bigdave
09-03-2009, 8:52 PM
Hello,
My mother was very secretive about her early family history, every thing that I know has been gleaned through snippets of information passed on to my sister by our mother and researched by me, all of which falls into place with our aunts and uncles whome we have met and shared holidays with and three living cousins, I do not remember my so called grandfather and grandmother, who I now think were uncle and aunt, Mother said she was born in London, her mothers name was Anne Elizabeth Jenkins born in Llanbadarn Aberystwyth 1869, mother says her father was a knight of the Realm a Liberal MP who was a married man, therefore she was born out of wedlock, hence the secrecy, on 13th May 1911. I can not find any record of her birth. On the 1911 census s Anne Elizabeth was living and working as a servant in Battersea London, mother "would"have to be born just after the census was taken, just to make things even more difficult. They went to live in Llanbadarn around 1916 as Anne Elizabeth was ill and died a spinster on 29th march 1917.
Here is the question, would it be worth a day at The Battersea Library to search for parish, hospital, school, church or news paper records.
Any thoughts would be welcome.
David|banghead|:)
My mother was very secretive about her early family history, every thing that I know has been gleaned through snippets of information passed on to my sister by our mother and researched by me, all of which falls into place with our aunts and uncles whome we have met and shared holidays with and three living cousins, I do not remember my so called grandfather and grandmother, who I now think were uncle and aunt, Mother said she was born in London, her mothers name was Anne Elizabeth Jenkins born in Llanbadarn Aberystwyth 1869, mother says her father was a knight of the Realm a Liberal MP who was a married man, therefore she was born out of wedlock, hence the secrecy, on 13th May 1911. I can not find any record of her birth. On the 1911 census s Anne Elizabeth was living and working as a servant in Battersea London, mother "would"have to be born just after the census was taken, just to make things even more difficult. They went to live in Llanbadarn around 1916 as Anne Elizabeth was ill and died a spinster on 29th march 1917.
Here is the question, would it be worth a day at The Battersea Library to search for parish, hospital, school, church or news paper records.
Any thoughts would be welcome.
David|banghead|:)