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I am trying to find out what happened to Rose Thompson shown as 1 month old in the 1871 census. & Vicar Lane Hull daughter of Matthew Williams Thompson and Hannah (Richardson) Thompson. She is absent from the 1881 census when she would have been 10 years old but I can find no deaths in BMD that would account for her disappearing. Any help or suggestions gratefully recieved.

Thanks

Craig

1871 in Holy Trinity, Hull, Yorkshire:

Matthew Thompson 36
Hannah Thompson 35
Ann Thompson 7
John Thompson 4
Sam Thompson 2
Rose Thompson 1 month
Mary Smith 20


Where are the rest of them in 1881?? I'm not finding Hannah or Matthew.

Here they are.

Mathew Thompson 46
Anna Thompson 45
John Thompson 14
Sam R. Thompson 12
Mary A. Thompson 10
Mathew W. Thompson 6

Searched for Sam* and accounted for the Mat*ew spelling variant.

(It helps to offer this info up front so one doesn't have to go scrounging for it.)

Mary A. seems to have been substituted for Rose.

Mary A actually looks like Mary W to me, on the original image

So we search for the birth at FreeBMD --

Births Jun 1871
Thompson Mary Williams Hull 9d 180

The couple really could not have had two children born February-June 1871.

There was no Rose Thompson registered in the first two quarters of 1871 in Hull.

Do you suppose they were calling her Rose at the time of the census, and eventually registered her as Mary Williams Thompson?

Thanks guys ?gals. Free BMD shows Mary as having been registered in December 1871. If Rose was 1 month old at the time of the census that would give hera birth date in end of Feb / begiining of March. Not impossible to concieve immediately after birth and have a further child in December tight squeeze but do-able. I will order up birth certificate for Mary Williams Thompson and check actual date of birth. This should give an indication of whether it was possible for her to have been present in the 1871 census. Would Rose have been buried do you think - cannot find any record of death anywhere? This stuff has a more tangled plot than Taggart - I love it!

Craig

"Free BMD shows Mary as having been registered in December 1871" - ?

Of all the Mary Thompsons, you've picked one reg in Dec quarter 1871? (Remember a registration in Dec quarter 1871 does not necessarily mean the birth was in December; it could have been as early as September or even the end of August.)

Is this the one you are looking at?

THOMPSON Mary Jane Hull 9d 188

It's the only one in Hull in that quarter.

The Mary in 1881 is Mary W. Not Mary Jane or Mary J. And not Mary A, as Ancestry has mistranscribed it. (Did you check the image?) There's no Mary W registered in Dec quarter 1871. And Mary Williams Thompson was registered in Jun quarter 1871 (a birth as early as late February is possible).

So you're going to order the Mary Williams Thompson birth cert - do let us know when you get it!