I have a brick wall that has been niggling me for years but I can’t see where to go next. I’d like to call on your collective experience to see if it can be resolved.
I’ll start with a nice photo
The man in the middle is James Emerson snr (b1844 Kendal) and the young woman on the left is his daughter Lydia Emerson (b1864 London). James snr’s wife, Louisa Roberts, died in 1903 and he remarried in 1911 to Matilda Day. So, I believe this photograph was taken between 1903 and 1911 as neither wife is there. Lydia was married in 1886 to Frederick Charles Caesar who is the man standing on her left. They had 4 children, one of whom was my grandmother.
I know from the GRO birth indexes that Lydia had a sister, Emily, born in 1865 and a brother James, born in 1868, so I have always assumed that this is who the other two people in the photo are.
BUT, I have recently found that Emily was married in 1889 in New Malden, so the man on the right in the photo could perhaps more likely be her husband, George Henry Harris.
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcr...%2F0066618%2F2
So the big question is ‘What happened to James jnr?’
He is not with the family in the 1871 census when he would have been 3 years old. Did he die?
The only other ‘fact’ that I have is that he was baptised 29 August 1868 and was given the names James Eccles Emerson. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...ue&pId=1831573
I have searched and searched but found no other records for him. Can anyone shed any light on what happened to him, please?
I’ll start with a nice photo
The man in the middle is James Emerson snr (b1844 Kendal) and the young woman on the left is his daughter Lydia Emerson (b1864 London). James snr’s wife, Louisa Roberts, died in 1903 and he remarried in 1911 to Matilda Day. So, I believe this photograph was taken between 1903 and 1911 as neither wife is there. Lydia was married in 1886 to Frederick Charles Caesar who is the man standing on her left. They had 4 children, one of whom was my grandmother.
I know from the GRO birth indexes that Lydia had a sister, Emily, born in 1865 and a brother James, born in 1868, so I have always assumed that this is who the other two people in the photo are.
BUT, I have recently found that Emily was married in 1889 in New Malden, so the man on the right in the photo could perhaps more likely be her husband, George Henry Harris.
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcr...%2F0066618%2F2
So the big question is ‘What happened to James jnr?’
He is not with the family in the 1871 census when he would have been 3 years old. Did he die?
The only other ‘fact’ that I have is that he was baptised 29 August 1868 and was given the names James Eccles Emerson. https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...ue&pId=1831573
I have searched and searched but found no other records for him. Can anyone shed any light on what happened to him, please?
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