From: NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   Can anyone suggest what is going on in this scenario.   
      
   In the 1881 Census (RG11-3529-94-38) John Weedall, who married an   
   Elizabeth Fletcher in 1876, and his wife Elizabeth are shown with a   
   daughter, Lily, aged 1 year and an unspecified child of unknown name   
   with the age of 8 days in the "Female" column.   
      
   In the 1891 Census (RG12-2841-111-32) the John is absent and Ann's name   
   is partly obscured, but is readable as Annie.  Her children are shown as   
   Florence, Lilly, Ruth, John H, Mary Jane and Sarah Annie.  As Ruth is 10   
   years old, she will be the unnamed child in 1881.   
      
   Before finding the Census entries, I had located the birth registrations   
   of Florence, Mary Jane, Ruth and Sarah Annie in the GRO index, all with   
   the maiden name Fletcher.  (Plus 2 boys who do not appear on the   
   Censuses so probably died.)  After seeing the 1881 Census, I searched   
   for, but could not find, an entry for Lilly or Lily Weedall with MMN of   
   Fletcher.  After viewing the 1891 Census, I did a less specific search   
   and found John Holford Weedale with mother's maiden name Holford.  I   
   then searched for other Weedalls with MMN Holford and found Leonora in   
   June Q 1880, the right age to be Lil(l)y.   
      
   I wondered if Ann(ie) had been previously married and had confused her   
   former married name with her maiden name, but can't find any   
   Holford/Fletcher marriage.  The Holford children cannot be the product   
   of either parent from an earlier relationship because they are both   
   between other children of the marriage.  They could be the product of   
   one of John's relations and adopted by John & Ann, but it's unlikely as   
   that would mean 2 convenient gaps in the sequence of their birth children.   
      
   I am at a loss to explain it myself.   
   --   
   Jenny M Benson   
   Wrexham, UK   
      
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