Could Sarah have been married before, so that Keen is her maiden name but she married under another surname??
My grandmother, on the beach, South Bay, Scarborough, undated photo (poss. 1929 or 1930)
Researching Cadd, Schofield, Cottrell in Lancashire, Buckinghamshire; Taylor, Park in Westmorland; Hayhurst in Yorkshire, Westmorland, Lancashire; Hughes, Roberts in Wales.
I can’t find a Potts or a Keen child to fit 1899 Shoreditch on the GRO website. There are no Potts at all and only 3 Keen but none has first or middle name of Joseph. Where did you find your reference?
I have searched 1897 - 1911 and found a large Potts family born in Shoreditch, 1 in Poplar and a curve ball in Sheffield. All have mms Keen but still no Joseph. That’s a lot of kids to have and get away with declaring a marriage if none existed. Perfectly possible though that the parents were consistent fibbers LOL I have one of those in my mother’s family. A brick wall for many years was her first born child, an illegitimate boy. Turns out he was the only legitimate one born to a marriage that nobody knew about. Her other three were the illegitimate ones and the claimed marriage never existed.
The census say born in Hackney Wick and Victoria Park, which is just down the road to Shoreditch, still can't find anything.
There is a marriage of a Sarah Ann Kyne in 1896 (was thinking she would only be 16, but could have remarried under her new name, but used her maiden name at other times.)
oh thanks or all that info , but sadly if she had a sister Brandford then she isn't my Sarah, unless thats her married name ?? her sister Jane married a Branchflower wonder if thats a mistake?
yes have her parents Samuel Edward Keen and Jane nee Nixon, another marriage I cannot find
Thanks very much am thrilled been looking for her for a long time, wonder if she did marry him , doesn't look like it.
Maud and Albert were twins , Sarah had twin Brothers, lost one of those two so may be asking for more help..
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