On Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 Gay O'Neill asked: In 1851 Ann Fowle of East Grinstead Surrey is the daughter in law age 13 of Sayers family - Now I am wondering how do you get to be a daughter in law at age 13? Daughter in law can be step daughter of the head. Charlotte **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)

From: [email protected] > On Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 Gay O'Neill asked: > > In 1851 Ann Fowle of East Grinstead Surrey is the daughter in law age > 13 of Sayers family - Now I am wondering how do you get to be a > daughter in law at age 13? > > Daughter in law can be step daughter of the head. > > Charlotte > Quite correct. In those times an in-law was more often than not a stepchild, stepfather or stepmother etc. So this girl of 13 was the daughter "in law" of the man who was head of the family, he having married her mother. As I am constantly preaching, when you take up family history the very first thing you must do is step outside the confines of a mindset of modern values and realise that terms we are familiar with today in one context meant something quite different in the 19th century. -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Well I managed to get a little further with a Thomas Sayers marrying a Jane Fowle in Horley, Surrey 1842 It is possible that in 1851 Janes daughter Ann Fowle from East Grinstead is living with her mother Jane Now Sayers and Thomas Sayers and is the daughter in law (or step daugther). She is 13 at the time which then makes her the right age to be living with the Perkins family as the Niece in 1861. This may be the family parents Richard and mother Amelia children Thomas Fowle 1808, Jane Fowle 1911 and Ann Fowle 1809 I understand that this is not the marriage of Ann and William Perkins but hope it helps Gay O'Neill ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:46 PM Subject: [HRT] Fowle & Perkins help > On Sunday, 20 Jul 2008 Gay O'Neill asked: > > In 1851 Ann Fowle of East Grinstead Surrey is the daughter in law age 13 > of > Sayers family - Now I am wondering how do you get to be a daughter in law > at > age 13? > > Daughter in law can be step daughter of the head. > > Charlotte > > > > > > **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for > FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message