Dear Gordon, My heartfelt thanks yet again for your most excellent and very welcome help, which I greatly appreciate. Poor Susannah Dodd (Summers). She didn't survive long into the marriage, and left a very young child, Harold Walter, to add to Thomas Dodd's already large brood. I'm so delighted to have a surname for her. I've checked on Cheshire BMD, and I think you might agree, that Alice Margaret Dodd, registered March qtr. 1880 must be one and the same as Daisy Dodd of the 1901 census, who should have shown as 21, not 22. I believe 'Daisy' to be a popular pet name for Margaret. In 1891 census, she is Alice M. Dodd and correctly aged 11. I spent last night searching my 'archive' (aka mountain of paperwork), and have discovered a few more details, which I would like to note here, then they're safely in the archives of the list, which gives Thomas Dodd's third wife as Jessie Stanley, marriage on Cheshire BMD as Wirral, June qtr. 1903, and their last child as Thomas Dodd jnr., so the nine children of the three marriages are: Thomas Dodd and Mary Jane Dacey nee Sherlock (married 25 April 1879, Holy Trinity, Hoylake) Alice Margaret, 1880 Evelyn Edith, 1881 (although I think she was registered as Eveline Mary) Henrietta, 1886 Martha Amy, 1887 Arthur Tom, 1888 Wilhelmina, 1890 Ida Nannie, 1892 Mary Jane Dodd dies 4 August 1898, buried Holy Trinity, Hoylake aged 47 Thomas Dodd marries to Susannah Summers 1899 and have: Harold Walter, 1900 Susannah Dodd dies 25 November 1902, buried Holy Trinity, Hoylake aged 46 Thomas Dodd marries to Jessie Stanley June qtr. 1903, Wirral and have: Thomas Dodd (not sure when as Cheshire BMD doesn't yet show this). Not surprising that Thomas Dodd had three wives. As a fisherman, and coxswain of the Hoylake lifeboat, he had to have someone at home to see to all the children. Once again, Gordon, thank you for all your patient and continuing help. Best regards, Yvonne >> Hi again Yvonne Believe I've may have found the second wife, if not the third :- Marriages 1899 Wirral Civil Thomas DODD and Susannah SUMMERS (Cheshire BMD ref WOO/27/67) 1901 Census RG13/3421 folio 6 page 5 Royal Infirmary, Liverpool Susannah DODD, private patient, 44, LAN Rusholme Deaths 1902 Woodchurch Susannah DODD aged 46 (Cheshire BMD ref WOO/15/97) As regards the "ninth child" I have in my tree the same 8 as you have in your list viz from Alice Margaret b1880 to Harold Walter 1900, but in the 1901 Census:- RG13/3387 folio 51 page 34 28 Grove Road, Hoylake Thomas DODD, head, M, 48, fisherman, LAN Liverpool Daisy, daur, 22, S, domestic nurse, CHS Hoylake Arthur, son, 13, CHS Hoylake Wilhelmina, daur, 10, CHS Hoylake Nany, daur, 8, CHS Hoylake Harold Walter, son, 1, CHS Hoylake If ages are precise then 22 year-old Daisy would have been born prior to April 1879, whereas the Thomas DODD/Mary Jane SHERLOCK marriage wasn't until 25 April 1879 (in Hoylake Holy Trinity). Mary Jane had of course been previously married to a William Edward DACEY (1872 in Liverpool St Andrew) and I'm wondering if Thomas DODD had also been previously married, Daisy being a fruit of his first marriage? Alternatively, Daisy might have been a daughter of William & Mary Jane DACEY's whom Thomas DODD had taken under his wing and came to regard as one of his own children? Best Gordon <<

Hi Yvonne I'm sure you'll be right about the Daisy DODD (22) in the 1901 census - more likely to be Alice Margaret (b1880) than an earlier child we didn't know about. I wasn't aware that Daisy was a pet name for Margaret, having only ever encountered Meg or Peggy myself until now. Did you know, by the way, that Harold Walter DODD (b1900) married Margery RAINFORD (b1896) in 1926 at Hoylake? In my tree both are grandchildren of Alice HUGHES (b1834 Hoose) - so yet another first-cousin marriage in your family! Regards Gordon >Dear Gordon, >My heartfelt thanks yet again for your most excellent and very welcome >help, >which I greatly appreciate. Poor Susannah Dodd (Summers). >She didn't survive long into the marriage, and left a very young child, >Harold Walter, to add to Thomas Dodd's already large brood. I'm so >delighted to have a surname for her. >I've checked on Cheshire BMD, and I think you might agree, that Alice >Margaret Dodd, registered March qtr. 1880 must be one and the same as >Daisy >Dodd of the 1901 census, who should have shown as 21, not 22. I believe >'Daisy' to be a popular pet name for Margaret. In 1891 census, she is >Alice >M. Dodd and correctly aged 11. >I spent last night searching my 'archive' (aka mountain of paperwork), and >have discovered a few more details, which I would like to note here, then >they're safely in the archives of the list, which gives Thomas Dodd's >third >wife as Jessie Stanley, marriage on Cheshire BMD as Wirral, June qtr. >1903, >and their last child as Thomas Dodd jnr., so the nine children of the >three >marriages are: >Thomas Dodd and Mary Jane Dacey nee Sherlock (married 25 April 1879, >Holy >Trinity, Hoylake) >Alice Margaret, 1880 >Evelyn Edith, 1881 (although I think she was registered as Eveline Mary) >Henrietta, 1886 >Martha Amy, 1887 >Arthur Tom, 1888 >Wilhelmina, 1890 >Ida Nannie, 1892 > >Mary Jane Dodd dies 4 August 1898, buried Holy Trinity, Hoylake aged >47 >Thomas Dodd marries to Susannah Summers 1899 and have: >Harold Walter, 1900 >Susannah Dodd dies 25 November 1902, buried Holy Trinity, Hoylake >aged 46 >Thomas Dodd marries to Jessie Stanley June qtr. 1903, Wirral and have: >Thomas Dodd (not sure when as Cheshire BMD doesn't yet show this). >Not surprising that Thomas Dodd had three wives. As a fisherman, and >coxswain of the Hoylake lifeboat, he had to have someone at home to see >to all the children. >Once again, Gordon, thank you for all your patient and continuing help. >Best regards, >Yvonne