"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

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 Richard, In 1861 "Elesher" is still in Fawley, with her sister Harriet. She appears to die in 1868 as Alicia 1868 February 11 65 513 Alicia MUNDAY 67 Hardley Arthur M Hoare, Rector GRO has age as 64 from http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_F/Fawley/Burials/burials.htm You may find these sites useful http://www.knightroots.co.uk/transcriptions/Parishes_F/Fawley/Marriages/marriages.htm and http://website.lineone.net/~mcgoa/pr.html You may also wish to consider that if Alicia were Alicia SCOREY, she may have married and been widowed a second time by 1851! Joseph had died in 1843 in the workhouse 1843 March 3 5 34 Joseph MUNDAY 49 New Forest Union Workhouse T B Lancaster No trace GRO Kind regards, John Henley