From: G6JPG@255soft.uk
In message , Jenny M Benson
writes:
>On 16/11/2019 15:28, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
>> OOPS!!! I wrote that wrong. The 1911 shows (all Fernyhough):
>> Emma Head 55 Widow
>> William R Son 26 Single
>> Florence Daughter 9 -
>
>I recently struggled in vain to find the birth of a "daughter" -
>according to a Census entry, only to find that she was in fact a
>granddaughter. William R was just about old enough to have fathered
>Florence, or were there other sons?
>
G'daughter recorded as daughter not uncommon: sometimes I presume to
hide unwed mothers, but more often than might be expected seems to have
been either incompetence or laziness on the part of the enumerator. (E.
g. cases where parents, with plenty of other children, were living with
grandparents, so no concealment necessary.)
In this case, Emma had children in ~1885 (William Roland, as above),
~1887, ~1889, 1890, ~1893, ~1896, and 1901 (Florence). Her husband died
in 1896. Florence's birth is recorded (1901Q3 6b 31, Stone) with MMN
Foxley (which is correct for Emma). You could still be right, of course,
that Florence was a granddaughter (all Emma's other children except Ada
~1893 were male, assuming Jesse ~1896 is), though I'd have _normally_
expected such a child to live with her mother. (Could have been unable
to though.) Emma was born 1855 (baptised 1 April), so would have been 46
in 1901Q3 (45 at conception), so entirely possible; she was clearly
fertile up to her husband's death.
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