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  • A challenge for the weekend!

    You can find Linda Lanning on the 1891 census, with parents Thomas Charles & Mary Jane as well as 5 siblings.

    But where is she in 1901? Both parents died shortly after the census, but the family remained together.

    Cyber champagne for anyone who finds her.

    This challenge was originally set on GR, when nobody ever did succeed.

    She is there: I have seen the entry.

    The only clue I will give is that on GR's transcription for 1901 (and I hope on Ancestry's!), neither fore nor surname begins with L.

    Once you have found her, you will know it is the correct entry.

    Good luck!
    Phoenix - with charred feathers
    Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.

  • #2
    no clues as the where she was born then?...or when?
    Jess

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    • #3
      Jess - Linda Doris Lanning b.1890 Southwark (BMD Index)

      When you say the family are together, I asume Linda is with them?
      Vikki -
      Researching Titchmarsh and Tushingham

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      • #4
        small crowd in 1891 so its minus mum and dad

        Charles H Lanning 5
        Elisa J Lanning 7
        Emma L Lanning 12
        Harold J Lanning 11
        Linda D Lanning 8/12
        Mary J Lanning 37 xx
        Thomas C Lanning 39 xx
        Thomas E Lanning 4

        BTW 1891 they all say born LONDON
        (she marries in Camberwell in 1914)
        Jess

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        • #5
          Harold James Lanning born 1880 St Saviours Southwark (BMD)

          so at least 2 born in the same place
          Vikki -
          Researching Titchmarsh and Tushingham

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          • #6
            .and presumably when we find them ( or whe 'whoever' finds them) it is going to be a stupid transcription
            Jess

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            • #7
              Jess, they are certainly easier to find if you use microfilm rather than Ancestry, but not impossible with online resources if you use a little lateral thinking.
              Phoenix - with charred feathers
              Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.

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              • #8
                Charles looks like he's aged 15 on the image...

                Later: silly me, I mean the image from 1891
                Last edited by Cool Blue; 25-01-08, 17:12.
                To boldly go where no genealogist has gone before....

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                • #9
                  Phoenix

                  You mean you haven't been altruistic and submitted a correction to Ancestry? Shame on you!
                  ~ with love from Little Nell~
                  Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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                  • #10
                    Nell, because I'm a cheapskate, I can't access 1901 Ancestry. All I can look at is GR (which I must confessed has me utterly foxed, ever since GR "improved" it!)
                    However, I think she is correctly transcribed on Ancestry, it's just the Enumerator who was having a bad day.
                    Believe me, her cousin Florence, in the same Enumeration District, is a bigger challenge, as she seems to have changed name and sex and aged 7 years.
                    Phoenix - with charred feathers
                    Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.

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                    • #11
                      give us a clue - which of the aforementioned is head of household in 1901?
                      Jess

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                      • #12
                        I tried the obvious things - Slanning, Tanning, Sanning....
                        ~ with love from Little Nell~
                        Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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                        • #13
                          Sorry, FRC won't let me access FTF, so couldn't reply until today.

                          Although we didn't have this information when we found the entry, Granny, who was a Lanning by birth, brought up the family. Thomas Charles' mother had died when he was a small boy (as had Mary Jane's father) and his will specifically charged his mother in law to make a home for the children.

                          Mary Jane was the daughter of John Wall and Mary Lanning, who married in 1848.

                          Mary Wall bounces back & forth across the Thames during her early years, but in 1881 she is in Southwark, with her daughter, Emma and appears to have remained south of the river for the rest of her life.
                          Phoenix - with charred feathers
                          Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.

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