I’m still on the quest for our Caroline Hannah Kendall not to be confused with her mother Caroline Kendall nee Cook and to find out what happened to her.
She was born 7 August 1841 in Old North Street, Holborn just after the 1841 census that I have her parents and her half sister on.
Next she is spotted at 21 Minories with the family in 1851 - her father John dead, but another two siblings added my great grandfather a full sibling and another half sister Mary Ann and father’s cousin who is Mary Ann’s father it turns out.
Class: HO107; Piece: 1524; Folio: 201; Page: 51; GSU roll: 87858.
Her mother and her new husband Thomas Hall and my great grandfather is still found at 21 Minories on the 1861 census, older sister Eliza is married and living in Islington and baby Mary Ann has died, in fact when she was 18months old in 1852. Took me a long while to find this census great grandfather’s name is transcribed wrongly and Caroline had remarried but I searched in desperation for the address on FMP not expecting to see them at the same address.
Class: RG9; Piece: 210; Folio: 131; Page: 14; GSU roll: 542592.
Now we think this is our Caroline on the 1861 census - not far from the family home actually but across the city boundary. I’m sure it is.
Class: RG9; Piece: 227; Folio: 81; Page: 20; GSU roll: 542595.
This is where we lose her. We think she married a George Daniel Duff in Penge, Croydon in 1862 - FreeBMD 2a 318.
I have the marriage certificate and this Caroline has named her father John Kendall which was our Caroline’s father’s name. But the profession is dodgy it says ‘Gentleman’ !!!! Now John died when she was 7 years old and a Tailor so mmmmm...
It gets worse poor old George Daniel Duff died in 1865 in Croydon.
Never found any more trace of Caroline at all. Not a marriage, not a death, nothing.
Loads of Duffs being born in the Croydon area but there is another family of Duffs there - coincidentally another Caroline Kendall married to a George Duff.
I’ve looked on passenger lists - although I must say I find them confusing, I’ve looked at the NBI although the coverage is patchy.
Not a census to be had with her on, except one in Glasgow with a few children who I don’t think is her because all the children seem to have been born after Duff's death - I suppose they don't have to be his but why Glasgow unless she was leaving the country.
Sorry that was a long story but there you go.
What to do next? Where to look is there anything or can anyone suggest something?
She was born 7 August 1841 in Old North Street, Holborn just after the 1841 census that I have her parents and her half sister on.
Next she is spotted at 21 Minories with the family in 1851 - her father John dead, but another two siblings added my great grandfather a full sibling and another half sister Mary Ann and father’s cousin who is Mary Ann’s father it turns out.
Class: HO107; Piece: 1524; Folio: 201; Page: 51; GSU roll: 87858.
Her mother and her new husband Thomas Hall and my great grandfather is still found at 21 Minories on the 1861 census, older sister Eliza is married and living in Islington and baby Mary Ann has died, in fact when she was 18months old in 1852. Took me a long while to find this census great grandfather’s name is transcribed wrongly and Caroline had remarried but I searched in desperation for the address on FMP not expecting to see them at the same address.
Class: RG9; Piece: 210; Folio: 131; Page: 14; GSU roll: 542592.
Now we think this is our Caroline on the 1861 census - not far from the family home actually but across the city boundary. I’m sure it is.
Class: RG9; Piece: 227; Folio: 81; Page: 20; GSU roll: 542595.
This is where we lose her. We think she married a George Daniel Duff in Penge, Croydon in 1862 - FreeBMD 2a 318.
I have the marriage certificate and this Caroline has named her father John Kendall which was our Caroline’s father’s name. But the profession is dodgy it says ‘Gentleman’ !!!! Now John died when she was 7 years old and a Tailor so mmmmm...
It gets worse poor old George Daniel Duff died in 1865 in Croydon.
Never found any more trace of Caroline at all. Not a marriage, not a death, nothing.
Loads of Duffs being born in the Croydon area but there is another family of Duffs there - coincidentally another Caroline Kendall married to a George Duff.
I’ve looked on passenger lists - although I must say I find them confusing, I’ve looked at the NBI although the coverage is patchy.
Not a census to be had with her on, except one in Glasgow with a few children who I don’t think is her because all the children seem to have been born after Duff's death - I suppose they don't have to be his but why Glasgow unless she was leaving the country.
Sorry that was a long story but there you go.
What to do next? Where to look is there anything or can anyone suggest something?
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