Winslow Workhouse

[busyglen]

Can anyone help me with a look up please?

I can't get access to the 1841 Census at the moment, and try to do most of the searching myself, but it would help me enormously if I could find out if my gt.gt. grandfather's mother was in Winslow at this time.

I am looking for any female with the surname of JARVIS. I don't know how old she would be, but her son John was born illegitimately in 1823 in Dunton. Dunton PRs don't have him so I can't find out his mother's name from there. He was in the Army in 1842 when he married and aged 19, so I doubt he would show up in Winslow. I am awaiting fiche of Settlements, Removals etc. from Bucks. FHS as I have an entry from Winslow 1834 where application was made for money for John Jarvis. He was shown as living in Dunton, which I find rather strange, if his mother was in the Workhouse....would he have lived on his own aged 11? :confused:

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me in this frustrating line.

Glenys

[JocelynR]

I can only find one Jarvis (of either sex) in Winslow in 1841 and that's Rebecca Jarvis, 15, FS, Yes...she's working at a school in Sheep Street. Ref is HO/107/51/15

Maybe your John Jarvis' sister???

Joc

[busyglen]

Hello Jocelyn,

Sorry not to have acknowledged your reply sooner, but just back from a few days away!

That was really kind of you to look that up for me.....but...`if' she was John's sister, then she would probably have been illegitimate also! I feel that this is another family of Jarvis, but will keep this record handy...just in case!! I have been hoping to find his mother, but not knowing her christian name, is like looking for a needle in a haystack!! John definately appears to have taken his mother's surname, but his father has been acknowledged as John Green.

Thanks again. :)
Glenys