....is proving very difficult.
Her name was Ann or Annie, wife of Charles Carr and she appears on the census as following..
1871 aged 24 born St Pancras
1881 aged 32 born St Lukes
1891 aged 42 born St Lukes
1901 aged 50 born St Lukes
Her daughter's birth certificate gives her maiden name as Strachan. She had the following children - Elizabeth in 1866, Annie Margaret in 1867, Charles Alexander in 1870, William John in 1875, Ellen Harriet in 1878, Frederick Elias in 1881 and Alice Ruth in 1888.
There doesn't appear to be a marriage for Charles and Ann or a birth certificate for Ann or Charles and I can't yet find a baptism for Ann. I am certain she doesn't appear on the 1861 census but then there is a lot of London missing.
In 1881, there appears a 'grandmother' in the household - Ellen Strong aged 73 born St Lukes. I'm sure she isn't a relation of Charles' family who I have been able to identify on census. My theory is that she is actually Ann's mother and that Strong is a rendering of Strawn, a common pronunciation of Strachan.
There is this family on the 1851 census in Grays Inn Lane (Pancras)
Alexander Strachan hd 49 optical glass grinder journeyman born in the City
Helen wife 44 b Clerkenwell
Margaret dau 19 milliner b St Lukes
Henry son 17 journeyman butcher b St Lukes
Alexander son 14 errand boy b St Lukes
William son 12 b Shoreditch
Nancy 3 b Whitechapel
John 1 b St Pancras.
I have the baptisms for the elder four children on the census. I think Nancy is probably my Ann. There is a marriage for an Alexander Strong and an Eleanor Jenkins Ford in 1831 in St Lukes and Eleanor was baptised at St Lukes in 1809. Alexander dies in Clerkenwell in 1870 and Eleanor is the informant and Eleanor dies in 1886 in Islington Infirmary so no related informant.
The names of my Ann's children suggest to me that I have the right family - has anyone got any advice or suggestions if they've managed to read this far.
Her name was Ann or Annie, wife of Charles Carr and she appears on the census as following..
1871 aged 24 born St Pancras
1881 aged 32 born St Lukes
1891 aged 42 born St Lukes
1901 aged 50 born St Lukes
Her daughter's birth certificate gives her maiden name as Strachan. She had the following children - Elizabeth in 1866, Annie Margaret in 1867, Charles Alexander in 1870, William John in 1875, Ellen Harriet in 1878, Frederick Elias in 1881 and Alice Ruth in 1888.
There doesn't appear to be a marriage for Charles and Ann or a birth certificate for Ann or Charles and I can't yet find a baptism for Ann. I am certain she doesn't appear on the 1861 census but then there is a lot of London missing.
In 1881, there appears a 'grandmother' in the household - Ellen Strong aged 73 born St Lukes. I'm sure she isn't a relation of Charles' family who I have been able to identify on census. My theory is that she is actually Ann's mother and that Strong is a rendering of Strawn, a common pronunciation of Strachan.
There is this family on the 1851 census in Grays Inn Lane (Pancras)
Alexander Strachan hd 49 optical glass grinder journeyman born in the City
Helen wife 44 b Clerkenwell
Margaret dau 19 milliner b St Lukes
Henry son 17 journeyman butcher b St Lukes
Alexander son 14 errand boy b St Lukes
William son 12 b Shoreditch
Nancy 3 b Whitechapel
John 1 b St Pancras.
I have the baptisms for the elder four children on the census. I think Nancy is probably my Ann. There is a marriage for an Alexander Strong and an Eleanor Jenkins Ford in 1831 in St Lukes and Eleanor was baptised at St Lukes in 1809. Alexander dies in Clerkenwell in 1870 and Eleanor is the informant and Eleanor dies in 1886 in Islington Infirmary so no related informant.
The names of my Ann's children suggest to me that I have the right family - has anyone got any advice or suggestions if they've managed to read this far.
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