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Hi, I'd be really grateful if anybody had any tips on how to reslove the following problem!!-

My grandfather, Owen John Jones was born in Llannerch y medd, Anglesey workhouse on 26 Jan, 1915. His birth certificate states that his mothers name is Catherine Jane Jones, (no mention of a father) and according to the workhouse records, she was born in 1887, but it doesn't state where. She entered the workhouse with another son, David Jones who was born in 1913 in Menai Bridge, Anglesey.
Five months after giving birth, she leaves the workhouse with the two boys, and I have no trace of her thereafter.

My grandfather was raised and given another surname by another family, which he always thought were his birth family, so I have no idea how or why he came to be informally adopted, or what happend to his birth mother or brother.

When searching through the 1911 census for Catherine Jane Jones, I obviously have 100's of results, and no real way of narrowing them down!!

Does anybody have any tips on how to proceed, or somebody may have encountered a similar predicament?!

I would be very grateful for any advice on how to proceed!!

Many thanks for your time

Rhian.

Hi Rhian,You could look for a marriage for Catherine Jane Jones in the area.Then look for a death ,and see if the birth date more or less matches.

Ellen

Name: Catherine J Jones
Spouse Surname: Tunnicliff
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1917
Registration district: Holyhead
Registration county (inferred): Anglesey
Volume Number: 11b
Page Number: 843
Find Spouse: Find Spouse

Worth a try

Or even ......


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Marriages Dec 1919 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jones Catherine J - Jones Holyhead 11b 1145
Jones Thomas R - Jones Holyhead 11b 1145


Marriages Mar 1926
Jones Catherine J - Jones - Anglesey 11b 580

Many thanks to you both for your kind replies, I shall do as you said and look a bit further into the marriage and death records- Many thanks once again!!

Rhian.

This Tunnicliffe death looks a possible -

Name: Catherine Jane Tunnicliffe
Birth Date: 28 Jun 1888
Death Registration Month/Year: 1977
Registration district: Ynys Môn
Inferred County: Anglesey
Volume: 25
Page: 0770

It would fit with these births but my money would be on the Anglesey one -


Births Jun 1888
JONES Catherine Jane Bristol 6a 2

Births Sep 1888
JONES Catherine Jane Ross 6a 445
JONES Catherine Jane Anglesey 11b 491

If she never married, or married a Jones you have your work cut out with choices.

This looks like the death of the Tunnicliffe husband (he was John H Tunnicliffe) -

Name: John H Tunnicliffe
Death Registration Month/Year: 1957
Age at death (estimated): 72
Registration district: Anglesey West
Inferred County: Anglesey
Volume: 8a
Page: 19

Again, Many thanks for your kind replies- i have quite a few strands to work on so I'm sure it;ll keep me busy!! Onca again many many thanks!
Rhian