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OMG Marie-Celeste! Thank you so much for your last posting - Brilliant!
At last we find confirmation that she was actually a companion - and great to know that she managed to find her own home in her latter years. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! You have given the information to help me search further and at least be in the right direction - brilliant!!!
Wishing you a very, very happy Christmas and also to all at GR!
Jayne

Jayne - you could always order May/Rosa's death certificate to see who the informant was.

Looks like Mrs Cunnington's death - wonder if May/Rosa was still with her?

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005

Name: Ellen Cunnington
Birth Date: abt 1850
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1940
Age at Death: 90
Registration district: Norwich
Inferred County: Norfolk
Volume: 4b
Page: 659

She left £91 14s 8d - probate to Joseph Leonard Palmer, wholesale provision merchant. So May didn't get a whopping inheritance there, then!

Hello MarieCeleste,
Yes I do have the birth registration and the death, but not where she was or went when she died in 1972 - it's the middle bit of her life that's missing and I guess that she wanted to remain anonymous until the end, and , if so, I will let her go gracefully.
Thanks again
Jayne :-)

Possible death? Although year of birth is a bit out....perhaps the informant didn't know when she was born

Name: Rosa M Tunmore
Birth Date: abt 1871
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1955
Age at Death: 84
Registration district: Hartismere
Inferred County: Suffolk
Volume: 4b
Page: 740

EDIT

MC's death looks more likely though the death was in Norfolk not Suffolk

Looks like she preferred her middle name - 1911:

CUNNINGTON, Ellen Head Widow F 61 1850 Private Means Norwich
TUNMORE, May Single F 31 1880 Companion Blofield
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Registration District: Norwich
Sub District: West Wymer
Enumeration District: 29
Parish: Norwich

Address: 84 Mill Hill Road Norwich County: Norfolk
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and in 1901:

CUNNINGTON, Ellen Head Widow F 51 1850 Living On Own Means Norwich Norfolk
TUNMORE, Mary Servant Single F 22 1879 Housemaid Domestic Blofield Norfolk
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Registration District: Norwich
Civil Parish: Norwich

Address: 73, Mill Hill Road, Norwich County: Norfolk

hello Londonbelle,
I did have thebirth registration for Rosa May, but thanks for looking for me, I really do appreciate your help.
Jayne :-)

If this is Rosa's birth:

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915

Name: Rosa May Tunmore
Date of Registration: Apr-May-Jun 1878
Registration district: Blofield
Inferred County: Norfolk
Volume: 4b
Page: 198

Then is this her death?

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005

Name: May Rose Tunmore
Birth Date: 14 May 1878
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1972
Age at Death: 94
Registration district: Norwich Outer
Inferred County: Norfolk
Volume: 4b
Page: 2229

Hi MarieCeleste,
Thanks for your reply - I will keep watching the threads - promise!
Jayne :-)

Rosa's birth?

Births Jun 1878
Tunmore Rosa May Blofield 4b 198

Hello Lesley,
Thank you for your information. Unfortunately the Tunmores I am looking for are not from Depwade, not Blofield or Norwich, but thanks for looking for me - I do appreciate this.
Jayne

Jayne - don't worry, there's more of us posting than there is of you reading!

We'll just keep posting what we find - keep checking back.

Hi again MarieCeleste,
Sorry for not getting back sooner - I have been reviewing all of the info you have given - thank you! I'm just a bit slower to respond - probably due to my advancing years, but please keep it coming if it might be what I am looking for !
Jayne :-)

Here's the 1911, middle name Sophia?

SMITH, Walter Charles Head Married M 46 1865 Hotel Bus Driver Norwich Norfolk
SMITH, Annie Sophia Wife Married 22 years F 44 1867 Blofield Norfolk
SMITH, Frank Son M 7 1904 Norwich Norfolk
SMITH, Gladys May Daughter F 6 1905 Norwich Norfolk
SMITH, Florence Eva Daughter F 0 (7 MONTH) 1911 Norwich Norfolk
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Registration District: Norwich
Sub District: East Wymer
Enumeration District: 27
Parish: Norwich

Address: 60 Wodehouse Street Norwich County: Norfolk

1891 census ?

Name: Annie Sophia Smith
Age: 24
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1867
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: Walter Charles Smith
Gender: Female
Where born: Blofield, Norfolk, England

Civil parish: St Clement
Ecclesiastical parish: Christchurch
County/Island: Norfolk
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status:

View image

Registration district: Norwich
Sub-registration district: Coslany
ED, institution, or vessel: 17
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 1519
Folio: 161
Page Number: 14
Household Members:
Name Age
Walter Charles Smith 25 b Norwich occ Omnibus Driver (looks like)
Annie Sophia Smith 24
Annie Sophia Smith 4 Days b New Catton
William Livermore 17 Boarder b Blofield
Betsy Smith 63 Visitor married b Halesworth Suffolk

Hello MarieCeleste,
I have found Rosa M Tunmore from her birth registration and after that, she apparently (from census records) died in Suffolk - but with no other info as to the rest of her life.... It is believed that she was a "companion" and purportedly it has been said that she died in Suffolk - but with no other information found for her in the interim.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thank you
Jayne

JAYNE - do not close this - we're just getting started :-)

Re: the marriage I posted - it must have been Walter Charles Smith as have found the other groom with the other bride, so to speak.

1861

TUNMORE, John Head M 76 1795 Norfolk VIEW
TUNMORE, John Son M 34 1837 Norfolk VIEW
TUNMORE, Frances Son's Wife F 35 1836 Suffolk VIEW
TUNMORE, Anna Son's Daug F 4 1867 Norfolk VIEW
TUNMORE, Charles Grandson M 1 1870 Norfolk VIEW
Piece:
1828 Folio:
79 Page:
19 Registration District:
Blofield

Civil Parish:
Blofield Municipal Borough:
Address:
Plumstead Road, Little Blofield Corner, Blofield County:
Norfolk

Hello Vera,
Thank you for your help. The fact that it is noted that Annie (Not Anna, as i had been told) is great, thank you! - and as for census returns, I have not been able to find anything about Annie or Rosa M Tunmore either, other than that she ended her days in Suffolk - not Norfolk.
If there is no other information regarding, I will put a close to this, but we all live in hope!
Thank you again,
Jayne

Possible birth?

Births Mar 1867
TUNMORE Anna Sophia Blofield 4b 198