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Can anyone help me?! I am searching for Louisa Fisher, apparently born in Wandsworth in c1856/7. Married James Windebank in 1880 where her father is a labourer named Robert Fisher.

The only Louisa Fisher on the 1861 census in Wandsworth has her father shown as Absolom Fisher. Furthermore, there is no Louisa Fisher listed on the birth register in Wandsworth for those years. (There is one listed for 1855 but I have the certificate for that and it shows her father as owning a greengrocers and called Henry.) In addition I can find no Robert Fishers in the 1861 census' with daughters called Louisa, bar one who is a solicitor.

So unless it is possible to sink from solicitor to labourer I am well and truly stuck...

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Many thanks.

Is this her in 1871 as a domestice servant? Doesn't help with parents though:-

Name: Louisa Fisher
Age: 15
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1856
Gender: Female
Where born: New Wandsworth, Surrey, England

Civil Parish: Lambeth
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street address: 22 Angell Road (?)

Occupation: domestic servant

Condition as to marriage: single

Disability: View Image

Registration district: Lambeth
Sub-registration district: Brixton
ED, institution, or vessel: 26a
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 32
Household Members: Name Age

Eliza Barratt 14
Albert H Clements 3
Chales Clements 29
Julia Clements 29
Julia Clements 2
Louisa Fisher 15

Source Citation: Class: RG10; Piece: 688; Folio: 44; Page: 8; GSU roll: 823334.

Registration wasn't compulsory then, so her birth may not have been registered.

Kath. x

Louise

Do you have them on the 1881

1891

Louisa Windebank
Age: 34
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1857
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: James
Gender: Female
Where born: Wandsworth, Surrey, England

Civil Parish: Wandsworth
Ecclesiastical parish: St Stephens
Town: Wandsworth
County/Island: London
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Wandsworth
Sub-registration district: Wandsworth
ED, institution, or vessel: 3
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Alice Windebank 2
Ernest Windebank 10
James Windebank 34
Lilly Windebank 4
Louisa Windebank 34
Rose Windebank 8

Births Mar 1855 (>99%)
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Fisher Louisa Wandsworth 1d 401


Just checked census this ones dad is Henry

Hi
Thanks,
On the 1881 census it says she is born in Wandsworth.

She is married by then to James.

Hi
Thanks,
On the 1881 census it says she is born in Wandsworth.

She is married by then to James.

I see from her marriage it say her middle name is Harriet...do you think it could be her 1st name

Births Sep 1856 (98%)
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Fisher Harriet Wandsworth 1d 386

I suppose it could be! I hadn't thought of that. Was it common to change your name?

I am not too familiar with the way Victorians did things!

Louise
In my experience name changing was not uncommon; I have several ancestors who appear with first names on one census and middle ones on another.