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Could the S in Elizabeth's name be Spencer, which could imply a maternal Surname somewhere....


Tracey x

Is this the correct john Amor in 1861.

Name: John Amor
Age: 27
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1834
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Maria
Gender: Male
Where born: Devizes, Wiltshire, England

Civil Parish: St Pancras
Ecclesiastical parish: St Michael
County/Island: Middlesex
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

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Registration district: Pancras
Sub registration district: Kentish Town
ED, institution, or vessel: 29
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 71
Household Members:
Name Age
John Amor 27
Maria Amor 24
John Amor 3
George Amor 1
Elizabeth Spencer 20 sister in law

This your Elizabeth Amor's birth?

Births Jun 1864
AMOR Elizabeth Chard 5C 525

Births Dec 1864
AMOR Elizabeth Pancras 1b 178

No mention of Maria tho?


Tracey x

I take it this is the cencus that you refer to.

1871
Name: Elizabeth Amor
Age: 6
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1865
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: John
Mother's Name: Elizabeth S
Gender: Female
Where born: St Pancras, Middlesex, England
Civil Parish: Islington St John
Ecclesiastical parish: St John
County/Island: London
Country: England
Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability:

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Registration district: Islington
Sub registration district: Islington West
ED, institution, or vessel: 73
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 109
Household Members:
Name Age
John Amor 38
Elizabeth S Amor 38
John Amor 13
George Amor 11
Elizabeth Amor 6
Joseph Amor 4
William Amor 3
Annie Amor 1
Benjamin Spencer 19 brother in law

Have you found the births of any of John & Elizabeth's children? A birth cert would give you Elizabeth's maiden name.

Brother-in-law on censuses doesn't always mean the same as it means now - sometimes it was used to indicate a step-brother. May be Mr Spencer is John's step-brother? Have you gone back further with the Amor family?

In searching for the family of Elizabeth Maria Amor b 1864 I found her with father, John, (after whom she named her son) and mother Elizabeth S. I had difficulty finding the marriage until I did a phonetic search and got a marriage between a John Amer and Elizabeth Blomfield in 1855 in Hackney.
This was fine until I started looking for Elizabeth Blomfield's family. I thought I'd found it (as Bloomfield) until I found her still with the family well after she married and had her children. I then went back and looked again for John & Elizabeth S's family in 1871, suddenly noticing a brother-in-law surnamed Spencer. I found a marriage for Amor/Spencer in 1855 also but this was an Ann Maria.
It's further complicated by the fact that, as I found (I thought) the Bloomfield family a distant cousin told me about a Jewish gr gr grandmother, which fits the Bloomfields. What am I to make of this Spencer brother-in-law?
Can anyone untangle this and advise please?