Genealogy Chat

The Harry Yopp that you found on the 1881 census, Rose, is the right age to be Alice's illegitimate son, and then would have been the grandson of Selina.
(don't worry about me I'm just thinking aloud and really clutching at straws!)
Jill

I'm going round in circles with my ggran Alice Inwood aka Alice Yapp.
I can see why Rose thought she could have been Charlotte Dinah although I can't see why such a great change of name.
The wedding cert of Alice Inwood to George Roath in sep 1872 gives her age as 22 and Charlotte Dinah Inwood was age 2 on the 1861 census.
I'm keen to get Alice's birth cert but she is eluding me somewhat.....
What does anyone think?
My brain is beginning to hurt as I've sat poring over this family (MY family!) for ages. I can't even think what question to ask!
ANY advice would be helpful.
thanks
Jill

Jill,

I asked this earlier but perhaps you didn't see.

What was Robert Inwood's occupation and where was Alice living when she married in 1882 and who were the witnesses to the marriage?

Rose

Sorry Rose, I missed that!
on the wedding cert Alice's father Robert was a Printer - and I had quite forgotten that!
Bride and groom were down as living in Sherlock St, Birmingham and were married at St Martins.
I've trawled loads of records and not found Alice.
cheers
Jill

Oops missed it again
The witnesses at the marriage were
Jane Wragg (her mark)
Henry Bevan.
Jill

Robert is listed as a printer in 1861 so that fits.

Too bad there are no relatives as witnesses.

Rose

Thanks Rose - that's what I thought.

So is this one of those searches that I have to put on the back burner? I wonder if I shall ever track 'MY' Alice down. I still can't believe she would change her name as drastically as to Charlotte Dinah(DIana being Selina's middle name)

It seems to be back to the old saying that
"you know who your mother was because she bore you but you only know who your father was because your mother told you"

- except that even that seems to be a bit doubtful when you read of the adopted babies etc!
thanks for thinking for me and watching over my threshing about
love
Jill

Hi all,
Apologies if this thread has moved on since and this is now old news....

I'm not sure if this helps, however I am convinced that Alice Mary Anne Inwood & Charlotte Dinah Inwood were different people.
There is a distinct possibility that Charlotte Dinah died in 1862 and was registered as Charlotte Dinah Pratt in the Dec Qtr of 1862 for Birmingham 6D / 58. I've always assumed this was her and was registered under the pseudonym that the separated Selina Bettridge / Inwood / Pratt / Yapp was going under at that time. She was then buried as Charlotte Yapp in 1862 at Wasrstone Lane cemetary in grave number 10876.

To make matters even more complicated I have a copy of a certificate of marriage for Mary Ann Inwood and George Porter for the 12th July 1870 at St Martins in Birmingham. Mary Ann's father is Robert Inwood (although shown as a lathe rinder, not a printer). I had always assumed that this was Alice, but it seems from this thread that I am wrong (or she married with undue haste if George died quickly). Not sure how this fits in but I cannot find another Mary Ann Inwood that fits the bill - Alice being baptised as Alice Mary Ann in 1853, again at St Martin.