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  • Help with Olivia Melvina Newbury Janaway / January / Shannon?

    Hello,

    If anyone has any thoughts on this, they would be most gratefully received.


    Florence Georgina Gordon Kerr, my great great grandmother, was born in India on the 11th January 1878.
    Her birth certificate says her parents were Thomas & Olivia Kerr and Thomas was a Color Srgt in the 1/14th Regiment.

    They had three other daughters (all born India) -
    Edith Elizabeth in 1872
    Alice Sophia in 1874
    Margaret Louisa in 1877

    At the time of the 1881 census, the family are living in Paisley, Scotland.


    Olivia died in Paisley on January 21st 1882 age 30, so born c1852.
    The death certificate gives these details:
    Name - Olivia Newbury Kerr
    Father - James Janaway / January, Barracks Srgt. (dec)
    Mother - Sophia Ann Janaway / January formerly Abbott


    I have been able to find what I think is Olivia's birth certificate -

    Oliva Melvina Newbury January
    Born 21 August 1851 Kingstown (this is St Vincent, West Indies)
    Parents - James and Sophia January.
    Occupation of James - Private.


    I have been unable to find anything else to help with this family. However, I have now come across this on the FamilySearch Beta site:

    Marriage details of Olivia Meskell:
    birth:1852
    parents:Henry Shannon
    spouse:Thomas Kerr
    marriage:20 May 1871 — Cawnpore, Bengal, India
    record title:India Marriages, 1792-1948
    groom's name:Thomas Kerr
    groom's birth date:1840
    groom's age:31
    bride's name:Olivia Meskell
    bride's birth date:1852
    bride's age:19
    marriage date:20 May 1871
    marriage place:Cawnpore, Bengal, India
    groom's father's name:Thomas Kerr
    bride's father's name:Henry Shannon
    indexing project (batch) number:M75022-4
    system origin:India-EASysource film number:499042


    It just seems to closely linked to not be something to do with it, but her Father's name is wrong. Olivia wasn't a common name at the time.

    Anyone got any ideas?

    Thanks,

    Tom
    Last edited by Tom Tom; 27-11-10, 13:43.

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  • #2
    The only thing I can suggest is to look at Olivia's original marriage entry, which you should be able to order from your local LDS centre, to see if her father's name's mistranscribed, although it seems a bit unlikely (James January doesn't look much like Henry Shannon even if you scrawl the names).

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