Hello list
Have just joined this list in an attempt to sort out some ancestors who are
giving me grief.
Eliza JAMES is one of my wife's gmothers, born 25th Jan 1889 in Worsley, LAN.
I have her birth certificate which says her parents are Robert JAMES and Anne
ROBERTS, but I have not been able to found a marriage.
The 1901 census gives Eliza now aged 12 living in Worsley. Head of the
household is Ann JAMES age 36 single and born in Mostyn and the relationship is
sister. Bother samuel JAMES is also present age 18, a colliery labourer born in
Holywell and another sister Mary Elizabeth aged 2 born Patricroft, LAN.
Living next door is Robert JAMES head married aged 30 coal miner born
Holywell with a wife and 2 children.
The 1891 census shows Robert, Anne, Samuel and Eliza as children of Robert
JAMES widower aged 49 coal miner born Northop all living in Little Hulton, LAN.
I have just received a birth certificate for Samuel JAMES which shows he was
born at the workhouse, Holywell. mother's name Anne JAMES a domestic servant
of Halkin, with no father's name.
I am now beginning to think that the census for 1901 is false and that Anne
is the mother of the three she claimed to be brother and sisters. Does anyone
have any other ideas or what other steps to take
Peter Rowley
Runcorn, Cheshire