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And here's some luck: she was with grandparents in 1871, giving you another surname:


Name: Esther Catling
Age: 10
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861
Relation: Granddaughter
Where born: Shoreditch, Middlesex, England

Civil Parish: Bethnal Green
Ecclesiastical parish: St Thomas
Town: London
County/Island: London
Registration district: Bethnal Green
Sub registration district: Hackney Road

Esther Willis 68
Thomas Willis 38
Joseph Willis 32
Hannah Willis 26
Thomas Catling 12
Esther Catling 10
Alice Catling 8

Yes it does sound as if it could be her Evie. I won't dismiss it.

thanks Darklord i'll make a note of all that.

thanks very much you two i really appreciate your help

Wow evie thanks a lot.


Jo xx

Searching at FreeBMD for births for

surname catlin*
given name esther

we get:

Births Jun 1850
Catling Esther Sophia Boston 14 299
- really rather old to be your Esther

Births Dec 1861
CATLING Esther Mary Shoreditch 1c 184

Births Jun 1870
Catlin Esther Ware 3a 244
- almost certainly too young to be your Esther


No other options!

Again thanks very much both of you

Jo x

Ah, I wonder whether what had happened was that Esther's mother died before 1871.

There's an 1857 marriage of Edward William Catling and (probably) Esther Oliver Willis.

But the wife's name in 1881 is Eliza.

I imagine it was a second marriage, and he was a widow in 1871 when the children were with the maternal grandparents.

So Esther Oliver Willis would be Esther Catling's mother.

You're welcome!

I hesitate to mess around with them any more, since I assume people like to do their own family histories. ;)

Do check the 1911 to see who might be in the household.

In case you haven't got familiar with it, search for, say, Alice Slatter born 1897 +/- 2 years. When you have the location, search for all Slatters in that location living with Alice Slatter.

http://www.1911census.co.uk/search/tnaform.aspx

No new children in 1911; I checked.

But -- two people here at GR have Esther Catling 1861 Shoreditch in their trees!