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Lindsay
02-04-15, 17:52
Can anyone see Louisa Newman (b. 1883) in 1911, or, failing that, a marriage / death for her?

1891 (as Lucy Claridge, with her mother and stepfather):
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/6598/LNDRG12_266_267-0119/20141122?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.u k%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fgst%3d-6&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

1901 (as Louisa Newman, with her half-sister Eliza Claridge):
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/7814/LNDRG13_290_291-0169/16785069?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.u k%2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26ms T%3d1%26gss%3dangs-c%26gsfn%3dlouisa%26gsfn_x%3dXO%26gsln%3dnewman%26 gsln_x%3dXO%26msbdy%3d1882%26uidh%3d584%26pcat%3d1 901UKI%26h%3d16785069%26db%3duki1901%26indiv%3d1%2 6ml_rpos%3d3&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

Lindsay
02-04-15, 18:03
Ah, spotted a possible marriage in 1901 in Mile End. William Halls or George Smith.

Lindsay
02-04-15, 18:37
OK, I've answered my own question - she married George Smith. I've found them in 1911, half-sister Eliza Claridge still with them.

Poor Louisa. In 10 years she'd had 7 children, 5 of whom had died. And she wasn't even 30.

Uncle John
02-04-15, 20:39
She was very fortunate to be still alive at nearly 30. Mine of the same era married, had a child, had an affair which produced a child, was divorced (paid for by husband's parents who also took the first child), adulterer died of TB, married a twice-married publican twice her age, and then died herself before 30. The child (my cousin's grandmother) lost her grandparents when she was about 5 and her father at about 10. The child of the adulterous relationship emigrated to NZ where his family is still going strong.

Lindsay
03-04-15, 11:07
So many of that era had unbelievably difficult lives, didn't they?

Louisa worked as a matchmaker in Bethnal Green before her marriage - one of those jobs which makes you glad of modern health and safety rules.