sdup26 wrote:Researchers nightmare....
Indeed. Being either pessimistic or realistic, "Mariner" may be on a loser here.
One possibility is that she was actually born in Ireland but either through ignorance or trying to fit in, claimed to be born in Liverpool for the censuses. If you can identify any relatives and look at those, it might shed some light. If you can identify....
Another possibility is that her birth was, as suggested above, never registered. I have seen claims that in the early years of registration, massive numbers of births in Liverpool were never registered. I distrust those analysises that quote percentages because how can you know how many births there were if they weren't registered? Are people cross checking with censuses? In which case, see my previous point. I think that the way it worked, the Registrar of Births surely had to have a support network of midwives etc to inform him of the births because it was HIS responsibility to register the birth then, not the parents. But in a place like Liverpool it must have been hugely difficult to keep track - hiding in plain sight, as they say.
Assuming that all the censuses have been checked for her, then about the only thing that I can suggest is to follow up on any relatives, friends, neighbours, associates, etc, just to see if there are any clues there. I presume that you've tried to find her in the 1851 with her father? Are there other family members there to follow?
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