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Dear old Ancestry is not doing searches properly today -- won't pay any attention to spouse/parent names used as search criteria. But this seems to be the only Louisa there in 1891 with husband Walter:
Name: Louisa Taylor
Age: 47
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Walter S
Gender: Female
Where born: Isle of Wight, Shide
Civil Parish: Carisbrooke
Ecclesiastical parish: St John
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England
So what we do is look for her at an age when she would have been with parents, now that we know her birth details. I'm hoping you didn't know them already and just decide to keep them to yourself and make the helpful bystanders search for them. Should be a piece of cake.
Only two Louisa Butchers in Hampshire of that approx age, and this one seems to match best.
In 1851:
Name: Louisa Butcher
Age: 7
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Charles
Mother's Name: Ann
Gender: Female
Where born: Arreton I W, Hampshire, England
Civil Parish: Carisbrooke
Ecclesiastical parish: St John
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England
In 1861:
Name: Louisa Butcher
Age: 17
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1844
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Charles
Mother's Name: Ann
Gender: Female
Where born: Shide, Hampshire, England
Civil Parish: Carisbrooke
Ecclesiastical parish: St John
County/Island: Hampshire
Country: England
But would that all be what you already knew?
This would kinda have to be her:
Name: Louisa Butcher
Year of Registration: 1844
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
District: Isle of Wight
County: Hampshire, Isle of Wight
Volume: 8
Page: __0
Okay, I'll check the image for the page number ... and of course Ancestry sends me to the wrong GRO page ...
Well hmm. I'd say 220 -- and, randomly looking at other births in that quarter in that location, 220 is in line with other page numbers in the list.
So why not order the certificate? Asking for a reference check to make sure that's the page number.
Now, the reason I've been doing all this is this.
There doesn't seem to be a Walter Taylor - Louisa Butcher marriage in 1888. Oddly enough, there is a marriage for each name that year:
Name: Walter Taylor
Year of Registration: 1888
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Alton
County: Hampshire
Volume: 2c
Page: 316
Name: Louisa Butcher
Year of Registration: 1888
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Isle of Wight
County: Hampshire, Isle of Wight
Volume: 2b
Page: 1019
-- but they don't match up. But annoyingly, each seems to be the odd one out on a page, indicating a mistranscription somewhere. So I check ... and again Ancestry sends me to the wrong page ... and I plough through pages of Taylors ...
Louisa is correct. Walter is correct. These two particular people didn't marry each other.
... Yes. In 1881, the Walter Sampson Taylor and Louisa I identified in 1891 were already married.
FreeBMD shows *no* marriage between a Walter Taylor and a Louisa Butcher ever.
However -- IN ***1868***
Name: Walter Sampson Taylor + "Lousa" Butcher
Year of Registration: 1868
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Isle of Wight
County: Hampshire, Isle of Wight
Volume: 2b
Page: 926
**1868** -- not 1888. That's what you meant to say?
DOES NO ONE PROOFREAD WHEN S/HE IS ASKING PEOPLE FOR HELP?
If I'd had the right date, I would have simply found the record of the marriage and said:
Why not order the certificate and find out the answer to your question?
Which is what I'll say now!
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I'm trying to find info on Walter Taylor who married a Louisa Butcher on the Isle of Wight in 1888. I need to know if she was Charles Butcher's daughter
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