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Elizabeth Rose Rolls c1884 - 1933

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Jodi

Jodi Report 19 Jul 2017 19:49

Bit of a long shot here.

I'm trying to find details of my great grandmother, Elizabeth Rose Rolls. I can't find any sign of a birth for her, she never married my great grandfather (so no marriage cert to check) and all the mentions I have found of her give conflicting information!! I have got quite a way back on all my other ancestor lines, so it's really annoying to reach a brick wall only three generations back!

What I know:
1901 Census - worked at hotel on 126-127 Kings Road, Brighton (between today's Granville Hotel and Hilton Hotel?), aged 20 (supposedly) (born Sudbury, Suffolk) - listed as Rose Rolls
1911 - living at 37/38 Kings Road (now the Barcelo Old Ship Hotel), Brighton, aged 33, cook (born Holborn, London?). Single, but using the Perks surname (my great grandfather, so this is definitely her).

Had three children:
Irene Rose Perks (known as Rose) - born 1911 in Sussex
Henry Frederick Perks (known as Fred) - born 1914 in Sussex
Dorothy Ivy Perks (my Nan) - born 1918 in Sussex

Died Jul-Sept 1933, Steyning, aged 49, 2b 317. Listed as Elizabeth Rose Rolls, which confirms never married.

I can't find a birth anywhere in the country and have tried variations of Elizabeth/Rose and spellings of Rolls. Census searches in the Sudbury and Holborn areas in 1891 came up with nothing.

If anyone can help, I'd be eternally grateful! Thanks!

Jodi

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