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Langley Vale Sue
30-03-10, 10:40
I cannot find my Gx2 grandparents in 1871. Can anyone see if they can find them please. I have no reason to think they went abroad, so they should be in England.

Joseph Carsons (Head) b. 1841 Trowbridge, Wiltshire. He was a tailor.
Elizabeth Carsons (Wife) b. c1838 Stockbridge, Hampshire.
Arthur Joseph Carsons (son) b. 1864 Marylebone, London.
Frederick Charles Carsons (son) b. 1866 Portsea, Hampshire.
Emma Maria Carsons (dau) b. 1867 Marylebone, London.
Charlotte Selina Carsons (dau) b. 1870 Isle of Wight, Hampshire.


Sometimes they appear as Carson without the 's'.

In 1861 Joseph (a tailor) was living in Aylesbury, Bucks and Elizabeth was a servant living in Hove, Sussex.
In October 1863 they married in Brighton.
In 1881 the family were living at 90 Marylebone Lane, Marylebone, London with two more children.

Rachel
30-03-10, 11:46
No luck here I'm afraid

Margaret in Burton
30-03-10, 12:09
I can't find them either

vallee
30-03-10, 12:21
no luck here either sorry

kiterunner
30-03-10, 14:55
Isle of Wight BMD says Charlotte Selina Carson was born in 1869 rather than 1870, Ryde district, if that's any help.

Langley Vale Sue
30-03-10, 21:35
That's interesting Kite. Free BMD have her birth registered in Mar qtr 1870.

Thank you all for looking. I think they must be horrendously mistranscribed somewhere. I really can't see them being abroad, but we have to expect the unexpected in this game don't we? :)

kiterunner
30-03-10, 21:50
The local BMD sites tend to index the births by the year when the baby was actually born whereas the GRO indexes go by the quarter when the birth was registered.

Langley Vale Sue
30-03-10, 22:12
I didn't know that. Thank you. I've never found any of mine in the online local BMD sites, but I must admit I haven't looked for a while!