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Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 1 Send Message	Teresa	Report	21 Dec 2008 21:56
Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 1 Send Message	I am trying to find birth certificate for Clara fathers name Walter John Edwards. She was working in Brighton at Hotel Metropole when 1891 census taken - this says she was born in St Pancras London
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 8,234 Send Message	Lewella	Report	21 Dec 2008 22:00
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 8,234 Send Message	Just for reference: 1871 England Census about Clara Edwards Name: Clara Edwards Age: 6 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1865 Relation: Daughter Father's Name: Walter Gender: Female Where born: Marylebone, Middlesex, England Civil Parish: St Pancras Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary County/Island: London Country: England Street address: View Image Registration district: Pancras Sub registration district: Somers Town ED, institution, or vessel: 13a Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 10 Household Members: Name Age Walter Edwards 46 Ada Edwards 18 Anna Edwards 12 Herbert Edwards 9 Clara Edwards 6
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 2,508 Send Message	~MamaHOTLIPS Rambo~	Report	21 Dec 2008 22:04
	Hi Teresa What age was given on the census? I have found a few Clara Edwards in Pancras London on the freebmd site Births Jun 1861 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDWARDS Clara Pancras 1b 60 Births Jun 1871 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edwards Clara Pancras 1b 80 Births Dec 1880 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDWARDS Clara Elizabeth Pancras 1b 65 Births Mar 1883 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDWARDS Clara Isabel Pancras 1b 169 Births Mar 1884 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edwards Clara Edith Pancras 1b 166
Member Since: September 2007 Posts: 2,597 Send Message	*Michelle*	Report	21 Dec 2008 22:04
	1871 England Census about Clara Edwards Name: Clara Edwards Age: 6 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1865 Relation: Daughter Father's Name: Walter Gender: Female Where born: Marylebone, Middlesex, England Civil Parish: St Pancras Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary County/Island: London Country: England Street address: Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Disability: View Image Registration district: Pancras Sub registration district: Somers Town ED, institution, or vessel: 13a Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 10 Household Members: Name Age Walter Edwards 46 Ada Edwards 18 Anna Edwards 12 Herbert Edwards 9 Clara Edwards 6 Wonder if Clara was her middle name? England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 about Emily Clara Edwards Name: Emily Clara Edwards Year of Registration: 1865 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: Marylebone (1837-1901) County: London, Middlesex Volume: 1a Page: 549 (click to see others on page) ???
	Researching: Jepson, Bishop, Meech, Bevis, Ayling, King, Buckley
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 8,234 Send Message	Lewella	Report	21 Dec 2008 22:33
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 8,234 Send Message	With her older sister in 1881 1881 England Census about Clara Edwards Name: Clara Edwards Age: 16 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1865 Relation: Sister Gender: Female Where born: Euston Mews, Middlesex, England Civil Parish: Islington County/Island: London Country: England Street address: 21 St Clements Street Occupation: Domestic Servant Unemployed Registration district: Islington Sub registration district: Islington West ED, institution, or vessel: 53 Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age William Parsons 25 Ada Parsons 27 Clara Parsons 4 Ada Parsons 1 Herbert Edwards 10 (Ada's brother - age is incorrect) Clara Edwards 16

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