REDMAN/JENKINS (General)

by janethowell, Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 17:55 (3806 days ago) @ MPGriffiths

LOL - you have just got the gist of my tree - most of what you have found so easily now was not so easy to find 20 years ago without so much on t'internet!

Many thanks for finding the links as it means the few areas that still need confirming I can now do without the legwork and fiche reading.

I failed to find any records up to 10 years ago of Sarah Hannah Redman nee Jenkins at the time of the 1901 census. I cannot explain why my great aunt Doris was born in the workhouse as her mother Sarah Hannah had a husband, other children, a home in a good area and husband was listed in 1901 as an employer of men.

Sarah Hannah's father was still alive - although moved back to Bream - her mother had died but Sarah Hannah had brothers, sisters, uncles etc in SoT, FoD and possibly a sister Hannah in London (see recent thread titled Intrigue at High court - Neary/Jenkins/Davis).

I was told 10 years ago that many workhouse records were lost in the world wars. The workhouse site soon after 1901 moved towards being the area's main hospital and is now University Of Keele medical teaching hospital too.

Your thread will prompt me to fill in my gaps and chase the elusive Sarah Hannah again. I have her birth certificate, her marriage certificate, birth and death certs of some children etc but no death cert or date of death for Sarah. I have visited her husband's grave, but don't know where Sarah is buried.

I had hoped by chasing the Jenkins family to find some clues to indicate who was alive and where at the time - might indicate where Sarah was and why. My current theory is she was committed to an institution because of post-natal depression.

Before she died, my mother could not (or would not) say anything about her grandmother Sarah Hannah - she was never talked about apparently.

Janet