Genealogy Chat

oh thank you- you're an absolute star! you really have helped so much. can go ahead and order some certificates now then. :D thanks so much. and thanks to every1 who helped me!

leanne.x

You're welcome!

Remember when you're searching for Frank/Louisa marriage that Frank may have been a nickname, shortened from Francis. Then again, they may not have been legally wed!

I hope those certs prove all these theories we've thrown your way today.

Take care - Athena

oh thank you michael. seems farily probable atleast that it's her.thank you all again.

Leanne - just one more thing before I finish lunch break - I completely forgot to mention earlier that on the 1881 Census, Charles Gannaway, 45, shoemaker, b Pennington Hants and wife Amelia 63, were living at the Wheatsheaf Inn, Lymington, Hampshire.

I wonder if living in a pub he occasionally helped run it? Just occurred to me that it was a bit of a coincidence, what with his wife's death cert saying he was a beer house keeper.

Also - did you spot that they had both increased their ages by an extra 10 yrs between 1871 and 81? He should have been about 32 and Amelia about 54. Weird!

Ok, definitely off now - regards, Athena

Oh dear oh dear - what have I just discovered? This confuses things a bit now:

1891 CENSUS - Lymington

Charles Gannaway, 52, shoemaker, b Hants
Amelia Gannaway, 65, wife, b Lymington

So - this has thrown a spanner in the works I think.

This Charles - who originally claimed to be aged 22 in 1871 giving a birth year of approx 1849/50 (which fitted your Charles) but who later seemed not to know when he was born, and aged an extra 10 years - couldn't really have been the same Charles that married Emily Plummer in 1885!! Unless he was flitting about between two women!

Reason we couldn't find this earlier is because it's been transcribed as GANNWAY on Ancestry.

I think we all need to put our thinking caps back on and try to make some sense of it all.

I'll do some more searching whilst it's quiet here at work and if I find anything worthwhile I'll let you know.

All the best - Athena

Julie - could you let us have the census refs for the 1871 entry please. I've just searched on Emily Gannaway but nothing is coming up for her age.

Also, where did you find the 1872 marriage for Charles and Emily? I thought their marriage was in 1885 (Leanne has the cert for this). I think the 1872 marriage was that of Charles and Amelia (since found out it's a different Charles).

Athena

I realised after I had posted that the 1872 was the Goss marriage and deleted it

I have messaged Leanne asking her to let us know the occupations of both Charles and his father Henry (she has the marriage cert for Charles 1885 and says in her original posting that his father was a Henry).

She also mentions early on that Emily's death cert stated she was the "wife of Charles Gannaway a beer house keeper."

Athena

hi all,

sorry i didn't reply yesterday. i am off work at the moment so quickly trying to get everything done while i have the chance. it was Emily and Charles who married in 1885, Charles (who now appears not to be mine) married amelia in 1872. on emily and charles' marriage cert his occupation is ship steward which is why i got confused between the sudden change to beer house keeper on emily's death. his father (henry gannaway) is down as a joiner which would fit in with the 1871 census michael found. i thought perhaps that by 1897 (emily's death) charles may have been too old for ship stewarding so took up the pub- just a theory. thanks all for continuing without me.
leanne.x