Littledean - Olive BEALE, previous threads (General)

by Lawrencef , Trentham, Australia, Monday, November 26, 2012, 06:38 (4375 days ago) @ m p griffiths

Hi,

It's all a bit complex but Olive Elizabeth Beale (nee Smith, later Millard) seems to have used the identity of her Aunt Eliza Smith b. 28 Jun 1884 (daughter of James Smith & Elizabeth Page Hughes) on more than one occasion. Due to the death of her parents when she was 2 Olive Elizabeth was bought up by her Great Grandparents Thomas Goode b. 3 sep 1820 d? & Elizabeth Pearce b. 20 Aug 1820 d. after 1901.

I have poosibly located the father of Olive Elizabeths daughter Maud Olive Millard. A family in South Africa contacted me and inform me that their grandfather was a william Ross and a bit of a "jack the lad". I'm trying to convince them that they ought to get DNA testing done, sadly my Grandmother Maud Olive passed away in Ausgust at the age of 91. I'd hoped to resolve these mysteries in her lifetime so that the information might be of use beyond curiosity. They have not warmed to the idea of a bit of DNA testing thus far but I'm working on them :-)

I know all about Olive Elizabeth Smith until the birth of her illegitimate son Lovell Glendower Smith (b.1907 d.1944) in 1907, then nothing until her marriage to Samuel Millard in 1914 (b. 17 Sep 1854 d. 1934). It's that period where she becomes a Beale but I can find no records at all that might suggest a link to her (I've investigated the marriage of Ada Smith to Beale in Gloucester but it is conclusivley not her).

I pick up the trail again in 1920 with the birth of Maud Olive Millard (b.1920 d.2012) and her enscouncement with Joseph Caldwell in the mid to late 1920's and subsequent child (Patricia Marcia Millard/Caldwell b.16 Jan 1928 d. 21 Aug 1998)and immigration to Canada, then New Zealand and her death in 1974.

I'm sort of ahead and sort of stuck as per usual... :-)