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CHILD, Edith Annie, born@1868

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Brummieletts

proper brummie kid
I am looking for the birth of my great grandmother. I am having great difficulty finding her through cencus, and not even sure if she was born in Birmingham at all!

Her husband, George William, also known as George and William and herself moved around alot, for reasons unknown.

She was also known as Edith, Annie, Annie Elizabeth, Ellen and May ( i beleive!!)

If anyone can help find details of her in Birmngham and otherwise( if other wise) please help!

I believe she died in 1909 and is in Witton Cemetry ( possibly)

I am completely stuck with her and my grandfather!!

Fiona
 
Hi Fiona, welcome to the forum.
Is Child your grans maiden or married name?
If it is her maiden name.there is a birth in Kings Norton, Worcestershire (then) in Jul/Aug/Sept 1868 that could be her.
Will look at the census as well.
Sue
 
On the 1871 census, Edith A, about 2, born around 1869, birthplace listed as Keyshorton - could be a mistranscribed Kings Norton - was at 175 Ledlaw Street Ladywood, with parents William, 35,a coachbuilder and Lavinia 33, and siblings Sarah 9, William 7, Clara, 5, and Frances 11 months, Matilda Smith, 65, mother and Lucy Scetrine, visitor.
Do you recognise any of the names?
Sue
 
In 1881, it looks as if Edith is living with her grandmother,Jane Trottman, widower, laundress, her father William,listed as son-in-law now a coach painter, brother William aged 17, painter,and Francis, also a scholar and her mother who is now called Jane, listed as daughter, so assumably Trottman would have been her maiden name. they are livig at 107 Brighton Road Kings Norton
Sue
 
SisterSue
I think you are looking at a transcript? On the original she is born in Kings Norton, , and the address is 175 Ledsam St
 
HI SISTERSUE
They was also living in wellinton rd edgbaston many years ago next to the plotneck family as i recal them
they was fashion people producers and there grand parents being plotneck family sibblings still do the fashion production down just off bradford
street they had a big shop in islington row many years ago and plotneckd grand father was founders of allied carpets
and this old house next to plotnecks house was a family called child ;
It may be worth cross checking from here ;one never knows its a very small world ;
best wishes Astonian;;;
 
Births Sep 1868
Edith Annie CHILD King's N. 6c 399
Marriages Mar 1861
William Child married Lavinia SMITH Kings N 6c 455
 
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Deaths Jun 1872
Lavinia CHILD aged 34 Birmingham 6d 6

Marriages Dec 1872
William CHILD Aston 6d 433
married
Jane ROBINSON
or
Jane Elizabeth WHEELER
 
Mike, I looked at both the transcript and the original, but couldn't make out the Ledsam Street on the original, thanks for translating it!
Ladylinda, I got the death of Lavinia, but gave up then as I was at work this morning!
Sue
 
Hi sistersue61,

Thank you for the welcome. Child was her maiden name. I think with some other research that she married in 1887 to a James Edward Padmore Powell( great name!) and i believe he died in 1895.
To be honest, i can't find a marriage cert for her and GWMillard at all....so i think they may have lived together unmarried?

Jane Thottman would be her stepmum, Lavinia died after all the children were born. JT married WC and became stepmum to all the children, i don't believe she had any children with WC.
I have found,on line, a death certificate for an Edith Millard in Aston in 1909, and this ties up well with EDC, maybe she just called herself Millard? Still need to find out where she is buried though.

Lady linda. i have also come across this birth for an Edith Annie Child in Kings Norton, but still not 100% sure it is my EDC....

I have also found a death certificate for GWM, in this name too, in Aston in Dec 1916. Again, i am not certain where he is buried. It does help prove though, that his name is George William Millard. I now have three pieces of evidence to prove this. All the others i have come across seem to be William.
Next step is to get hold of the death certs to see if they are the people i think (and hope ) they are!
However, it doesn't help trace GWM back to 1858 (think this is when he is born, based on the 1911 cencus.)
I can trace 19911, 1901, 1891....no further back...does anyone have any tips on tracing further back. I have tried using his profession as a guide, thats helped, but i am not convinced i am tracing him back on the correct family line!!
His name changes and there appears to be several mis spellings of Millard to boot.....

Its driving me mad!

Astonian.. EDC moved away to Leeds at one point, i beleive to be near oher family, she was also in Poulton in 1901....could it have been other family members that lived in Edgbaston? I do know EDC and GWM lived in Foundary Rd in 1906. It is where one of the sisters was born.

I will keep digging.....to make it even more difficult, EDC and GWM second oldest child was shipped to Canada in 1911 as a Middlemore BHC...i have traced that side of the family successfully, but not having any luck with great grandfather and mother..:( I am not sure why only this son was sent and not my grandfather. I have discovered a few years later that they had a further four children, whom i am also trying to trace.

Thanks for your help everyone....any further suggestions and help would be much appreciated.

brummieletts
 
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