From: charlesellson@btinternet.com   
      
   On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 02:07:37 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"    
   wrote:   
      
   >In message <746afihth85s6avndmmlecttd8reo05hsa@4ax.com> at Mon, 4 Sep   
   >2023 00:40:15, Charles Ellson  writes   
   >>rOn Sun, 03 Sep 2023 23:28:29 +0100, Charles Ellson   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:28:09 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>Jane Skelton   
   >>>>   
   >>>>• 1871 (as Jane Gibson, wife of Walter, in Sheffield): 32, POB   
   >>>>Gibraltar Spain   
   >>>>• 1861 (ditto [Walter is on previous page]): 22, POB Gibralter Spain   
   >>>>• 1857Q4 Walter Gibson=Jane Skelton (Sheffield, 9c 299)   
   >>>>• 1851 Jane Skelton, 12, POB Gibralter, with father William (42, POB   
   >>>>Sheffield) [and his wife Cordelia 2x]   
   >>>>• 1850Q1 William Skelton=Cordelia Eliza Courtney Thomas (so not Jane's   
   >>>>mother)   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Any suggestions on how I can find anything on Jane (e. g. her mother's   
   >>>>name/POB/DOB)? I'm not very familiar with Gibraltar records.   
   >>>>   
   >>>According to the GRO online index entry for Jane's brother Edwin,   
   >>>their mother's surname is THOMAS.   
   >>>   
   >>>Their parents were married in East Stonehouse registration district in   
   >>>Devon -   
   >>>   
   >>>Name  Cordelia Eliza Courtney Thomas   
   >>>Registration Year     1850 [1850]   
   >>>Registration Quarter  Jan-Feb-Mar   
   >>>Registration district         East Stonehouse   
   >>>Inferred County       Devon   
   >>>Volume        9   
   >>>Page  351   
   >>>Records on Page (Name)   
   >>>{...........}   
   >>>William Skelton   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>Ancestry has a baptism entry for Cordelia :-   
   >>>Name  Cordelia Eliza Courteney Thomas   
   >>>Birth         13 Apr 1825   
   >>>Baptism       6 Jun 1825 Morrice St   
   >>>-Wesleyan,Devonport,Devon,England   
   >>>Father        William Thomas   
   >>>Mother        Mary Nathaniel   
   >>>   
   >>From the other entries added, it looks like Nathaniel is her middle   
   >>name and her surname is actually MOORSAM.   
   >   
   >Sorry, who is "her" here - Cordelia? Jane?   
   >   
   Mary Nathaniel on the previous line.   
      
   >And Nathaniel for a her?   
   >   
   Not unknown for a middle name to be the "wrong" sex.   
      
   >(And FreeBMD has no marriages of anyone called Moorsam [with nothing   
   >else specified].)   
   >   
   FreeBMD only starts from 1837?   
      
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