Friday, May 18, 2007

Annie Louisa Winter

Hmm, Annie Winter/Hagger is proving a bit of a problem. She says on her wedding cert to Henry James Hagger that she is 21 in 1886 so making her DOB around 1865. Her father is shown as Charles Winter deceased. I can't find an Annie Winter with a father Charles (labourer) in either the 1871 or the 1881 census returns.

There's an Annie Winter living with her mum and siblings in Hanover Square, London but her birth date is 1858 and Annie Hagger was remarkably consistent with her age giving in all her census returns as a married woman.

I've found an Annie Winter living as a "nurse child" in Stoke Newington in 1871 with a family called Koehler, she's 5 which fits for age. By 1881 she has been adopted by them. They are labourers and this fits with the marriage cert. All other Annie Winters born in London are too posh or don't have the right parental name. Its very frustrating but one of those dead end moments where you have nowhere to go BUT I've found one last birth index entry for BRentford in Middlesex for 1868 and that might be worth gambling £7 on it being the right one.

I've found the record of her remarriage to John Henry Carrick in 1904 and Dad remembers her so she must have died post 1929 but I can't find a record -they aren't all complete once you get into more "modern" history. John Carrick was a witness to Leonard and Nellie's marriage in 1915.