On 02/08/2013 8:20 AM, Steven Gibbs wrote: > "Richard Smith" <richard@ex-parrot.com> wrote in message > news:b606uuFdrqsU1@mid.individual.net... >> (Specifically, the obvious conclusion when you see a husband, wife and >> widowed "sister" on a census, all with the same surname, is that the widow >> is probably the sister-in-law of the head of the house and had married his >> brother. In this case, I don't believe that to be the case. I think that >> Alicia and Harriet are sisters, and that Thomas and Alicia's husband, >> Joseph, were cousins. But that conclusion is more tenuous than I'd like >> and rests on the person the facts that (i) Alicia was described as >> Thomas's sister, and (ii) that she was born in Fawley, both of which I get >> from 1851 census, and a very similar 1861 entry. If this entry isn't >> Alicia, then I have a problem.) > The IGI suggests that Harriet was Harriet Scorey, and that a Joseph Mondey > married Alicia Roberts at St Mary, Southampton. Without seeing the > originals, it's difficult to be sure what's going on. Since there was an > Alicia Scorey from Fawley, I'm a bit stuck without finding a marriage to a > Roberts (or an elimination of that Alicia Roberts). > > I have no doubt the Eli...she is a phonetic misspelling of Alicia. I've > seen this sort of thing all too often. > > Steven > To follow up on my last message, Alicia Roberts, according to FamilySearch, was a widow. But where the marriage of her to a ROBERTS is???? (and again, she could have hbeen a widow. The new Forest Union Workhouse records may shed some light on Joseph MUNDAY. Kind regards John