Genealogy Chat

I think it might be. I just had a look over the original census image (she's there on Ancestry but not on the National Archives site - I've found that a lot - Maria isn't there and neither is Marie) and it looks like it could be her. I wonder why her age is different, though - maybe she didn't want someone to find her or something. Saying that, my other great grandfather was most impressive at giving his age on the census - 8 months in 1861, 10 years in 1871, 18 in 1881, 29 in 1891 and 37 in 1901 - he must have been quite a miraculous man to have been losing age like that. Also, it would make sense for her be in the Midlands, as I know she got back to Notts within two years, to be married. Her parents were living in Retford and she got married in Retford. She and her husband lived there - detouring via Boothby Pagnell for some reason, where my grandad was born. I wish I'd found this board earlier. Thanks very much everybody.

Is this her? 1901 Name: Marie Barnett Age: 28 Estimated birth year: abt 1873 Relation: Servant Gender: Female Where born: Tinsley Park, Yorkshire, England Civil parish: Rearsby Ecclesiastical parish: Rearsby St Michael County/Island: Leicestershire Country: England Street address: Church Lays Occupation: Cook Condition as to marriage: Single Registration district: Barrow upon Soar Sub-registration district: Syston ED, institution, or vessel: 3 Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 64 Household Members: Name Age Thomas Allen 19 Marie Barnett 28 Edith Bayley 42 Edward Bland 15 Felisa Bonnet 59 Fred Brown 25 Millis Butler 18 Frederick Cosper 21 Violet Cowley 34 - Head living on own means Lily Gough 24 Alice Gulliver 23 H Louise 36 Walter Luneo 18 Annie Maskill 40 Robert E Myddelton 35 - Husband living on own means Selina J Myddelton 1 - Daughter All others are various domestic servents (e.g. housekeeper, nurse, butler, footman, valet, housemaid)

Could this be her, name and age abit out, but birthplace is correct:- Name: Marie Barnett Age: 28 Estimated birth year: abt 1873 Relation: Servant Gender: Female Where born: Tinsley Park, Yorkshire, England Civil parish: Rearsby Ecclesiastical parish: Rearsby St Michael County/Island: Leicestershire Country: England Street address: Church Leys Occupation: Cook (domestic) Condition as to marriage: single Education: Employment status: View image Registration district: Barrow upon Soar Sub-registration district: Syston ED, institution, or vessel: 3 Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 64 Household Members: Name Age Thomas Allen 19 Marie Barnett 28 Edith Bayley 42 Edward Bland 15 Felisa Bonnet 59 Fred Brown 25 Millis Butler 18 Frederick Cosper 21 Violet Cowley 34 Lily Gough 24 Alice Gulliver 23 H Louise 36 Walter Luneo 18 Annie Maskill 40 Robert E Myddelton 35 Selina J Myddelton 1 Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 2984; Folio: 66; Page: 9. Kath. x

Thanks for the link to Herman Ernst. I don't know if Maria was at school because she was a servant at the age of fourteen, but perhaps the family came into some money. There's a family belief that Maria was wealthy - she bought a house in Retford, Notts., ten years after her wedding, for two hundred pounds with her own money, but we don't know where it came from. Her father was a coachman but was later the cemetery keeper of the North Road cemetery in Retford for about 33 years - he died in 1917. If she was in London, I suppose it's possible she could have been out of England at some point around 1901.

Hi London Kelly's Directory of Photographers Ernst, Hermann 1 Waverley Pl, St Johns Wood N.W. 1891-03 Regards Gail

Hi Could she have been sent away to School at the time of the census? Sue

Can anyone solve this one? It's a big mystery and I'm trying to get some ideas. Great-grandma Maria Ann Barnett born 25/7/1877 Tinsley Park, Yorkshire is missing from the 1901 census. Her parents were George Barnett and Mary Ann Dennis - George was a cemetery keeper. She had three siblings - Ellen (13) is with her parents in 1901, John William (27) is working in Brightside Bierlow and Betsy (21) is missing too. What I can't fathom is, where would an unmarried twenty-four year old woman be, without her parents, in 1901? Ten years before she worked for a Wesleyan minister called Elisha Eslick, whose children had been born in India, as I recall, so I thought he might have gone back, taking the servants, but the Eslick family are still there. Maria didn't marry until 1903, so where could she have gone? We have a photograph of her - judging by her clothes (which are not especially plain - embroidery, lace on the collar etc, puffed sleeves at the shoulder) and the sitter's age she is somewhere between sixteen and twenty-one and the top of her dress looks 1890s - but the signature underneath reads 'Hermann Ernst'. I have googled the name but came up with nothing.