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If you look at the 1911 census for Jane Wray her status is "wife" and the children are "son" and "daughter" so there is no suggestion she is their stepmother?

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Caroline Meach in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005
Name: Caroline Meach
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1921
Registration district: South Shields
Inferred County: Durham
Spouse: Alexander Bertie
Volume Number: 10a
Page Number: 1784


Caroline Bertie on the 1939 Register
Bertie Household (2 People) 64 Adelaide Street , South Shields C.B., Durham, England


Caroline Bertie 08 Jul 1900 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 170 2
Alexander W Bertie 16 Jul 1895 Male General Labourer Heavy Worker Married 170 1
(One Closed Record)

At the same residence is mother Jane Wray.


Caroline Bertie in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Caroline Bertie
Birth Date: 8 Jul 1900
Date of Registration: Mar 1972
Age at Death: 71
Registration district: South Shields
Inferred County: Durham
Volume: 1a
Page: 2373

Jane Wray was residing at 64 Adelaide Street, , South Shields C.B., Durham, on the 1939 Register.

Richard Meach in the British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
Name: Richard Meach
Gender: Male
Birth Date: abt 1898
Enlistment Age: 18
Document Year: 1916
Residence Place: 64 Adelaide St, So Shields <<<<<
Regimental Number: 39393
Number of Images: 21
Form Title: Short Service Attestation
Family Members:
Name Relation to Soldier
Richard Meach Self (Head)
Jane Wray Mother

UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 (Ancestry)
Richard Meach
Gender: Male
Death Date: 21 Mar 1918 (presumed date of death)
Death Place: France
Rank: Private
Regiment: 2 DLI
Regimental Number: 39393

States Effects (£9-9-2d) to mother Jane Wray.

So, yes. Jane Henderson/Meach/Wray was his next of kin

Not the Son relating below was it?...

Chris :)

Soldiers died in the Great War 1914-1919 Transcription (Find My Past)

First name(s) Richard
Last name Meach
Service number 39393
Rank Private
Regiment Durham Light Infantry
Battalion 2nd Battalion.
Enlistment place South Shields
Death year 1918
Death day 21
Death month 3
Cause of death Killed in action
Death place France & Flanders


https://www.twgpp.org/photograph/view/2405910

(Arras Memorial)

Hi safc .............


yes, I think Kelsey is going to have to buy some to prove this family.

hi
SylviaInCanada

well thought of

just what i was thinking

some certs needed

The image of that 1911 Census shows that John Wray had been married for 5 years ............... which roughly fits with a marriage in late 1905.


The image of the 1911 Census for Jane Wray shows that she has been married 5 years, and had 1 child during that marriage and that the child died.

The column headings say "Number of Years Present Marriage has Lasted", and "Number of Children born alive to present marriage" .................... hence why she does not list the two older children.


So ................ it looks as though the marriage broke up, and John went back to live with his parents

Of course, the other explanation is that he was visiting his parents on the night that the census was taken, and so he had to be shown at that address not at home with his wife.


It's possible that the only way you will solve this is if you buy that death record, and see who reported his death!

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possible death of John Wray ..... right age and place

Deaths Mar 1914 (>99%)
Wray John 37 S.Shields 10a 960

I wonder is this is Jane on the 1939 Register???

Wray Household (1 Person) 64 Adelaide Street , South Shields C.B., Durham, England

First name(s) Last name(s) DOB Occupation
Jane Wray 16 Dec 1874 Unpaid Domestic Duties

no further information on the image

It's possible that child died very soon after birth ..... the age is shown as 1, but on the new GRO Index that can be either 1 month or 1 year as they have not yet solved how to indicate month and year


WRAY, MARY ANN 1
GRO Reference: 1908 D Quarter in SOUTH SHIELDS Volume 10A Page 491

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could this be a child of John Wray and Jane Henderson (late Meach)

WRAY, MARY ANN HENDERSON
GRO Reference: 1908 D Quarter in SOUTH SHIELDS Volume 10A Page 850

NO they are not different women!!


Thomas Meach married Jane Henderson in 1897

Thomas Meach died in 1901

His widow Jane Meach nee Henderson married again in 1905 to John Wray, thus becoming Jane Wray


Jane Henderson, Jane Meach and Jane Wray are one and the same person

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1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
110 Campbell St So Shields, South Shields, Durham, England

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Household Members
First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Occupation Age Birth year Birth place
Robert Wray Head Married Male Seaman 59 1852 Yorks Scarboro
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Isabella Wray Wife Married Female - 59 1852 Co Durham South Shields
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John Wray Son Married Male Cartman General 35 1876 Co Durham South Shields xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Robert Wray Son Single Male Foundry Labourer 26 1885 Co Durham South Shields
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Georgina Wray Daughter - Female Domestic Servant 24 1887 Co Durham South Shields
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Mary Ann Wray Daughter - Female Shop Assistant Grocery 20 1891 Co Durham South Shields
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Agnes Wray Daughter Single Female Shop Assistant Pawnbroking 16 1895 Co Durham South Shields
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Ethel Wray Daughter - Female - 14 1897 Co Durham South Shields

Ah i see it now!! So Thomas Meach married a Jane Henderson who became Jsne Meach. Am I right that Jane Henderson and Jane Wray are different women? If so how would Jane Wray have ended up caring for Thomas' kids? Or is it same woman who just remarried?

England & Wales marriages 1837-2008 Transcription

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First name(s) THOMAS
Last name MEACH
Marriage quarter 2
Marriage year 1897
Registration month -
MarriageFinder™ THOMAS MEACH married one of these people
Selina Mayne, Jane Henderson
District South Shields
District number -
County Durham
Country England
Volume 10A
Page 1175
Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2008
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Marriages & divorces
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MEACH, CAROLINE HENDERSON Order
GRO Reference: 1900 S Quarter in SOUTH SHIELDS Volume 10A Page 819


MEACH, RICHARD THOMAS HENDERSON Order
GRO Reference: 1898 M Quarter in SOUTH SHIELDS Volume 10A Page 805

her maiden name is henderson

Thank you! So from that do I gather that Jane remarried a man named Wray in 1905 and that is were that surname came from? How do I go about finding her maiden name and the actual mother of Caroline and Richard Thomas?

Northumberland and Durham Marriages Transcription

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First name(s) Jane
Last name Meach
Sex Female
Marriage year 1905
Marriage date 25 Oct 1905
Place South Shields
Description St. Jude
Spouse first name(s) John
Spouse last name Wray
Groom's first name(s) John
Groom's last name Wray
Groom's parish -
Bride's first name(s) Jane
Bride's last name Meach
Bride's parish -
County Durham
Country England
Record set Northumberland And Durham Marriages
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Marriages & divorces
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Marriages Dec 1905 (>99%)
JENNINGS Mary Ann S. Shields 10a 1264
MEACH Jane S. Shields 10a 1264
WARDALE Arthur S. Shields 10a 1264
WRAY John S. Shields 10a 1264