Elusive gt grandmother

[Maud Jarvis]

My gt grandmother, obvoiusly did not remarry bigamously, but se must have adopted the surname of her new partner, and I am unable to trace her.

Sometime after 1881 she and my gt grandfather must have split up.
He eventually by 1891 had a new "wife" Annie, but of my grandmother there was no trace.

Gt grandfather married his "wife" Annie in 1910 stating he was now a widower, this means that gt grandma must have died around that time, but how can I find her without knowing her surname.

her name was Mary Hannah Grant (nee Copeland) married to George Nelson Grant, he married Annie Packer in 1910. He died in 1919

Ha anyone any suggestions how I can trace Mary Hannah (born 1850 in Derby)
she & George parted in Perth Scotland where they were in 1881, she I presume could have returned to Derby? but she does not appear on the census

George & his wife settled in Leicester after 1891, they married in Derby in 1910
but where oh where was Mary Hannah?????

[busyglen]

Maud, Did Mary & George have any children?

It's a long shot, but if they did have children, could Mary have been with any of them at the 1891 Census? Especially if they had a daughter who had married, you would therefore have a change of name for the household.

Thinks!!|banghead| That won't help, as if you searched for Mary Hannah, she would have come up wouldn't she? Back to the drawing board.

I guess this is going to be a really difficult one, especially if she just `called' herself something else.

Glenys

[Maud Jarvis]

I had not thought of that possibility, but have researched the others in the family and she did not turn up, so have to rule that out.

I know with a surname it is going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack, I can
only hope that she appears in someone`s tree, she obviously must have had another partner, and possible she could have had more children, my grandmother at that time was still a child and was with them in 1881 in Scotland.

Later in 1889 she was sent to Canada as an orphan, which she was not, she had been with a maternal grandmother, then when she died, with her sister in Edinburgh, it was she who arranged for her to be sent to Canada!, she was then aged 14 years. Grandmother was receiving letters from her father, and later confessed to the home she was in, that she was NOT and orphan, her father was by then in Birmingham. No mention of her mother was ever made.

[ChristineR]

If anyone can help Maud, please reply on this other thread in the brickwall section - I am closing this one to avoid duplication and confusion with two threads on the same subject.

http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34938