litterell family

[meganjayne]

can anybody help me please i have the following from the 1851 worcestershire census.
tallow hill area.#
mary litterell head 74
ellen litterell dau 40
mary hadley ? 21
charles litterell 7
jane litterell 7
walter evans nephew 11
i have no idea the relationship of mary hadley or the twins to mary or ellen
i cannot find any of the litterells on any other census.
any help at all would be very gratefully recieved.
thank you: :

[Christine in Herts]

With a name like that, they're very likely to be mis-transcribed.

Have you tried such things as searching for Liter*, or using Soundex?

Christine

[Olde Crone Holden]

Meganjayne

It looks as if Charles, Walter Jane are Ellen's children and Mary's grandchildren:

Mary, 70 widow, laundress
Ellen 40 unmarried daughter
Charles, son aged 17
Jane daughter 7
Walter son 11
Mary Hartley visitor married aged 21.

Also not entirely sure the name is Littrell! Possibly should be Littell or Little.

OC

[Glen in Tinsel Knickers]

Freebmd only has one instance of the surname on an "all types" search, there must be some weird transcription error somewhere.

[Christine in Herts]

In Ancestry they are transcribed as LITTRELL.

That's a fair interpretation, but, looking at the image it could also be LITHELL.

Christine

[Olde Crone Holden]

I too have looked at the image and I am NOT seeing Walter Evans, nephew, I am seeing Walter Littrell, son!

OC

[Christine in Herts]

There are 7 hits in 1851 for LITTRELL - and not many more for LITHELL

Neither name shows up in 1861 (as transcribed), nor 1871.

It does look as if you'll need to search for combinations of the first names plus ages., and places of birth.

Christine

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

I can do you a birth reg for Walter Cottrell in Q1 1841 and one for Jane Cotterell in 1844, both in Worcester District.

It's not helping much though.............

[meganjayne]

thank you everybody. i can clear up a couple of points.
walter was an evans, his mother was a mary [litterall, lythall[ i have it spelt both ways.
she died and he went to live with his aunt his mothers married name was evans,he had moved to birmingham by the time he got married.but i cannot find what happened to any of the rest of the family.