Possible adoption?

[MarkCDodd]

Out of all the records on all the sites I am a member of I have only ever found two people with the first names Horry May.

There is my 1st cousin here....

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=bcconnections&view=0&pid=121085&randi=368488981

and this young lady in Cheshire.

1911 census transcription details for: Manchester Road Wilmslow


National Archive Reference:

RG14PN21514 RG78PN1282 RD445 SD1 ED5 SN124
Reg. District: Bucklow
Sub District: Wilmslow
Parish: Wilmslow
Enum. District: 5
Address: Manchester Road Wilmslow
County: Cheshire
Name Relation Condition/
Yrs married Sex Age Birth Year Occupation Where Born
SIMPSON, Martha Head Widow F 72 1839 Boarding House Keeper Cheadle Cheshire
SIMPSON, May Horry Adopted Daughter M 14 1897 Wilmslow Cheshire
THOMPSON, Tom Boarder Widower M 34 1877 Corn Miller Congleton Cheshire

This has to be her. I can find no other evidence of Horry May Price.

Opinions?

[MarkCDodd]

Can't be her

I already have her with her mother in the 1901 census so this one is not her.....

1901 census transcription details for: West Street, Alderley Edge

National Archive Reference:
RG number: RG13
Piece: 3318
Folio: 47
Page: 36
Reg. District: Macclesfield
Sub District: Alderley
Parish: Alderley Edge
Enum. District: 9
Ecclesiastical District: St Philips Alderley Edge
City/Municipal Borough:
Address: West Street, Alderley Edge
County: Cheshire
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation , Disability Where Born
SIMPSON, Martha Head Widow F 62 1839 Shopkeeper Sweets & C Cheadle, Cheshire
SIMPSON, May H Adopted Daughter F 4 1897 Sheffield, Yorkshire
HODKIN, Ann Boarder Widow F 62 1839 Upolsteress Manchester, Lancashire
BOLTON, John W Boarder Single M 21 1880 Groom Domestic Oxfordshire

[Jimmy]

Harry is Horry on image.
1901. Walsall.
James Round 58.
Maria Round 51.
Elina Round 21.
Rhoda Round 20.
Edith Round 8.
Harry Price 6. Grand dau. Perry Barr, Staffordshire.
Joseph Taylor 63.

[Jimmy]

1911. 134 Hatherton St, Walsall.
Maria Brown 61. Widow.
Clara Ann Bailey 35. Dau. Widow.
Eliza Price 30. Dau. Single.
Edith Round 18. Niece.
Florence May Dodd 19. Niece.
Alfred Rose 40. Boarder.
William Nock 69. Boarder.

[MarkCDodd]

That 1901 census is the one I have showing the girl in Cheshire can't be her.

Clara Ann Bailey nee Price is her mother but Horry does not appear in the 1911 census.

Clara married a John Henry Bailey in 1899, 4 years after Horry was born.

Horry does not appear under the name Bailey in any records.

Maria Brown is nee Round nee Price nee Upton. That is how she ends up with unmarried children with various surnames.

Eliza Price marries the boarder, Alfred Rose, and has a child three months later. Shotgun wedding.

Horry just vanishes and I have no idea after years of hunting her down what happened to her.

This one branch has so many early widows and illegitimates that most of my unsolved mysteries are in it.

The Florence May Dodd on there is actually Florence May Price. I have no idea who her father is because my Great Grandfather Frederick Dodd was in India at the time of her conception. She was registered as a Price but brought up as Frederick's daughter.

The Price family tended to bring up the illigits and I have no evidence of them adopting them out in the past.

[Northern Lass]

are you still working on this one?

do you want me to archive? or move to Brickwalls?

[MarkCDodd]

Archive it. We have attempted this before and on here and got nowhere.