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I have a good deal of information on Fanny, who was baptised Frances in Kings Somborne (near to Little Sombourse, which censuses give as birth place) in 1834. She was the daughter of Henry and Martha (who turns out to have been nee Cooper)

She is aged 5 in 1841 with maternal grandparents, James and Frances Coopers,as Frances (mispelled), a William Cooper and then, beneath them her mother Martha, now Osman, and John Osman (same address).

Her next census appearance is in 1861 married to William and with a couple of children. She actually had several more children and then died in 1870.

However I can't find her in 1851. I would really like to know what she was doing - she didn't marry intil 1857.

I have looked under Fanny, Frances, no Christian name and then no surname and all I have found is a Fanny Cooper servant, in Basingstoke. She is said to have been born c 1834 in Basingstoke.

It might be that the head didn't know or care where she was born but I'm also concerned that Basingstoke is about 24 miles from where she was born. Also she married in Winchester, which is where I was hoping to find her.

Any ideas anyone please?

Heather

For ref;

1841 England Census
about Martha Orman
Name: Martha Orman
[Martha, John Osman]
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1815
Gender: Female
Where born: Hampshire, England

Civil parish: Little Sombourn
Hundred: Winchester Division Buddlesgate (Upper Half)
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation: View image

Registration district: Stockbridge
Sub-registration district: Stockbridge
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Frances Tompson 5 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
John Orman 27
Martha Orman 26


1841 England Census
about Frances Cooper
Name: Frances Cooper
Age: 55
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1786
Gender: Female
Where born: Hampshire, England

Civil parish: Little Sombourn
Hundred: Winchester Division Buddlesgate (Upper Half)
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation: View image

Registration district: Stockbridge
Sub-registration district: Stockbridge
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Frances Cooper 55
William Cooper 17


1841 England Census
about James Cooper
Name: James Cooper
Age: 60
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1781
Gender: Male
Where born: Hampshire, England

Civil parish: Little Sombourn
Hundred: Winchester Division Buddlesgate (Upper Half)
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation: View image

Registration district: Stockbridge
Sub-registration district: Stockbridge
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
James Cooper 60

1861 England Census
about Fanny Gauntlett
Name: Fanny Gauntlett
Age: 26
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1835
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: William
Gender: Female
Where born: Little Somborn, Hampshire, England

Civil parish: Winchester St Maurice
Ecclesiastical parish: Holy Trinity
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage: View image

Registration district: Winchester
Sub-registration district: Winchester
ED, institution, or vessel: 11
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 38
Household Members: Name Age
William Gauntlett 25
Fanny Gauntlett 26
Phillis E Gauntlett 3
Hugh T Gauntlett 1
Elizabeth Cook 15

Hi Heather,

I've had a look for her in 1851............ sorry can't see anything.


Dee x

The baptism entry (in the transcription) is

At Kings Somborne
27 Dec 1834-Thomson Frances d Henry & Martha... .of London

Thanks, Elizabeth, I had seen her baptism but hadn't noticed the 'of London'. That has to be Henry who was from London, since Martha was baptised in King's Somborne.

Thank you everyone who looked. If Fanny Cooper isn't her, it looks as if she can't be found in 1851. It just might be her if she borrowed her grandparents' name for a while. Folk do seem to have played fast & loose with their names then!

Heather

With the early census' the information was given to the enumerator by someone and it may have been that as she was in the household they assumed she was a Cooper !!