General Chat

Phyll, this is an aside, but I found out my gran was in prison on the 1939 register.
My finding it was purely by accident.
On being imprisoned, upon being asked her surname - she gave 4 different ones! :-D :-D :-D :-D
Three I knew - her maiden name (the 'real' one she had at the time of imprisonment)
The name of the man who was possibly my father's father (whose address she gave as her 'abode')
The name of the man she married when my father's possible father was killed in the war.
A.N Other - possibly the man of 'bad influence' that led her to being imprisoned n the first place!!!

She was also fined for having a dog with no licence, and having an 'unmasked' light on her car.

I also know, she used to send my dad to private schools.
When the final demand came for the fees, she removed him, and registered him at another school, under a different name!

Gran was a lovely lady, though. When I knew her, she had a smallholding, and tickled her pigs every day, before letting them out in the field :-D :-D
When dad was about 16, she 'took in' a 2 year old boy she found wandering the streets (with the approval of his parents).

She also decided, aged about 65, that she had kidney disease, so she gave up her smallholding, and toured the country raising money for Kidney disease - she won an award for the money she raised . It transpired, however, that she didn't have any kidney disease :-D :-D :-D

So, basically, anything's possible!!! :-D :-D :-D

Thanks Kucinta, a useful bit of info.
Phyll

Phyll, It's the same site as for ordering certs.

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/login.asp

sign in and you get this page.

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/menu.asp

Under the 'what wold you like to do menu, the one on the top left is 'Search the GRO indexes'.

What a wonderful lot of people you are for trying all manner of things to help me. I feel that one day I will break through this brick wall but in the meantime, will keep searching all avenues.

Andrew, regarding possible marriages to Mr. Lucking & Mr. Scutt, I can't find a death for Rose under these surnames,

KathleenBell, please what is the GRO site? I have only ever used the GRO for purchasing certificates.

I can't thank you all enough for what you are/have been doing for me.
Kind regards
Phyll

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Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Dec 1911 (>99%)
>>>>Chandler Rose Steyning 2b 603
Gates Dorothy A Steyning 2b 603
Lucking Harry C Steyning 2b 603
Scutt Frank Steyning 2b 603


Possible death. Age is somewhat out.

Deaths Mar 1933 (>99%)
Scutt Rosetta 63 Steyning 2b 561


Andy

It's easy to forget, but very useful!

Ooops! I should have thought to look on the GRO site which always gives the full name.

Back to the drawing board.

Kath. x

Excellent thought Kathleen!

However the GRO index gives the full name and it's not Newman:

CHANDLER, ROSA HARRIETT 75
GRO Reference: 1929 M Quarter in BRIGHTON Volume 02B Page 540

it was a very good idea though.

I wonder if the Brighton death in 1929 where it gives the name Rosa H. Chandler could have been mistranscribed from Rosa N. Chandler - if the informant wanted to acknowledge her previous name of Newman. Just a thought really. The year of birth is certainly right and it's in the right area.

Kath. x

Thanks to all of you who have tried to help me find my Gt. Grandmother's death. I will be looking at the possibility that she married again although she was knocking on a bit but that's no obstacle even in those days.
Phyll

For reference

1911 census
George Tyler Chandler 1868 Hyde Beeding Sussex INVALID
Rose Chandler 1854 Partridge Green Sussex
Alfred Newman step son 1882 West Grinstead
Annie Newman day in law 1882 Sayers Common
Jessie Florence 1902 grandchild Horsham Sussex

Thank you all for your help. I am going to have to leave this for now as i have to go out for a while. Will look in tomorrow.
Phyll

????

Deaths Jun 1911
Chandler George T 43 Steyning
....

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Marriages Jun 1917

Chandler Rosa ... Oliver... Lewes 2b 393
Oliver Thomas A Chandler Lewes 2b 393

I don't think it is Rosa who is the closed record on the 1939 register as on the image you can see what looks like the "tail end" of a "y" or a "j" or some other letter that drops below the line.

Her death really should be under the name of Chandler.

Kath. x

Rose married George Tyler Chandler in 1904. In 1911 she was living with son Alfred & his wife Annie in Nep Town, Henfield. I do have the certificate for Rose & George's marriage.
Alfred & Annie were living in Chanctonbury in 1939 and there is one other with them.

Is this Rosa in the 1911 census? :-

1911 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
38 Melbourne Strret Brighton, Brighton, Sussex, England

First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Sex Age Birth year Birth place Occupation

Edwin Chandler Head Married Male 54 1857 Sussex Lodsworth Cemetery Labourer
Rosa Chandler Wife Married Female 57 1854 High Barnes Middlesex
Ruth Chandler Daughter Single Female 19 1892 Brighton Sussex Domestic Servant
Frederick Bell Visitor Single Male 20 1891 Brighton Sussex Road Porter

If so, then perhaps they didn't actually marry as the image says they have been married 27 years, but you say Mr. Newman only died in 1900.

Kath. x

There is this possible death but she has a middle initial:-

England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription
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First name(s) ROSA H
Last name CHANDLER
Gender Female
Birth day -
Birth month -
Birth year 1854
Age 75
Death quarter 1
Death year 1929
District Brighton
County Sussex
Volume 2B
Page 540
Country England
Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007

Kath. x

I am looking for a rose/rosa chandler born 1853 in West Grinstead. I don,t know when she died but others have a rose newman dying in 1917 in steyning. I'm just not sure about this.
Many thanks

Her death should be registered in the name from her second marriage. However it all depends on what information the informant gave at the time.

Whose death are you looking for and when?

Kath. x

Is it possible for a woman who was married to a Newman who died in 1900 & then married a Chandler to be deceased as Newman? It is a right conundrum.
Thank you.
Phyll