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Walter and Margaret:

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Marriages Jun 1870
Cole Margaret Anna Basingstoke 2c 331
Kingham Walter Joseph Basingstoke 2c 331


Rose

Yes Rose sorry you did .......but we did understand Eva went into service very young so am supprised she was on the census

Thanks so much for your time this is great my son cant believe that we go so much so quick ...hes writting it down !! hahahha didnt like to say I will print it

9 seems a little young to be in service. 12 or 13 would be more likely.

Rose

You've got to have stuffed up on your dates to think a 4 y o boy is writing love letters to an 8 y.o. girl who's in service in 1911.

yes I agree with you both on the letter thing but we have them and I,m about to read them for the first time .....didnt like to till I had spoken to x-hubby

That isnt all we were told she was younger than him BUT when I found the birth records on BMDFREE it clearly shows he was the younger so ...I guess to be totally sure of all this info anyway I do need to get certificates

her name on here grave stone is Eva MAY not margareta so thats odd to BUT we didnt do her stone her other son did and we have been told he has passed away to

But Thanks againfor your great kindness and I will up date this when I have the certificate

It's Margaret on the death certificate too:

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005
about Eva Margaret A Dudley
Name: Eva Margaret A Dudley
Birth Date: 28 Jul 1902
Death Registration Month/Year: Nov 1989
Age at death (estimated): 87
Registration district: Reading and Wokingham
Inferred County: Berkshire
Volume: 19
Page: 236

Rose

I've come across several examples where May and Margery were used interchangeably in 19th cent Aberdeenshire. I had heard that, more generally, May was regarded as a pet form for Margery and Margaret, but I've come across no other instances of this.
(Bit vague - sorry abt that)