Help please to find missing daughter

[Dubonnet lady]

I've just got my grandfather's death cert. (George Gillett) It says the informant was his daughter: J. Jones.

From what records I have there isn't a daughter with the initial 'J'..... so working on the assumption one of the other daughters that I have got, married a Mr Jones - perhaps called James/John or whatever, I've hunted all through Findmypast to find a marriage between a female Gillett married to a Jones.

As his first child was born in 1898 - and there are children up to 1906, I started looking in 1920, with no success. Of course I realise there may be a daughter after 1906, but haven't found one.

Daughters - as far as I'm aware are
Nellie 1898 (found her marriage)
Lizzie 1901
Nora 1903 (think she may have died very early, as there's a son also born 1903)

Any help would be appreciated.
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Dorothy G

searching Gillett (Preston/Sheffield). Campbell and Hepburn in Glasgow

[Little Nell]

Dorothy

Have you got an address for J. Jones on the death cert? You could e-mail relevant library and ask if they could do a look up on electoral roll for you, which might reveal husband's name.

[Dubonnet lady]

Yes I have Nell, but don't know my way round Sheffield to establish which district it is in (I put the address up earlier today for which I received some great help).

I know the husband is a Jones, possible a J. and as I say I can't find any daughter Gillett marrying someone of that name. The family from what I can see of the records, didn't move around much away from the north of England.

[Little Nell]

Jones Births on Freebmd with Gillett as mother's maiden name

Dec 1912 Jones Frederick T Bedford 3b 468

Dec 1913 Jones Cyril P Ashton 8d 831

Dec 1920 Jones Frank G W. Ham 4a 19
Mar 1928 Jones Gladys R W.Ham 4a 180

Jun 1923 Jones Rowena M Ross 6a 815

Jun 1923 Jones Sidney H Reading 2c 682

Jun 1924 Jones Olive L Neath 11a 1815
Sep 1929 Jones Richard Neath 11a 1312

[Dubonnet lady]

Oh! Nell, I'm so embarrassed now! :o - that is very kind of you - but the mother's maiden name was Minor (Louisa) she married my gfather George Gillett in 1897 in Preston, Lancs.

[merleyone]

The only Gillett/Minor marriage on freebmd is that of George G to Louise M at Fylde, December 1897, 8e 974. I think Fylde may be the adjacent registration distrct to Preston but, no doubt, this is the marriage you refer to.
The only birth on freebmd of a Gillett child with the mothers maiden name as Minor, is that of Eleanor Gillett at Wortley (Yorkshire) in December 1912, 9c 705.
If this is a child of George and Louise, it might be that another child born at Wortley is also theirs, Jessie Gillett, Wortley, December 1910, 9c 353.

Merleyone

[Little Nell]

Dorothy

The mother was Minor, but the daughter who married Mr Jones (she is called J. Jones on Mr Gillett's death cert) was surely a Gillett before she married. It is her possible children that I have listed, not her mother's.

I just thought maybe one of the reg districts would ring a bell with you and then we could check for likely marriage of the parents.

[Olde Crone Holden]

I may be missing the point here as usual, but surely she has signed as "Mrs J Jones" as in "Mrs John (James/Jack/Joseph etc) Jones" as is correct on a formal occasion.

In other words, the initial J is not hers but her husband's.

OC

[Dubonnet lady]

Nell - again, I'm so sorry - I didn't realise that.

OCH - Well, I am also wondering that - as you say, that was the formal thing to do then........ nevertheless I can't find any daughter - so far that has married a Jones.

However if there is an Eleanor and possibly a Jessie as well Thankyou for finding that one Meryl - I must check that too. I wonder if there are any more ....... phew! Poor grandma! that's virtually one a year for 13 years!!

Thank you all very much for your input.

[Dubonnet lady]

Found her!!

Phew! It's Jessie Jones - thanks Meryl

But in the trawl have established that Grandma had 15 children - and Jessie didn't get married until she was 49! Hardly surprising she didn't fancy having any of her own!! :D

[Reeve]

Hi Dorothy G
Was browsing yesterday and found your reference to the Campbell Family via Hepburn dilemma.My daughter is a descendent of Alexander Campbell ,Father of Mary Gordon Campbell (Wilkie),Could we correspond re the Campbell side. Thanks and Regards Reeve