I've just received the marriage cert for Charlotte Searle and Frederick Cheeseman dated 29 June 1901 at the Register Office in Pancras, London. Both living at 72 Judd Street. Frederick is there on the 1901 census (transcribed as Chessman on ancestry) but where is Charlotte? She gives her age as 20 on the marriage cert but it doesn't have details of who gave their consent. (Marriage was by certificate.) Her father is William Searle (deceased), a mechanical engineer. (On her second marriage cert his occupation is engineer's fitter.) Witnesses were D Anderson - who is also living at 72 Judd Street on the census - and John Reddy. There is a Charlotte Hopkins age 23 born Islington at 72 Judd Street but no Charlotte Searle. I thought I had found my Charlotte as a visitor with the Wordley family in Clapham - she is about the right age, 19, born Middlesex Teddington, but looking for her on the 1891 the only one I could find is this one:
RG12; Piece: 618; Folio 104; Page 105
but her age is given as 5. It looks as though the enumerator was filling in the sheet column by column instead of row by row, put all the ages for the household in wrong and then corrected them by writing the correct ages on top, then either he or somebody else wrote the ages in the next column. It does say 5 for Charlotte there, but it looks to me as though her age was originally corrected to 9. Does anybody else think so? In which case, she can't be the right Charlotte because her father is George T (and his marriage reg is in the name of George Thomas Searle so he wasn't just going by a false name on the census to confuse me!)
So can anybody find the right Charlotte on any census, please? And / or can anybody help me rule out that Charlotte Hopkins?
I should add that I have no idea where "my" Charlotte was born.
RG12; Piece: 618; Folio 104; Page 105
but her age is given as 5. It looks as though the enumerator was filling in the sheet column by column instead of row by row, put all the ages for the household in wrong and then corrected them by writing the correct ages on top, then either he or somebody else wrote the ages in the next column. It does say 5 for Charlotte there, but it looks to me as though her age was originally corrected to 9. Does anybody else think so? In which case, she can't be the right Charlotte because her father is George T (and his marriage reg is in the name of George Thomas Searle so he wasn't just going by a false name on the census to confuse me!)
So can anybody find the right Charlotte on any census, please? And / or can anybody help me rule out that Charlotte Hopkins?
I should add that I have no idea where "my" Charlotte was born.
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