Your thoughts on this would be appreciated.
Birth cert:
Herbert George Purvey
14 December 1897, Queen Charlottes Hospital, Marylebone Road.
Herbert George. Mother: Emily Purvey, cook, domestic, of Fulham.
Informant, E. Purvey, mother, 23 Dieppe Street, West Kensington, 18th December 1897. No father named.
1901
1 Turneville/Furneville [?] Road, Fulham [3 rooms]
Donald Fraser 33 [1868] electric light labourer Scotland
Ellen J Fraser 36 wife b. Gloucestershire Northleach
Herbert G Purvey 3 nephew b. London Marylebone
I want to trace Herbert’s mother Emily Purvey.
Ellen J. Fraser was born Ellen Jane Panter. I am fairly certain she was illegitimate. Her mother Ann was 2nd wife of my gt X 2 grandfather John Purvey, and Ellen is called Purvey on 1881 census, even though she is living away from home. She reverted to Panter for her marriage to Donald Fraser.
So, methinks Herbert must be a son of one of Ellen’s stepsisters or half-sisters, but none of them is called Emily.
I have found an Emily Purvey in 1891
1891 census
Kingscote, Gloucestershire
Emily Purvey Age: 19 1872 Servant scullery maid Born: Chedworth, Gloucestershire
This would fit, as John Purvey was also born Chedworth, and I can see that Emily might well graduate from scullery maid (1891 census occupation) to cook (Herbert’s birth cert).
But I can’t see a candidate who could be Emily in previous censuses and I can’t tie her into Ellen Panter/Purvey/Fraser. Nor can I find a likely Emily Purvey baptism.
John and Ann Panter did have a daughter called Amelia which is sometimes muddled with Emily, except that Amelia was dead by 1889.
Ideas, please?
Birth cert:
Herbert George Purvey
14 December 1897, Queen Charlottes Hospital, Marylebone Road.
Herbert George. Mother: Emily Purvey, cook, domestic, of Fulham.
Informant, E. Purvey, mother, 23 Dieppe Street, West Kensington, 18th December 1897. No father named.
1901
1 Turneville/Furneville [?] Road, Fulham [3 rooms]
Donald Fraser 33 [1868] electric light labourer Scotland
Ellen J Fraser 36 wife b. Gloucestershire Northleach
Herbert G Purvey 3 nephew b. London Marylebone
I want to trace Herbert’s mother Emily Purvey.
Ellen J. Fraser was born Ellen Jane Panter. I am fairly certain she was illegitimate. Her mother Ann was 2nd wife of my gt X 2 grandfather John Purvey, and Ellen is called Purvey on 1881 census, even though she is living away from home. She reverted to Panter for her marriage to Donald Fraser.
So, methinks Herbert must be a son of one of Ellen’s stepsisters or half-sisters, but none of them is called Emily.
I have found an Emily Purvey in 1891
1891 census
Kingscote, Gloucestershire
Emily Purvey Age: 19 1872 Servant scullery maid Born: Chedworth, Gloucestershire
This would fit, as John Purvey was also born Chedworth, and I can see that Emily might well graduate from scullery maid (1891 census occupation) to cook (Herbert’s birth cert).
But I can’t see a candidate who could be Emily in previous censuses and I can’t tie her into Ellen Panter/Purvey/Fraser. Nor can I find a likely Emily Purvey baptism.
John and Ann Panter did have a daughter called Amelia which is sometimes muddled with Emily, except that Amelia was dead by 1889.
Ideas, please?
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