In message <13mr0dhfrjc1o9e@corp.supernews.com> "CWatters" <colin.watters@turnersoak.plus.com> wrote: > > "Graeme Wall" <Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > news:292440554f%Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk... > > Could someone do a look up for me in New Yoek in 1900. > > > > I'm looking for a Thomas de Breton Godfrey and his wife Ruth Mary Ann > (nee > > Wall formerly Baranoff). > > Let me see if I follow this... > > Here they are in 1881.. > > Household Record 1881 British Census > Search results | Download Previous Household Next Household > Household: > Name RelationMarital StatusGenderAgeBirthplaceOccupationDisability > William WALL Head M Male 59 London, Middlesex, England Retired Clerk > Maria WALL Wife M Female 50 London, Middlesex, England > Maria R. WALL Daur U Female 19 London, Middlesex, England Governess > Ruth M. WALL Daur U Female 18 London, Middlesex, England Governess > Elizabeth WALL Daur Female 14 London, Middlesex, England Scholar > Constantin BARANOFF Lodger U Male 24 Nat B Subject, Russia Generl > Clerk > Source Information: > Dwelling 109 Mansfield Rd > Census PlaceLondon, Middlesex, England > Family History Library Film 1341048 > Public Records Office Reference RG11 > Piece / Folio 0219 / 74 > Page Number 62 That's the family, marrying the lodger seems to have been a habit, Maria Ruth married the lodger 10 years later. Their father was a lodger when he married his landlady, a wealthy widow! > > Then Ruth Hall married Constantin BARANOFF in London... > > Marriages Sep 1881 (>99%) > **BARANOFF Constantin Pancras 1b319 > FLOWERS Julia Pancras 1b319 > Raison William Pancras 1b319 > **WALL Ruth Mary A Pancras 1b319 That's them > > Then she married Thomas De Breton Godfrey > > Marriages Dec 1899 (>99%) > > Buck Walter John T B.Stortford 3a947 > Godfrey Thomas De Breton B. Stortford 3a947 > Thickings Amy B Stortford 3a947 > Wall Ruth Mary A B. Stortford 3a947 > > Are you sure that's the same Ruth? > Yes for two reasons, first Ruth Mary Ann Wall appears to be a unique name, she's named after her paternal grandmother, Ruth Mary Ann Whitethorne. Secondly I've just been contacted by someone who is tracing the de Breton Godfrey connection. There's a family story of Thomas blowing his inheritance (an Irish estate) on fast living, abandoning his wife and two children, and running off to New York with a Ruth Baranoff. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy>