From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 17/04/2020 16:12, Jenny M Benson wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Anne, what happened to Elizabeth?   
      
   >   
   > 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.   
      
      
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