Being sure about common surnames

[Gwyn in Kent]

Can anyone offer advice please about establishing correct information when dealing with common surnames?

I think this may be the reference for ancestors in Southampton in 1851

HO107; Piece: 1669; Folio: 505; Page: 18

I am looking at the JONES family, headed by Geo(rge)

First problem is that my great grandmother Charlotte Alice is not shown, ...but a son Charles is named there....So is this my family?
I have a birth certificate for Charlotte Alice b.Nov 1846 in Southampton to George and Emily JONES (nee POWELL)
I have viewed parish records for St Marys, Southampton and have found no mention of a Charles.

Emily states in 1851 that she was born Durley, ...but I haven't found her in the parish register for Durley. The IGI shows the baptism of an Emily POWELL in Bishopstoke with father Mark ( as on POWELL= JONES marriage certificate) but is she 'my' Emily.?

Am I stuck or can I go back with any certainty?

[Orangeblossom]

re Emily - do you have the marriage cert? Does it show her father as Mark on there? Could be the right one.

When did Charlotte marry? I can't find any trace of her at all lol

[Gwyn in Kent]

Emily and George married in Southampton Register Office in 1845....have a copy of cert.
Her father was Mark POWELL, a labourer.
George's father was James JONES, a labourer.

Charlotte Alice JONES married William Charles SHEATH in St Marys Parish Church, Southampton in 1865.
I have never yet found her in 1861.

I have a death cert for an Emily JONES,in 1855 which hopefully is the correct one.She is 37 and wife of George, a labourer.

[Orangeblossom]

I'm struggling with this one... she doesn't appear to be anywhere!

It is possible Charles is Charlotte, but it does state one the census image that it's a male. Could be wrong, but who knows. Can't find any of them in 1861.

[Gwyn in Kent]

Thank you for looking Tracy.

These Hampshire JONES are more trouble than my Welsh ones !

[WendyPusey]

Have you tried SHEAF? There are many Sheaths and Sheafs here on the Island and around Southampton area and they are always getting muddled up.

[WendyPusey]

Could this be them in 1871

RG10; Piece: 1189; Folio: 101; Page: 33

[Gwyn in Kent]

Thank you Wendy.
Yes that is the correct family in 1871.
William Charles died in 1876 and by 1881 Charlotte had moved the family to Portsmouth, but I would have expected to find her still in Southampton area in 1861...but where?

I know what you mean about the SHEATH surname,in that area ... They are the equivalent of SMITHs elsewhere,in frequency.
I have some I o W ones 'waiting in the wings' to attach to my family, if ever I find a sure connection.

[Uncle John]

The discussion on another thread about recording siblings and their families has just proved very useful. I had one of OH's ancestors recorded in 1901 as a boarder with a family whose surname meant nothing to me. He married a year later in the same area. Until 2 days ago I had no idea who these people were but thanks to a One World Tree on Ancestry I've discovered they are his wife-to-be's eldest sister and her family.

[Gwyn in Kent]

Thank you for your thoughts Uncle John.
It is indeed very useful to look at 'the bigger picture' and so then possibly link extra people into the family group.
I have a whole collection of 'siblings' waiting for William Charles' father, Henry, if only I could prove his parentage.......
This family are so full of difficulties when researching.