13 Edward Hampson records but none for Bloomsbury. I have also ran searches for births for Edward Hampson with a mother Mary Mcgee and father James Hampson and I am still coming up blank.
The earliest census I find Henry and Mary is 1891. Henry was married previously to a Louisa Poulain De Bois Angers and she died July 1882 and therefore I think this also leads me to believe Louisa and Henry was not Edward's parents either.
I have to be missing something somewhere, just not sure if it is staring me in the face and I am overlooking it or I am looking totally in the wrong place.
I would appreciate some guidance.
I would be really grateful if you would give me your advice and tell me where you would look next. I have been stuck on this for months and was hoping my latest find was the answer but this latest death cert only provided me with more confusion and not answers.
My Great Grandfather Edward John Hall stated on his WWI service records that he was born in the year 1878, but the London England School admissions and discharges shows 7 Feb 1883, his marriage cert and census up until 1911 would also appear to put him around 1883 as well.
His marriage cert states Henry Lofthouse Hall as his father, but, I do not believe he is. I applied for a birth cert for a Edward Hall with the father Henry Hall from 1878 to 1883 for the area Bloomsbury which is what he states on the census returns as his place of birth and nothing.
When I tracked down the burial record for Henry Lofthouse Hall (died 24 Dec 1901), he is buried with a Mary Ann Lofthouse Hall AKA Hampson. I applied for Mary Ann's death cert and it arrived last week. She died 13 June 1923 in Tooting Bec Mental Hospital and in the surname column it says Mary Ann Lofthouse Hall or Hampson and in the Occupation column it says 6 Linver Road, Fulham wife of James Hampson. I am confused.
Now a while ago, I had found a birth record and census for a Michael Hampson which matched my Great Grandfathers brother Michael, with a mother Mary Ann Mcgee and father James Hampson in Greenock, Renfrew, Scotland with the same dob as I found on the school records and I was leaning towards this being the Mary Ann and Michael I was looking for.
I didn't expect Mary Ann's death cert to show she was still the wife of James Hampson but I had always thought Mary Ann and Henry were never married because I could find no trace of a marriage record. The birth I found for Michael made me wonder if Henry was also not the father of Edward. I checked BMD records for the years 1878-1884 and found 13 Edward Hampson records but none for Bloomsbury. I have also ran searches for births for Edward Hampson with a mother Mary Mcgee and father James Hampson and I am still coming up blank.
The earliest census I find Henry and Mary is 1891. Henry was married previously to a Louisa Poulain De Bois Angers and she died July 1882 and therefore I think this also leads me to believe Louisa and Henry was not Edward's parents either.
I have to be missing something somewhere, just not sure if it is staring me in the face and I am overlooking it or I am looking totally in the wrong place.
I would appreciate some guidance.
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