Please can anyone find this lady in 1901?

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Lavinia McCall (nee Brooks) was born in 1853 in Nailsea, Somerset.

From the 1861 census onwards she lived in St Helens, Lancashire. Her place of birth varies a lot on the census - Somerset - Gloucestershire - St Helens

In 1901 she may well have been a widow as there is a likely death for her husband, Robert McCall (b abt 1849 in Liverpool, a glass blower) in Prestwich district in Q1.

As far as I know she only had two children and they are both accounted for in 1901, so she might be alone.

Can anyone see her???

[WendyPusey]

Sorry Merry, can't find her.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Thanks for looking Wendy

[samesizedfeet]

There's a Lavina Newall living in Toxteth born Gloucs

She has two children with her though - Flora and Alexandra

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

There's a Lavina Newall living in Toxteth born Gloucs

She has two children with her though - Flora and Alexandra

Thanks for that one, Zoe.......but she is there in 1891 too.......

[samesizedfeet]

Boooooo

[chrissiebee]

Sorry, Merry. I can't find her either. I stuck in the basic name of Lavinia, two years either side of her est. birth year, and still have come up with nowt. How maddening. Do you know for sure that she didn't pre-decease her hubby?

Chris

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Her great-nephew says she was supposed to have lived into old age.

The trouble with the name Lavinia is that the first vowel is often mistranscribed, which isn't very helpful when Ancestry insist on the first three letters being entered! In 1881 she is recorded as Charlotte! pmsl!!

This is Ancestry's effort so far.....

Levinia Brook (1861)
Lavinia McColl (1871)
Charlotte Mc Call (1881)
Levenia McCobb (1891)

[Christine in Herts]

I had a look for her, too, using shortened detailand wildcards, but without any success, I'm afraid.

The trouble is that there's even a risk of her first letter being mistranscribed... especially if it's like the one I reported recently, where a middle initial had been picked up as a first letter of the surname, because it was very adjacent. Do you know many people with the surname EDZILBERT, but whose parents have the surname GILBERT?

Christine

[Olde Crone Holden]

Christine

Yes, I got very cross yesterday looking for my Timothy and finding him as Simothy.

OK, the T did look a BIT like an S, but would have made his son called Shomas and all the people on the page would have been living in Srent Serrace.

Sorry Merry, off to look for your Sounia.

OC

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

My contact says he thinks the 1900 death reg might be fore someone else. In which case the other missing person is Robert McCall b abt 1849 in Liverpool. Occ Glass blower.

[Mary from Italy]

I've had a look, but no luck so far.

There is a widowed Charlotte Mc Call in Cheltenham, but she's born in Brompton and has a daughter Frances born in Scotland, so I assume she's irrelevant.

[Northern Light]

Well I looked for hours yesterday and came up with zilch. I'll take another look later but I,m not holding my breath lol..

I would have expected Robert to be still fairly local to St Helens as thats where the Pilkington Glass works is but he could have changed jobs I suppose.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Thanks for looking..............

I did a search on TNA 1901 for :

Robert
No surname
Male
born 1849 +/-10
born in Lancashire
occ Glass*

then the same, but born in Liverpool, in case they'd missed off the county.

So, he either changed jobs, has his birth details or first name wrong or is dead, or was missed off the census.

I'm tending towards being missed off the census at the mo!

[Raven]

Merry that happened to me with one of my Scottish lot.... He was missed off the Census on Ancestry but I did find him on Scotland's People.

[Mary from Italy]

I found Charlotte Mc Call by searching on the 1901 census site, which sometimes pays dividends because their transcriptions are much better than Ancestry's, but I didn't find anything for Robert or Lavinia.

[Christine in Herts]

Are there any Local society sites with census transcriptions for the area?

I know that there are some such around - particularly useful for unfilmed records.

Christine

[BigShaz McCreadie]

I've had a look, but no luck so far.

There is a widowed Charlotte Mc Call in Cheltenham, but she's born in Brompton and has a daughter Frances born in Scotland, so I assume she's irrelevant.

This one really was a Charlotte and was married to a Frederick McCall

I was looking yesterday too Merry and am afraid I had about as much luck as everyone else will have another wee try in a bit.