maggie_4_7
07-03-10, 19:29
This little conundrum has been driving me up the wall for a few years but having put William Parker Sayer on the TOGGx2 this week it has reared it's ugly head once again.
'Louisa' baptised and registered as Martha Louisa was born 16th Jan 1861 in Shoreditch, London her parents didn't marry until 21st August 1862. She was always known as Louisa she hated the name Martha with a vengance apparently.
She was registered as Martha Louisa Wingfield (I sent for her cert yesterday) it wasn't something that bothered me before because I feel as if I know 'Louisa' she lived to a great age was known by my mother and all her siblings and some of my older cousins.
Many stories about her abound in our family. Didn't think of ordering her cert before or even realised she was registered as a Wingfield not a Sayer! She was baptised at aged 13 with her younger siblings as a Sayer. Poor old Louisa will be turning over in her grave oh she was grand when she was old she ruled the roost everyone clucked and fussed about her she was 91 years old when she died.
I have now found both her father William Parker Sayer and her mother Emma Wingfield on the 1861 census in different places but where is Louisa? and also where is her grandfather Daniel Wingfield born 1793 in Kent he was alive in 1861 he died in 1866 I have his death cert his wife Martha Louisa's grandmother died in 1858. I have found all of Emma's sisters on the 1861 census and one of her brothers, two are missing in action.
Not a sign of Louisa, she is only 3 months old she must be somewhere but where?
'Louisa' baptised and registered as Martha Louisa was born 16th Jan 1861 in Shoreditch, London her parents didn't marry until 21st August 1862. She was always known as Louisa she hated the name Martha with a vengance apparently.
She was registered as Martha Louisa Wingfield (I sent for her cert yesterday) it wasn't something that bothered me before because I feel as if I know 'Louisa' she lived to a great age was known by my mother and all her siblings and some of my older cousins.
Many stories about her abound in our family. Didn't think of ordering her cert before or even realised she was registered as a Wingfield not a Sayer! She was baptised at aged 13 with her younger siblings as a Sayer. Poor old Louisa will be turning over in her grave oh she was grand when she was old she ruled the roost everyone clucked and fussed about her she was 91 years old when she died.
I have now found both her father William Parker Sayer and her mother Emma Wingfield on the 1861 census in different places but where is Louisa? and also where is her grandfather Daniel Wingfield born 1793 in Kent he was alive in 1861 he died in 1866 I have his death cert his wife Martha Louisa's grandmother died in 1858. I have found all of Emma's sisters on the 1861 census and one of her brothers, two are missing in action.
Not a sign of Louisa, she is only 3 months old she must be somewhere but where?