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Once we can establish her maiden name, I can have look on FMP for births at sea. I can't see one for an Alma Whitehead.

Sue,
if this doesn't come through from rele today or if i have to wait a week or so for the cert,can i pm you please with the info or would it be easier to add to this thread
cathie

PM me by all means.....not a problem. No guarantee that she will be on the overseas bmd, but worth a look.

thanks so much Sue,she must have married before.Will be biting my nails now waiting for the cert.Hopefully not to long
Cathie

Would you mind it i know too please lol, as this sounds very interesting

HI Julie,
of course i'll keep you updated.Don't know what just happened but i did post a reply to some while ago and it didn't add
so sorry for that
Cathie

Cathie

No worries as you sent it in a PM

TC Julie

Well,i think i have lost the plot,suppose i had better take a break
Cathie

Just to confuse things even more, there's a tree on Ancestry that has a Albert Alma Sebastapol Axell, born 1856, Rye, Sussex.

Catherine...Dont know if this helps you at all but I have found only 1 Whitehead listed for the Battle of Sebastopol (20Sept.1854-24Nov.1854)..
Thomas Whitehead (Private) 33 Regiment of Foot. (Wounded)
I have the full List of Battalion Casualties and Regiments etc.

well Maureen,
what can i say,looks like any one who was in those battles named their children Alma Sabastopol!
Cathie

Hi ErinGoBragh1916,
if i pm you with my e-mail could you let me have a copy of your list please.
This falls in with the dates that i have
The plot thickens
Cathie

Hi
Just needed to up date this very old post of mine. and get my findings off my chest!

I have at last gotten hold of the marriage cert of William Pimlott Stephens and Alma Sabastopol Whitehead.
She is indeed a Widow as my helpers thought. She names her father as Francis Finch,deceased.

Other than that, I'm looking for her marriage to Mr Whitehead,which I can't find,her birth,which even with the maiden name I can't find and I can't even find her on a census before her marriage to William Stephens.

So, may be in another three years I will have something more to add to my thread !

Frustrated
Blue1

Possible for Francis - a sailor:

1861 England Census
about Francis Finch
Name: Francis Finch
Age: 18
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843
Relation: B 1 C
Gender: Male
Where born: British Subject, Bouloogne

Civil parish: Vessels
Town: English Channel
County/Island: Royal Navy
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage: View image

Registration district: Royal Navy
Sub-registration district: Royal Navy
ED, institution, or vessel: Edgar
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 1
Piece: 4439
Folio: 29
Page Number: 33

Having searched further, I don't think the Francis above is Alma's father. I can find him on all censuses and his marriage in 1873 gives him as a bachelor.

Hi Potty,
thanks for looking for me. I don't think that this is Alma's father. She was supposed to have been born at sea in 1857,so if he was born 1843,he would be too young.

I think Alma made herselp up!


Thanks again
Blue1