Genealogy Chat

you find nothing for ages and then lots all at once!

Looking at my Cambridge-born gt grandmother Emma Moore Matthews Garvie's siblings. I found yesterday, through a nephew staying with Emma in 1901, a marriage, 2 children and widowhood for her sister Elizabeth, and that Elizabeth was living in the same area as Emma in the 1870s/80s - Lower Holloway, Islington, London. I started trying to find other relations - tricky as Moore is a popular name. Found a possible for her sister Mary (also v. popular) working as a housemaid in Islington in 1861. Thought this was likely to be the right sister, but decided to check where the place was - and found it was close to where Emma was living when she married in 1865. BUT here's the best bit. I looked on Charles Booth's poverty map to find the road and I also found Victoria Road, which is where Emma's first husband dropped down dead whilst delivering milk in 1879. I had found a road which seemed to be a long way away when I first got his death cert, but now I know exactly where he was. Emma described going to find him when a neighbour fetched her and this makes more sense now I know it was the next road to her house!!!! nell

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Wow, Nell, a hat-trick! :)) always good to have a re-check on things!. Poor Hubby dying like that... Chris :)

So, is this cos you have started taking HRT or something or have you taken up witchcraft. Im getting zilcho on my lot lately. Glad for you though :} My turn will come.

Wow! Wow! and Wow! Congratulations, again. And thanks for continuing to share your good news. Christine

I think its because I've also spent a lot of time looking and not finding, so I'm due some return!!! It is really bugging me that I can't find Emma's 2nd marriage, though it should have occurred between Thomas dying in May 1879 and Mar 1881 when she is on the census as Emma Garvie. I had thought they might have met through his being her lodger - she would have needed to earn some money. But maybe it was through her brother in law instead. Sadly her first husband, poor Thomas, dropped dead on his 14th wedding anniversary. The report of the inquest describes him clutching at some railings outside a house before he fell onto his milk churns. He and his wife had two sons that died in infancy and my grandmother, their last child together, was only 2 and a half when he died. Its so sad that I know nothing about this chap - my grandmother didn't remember him and I have no photos. nell

awww Nell well done, shame your grandmother didnt have any photos, would anyone else in the family have had them? i keep thinking about phots in my family, there must be some somewhere but its knowing which family member they got passed to, im hoping they didnt get thrown out. fingers crossed one day you may come across them