1891
Name: Sidney A Cray Age: 39 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1852 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Agnes M Cray Gender: Male Where born: Westbury, Wiltshire, England Civil Parish: Swindon Ecclesiastical parish: Old Swindon Town: Old Swindon County/Island: Wiltshire Country: England Street Address:
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Employment status: View Image Registration District: Highworth Sub-registration District: Swindon ED, institution, or vessel: 17 Neighbors: View others on page Piece: 1582 Folio: 99 Page Number: 16 Household Members: Name Age Sidney A Cray 39 Agnes M Cray 38 Laura A Cray 16
Marriages Sep 1894 Cray Laura Agnes Barton R. 6a 173 Tunstall Joseph Thomas R Barton R. 6a 173
Deaths Sep 1896 Tunstall Laura Agnes 22 Highworth 5a 5
Marriages Jun 1904
Kite Florence Victoria Bristol 6a 27 Tunstall Joseph Thomas R Bristol 6a 27
1911
Name: Joseph Thomas Roger Tunstall Age in 1911: 41 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870 Relation to Head: Head Gender: Female Birth Place: Edgeware, Middlesex, England Civil Parish: Swindon County/Island: Wiltshire Country: England Street Address: 46 Goddard Avenue, Swindon, Wilts Marital Status: Married Occupation: Railway Clerk Registration District: Swindon Registration District Number: 240 Sub-registration District: Swindon ED, institution, or vessel: 38 Household Schedule Number: 160 Piece: 11804 Household Members: Name Age Joseph Thomas Roger Tunstall 41 Florence Victoria Tunstall 28 Thomas Tunstall 6 Richard Tunstall 5 John Tunstall 3 Charles Tunstall 1
Name: Sydney A Cray Birth Date: abt 1850 Date of Registration: Dec 1929 Age at Death: 79 Registration District: Bristol Inferred County: Gloucestershire Volume: 6a Page: 161
Name: Agnes M Cray Birth Date: abt 1852 Date of Registration: Jun 1920 Age at Death: 68 Registration District: Bristol Inferred County: Gloucestershire Volume: 6a Page: 232
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I'm now coming round to the idea that it could be the same woman ......
I'd guess she may have termed herself a widow as it may have been considered unseemly for a single woman to "adopt" a daughter.
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"Did you know? UK passenger lists do not record travel within Europe unless a ship called at more than one European port before travelling further afield." http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/passengers.htm
An example of these exceptions would be Cunard's habit post-WW1 of travelling between Southampton and New York with an interim stop at Le Havre. Occassionally, one finds passengers travelling between Southanpton and Le Havre mixed in with the trans-atlantic voyagers.
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Official legal adoption did not begin until 1927 ......... so you will not find any papers.
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Have you bought the birth certificate for Josephine L Tunstall to get the names of her parents??
Births Sep 1896 (>99%)
Tunstall Josephine Laura Highworth 5a 11
That should have been your first step.
According to 2 Public Family trees on ancestry, Jospehine Laura was the daughter of Joseph Thomas Roger Tunstall and Laura Agnes Cray
These trees also show that Laura Agnes Cray died in 1896 ................
England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915 about Laura Agnes Tunstall
Name: Laura Agnes Tunstall Estimated Birth Year: abt 1874 Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1896 Age at Death: 22 Registration District: Highwood Inferred County: Wiltshire Volume: 5a Page: 5
Marriage of Laura Agnes and Joseph Tunstall
England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915 about Laura Agnes Cray
Name: Laura Agnes Cray Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1894 Registration District: Barton Regis Inferred County: Gloucestershire Volume Number: 6a Page Number: 173 Records on Page:
Spouse Name: Joseph Thomas R Tunstall
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I would suspect that Alice Jane took responsibility for Josephine, possibly because she was better off than other relatives.
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