I didn't know whether this counts as a 'Research Q & A' or not, but decided to post it here rather than on General.
I have just found a 2nd cousin 3 times removed (Olive Hannah Spreadbury) on the 1891 census. Her mother Rosetta (nee Tivers) died in 1883 aged 32 probably in childbirth as Olive's birth was registered the same quarter.
In 1891 census Olive's siblings are living with their widowed grandmother, Hannah Tivers, in Weybridge, Surrey next door to their father and their eldest brother.
Olive (aged 7) is living in Park Square East, Marylebone, listed as 'adopted daughter' of 70 year old William B Lewis (living on own means), his 41 year old Belgian born wife Alice, a sister-in-law Jane Bennett (born in Ireland) and lots of servants.
Is this usual for 'adopted daughter' to appear on a census? As far as I can see so far there are no family connections to the 'adoptive' family.
Why does it make me feel so uneasy for a 70 year old man with a wife 30 years younger and a houseful of servants to 'adopt' a small girl? Or am I just being silly?
I'd like your opinions please.
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Update: Olive is still with this family in 1901
I have just found a 2nd cousin 3 times removed (Olive Hannah Spreadbury) on the 1891 census. Her mother Rosetta (nee Tivers) died in 1883 aged 32 probably in childbirth as Olive's birth was registered the same quarter.
In 1891 census Olive's siblings are living with their widowed grandmother, Hannah Tivers, in Weybridge, Surrey next door to their father and their eldest brother.
Olive (aged 7) is living in Park Square East, Marylebone, listed as 'adopted daughter' of 70 year old William B Lewis (living on own means), his 41 year old Belgian born wife Alice, a sister-in-law Jane Bennett (born in Ireland) and lots of servants.
Is this usual for 'adopted daughter' to appear on a census? As far as I can see so far there are no family connections to the 'adoptive' family.
Why does it make me feel so uneasy for a 70 year old man with a wife 30 years younger and a houseful of servants to 'adopt' a small girl? Or am I just being silly?
I'd like your opinions please.
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Update: Olive is still with this family in 1901
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