Glenys Petry wrote: > I posted this query early in the month to the London list, but had no replies so > I am hoping there may be SKS on this list who can help. > > Georgina HINCHCLIFF/HINCHCLIFFE born c1875 St Giles Middlesex > Marrried Walter William LOCKETT (Free BMD Sep qtr 1891, Holborn, Middlesex) > 1881 census Family Search - Georgina is age 6, living at 51 Drury Lane (RG11 > 0329/77), Born St Giles(living with her mother Emma HINCHCLIFF) > > 1891 - cannot find Georgina on the census index > > Thanks to the free Findmypast offer recently I found the following: > > 1901 - There is this family, which, I think is them - (although I could have > the wrong family) > Harry LOCKETT, - age 35, born London (occupation illegible) > Georgina LOCKETT - age 30 (born city of London) > Nellie LOCKETT - age 10 born Islington > Grace L LOCKETT - age 8 - born Marylebone > Harry G LOCKETT - age 6 - Born Marylebone > Robert C LOCKETT - age 1, born Islington Getting the birth certificate for one of them would confirm whether you had the correct family. > 1911 census (RG14-00-8-62-00862-0137-03 living at 53 Georges Road, Islington N. > Annie LOCKETT age 37, ( (she states she has been married 19 years, 13 children > born, 5 still alive. - (although I count 6 children) > > - Widow, occ. Cigar maker, born St Giles > Bessie LOCKETT - age 18 born Bloomsbury > Ada LOCKETT - age 17 born Finsbury > Lucy LOCKETT - 16 born Newington > Caroline LOCKETT age 12 born Bloomsbury > May LOCKETT age 3 born Finsbury > Georgina LOCKETT aged 3 (twins?), born Finsbury. > > My problem is, that I cannot find ANY of these childrens births on Free BMD.!!, > to enable me to follow them to marriages etc. The reason you can't find May and Georgina (who do appear to have been twins), would seem to be because their surname was SIDNEY, not LOCKETT. That would suggest they were the mother's children from another relationship. Births Dec 1907 SIDNEY Georgina Islington 1b 237 SIDNEY May Islington 1b 237 One of the children may have the her husband's by another relationship. I've not found Bessie (apart from an Elizabeth SIDNEY in Sunderland (!) in 1892. She may have been Elizabeth or Eliza and known as Bessie or she could have been anything else and had Bessie as a nickname. There were some Elizabeth LOCKETTs but none in London. No joy with Ada either although there are some Ada LOCKETTs, just not in London. The only Ada SIDNEY was in Bedminster in 1895. This is very likely to be the wonderfully named Lucy LOCKETT Births Jun 1895 Lockett Lucy Emily St. Saviour 1d 127 Newington was in St Saviour RD I think this is Caroline Births Mar 1899 Sidney Caroline Hinchcliff Holborn 1b 689 > I did find a death of Walter William LOCKETT on FreeBMD Mar Qtr 1907, aged 33, > Pancras. > But that age does not fit in with his age on the 1901 census. (35) People didn't have to produce proof of their age the way we do nowadays so a couple of years out is not significant. Also when the death was registered it would (obviously <G>) not have been done by the deceased but a grieving widow, a sibling or friend who may not have known exactly how old the deceased was. With an older person, a child may have done duty and not been sure of their parent's age. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk