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trying to find out anything to do with my grandmother, lived in London, died in wandsworth. know she had a sister sally , and came from a large family. her parents died when she was quite young and she always said she went into an orphanage, moved in with a sister (think it was in battersea) when she started working as a maid.
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Hi Kathryn,
Do you know whereabouts your grandmother was born. Also to whom did she marry?
Louise
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Hi Kathryn!
Do you have her birth cert? There's just no one who looks like her in the 1901 or in the GRO births, I'm sure you know. Marriage cert? Might not give (correct) father's name, but worth a check?
(on edit: I was a moron and didn't pay attention to the spelling of "Jesse". So I retraced my steps -- made no difference.)
Here's a Jessie in an institution in Battersea in 1901, right birthdate, but the name doesn't match up at all:
Name: Jessie H Collins
Age: 9
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892
Relation: Pupil
Gender: Female
Where born: Forest Gate, London, England
Civil Parish: Battersea
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mark Battersea Rise
County/Island: London
Country: England
Registration district: Wandsworth
Sub-registration district: Southwest Battersea
ED, institution, or vessel: Royal Masonic Institution for Girls
She could match up with the Jessie Collins reg Q1 1892 in Marylebone. No Jessie H birth showing (I don't know where Forest Gate is).
Here's an interesting one.
Name: Jessie Bosher
Year of Registration: 1891
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Wandsworth
County: Greater London, London, Surrey
Volume: 1d
Page: 547
Name: Jessie Bosher
Age: 9
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892
Relation: Niece <<<
Gender: Female
Where born: Battersea, London, England
Civil Parish: Battersea
Ecclesiastical parish: St Andrew
County/Island: London
Country: England
Registration district: Wandsworth
Sub-registration district: East Battersea
ED, institution, or vessel: 30
Household schedule number: 22
Household Members: Name Age
Albert Bosher 19
Emily Bosher 14
George Bosher 50
Jessie Bosher 9
Kate Bosher 42
Kate Bosher 3
Walter Bosher 16
William Bosher 19
(The others are all nuclear family.)
Name: Isabel Sarah Bosher
Year of Registration: 1886
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Wandsworth
County: Greater London, London, Surrey
Volume: 1d
Page: 401
-- possibly called Sally?
Here's a Sally working as a maid in Battersea:
Name: Sally Dence (I'd say Donce - no, Druce)
Age: 15
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1886
Relation: Servant
Gender: Female
Where born: Battersea, London, England
Civil Parish: Lambeth
Ecclesiastical parish: All Saints South Lambeth
County/Island: London
Country: England
Registration district: Lambeth
Sub-registration district: Kennington First
If you search for Druce-s in Battersea in 1901, you'll see several detached children/young people. (An older Charlotte Druce -- the surname is plainer on the second page of the image -- comes from Berkshire, like the senior Boshers in that household above.) One is a "nurse child", place of birth unknown.
Aha. They were children of David and Charlotte Druce in 1891. Charlotte shows as married in 1901; David? She died in 1915.
Just a theory, one of many that could probably be formed! And I'm not quite sure what it is. ;) But absent any Jessie MacDonald in the records ...
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she was married to Donald Macdonald, don't know when she married think probably before the 1st world war or thereabouts.
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hi kathryn B, you must be an expert at this n can probably tell i'm a novice! she was definitely an edwards, I can only get up the death records index and that was easy enough as she died in 1987.
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sorry should have said her maiden name was edwards- big mistake on my part but thanks for your help.
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Hmm. Actually, you did say
nee macdonald
which means
her maiden name was Macdonald.
So you've lost me!
Unless you mean that you said Macdonald and you meant to say Edwards.
Am I the only person in the universe who proofreads before hitting submit?
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Here's her marriage
Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
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Marriages Jun 1919 (99%)
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Edwards Jessie I MacDonald Wandsworth 1d 1048
Macdonald Donald Edwards Wandsworth 1d 1048
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So then.
Name: Jessie Edwards
Age: 9
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1892
Gender: Female
Where born: W C, Strand
Civil Parish: Ealing
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary
Town: Ealing
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England
Registration district: Brentford
Sub-registration district: Brentford
ED, institution, or vessel: Ealing House Girls Industrial School and Little Girls Home
?
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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/arethusa/history.htm
But the Arethusa was not the only way in which the society tried to prepare disadvantaged children for a worthwhile life and in the early nineteen hundreds over a thousand children were in the society's care in the following various establishments:
... * Sudbury Girls Home, Wembley, Middlesex and the Ealing House Girls Home, St Mary's Road, Ealing, both of which trained orphaned girls to find employment as domestic servants in large households
http://www.missing-ancestors.com/EALING%20GIRLS%20HOME%20EALING%20INFO%20PAGE.htm
* EALING GIRLS HOME, 31 GRANGE PARK, EALING, LONDON.
Certified 1st September 1903 for 9 girls. Closed in 1920.
Then run by M.A.B.Y.S., renamed Ealing Hostel, which closed in 1930
Google gets more.
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