Genealogy Chat

Thanks again Sue

It certainly sounds like the right person.

I'd guess that she may not have been positive about where she was born exactly. It sounds as if she grew up in Runcorn and would have assumed she was born there but perhaps she had been told otherwise.

We are so used to filling in forms and writing our place and date of birth nowadays that we forget it wasn't necessary much in the past. People didn't have such a fuss made about their birthdays and if they came from big families I expect even their parents might have forgotten sometimes how old they were or where they were born or baptised.

Sue

Thanks Sue. Glad you found your baptism eventually.

In this case the PR gives Charlottes dob as well, 10 days before the baptism. But I suppose she could still have travelled with her.

Don't forget that parish registers show where someone was baptised not born.

I have a number of examples of people born in one place but baptised later elsewhere. The most extreme in my family was my great grandmother born in Falmouth in Cornwall where her father was working. She was eventually baptised when she was about 6 and the family had moved back to their old family village. I'd been looking for her baptism in Falmouth!

Sue

Thanks for replying Kath

I think its her too. But how to prove it.

Anyone else?

Thanks

Jacqu

Since the mother's name is right, I think it might be your Charlotte in the Runcorn parish register.

She may not have been lying to the enumerator, just giving the nearest big place to where she was born that he might have heard of.

Kath. x

Hi everyone

Trying to figure out where my ancestor Charlotte Owen was born.

This is what I have:

John Chadwick marr Charlotte Owen in Runcorn on 30/12/1836

1851 census Charlotte is at home with children and mother Ann(John working away on the canals) aged 42 and born Manchester.

1861 census with John and Children, Charlotte is 50 and born Runcorn.

1871 she is on her own again aged 61 and born Manchester

1881 with John aged 72 and born Runcorn!!

Now I had assumed that as Charlotte presumably completed the census in 51 and 71 that her correct pob was Manchester. But in the Rucorn parish registers for 1809 there is a Charlotte Owen base born daughter of Ann.

Coincidence? Or do you think this is my Charlotte and she "lied" to the census taker about her pob?

Thanks for reading

Jacqui