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"!
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"!
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