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Amelia was a witness at Tom's marriage

West Yorkshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935

Name: Tom Edwards, dyers labourer of 15 Springfield Street
Birth Year: abt 1886
Age: 19
Marriage or Bann Date: 22 Apr 1905
Parish: Bradford, St Peter (Bradford Cathedral)
Father's Name: Albert Edwards - dyers labourer
Spouse's Name: Clara Waterhouse (21) - worsted spinner of 42 Beamsley Street.
Spouse's Father's Name: Foulds Waterhouse - Wool Comb Minder.

Neither previously married.

Witnesses: Tom Baldwin and Amelia Edwards.

Thanks for that, Marie Celeste!

Do you have Matilda's marriage?

West Yorkshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935

Name: Matilda Berry, a reeler of 47 Undercliffe Street
Birth Year: abt 1876
Age: 23
Marriage or Bann Date: 24 May 1899
Parish: Bradford, St Clement
Father's Name: Samuel Berry (deceased) - weaving overlooker
Spouse's Name: Joseph Bunney (27), a fireman of 329 Barkerend Road
Spouse's Father's Name: Robert Bunney - Foreman carter

Neither previously married.

Witnesses: Tom Bunney and Annie Greenwood.

The plot thickens! I wonder what happened to Amelia's family between 1901 and 1911 - the only two members I can identify in 1911 are Amelia's half-sisters Margaret and Sarah Elizabeth, who were living in Bradford with their uncle Benjamin Baxter.

Looking at the 1914 passenger list that Mike posted - that Amelia Edwards was the wife of a Fred Edwards and certainly wasn't a "Rev", that was the man on the line below but it's got muddled in transcription.

Julia, it's possible that Samuel wasn't her father - the column for father's name is blank on the baptism record.

Mary Jane wasn't with Samuel on the 1881 and the Keighley's address is the same one she used on Amelia's baptism.

If you bought her birth certificate then it may name him as the father because legally he was probably still Mary Jane's husband. Baptism records are sometimes more truthful than actual certificates.

ADDED: I've just realised that Matilda and Amelia's baptisms are next to each other on the register, as Choccy posted above. Samuel is named as Matilda's father but not as Amelia's. Sounds like Mary Jane was honest with the vicar.

Thanks, everyone! I was aware of Mary Jane Wray's marriage to Samuel Berry but it never occurred to me that Amelia could have been his daughter.

Could be her mother's first marriage:

England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915

Name: Mary Jane Wray
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1875
Registration District: Bradford
Inferred County: Yorkshire West Riding
Volume Number: 9b
Page Number: 346

Records on Page:
Name
Samuel Berry <<<
Ellen Leach
Joseph Lee
Robert Peel Peel
Mary Jane Wray <<<

Her maiden name is given as Wray on the Canadian marriage.

On Amelia's baptism Mary Jane is a Mill Hand of 16 Buxton Street

West Yorkshire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910


Name:
Amelia Berry

Birth Date:
15 Mar 1882

Parish:
Manningham, St Luke

Baptism Date:
23 Aug 1882

Mother's Name:
Mary Jane Berry


West Yorkshire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910

Name:
Matilda Berry

Birth Date:
15 Dec 1881 (mistranscribed - shouild read 1876)

Parish:
Manningham, St Luke

Baptism Date:
23 Aug 1882

Father's Name:
Samuel Berry

Mother's Name:
Mary Jane Berry

??


Births Jun 1882 (>99%)
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Berry Amelia Bradford Y. 9b 131


1891

RG number: RG12
Piece: 3627
Folio: 68
Page: 20
Reg. District: Bradford
Sub District: Bradford East End
Parish: Bolton
Enum. District: 60
Ecclesiastical District: St James
City/Municipal Borough: Bradford
Address: 54, Burley Street, Bolton, Bradford
County: Yorkshire (West Riding)


EDWARDS, Albert Head Married M 32 1859 Dyer
Burley, Yorkshire
EDWARDS, Mary J Wife Married F 33 1858 Drawer
Bradford, Yorkshire
EDWARDS, Minnie Daughter F 9 1882 Scholar
Bradford, Yorkshire
EDWARDS, Sarah Daughter F 6 1885 Scholar
Bradford, Yorkshire
EDWARDS, Tom Son M 5 1886 Scholar
Bradford, Yorkshire
EDWARDS, Marrett Daughter F 3 1888
Bradford, Yorkshire
EDWARDS, Albert E Son M 2 1889
Bradford, Yorkshire
>>>>>BURY, Matilda Stepdaughter Single F 15 1876 Drawer
Bradford, Yorkshire


1881

RG number: RG11
Piece: 4464
Folio: 148
Page: 35
Reg. District: Bradford
Sub District: Horton
Parish: Manningham
Enum. District:
Ecclesiastical District:
City/Municipal Borough:
Address: 16, Buxton St, Manningham
County: Yorkshire (West riding)

KEIGHLEY, Abraham Head Married M 27 1854 Tin & Iron Plate Worker
Bradford, Yorkshire
KEIGHLEY, Alice Wife Married F 26 1855 Tin & Iron Plate Worker Wife
Arncliffe, Yorkshire
KEIGHLEY, Charlotte Daughter Single F 3 1878
Bradford, Yorkshire
KEIGHLEY, Maud M Daughter Single F 0 1881
Bradford, Yorkshire
>>>>>BERRY, Mary Jane Lodger Married F 23 1858 Silk Preparer
Bradford, Yorkshire
>>>>>BERRY, Matilda Daughter Single F 5 1876 Scholar
Bradford, Yorkshire

Don't suppose this is her is it ?



Name:
Reverend Amelia Edwards

Age:32
Birth Date:abt 1882
Departure Date:29 Jul 1914
Port of Departure:Bristol, England
Destination Port:Montreal, Canada
Ship Name:Royal Edward

Shipping Line:Royal Line
Official Number:125656
Master:P M Wotton

Her father died in 1926 - I don't know if her mother was still alive in 1911.

It occurred to me that Amelia had relatives in Philadelphia and may have gone to live with them, but I couldn't find her in the relevant American censuses either.

Hello Julia, welcome to the boards.

Were her parents still alive in 1911? Do you know when they married?

I'd be grateful for some help in tracing the whereabouts of my great-great aunt Amelia 'Minnie' Edwards between 1882 and 1915. I was under the impression that she was born on 15/3/1882 in Bradford, Yorkshire, but I can't find any evidence for this. She appears in the census records for 1891 and 1901, living in Bradford with her parents Albert and Mary Jane Edwards, but after that I can't find anything until 1915, when she married Harold Dilke in Ontario, Canada.

Thanks!

Julia