Harriet Snowden

GEDCOM Note

Louth Registration district--England & Wales, FreeBMD, 1837-1915: Volume 7a, page 553

GEDCOM Note

Hi Ron,
  Thanks for the email, sorry it has taken me so long to reply.  
I actually contacted you through your web site as I was doing a search on my grandmother and just happened to come across it. I hadn't done anything for quite a long time but recently have started up again and am starting to brush off the rust. I have since been on your sight and notice that some of the info you have is from my Genes Reunited stuff. That sight is a bit out of date now though.  
I was in our local library yesterday and discovered that my grandmother Mary Elizabeth Saxby (Nicholson) had 7 siblings.(1911 census) Previously I only thought there was just one, Walter. So in 1911 They lived at 45 Roberts Street, Grimsby. with 6 rooms in the dwelling William Head age 41, Ice factory labourer. b Great Carlton Harriet (Snowden)Wife age 41. b. South Elkington Walter son 16.  'Tanners' ?? Labourer. b Oxcombe, Horncastle Lilly E. age 9. b Grimsby James age 8. b Grimsby. Frank L age 6. b Grimsby Anny L age 4. b Grimsby John G age 2. b Grimsby Dorris M age 1. b Grimsby  
Total years married - 15 (Therefore married in 1896)  
Also Total children born alive to present marriage, Total Children born alive - 8 Children still living - 6 Children who died - 2  
As you can see this is a bit confusing as there are 8 children still alive, (Mary Elizabeth) is not on this page, and two died making a total of 10 children. I cant find a Mary Elizabeth Nicholson ( or a Mary L Nicholson) on the 1911 census but she appears on the 1901 census of 145 Cromwell Road with William, Harriet and Walter as Mary L Nicholson.   
Harriet died in 1946 aged 76 in Grimsby.  
Unless Mary and Walter were from a previous marriage (Donna? Maddison)  
Mary was born in 1892 and Walter in 1895 both before the marriage of William and Harriet.  
I cant find any person on Free BMD re the marriage of William to a Maddison. Though there is a birth in 1871 of a Katharine Dorothy Maddison (would be 1 years difference between her and William) and her death in 1895 aged 23 years in Spilsby. No record of any marriage though. Think I might have to get a copy of Mary's birth certificate to find out who the mother was.  
Best regards  
Roy (Saxby)

GEDCOM Source

Census 1881 England Census--Yarborough, Lincolnshire, England, UK District 1, Yarborough, Lincolnshire, England N/A Scanned original document November 2010 Ancestry.uk 12 NOV 2010