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Thanks Felicity
The birth doesn't have a great priority, a baptism would be great or even a pre marriage census record.
Keith
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I’m having great difficulty tracking down my 2 x G Grandmother’s birth and family and any help would be much appreciated.
Clara (possibly Clara Mary Ann) Lawler nee Henwood and she gave her birth as Oct 1833 at Bristol.
A The records I’ve found and what they tell or don’t as the case may be.
1833 Birth Record not yet found but according to the 1861, 1891 and 1901 census returns she is born Bristol, St Phillips Gloucestershire
1841 Census Record not yet found for Clara – Henry is with parents at 14 Little Chesterfield St. Marylebone
1851 Census Record not yet found for Clara – Henry is with parents at 14 Little Chesterfield St. Marylebone
10 Oct 1853 Clara Henwood and Henry Lawler (Chemists asst) married at the parish church of St Martin in The Fields, London.
He was a bachelor and she was a spinster both of full age living at St Mary’s Buildings.
Her father was John a gardener and his Charles a messenger.
1855 Clara Ann Lawler (my G Grandmother) born to this couple at Bath Mar ¼ 1855 (5c, 744)
12 Nov 1856 Alice Susan Lawler born to this couple, birth record not yet located.
Alice Susan’s christening record 29 Dec 1861 gives their address as 13 Devonshire St, Marylebone, London and her mother’s name as Clara Mary Ann Lawler. Henry is still just plain Henry.
1861 Census Henry Lawler 27 and Clara Lawler 28 Dressmaker (b Bristol SOM) of 13 Devonshire St, Marylebone, London
1871 Census Record not yet found
1881 Census Record not yet found
1891 Census Aged 56 widow and tailoress of 46 Mornington Crescent, Camden, London
1901 Census Aged 56(?) widow and tailoress of 46 Mornington Crescent, Camden, London
27 Aug 1901 Death Camden, St Pancras, London aged 67 (sources; FreeBMD and London Deaths and Burials 1813- 1980
B A few blind alleys I’ve been down
1 Another Clara Henwood born is in 1833 she is the dau of a William and Clara Henwood. He is cordwainer from Falmouth, Cornwall and that Clara marries and raises a family down that way.
2 Another John Henwood with a dau Mary Ann b abt 1833 but he is in the liquor trade, and is a publican at Bath for the 1851 census living at the Lansdown Brewery pub at 6 Belle Vue Buildings. Next door at 5 Belle Vue Buildings is a William Lambert a tailor. As Henry and Clara’s first child is born in Bath, I thought that Clara might have been apprenticed to her next door neighbor, and returned to live at or near home after her marriage. She might still have worked next door but was not a dau of this John, as her father had a gardening background. I still haven’t ruled out some sort of relationship.
C Finally an enigma
Clara is the originator of the family history, beginning the tradition of keeping the birth marriage and death records on the inside fly leaf of a now ancient and battered copy of the New Testament. They begin with her own, Clara Lawler nee Henwood born October 8, 1833 and continuing to my grand nephew born just 10 days ago.
On the inside front cover in beautifully crafted copperplate script is the name, “John Goldney”, and a date and place, “May 19th 1863, Bath”.
I know of no connection between the Lawlers and the Goldneys, although a connection to the Henwoods can’t be ruled out, nor why a volume so evidently belonging to said John came to be in Clara’s possession and what might have occurred in Bath on that distant Tuesday in 1863.
I know that’s a long post; it’s been a long search… but I’ve finally admitted defeat and if I’m to get help then any kind person might need to know where I’ve looked, what I’ve found and what I’ve concluded.
Thanks in advance, Keith
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