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unless I can find a birth I think my search will come to an end!

I am not sure if the cert is relevant.......it could be sending me on a wild goose chase.....I should still consider .the information you supplied Maureen ........there is also a tomlinson marriage but dated 1871 devon......this cannot be the parents of his wife Ellen who married 1875!!!!

1911 census.
Albert Henry Gee 32.
May Gee 20.

living Woolwich

thinking about this still!!!!!! - Maureen I think you are 100% right - I assume their is an error on the marriage cert I have........I am sure it must mean Helena not Ellen..............the only thing is there is a Helena Gee who died 1902.............so that throws a spanner in the works with regards her remarrying or the strange 1891
census - the 1881 +1901 seem to be right just strange about 1891

So we know she was born c1850 Greenwich kent.......Ellen/Helen/Helena Thomlinson......I know Thomlinson is her married name as she was a widow when she married again in 1875........will have to try and find her maiden name and first marriage!

can anyone help me get my head round the three census pieces of information Maureen has attached........1881 + 1901 Helena gee.........but it looks like the same Helena in 1891 is married to someone else which cannot be right as she is still a Gee in 81 +1901 dying 1902 I think

Also is there any way of tracing someone who travvelled as an engineer in the merchant service around 1875????

Pay to look at the 1911 census and see if the address is the same as his marriage cert
He might have knocked a few years of his marriage cert. How old was his wife from the cert?


Heres the marriage.

Michael Barry 1891 mar qt Woolwich possible spouse Helena Mary Gee gro ref 1d 1430

The National Archives have Merchant service records

I just tried the "Search Trees" at the top of the page and there seem to be a few people who are researching the Southampton GEES. You might want to contact them (unless you already have...).
Also,I'll just throw in this one:
1861 Ancestry
Name: Frederick Gee
Age: 19
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842
Relation: Boarder
Gender: Male
Where born: Hamsbury, America?????????
Civil parish: Southampton St Mary
Ecclesiastical parish: St James
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England
Occupation:Marine Engineer
Registration district: Southampton
Sub-registration district: Southampton
ED, institution, or vessel: 29

Household schedule number: 92
Household Members:
Name Age
James Barrett 48
Eliza Barrett 46
Frederick Gee 19
Source Citation: Class: RG9; Piece: 676; Folio: 97; Page: 14

Good luck!

Maureen

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thanks guys, sorry for any confusion

the 1891 census looks correct........as I know her father was thomas turner so all adds up.......its just that on the death index there is a Helena Gee born 1848 died 1902 woolwich.......the exact date she was born .....and its under the name Gee as the 1901 census
It looks to me that Michael Barry and Helena Gee married early 1891....and looks like he died later the same year ( after the census)....

I have noticed that on 1881 census Helena is with her stepdaughter Sophia E Gee - this was obviously Fredericks daughter from his first marriage.........the daughter is 18 and born Southampton.........can anyone help me find her in 1871 to parent Frederick or wife who is by herself or if Sophia is staying with relatives.........

Sophia Eliza Gee born 1863 Jun Q Southampton vol 2c page 3
Birth cert will give you mothers name

Frederick Gee married Ellen Nichol(s) 1861 Jun Q Southampton and in1871 she is shown as lodger aged 29 in southampton , married and styled "wife of Engineer" -but where is Sophia?

thank you.......I have just found the children on 1871 census as visitors - there seems to be no family connection to the people he is staying with.....also notice there is a brother to Sophia Frederick........slowly getting there......