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Thank you everyone for all your help and support for my search for Millicent Osborne.
I have her and the story of what happened to her. The thing I have really learned is that even the birth, marriage and death certificates are not always accurate , and definate memories of family can be completely wrong.
Millicent Osborne was born in 18th August 1879 , Married Albert Wallace (b 1880) in 1900.
They had twins Herbert and Albert 10th January 1901, son Sidney Harry Wallace 1903-1904 and youngest son Henry Stanley b 1905. She left when Henry (Harry) was quite small and had a child with Edward Lancaster in 1908. I cannot find a marriage for them but she seems to have taken his name and written out her life with Albert Wallace. She went on to have 8 children with Edward Lancaster and died in 1928 with him by her side, in Ashby de la Zouche. Having previously lived in Leicester and Nottingham.
We actually got the lead from a DNA ethnicity test and some of her decendants were also on there.
WE are now on the search for all we can to find the rest of the family and my mother finally has some peace of mind about about her grandmother and a million more questions.
Thank you all
Sandra

In case helpers are interested -

related thread about Albert's side of the family:
https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1387130

I have no idea if that's the right woman or not!
I just searched for the death of any Millicent or Minnie Wallace born in 1880 , and picked one that seemed reasonable - but only the death cert will prove whether or not that's the right one.

At least it will if the informant is a relative whose name you recognise.


"The following information was recorded on death certificates in England and Wales between 1 July 1837 and 31 March 1969:

When and where died
Name and surname
Sex
Age
Occupation
Cause of death
Signature, description and residence of informant
When registered."
https://www.family-tree.co.uk/getting-started/getting-started/how-to-use-death-certificates-in-family-tree-research/

Thank you everyone for your help and searching.
ArgyllGran I think you have her! How did you manage to get to her??
I'm going to send for a death certificate to see if its really her.
Off I go on another branch I hope.
Thank you all xx

This one would be the right age:

Minnie Wallace
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Minnie Wallace
Death Age: 82
Birth Date: abt 1880
Registration Date: Apr 1962
[May 1962]
[Jun 1962]
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration district: Hendon
Inferred County: Middlesex
Volume: 5e
Page: 421

Unfortunately, some people do just seem to disappear from the records, in spite of exhaustive searching.

I'm sure most of us have someone like that in our trees. I certainly have.

Birth is easily found on freebmd JAS qtr 1879

If you obtain a copy of the cert, you’ll know her exact DOB, which could prove helpful

If you have an exact DOB for her there is a possibility that she could be found on the 1939 register if still alive. This would depend on the record there being correct of course. Many records seem to pop up with day and month correct, but the year out.

She could also have taken up with someone else and be living under his name, there's nothing to say she kept her married name or reverted to her maiden name.

Despite lots of help from Ann Cardiff and Catherine I am still no further forward with finding out what happened to my great grandmother Millicent Osborne also known as Minnie Wallace After 6 more years of searching I feel like giving up but can't seen to stop myself. I need a new way of going forward. I have gone sideways and back but still no luck I have looked at overseas records with no luck. Ship logs with no luck although thought I had her for a while.
What happened to Millicent Wallace nee Osbourne sometimes known as Minnie??

Hi Catherine, some of what you've found I already have.
Birth date is 1880 +-1 no more. I don't know what to think about her situation. I think she left for someone else but don't know if she used married name Wallace or refered to herself as maiden name Osborne. My great grand father would only say she's dead and not talk about her and neither would my grand dad Herbert. I was told she went up to my grand dads twin some time after the war and to tell him who she was but he wouldn't have anything to do with her.
I haven't found any death record that looks like it may have been her.
Many thanks for all your help.
Sandra

Death may not be correct as this looks to be the record:-

Deaths Mar 1951 (>99%)
WALLACE Minnie 78 Nuneaton 9c 1323
(dob = 1873)

..........so date of birth would not be correct.

1901 she is noted as Minnie:-

1901 England Census about Minnie Wallace
Name: Minnie Wallace
Age: 20
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Relation to Head: Wife
Gender: Female
Spouse: Albert Wallace
Birth Place: Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Civil Parish: Coventry
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mark
County/Island: Warwickshire
Country: England
Registration district: Coventry
Sub-registration District: Holy Trinity
ED, institution, or vessel: 09
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 2910
Folio: 210
Page Number: 18
Household schedule number: 112
Household Members:
Name Age
Albert Wallace 20
Minnie Wallace 20
Albert Wallace 2/12
Herbert Wallace 2

.....................so maybe????

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 about Minnie Wallace
Name: Minnie Wallace
Probate Date: 10 May 1951
Death Date: 20 Mar 1951
Death Place: Coventry
Registry: Birmingham, England

.................of 24 Grove Street , Widow, Probate to George Wallace bricklayers labourer and John Yates hospital steward

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If she did leave Albert for someone else but the couple didn't divorce, then she may have had to wait until after Albert's death to marry?

Deaths Dec 1929 (>99%)
Wallace Albert 49 Coventry 6d 731

Is this not him in 1911?

1911 England Census about Albert Wallace
Name: Albert Wallace
Age in 1911: 30
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881
Relation to Head: Boarder
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Civil Parish: Coventry
County/Island: Warwickshire
Country: England
Street address: 38 Wells Street Coventry
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Carter
Registration district: Coventry
Registration District Number: 390
Sub-registration district: Holy Trinity
ED, institution, or vessel: 2
Piece: 18540
Household Members:
Name Age
Samuel Cox 63
Ada Cox 39
Albert Wallace 30
Albert Wallace 11
Herbert Wallace 11
Harry Wallace 6
George Cox 26
Samuel Cox 24
William Cox 22

He states here he is married?

EDIT:- OK so original does state widower!

???????????

Name: Millicent Wallace
Event Type: Marriage
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration Year: 1918
Registration District: Aston
County: Warwickshire
Event Place: Aston, Warwickshire, England
Spouse Name (available after 1911): Brown
Volume: 6D
Page: 828
Line Number: 41

Millicent Wallace probably married one of the following people
Name: William Brown

Name: Albert Wallace
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 12 Jul 1901
Christening Place: St. Marks, Coventry, Warwick, England
Father's Name: Albert Wallace
Mother's Name: Milicent Wallace
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01323-3 , System Origin: England-EASy , GS Film number: 1067459 , Reference ID: item 6 p 78

Name: Herbert Wallace
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 12 Jul 1901
Christening Place: St. Marks, Coventry, Warwick, England
Father's Name: Albert Wallace
Mother's Name: Milicent Wallace
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01323-3 , System Origin: England-EASy , GS Film number: 1067459 , Reference ID: item 6 p 78

Name: Henry Stanley Wallace
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 10 May 1905
Christening Place: Coventry, Warwick, England
Father's Name: Albert Wallace
Mother's Name: Millicent
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I01484-0 , System Origin: England-EASy , GS Film number: 1067419 , Reference ID: 1713