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I've lost somebody on two censuses; I spent ages looking yesterday, with no luck.
The lady in question is Phoebe Tarry, lacemaker, born Potterspury, Northamptonshire, c. 1825, daughter of Richard and Susannah Tarry.
According to the IGI (entries beginning with I, doesn't say whether they're submitted or extracted), she had 5 illegitimate children. Two of them died in their 1st year, and her mother seems to have brought up the others.
In 1851 Phoebe's still at home with widowed mother Susannah, various siblings, and Susannah's grandsons Richard and Edward, who are almost certainly Phoebe's children (I don't have any certs yet).
After that she disappears, to resurface in 1876 when, at the age of 51, she marries Joseph Church, a widower 10 years her junior with 2 young children, in Potterspury.
I'm curious to know where Phoebe was in 1861 and 1871. Her last illegitimate child, David, was born in the last quarter of 1861, but there's no sign of her on the 1861 census. I've tried everything I can think of - various spellings of Phoebe, with and without a surname, Tarry without a Christian name, no name at all but her approximate age and birthplace, and even checked the workhouse, but I can't find her at all.
This was a poor family - Susannah was listed as a pauper on various censuses, and Phoebe's brother George and his son were in the workhouse in 1891.
No-one in her family emigrated as far as I know; they mostly seem to have spent their lives in Potterspury, apart from the odd few who crossed the border to Bucks, and an adventurous family who went to London. I've followed her parents and siblings through the censuses, and she isn't with any of them.
Can anyone see anything I've missed?
1851 census: Class: HO107; Piece: 1737; Folio: 63; Page: 45
1881 census: Class: RG11; Piece: 1537; Folio: 74; Page: 28
The lady in question is Phoebe Tarry, lacemaker, born Potterspury, Northamptonshire, c. 1825, daughter of Richard and Susannah Tarry.
According to the IGI (entries beginning with I, doesn't say whether they're submitted or extracted), she had 5 illegitimate children. Two of them died in their 1st year, and her mother seems to have brought up the others.
In 1851 Phoebe's still at home with widowed mother Susannah, various siblings, and Susannah's grandsons Richard and Edward, who are almost certainly Phoebe's children (I don't have any certs yet).
After that she disappears, to resurface in 1876 when, at the age of 51, she marries Joseph Church, a widower 10 years her junior with 2 young children, in Potterspury.
I'm curious to know where Phoebe was in 1861 and 1871. Her last illegitimate child, David, was born in the last quarter of 1861, but there's no sign of her on the 1861 census. I've tried everything I can think of - various spellings of Phoebe, with and without a surname, Tarry without a Christian name, no name at all but her approximate age and birthplace, and even checked the workhouse, but I can't find her at all.
This was a poor family - Susannah was listed as a pauper on various censuses, and Phoebe's brother George and his son were in the workhouse in 1891.
No-one in her family emigrated as far as I know; they mostly seem to have spent their lives in Potterspury, apart from the odd few who crossed the border to Bucks, and an adventurous family who went to London. I've followed her parents and siblings through the censuses, and she isn't with any of them.
Can anyone see anything I've missed?
1851 census: Class: HO107; Piece: 1737; Folio: 63; Page: 45
1881 census: Class: RG11; Piece: 1537; Folio: 74; Page: 28
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