by Artognou » Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:27 pm
Hi everyone,
I have just had a major revelation in my family tree about my 3rd great grandmother;
Her name was Mary Ann Lindsey, she married Abraham George Snow at Bethnal Green in 1860, on the marriage record she lists her father as William Lindsey, carpenter.
Here's where I have been tripped up, there were a couple of us who descend from them who initially thought she might have been the daughter of a Surrey couple called William and Hannah, however, I discovered earlier that it couldn't have been this family, because they went up to Scarborough.
I did wonder if she was the daughter of a couple in London, William and Mary (William was from Norfolk), but I then found a marriage that cancelled them out, both these Williams could have 'qualified' as carpenter, because one was a joiner and the other was a painter/glazier, etc.
I am now stumped!
Mary Ann varies slightly her place of birth over the years;
1861 - Bethnal Green
1871 - N.K (not known?)
1881 - London, Middlesex
1891 - Bethnal Green
1901 - London Borough
1911 - Southwark, London
Her d.o.b tends to be 1840 - 1841, (except the 1911 census, which is 1842) including her death cert from 1914, West Ham.
As you can see, this has me completely confused now and a nice reminder that brick walls can be thrown up in a matter of seconds!
I am wondering if she might have been illegitimate and might have 'invented' William, or that she did have a father who died early or she went to live with other people, but finding her on census records from 1841-1851 is proving hard and the same goes for birth/baptism records as well.
Any help would be very appreciated,
Alex.