BOWERY/BALLINGER 1871 (General)

by spindles , Gloucester, Sunday, March 21, 2010, 18:28 (5440 days ago) @ spindles

Sorry, accidentally posted the message before I'd finished. As I was saying:-

Rose BOWERY appears with several siblings and mother Elizabeth, living with a John BALLINGER in the 1851 and 1861 census in Longhope but I can't find a marriage, only of Elizabeth BOWERY BALLINGER, widow, marrying Joseph MANNS in February 1871. I wonder if this Elizabeth is the mother of Rosa and the reason for the BOWERY/BALLINGER name change.

In 1873, just after Julia was born, Rosa married a John HUGHES and the 1881 census shows Rosa, a widow, living with her two children Eliza Hughes and John Hughes in Ledbury. I wondered if Rosa wanted to look "respectable" on the census form so gave her children her deceased husband's name. By the time of the 1891 census there is an Isabel BOWRY aged 19 living in Gloucester and with a place of birth of Ledbury. I would like to find out definitely if my Isabelle Bowery is Julia Elizabeth Bowry/Elizabeth Ballinger and that she perhaps dropped the Julia for Elizabeth and, because of the Spanish connection, thought that Isabelle was more exotic and changed it to Isabelle. It doesn't help that there are so many different spellings of Bowery as well as surname changes.

Please can anyone recognise any of these names?