I have my 3 x great aunt Ellen Wilkinson b 1838 Tollesbury, Essex on ’41 and ’51 censuses with her parents and then she disappears and returns married to an Edward Robert Henning b c1834 Germany.
1871 census:
Edward R Henning 35 b Germany
Ellen Henning 33 b Tollesbury,Essex
Gerhart Ed Henning or Geohart 11 b Cape of…Hope, South Africa (Assume ..Good Hope)
Florence S Henning 8 Mountnessing, Essex
Robert John Henning 4 Shenfield, Essex
I cannot find Gerhart Ed? on any other censuses but I came across this on 1911 census:
Name: Edward Henning
Age in 1911: 48
Estimated birth year: abt 1863
Birth Place: Tollesbury, Essex, England
Married to Edith with two children. They married in 1903 Tonbridge, Kent.
Occupation Cape colony pensioner – Colonial Forces.
Tollesbury was such a small village at the time and my Wilkinson's lived there for several generations - surely this cannot be a coincidence???
I think he must have travelled back to South Africa before 1881 and returned to England before his marriage in 1903 but cannot see him on any passenger lists. I do not have World Ancestry to check.
I also found this baptism in Grahamstown, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa for a Johan Edward Henning with parents Edward Robert and Ellen 1859
bap Johan Edward Henning 2 1859.jpg
I think the CM must be the Cape Mounted Rifles.
I did browse the baptisms to see if there were any further births but by 1862 they were back in England for daughter Florence's birth.
I cannot see a marriage for Ellen Wilkinson and Edward Robert Henning and wonder if they married in South Africa. How/why on earth did she travel there! Again I cannot see any passenger lists for her.
Although Edward gives his birth year as abt 1863 on the 1911 census his death reg has him b 1859
I have Henning Hennig, Hemming and a Hanning for the various births and marriages of their children.
Can anyone find something I may be missing ?
1871 census:
Edward R Henning 35 b Germany
Ellen Henning 33 b Tollesbury,Essex
Gerhart Ed Henning or Geohart 11 b Cape of…Hope, South Africa (Assume ..Good Hope)
Florence S Henning 8 Mountnessing, Essex
Robert John Henning 4 Shenfield, Essex
I cannot find Gerhart Ed? on any other censuses but I came across this on 1911 census:
Name: Edward Henning
Age in 1911: 48
Estimated birth year: abt 1863
Birth Place: Tollesbury, Essex, England
Married to Edith with two children. They married in 1903 Tonbridge, Kent.
Occupation Cape colony pensioner – Colonial Forces.
Tollesbury was such a small village at the time and my Wilkinson's lived there for several generations - surely this cannot be a coincidence???
I think he must have travelled back to South Africa before 1881 and returned to England before his marriage in 1903 but cannot see him on any passenger lists. I do not have World Ancestry to check.
I also found this baptism in Grahamstown, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa for a Johan Edward Henning with parents Edward Robert and Ellen 1859
bap Johan Edward Henning 2 1859.jpg
I think the CM must be the Cape Mounted Rifles.
I did browse the baptisms to see if there were any further births but by 1862 they were back in England for daughter Florence's birth.
I cannot see a marriage for Ellen Wilkinson and Edward Robert Henning and wonder if they married in South Africa. How/why on earth did she travel there! Again I cannot see any passenger lists for her.
Although Edward gives his birth year as abt 1863 on the 1911 census his death reg has him b 1859
I have Henning Hennig, Hemming and a Hanning for the various births and marriages of their children.
Can anyone find something I may be missing ?
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