OK then, here goes with the first problem! Oh, and you do realise we're doing this without the benefit of being able to buy certificates to check, don't you?
When she married Joseph Skipper on 30 Nov 1874, Charlotte Watson gave her father's name as William and his occupation as foreman.
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1623/31280_195108-00497/4911495?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/20703376/person/5131930344/facts/citation/323801236250/edit/recordOn the 1881 census, she and Joseph are in Battersea with a house full of children - ah, 2mth old twins, sweet
- and a 10yo Mary J, who can't be a product of the marriage, but I'm not too bothered about her at the moment! This gives Charlotte's age as 35 (so b. abt 1845-46) and says she was b. Nine Elms (same as on marriage cert). Note: she has a son called
Robert.
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/7572/LNDRG11_650_653-1086/20990038?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/20703376/person/5131930344/facts/citation/323801237540/edit/recordI have Charlotte on all censuses from 1881 to 1911. What I'd like to do is to find her in 1851, 1861 and 1871.
The best fit I can find for 1851 is this, where her mother is Sarah ...
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8860/SRYHO107_1573_1573-0806/882592?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/20703376/person/5131930344/facts/citation/323801318577/edit/recordBy 1861, Sarah has disappeared and been replaced with Mary A ...
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8767/SRYRG9_359_363-0187/6349723?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/20703376/person/5131930344/facts/citation/67002298282/edit/recordHowever, with both of these ('51 and '61), I could be barking up the wrong tree.
I found this baptism for a Charlotte in 1847, d/o a William and Sarah, at the same time as a brother
Robert .
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/8767/SRYRG9_359_363-0187/6349723?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/20703376/person/5131930344/facts/citation/67002298282/edit/recordSo then I set about trying to find a:
- marriage between William and Sarah
- death for Sarah
- marriage between William and Mary A
This seems like quite a good fit for the William/Mary A marriage, which shows that William was the son of a
Robert ...
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1623/31280_195101-00094/2406073?backurl=http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/20703376/person/5132502813/facts/citation/323801317795/edit/recordso with that in mind, I tried to find a marriage around 1842-43 between a William (s/o Robert) and a Sarah and came across this. The problems with this are:
a) their ages. Says "full" (i.e. 21 or over), yet if the censuses I've found are correct they would both only have been about 17/18;
b) the location. Everything else seems to have happened in Lambeth/Battersea/Nine Elms etc, but this is Newington, so well north of the river;
c) if they were married on 24 Sep 1843, how could their son Robert (if it's the same chappie) have been b. 30 Jan 1843, and
d) in my experience the year of birth calculated for any census record is, more often than not, out by one. For example, age 35 in 1881, gives a yob as 1846, but it's more likely to have been 1845. Which, in this context gives Charlotte's yob as 1846, but the baptism record I found gives it as 1847, and this adds another layer of uncertainty
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1623/31280_197643-00206?pid=3162900&backurl=http://search.ancestry.co.uk//cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D1623%26h%3D3162900%26tid%3D20703376%26pid%3D5132502813%26hid%3D37005189913%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DFbJ1284%26_phstart%3Ddefault%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue&treeid=20703376&personid=5132502813&hintid=37005189913&usePUB=true&_phsrc=FbJ1284&_phstart=defaultWould anyone else like to have a stab at this to see what they can find, please, while I move on to a different branch of the family?
Well you did offer!
STG