Oh the tedium!

[Little Nell]

Trying to find maiden name of William Purvey's wife Ellen. She is aged 28 in 1891 and 34 in 1901 so born between abt 1863 and 1867, in Northleach, Glos.

No Northleach baptisms that late on IGI, there are oodles of Ellens in census and in GRO birth indices between those dates.

I am slowly going through them all and matching them to Jun q 1886, which is when William married (of course there's another couple on the same page of the marriages, but Ellen is absent).

It is so tedious, and all the time I'm thinking "maybe Ellen was a middle name" or "perhaps she was a widow"!

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

There's no obvious Ellen mispost:

GARDINER Ellen Stroud 6a 616

CLISSOLD Isabella Ellen Stroud 6a 565

Unless the retyped GRO pages have an error in them!

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

And those two both have even numbers of men and women on their pages :(

[Little Nell]

Annoying, isn't it! I don't want to buy a flipping cert and I don't know for sure where they married, though first child was born Pitchcombe. I guess I can look through parish registers when I next go to LDS in London, but I thought it would be easy. Should have realised, after all William's sister is Ellen (my gt grandma) and he also had a stepsister called Ellen.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Q2 1886 is only about 96% complete :o

Family relatives would probably be able to help you, but I'm not giving them any more of my money!! lol

[Jean and Tonic]

while you're both online .... Nell and Merry ......

The Durham/Northumberland/cumberland Bishops' transcripts are great ..... for me.

Do you know if any other counties are on line?

Jean

[Little Nell]

No, quite right. I've only got another 17 Ellens to go through and then I might get desperate!

Thanks for your help, Merry.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

Do you know if any other counties are on line?

Jean

Do you mean BT's in particular rather than PR's??

I've no idea!! lol

[Jean and Tonic]

sorry the B.T images ...... I know there's a few for Cheshire ......but I was wondering why Durham is so well covered online......I know we are the land of the Prince bishops .....lol....but it's so well covered.

[Little Nell]

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none of the umptyzillion names I checked was right so I've forked out for a sub on familyrelatives and she's Ellen Tye which is not a name in the GRO birth indexes or on censuses, so off to check her out, pesky woman!

[Little Nell]

The lying cow! She was born 1860! No wonder I couldn't find her.

Tough luck, I am going to put her correct age in my family tree. What a madam!

[Little Nell]

1861 and 71 she is born in Farmington, then 1881 she decides its Northleach!

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

lol! Glad to see you Tyed her down! pmsl!!

[Little Nell]

Merry! lol!

Now trying to find all the other gaps I have in tree that I can use up rest of payperview subs I've just shelled out for!

[Cherry Too]

Farmington and Northleach are quite close to each other. I wonder if she was baptised at Northleach, sorry just thinking aloud.

CherryToo

[Little Nell]

Cherry

She has a brother born after her in Northleach. Who knows! I don't think our ancestors were as bothered about being exact as we are! Thanks for your thoughts.