I'm trying to sort out a mystery lady in OH's tree who appears with the same husband and children in several censuses but swaps between being Charlotte (born in Tunbridge, Kent) and Harriot (born Hastings, Sussex) and back again.
The husband is John Lonsdale b. Maidstone about 1823. I can't find his marriage at all. These are the census details:
1851 - HO107/1508 John and HARRIOT (b.Tunbridge) plus 4 children were living at 10 Princes Street, London; he's a labourer
1861 - RG9/169 John and CHARLOTTE (b.Hastings)plus 6 children living at 11 Little Wild Street, London; he's a stable man
1871 - RG10/345 CHARLOTTE(b.Hastings) now a widow is living at 23 Little Wild Street London with 5 children
1881 - RG11/438 HARRIET (b.Tunbridge) is staying with her daughter Mary who married John Chappell
In the IGI I can find all the London-born children's baptisms with parents John and Charlotte Lonsdale. There are no children in the right place and time for a John and Harriet Lonsdale. The eldest 3 children were born in Kent and their baptisms don't seem to be on the IGI.
I have daughter Anne's birth certificate that gives her mother as Charlotte Lonsdale formerly Tonkin.
Finally I have her death certificate from 1891 where she is Harriet widow of John Henry Lonsdale. The informant is her daughter Anne, under her married name, and described as her daughter.
So, is it the same person? The thing that confuses me is the way she changes her place of birth to match her name.
Does anybody have any ideas??
The husband is John Lonsdale b. Maidstone about 1823. I can't find his marriage at all. These are the census details:
1851 - HO107/1508 John and HARRIOT (b.Tunbridge) plus 4 children were living at 10 Princes Street, London; he's a labourer
1861 - RG9/169 John and CHARLOTTE (b.Hastings)plus 6 children living at 11 Little Wild Street, London; he's a stable man
1871 - RG10/345 CHARLOTTE(b.Hastings) now a widow is living at 23 Little Wild Street London with 5 children
1881 - RG11/438 HARRIET (b.Tunbridge) is staying with her daughter Mary who married John Chappell
In the IGI I can find all the London-born children's baptisms with parents John and Charlotte Lonsdale. There are no children in the right place and time for a John and Harriet Lonsdale. The eldest 3 children were born in Kent and their baptisms don't seem to be on the IGI.
I have daughter Anne's birth certificate that gives her mother as Charlotte Lonsdale formerly Tonkin.
Finally I have her death certificate from 1891 where she is Harriet widow of John Henry Lonsdale. The informant is her daughter Anne, under her married name, and described as her daughter.
So, is it the same person? The thing that confuses me is the way she changes her place of birth to match her name.
Does anybody have any ideas??
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