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Disappearing ancestors! - what to do next?

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Kate

Kate Report 27 Mar 2009 23:32

That is a very long time after the birth - usually it's supposed to be within 6 weeks. Could be something odd about that?

I wonder if the Strand Road address was a relative's home? Or perhaps a nursing/maternity home? I think most babies were born at home around that time but there could have been circumstances that meant Rachel went to a nursing home (or stayed with a relation) for the last weeks of her pregnancy.

Lianne

Lianne Report 27 Mar 2009 23:29

Arthur is listed as a dock labourer and the birth was registered by the mother on the 13th July - 3 months to the day after he was born.

It says that the baby was born at 160 Strand Road on 13th April 1911and the mother registered the birth on 13th July 1911and gives her address as 160 Strand Road.

Kate

Kate Report 27 Mar 2009 23:23

Just another thought - on the birth certificate, what does it say Arthur Edwards' occupation is? It's just that my great-grandmother was born in Bootle and her dad was an engineer in the merchant navy so I think that's why her mum registered the birth (five weeks after the baby was born) - because dad was away from home.

Kate

Kate Report 27 Mar 2009 23:10

I just had a look on the Lancashire BMD website but couldn't see a Rachel Plunkett that looked right - I wonder if they didn't marry?

There's a Rachel Plunkett aged 17 living in Everton in 1901, though - she is a domestic nurse living at 5 Church Place, Everton. Her dad is William, aged 49, born in Liverpool and she has got a sister Emma (aged 12) and a married sister Amy Bennett aged 26 living with her, as well as Amy's husband William and their children William (1) and Elizabeth (10 m).

Lianne

Lianne Report 27 Mar 2009 22:53

Hi all

I have my great grandfather's birth certificate. He (Arthur Thomas Edwards) was born on 13th May 1911 at 160 Strand Road, Bootle, Lancashire. The father is Arthur Edwards and Mother is Rachel Edwards, formerly Plunkett.


I have looked up the address on the new 1911 census but the family living there are the Jacksons. I have searched for both Arthur Edwards and Rachel Edwards/Rachel Plunkett on the 1901 census and the 1911 census but can't find them - They must be somewhere as their son was born a month after the 1911 census was taken!

Arthur Thomas was their second child as they had a daughter Matilda, who was born around 1909 but I have never found her birth either, although I have found all the other children who were born after Arthur Thomas.

I have also looked for the marriage of Rachel and Arthur but to no avail.

Any ideas where to go from here?
Thanks
Lianne

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