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Domestic servant
My Great Aunt had two illegitimate children, one on 1890 and the other in 1901, both while she was a domestic servant. The children were bought up by other family members. After their births, would she have gone back to work for the same family(s) or would she have left under a dark cloud.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.That's really not possible to say for sure unless you are able to track her employment throgh either census or, depending on the standing of the family or families that employed her, assuming that you are saying they have no father given on their birth certificate nor in their baptism entry.
If the place she worked was the estate of a wealthy landed family then her details of employment would have been recorded in the estate papers and if they survive and if they have been deposited in the local CRO then you could check them.
It is probably too late a date to look for a filiation order (b@stardy bond) .
Did your great aunt never marry? Often servants married each other but in some households that was forbidden by the employer.
If the place she worked was the estate of a wealthy landed family then her details of employment would have been recorded in the estate papers and if they survive and if they have been deposited in the local CRO then you could check them.
It is probably too late a date to look for a filiation order (b@stardy bond) .
Did your great aunt never marry? Often servants married each other but in some households that was forbidden by the employer.
I can find her with her parents in 1881, and on ancestry her father William is shown in detail along with his wife Eliza, the ancestry member does not have Sarah beyond 1881. However, on the 1891 census, William and Eliza have their infant grandson William Cox living with them, and he was born in Diddlebury, Shropshire, on the 1901 he is still living with his grandparents.
Now, that means that if he was born in Diddlebury his mother must have been there at the time! I have looked for a likely sarah unmarried and living in that area and as yet nothing really matches any detail you have. On the second childs birth certificate what is the place of birth?
Now, that means that if he was born in Diddlebury his mother must have been there at the time! I have looked for a likely sarah unmarried and living in that area and as yet nothing really matches any detail you have. On the second childs birth certificate what is the place of birth?