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1891

Name: Sidney A Cray
Age: 39
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1852
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Agnes M Cray
Gender: Male
Where born: Westbury, Wiltshire, England

Civil Parish: Swindon
Ecclesiastical parish: Old Swindon
Town: Old Swindon
County/Island: Wiltshire
Country: England

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Registration District: Highworth
Sub-registration District: Swindon
ED, institution, or vessel: 17
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 1582
Folio: 99
Page Number: 16
Household Members:
Name Age
Sidney A Cray 39
Agnes M Cray 38
Laura A Cray 16


Marriages Sep 1894
Cray Laura Agnes Barton R. 6a 173
Tunstall Joseph Thomas R Barton R. 6a 173


Deaths Sep 1896 Tunstall Laura Agnes 22 Highworth 5a 5

Marriages Jun 1904

Kite Florence Victoria Bristol 6a 27
Tunstall Joseph Thomas R Bristol 6a 27


1911

Name: Joseph Thomas Roger Tunstall
Age in 1911: 41
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870
Relation to Head: Head
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Edgeware, Middlesex, England
Civil Parish: Swindon
County/Island: Wiltshire
Country: England
Street Address: 46 Goddard Avenue, Swindon, Wilts
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Railway Clerk
Registration District: Swindon
Registration District Number: 240
Sub-registration District: Swindon
ED, institution, or vessel: 38
Household Schedule Number: 160
Piece: 11804
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Thomas Roger Tunstall 41
Florence Victoria Tunstall 28
Thomas Tunstall 6
Richard Tunstall 5
John Tunstall 3
Charles Tunstall 1



Name: Sydney A Cray
Birth Date: abt 1850
Date of Registration: Dec 1929
Age at Death: 79
Registration District: Bristol
Inferred County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 161


Name: Agnes M Cray
Birth Date: abt 1852
Date of Registration: Jun 1920
Age at Death: 68
Registration District: Bristol
Inferred County: Gloucestershire
Volume: 6a
Page: 232

I'm now coming round to the idea that it could be the same woman ......

I'd guess she may have termed herself a widow as it may have been considered unseemly for a single woman to "adopt" a daughter.

"Did you know?
UK passenger lists do not record travel within Europe unless a ship called at more than one European port before travelling further afield."
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/passengers.htm

An example of these exceptions would be Cunard's habit post-WW1 of travelling between Southampton and New York with an interim stop at Le Havre.
Occassionally, one finds passengers travelling between Southanpton and Le Havre mixed in with the trans-atlantic voyagers.

Official legal adoption did not begin until 1927 ......... so you will not find any papers.

Have you bought the birth certificate for Josephine L Tunstall to get the names of her parents??


Births Sep 1896 (>99%)

Tunstall Josephine Laura Highworth 5a 11


That should have been your first step.


According to 2 Public Family trees on ancestry, Jospehine Laura was the daughter of Joseph Thomas Roger Tunstall and Laura Agnes Cray

These trees also show that Laura Agnes Cray died in 1896 ................


England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915 about Laura Agnes Tunstall

Name: Laura Agnes Tunstall
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1874
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1896
Age at Death: 22
Registration District: Highwood
Inferred County: Wiltshire
Volume: 5a
Page: 5


Marriage of Laura Agnes and Joseph Tunstall


England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915 about Laura Agnes Cray

Name: Laura Agnes Cray
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1894
Registration District: Barton Regis
Inferred County: Gloucestershire
Volume Number: 6a
Page Number: 173
Records on Page:

Spouse Name: Joseph Thomas R Tunstall

I would suspect that Alice Jane took responsibility for Josephine, possibly because she was better off than other relatives.