Genealogy Chat

That is fabulous thanks to everyone! i will order the death certificate and hopefully find out some more. Thank you all again!

Leanne.x

Hi had a search for the death for you before i go to bed and found it.

1931 Q1 Jan Feb Mar

Concha Plummer aged 78 in West Ham Vol Number 4a Page Number 170

Hope that helps.Also looks like her name was Concha.

***Michelle***

From Rootsweb

* Registrar of Birth, Death and Marriages. Reg of B.D.M's Joshua
Hassan House, 3 Secretary's Lane GIBRALTAR. Tel. 350 72289 / Fax 350 42706
............."The Registrars office in Gibraltar has a card index of births
marriages and deaths commencing with births from 3 October 1848, though civil registration was not compulsory till 20 January 1887. Deaths commenced on 1 January 1869 but were only compulsory from 25 December 1912. Marriages commenced on 10 April 1862 and was compulsory from 17 July 1902. Searches are permitted for a fee. Certificates are issued for a fee too. The address is: The Registry
of Births , Marriages and Deaths. Joshua Hassan House. 3, Secretary's Lane, Gibraltar".

ooh thank you julie i didn't even know Concha was a name in it's own right. i'm going to start looking for her death i think. i'm under the impression she was alive in 1920 when my g grandparents got married because my ggrandfather worte a letter which mentions an aunt plummer and he says he was staying with her. i have the address and its the same as where he was living when they married. would i have to write to the local studies library for that area for an electoral roll for that early do you know?

thanks again Julie, everything helps!
Leanne.x

I have this really good baby naming book & it has this

Conchita ( Spanish ) meaning Conception

Other names to tie in with it are...Chita, Conceptia, Concha & Conciana

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yes in 1901 his birth place is st.pancras bron 1860 and i think they were living in "st. George the matyr"? sorry my internet is not working very well tonight or i would copy and paste them. he is 41 and she is 49.

thanks for your help!
Leanne.x

The alternative I just thought of is, Conchita probably wasn't a very common name at that time so the enumerator possibly put down their best guess. Also I think the images we see aren't actually the ones filled in by the householder - they filled a copy in then an enumerator copied it onto a larger sheet, which is the image we see on Ancestry, so it would be easy to make a mistake.

Just been looking for them in 1901 but they haven't come up for me yet. Were they living in London around then?

i was thinking along those lines but she is back to concha again in 1911. and my great aunt was given conchieta not caroline. It's a good theory though i will certainly keep it in mind. thank you. :)

Just wondering, could she have anglicised her name to Caroline? Or perhaps when the census forms were being transcribed by an official, they couldn't make out the name "Conchita" and so thought it looked more like "Caroline" than anything else and wrote that down?

Hi all, i wondered if somone may be able to come up with any ideas on how to find if this Henry Plummer is my Henry plummer and whether my theory is way off!

my great grandfather gave his daughter the middle name on concheita and we always beleived this was for his step mother. we have found no evidence of this and infact i beleive his step mother was named mary!

Last night i found my great gradnfather with his uncle Henry Plummer and his uncles wife in the 1911 census. his wife is, down as "Concha" Pummer. Henry is aged 51 born in 1860 in Kings Cross/St.Pancras. they had been married for 30 years.

in 1901 i beleive i have found Henry Plummer again born st.pancras in 1860. this time his wife is Caroline. in 1891 i beleive i have found the same man with wife consha. each time wife is down as born in Gibralter. in the 1881 i beleive my Henry may be the ne who is a prisoner as his occupation is sailor. my question is, does anyone think it is probable that this is my henry and "concha". where i might find a marriage and if it is possible that the one in 1881 who is a sailor is mine and met and maybe married Concha in gibralter.

i hope i have made that make sense, it is still slightly jumbled in my brain. any help is greatly appreciated. thanks for looking,
Leanne.x