Durham Lady
24-12-09, 10:29
Sorry if this is a wee bit long winded but I'd appreciate your thoughts on this.
Yesterday one of my distant cousins and fairly recent contact sent me a copy of a birth certificate he purchased 3 years ago and said "you missed this child from your G grandparents family.
I've checked with other family connections and they are as puzzled as I am.
The certificate is for a child named Hannah Maria NORTHEY born 25th April 1848.
According to all census records my g grandparents never had a child born 1848 with that name.
I know that doesn't mean they didn't have the child.
They had a child named Mary Jane, we've never found her birth, but have her baptism which was 6th September 1848 at St Blazey, Cornwall and I have her on every census in this country and America from 1851, when she was age 2 years, to 1920 (apart from 1890 which was lost in a fire) I also have her marriage certificate.
On the 1900 census it states she was born April 1848.
The census references are as follows
1851 census Class: HO107; Piece: 1906; Folio: 252; Page: 24; GSU roll: 221058.
1861 census Class: RG9; Piece: 1459; Folio: 67; Page: 7; GSU roll: 542816.
1871 census Class: RG10; Piece: 5135; Folio: 19; Page: 32; GSU roll: 847401
1881 census Class: RG11; Piece: 4974; Folio: 62; Page: 49; Line: ; GSU roll: 1342196.
1900 census USA Census Place: Yonkers Ward 5, Westchester, New York; Roll T623_1178 Page: 20A; Enumeration District: 136.
1910 census USA Census Place: Bloomfield Ward 3, Essex, New Jersey; Roll T624_882; Page: 21A; Enumeration District: 155; Image: 502.
1920 census USA Census Place: Bloomfield Ward 3, Essex, New Jersey; Roll T625_1028; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 911.
The g grandparents did have 2 daughters that were named Hannah Maria, one born 2nd February 1850 and 1 born 12 July 1856.
The first one died in August 1851 age 1 year 6 months.
The second died in the USA.
I've searched for a death of the Hannah Maria of 1848 using various combinations/spellings and can't come up with anything that would match.
Now my question is, do you think the child was named Hannah Maria on her birth certificate but then named and baptised as Mary Jane later in the year or did they have 2 daughters and got a birth certificate for 1 and not the other?
Don't you just love it when you think you know everything on a family and find you don't :rolleyes:
Yesterday one of my distant cousins and fairly recent contact sent me a copy of a birth certificate he purchased 3 years ago and said "you missed this child from your G grandparents family.
I've checked with other family connections and they are as puzzled as I am.
The certificate is for a child named Hannah Maria NORTHEY born 25th April 1848.
According to all census records my g grandparents never had a child born 1848 with that name.
I know that doesn't mean they didn't have the child.
They had a child named Mary Jane, we've never found her birth, but have her baptism which was 6th September 1848 at St Blazey, Cornwall and I have her on every census in this country and America from 1851, when she was age 2 years, to 1920 (apart from 1890 which was lost in a fire) I also have her marriage certificate.
On the 1900 census it states she was born April 1848.
The census references are as follows
1851 census Class: HO107; Piece: 1906; Folio: 252; Page: 24; GSU roll: 221058.
1861 census Class: RG9; Piece: 1459; Folio: 67; Page: 7; GSU roll: 542816.
1871 census Class: RG10; Piece: 5135; Folio: 19; Page: 32; GSU roll: 847401
1881 census Class: RG11; Piece: 4974; Folio: 62; Page: 49; Line: ; GSU roll: 1342196.
1900 census USA Census Place: Yonkers Ward 5, Westchester, New York; Roll T623_1178 Page: 20A; Enumeration District: 136.
1910 census USA Census Place: Bloomfield Ward 3, Essex, New Jersey; Roll T624_882; Page: 21A; Enumeration District: 155; Image: 502.
1920 census USA Census Place: Bloomfield Ward 3, Essex, New Jersey; Roll T625_1028; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 19; Image: 911.
The g grandparents did have 2 daughters that were named Hannah Maria, one born 2nd February 1850 and 1 born 12 July 1856.
The first one died in August 1851 age 1 year 6 months.
The second died in the USA.
I've searched for a death of the Hannah Maria of 1848 using various combinations/spellings and can't come up with anything that would match.
Now my question is, do you think the child was named Hannah Maria on her birth certificate but then named and baptised as Mary Jane later in the year or did they have 2 daughters and got a birth certificate for 1 and not the other?
Don't you just love it when you think you know everything on a family and find you don't :rolleyes: