Does anybody have any information about Ida Maud GIFFORD, born in Yorkley in 1876, apparently to Mark GIFFORD and Phoebe (MORSE) GIFFORD? I found a photograph, which I assume to be of the same person, on this site, so am hoping she might be part of somebody's family...

Specifically, I am interested in how Ida came to be living with a relative of mine, Harriet (THOMAS) JONES, in Liverpool. Harriet was born in Yorkley in 1837 to William and Priscilla THOMAS; she married an Irish prison warder, William JONES in Clifton in 1863, and when William got a job at Liverpool prison, some time between 1863 and 1871, he and Harriet moved up north. Ida appears on the census with them, age 4 in 1881, 14 in 1891, and 24 in 1901, described as their niece, b.c. 1877 in Yorkley GLS - but I can't work out a connection, so it may be that she wasn't a blood relative?

Ida married James MARTIN at Kirkdale St Mary (Liverpool) in 1905.

Kirsty