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I've now spent a good six months searching for any evidence of my great grandmothers existence, other than the 1901 census I've found a great big zilch and I've searched every variant of Gelson I can think of.
Can you post any names you'd try? I'm going to start again at the beginning, I'm even thinking of searching just using her first name over the 2ish years around her guestimated birth, yikes!
grannyscrap
23-02-2006, 12:37 AM
what about - elson,alson, galson,gelzon, galzon elzon, putting an e on the end of all those. How about starting with J. Can't think of anything else at present. Good luck. I'm still trying to find the birth of one set GGparents. They married and died but I don't think they could have been born. :rolleyes: :lol:
lol Sheila.
I went through every Mildred born in London between 1890 amd 1893 last night (I couldn't sleep) and there is nothing even remotely like Gelson at all! I'm getting thoroughly fed up now and just have no idea what to do next. Any ideas ladies?
grannyscrap
23-02-2006, 01:09 AM
Are you sure she was born in London? Is it possible she may have been born elswhere and moved there as a small child. Going by the census' one of my lot was born in 5 different places - best thing is she wasn't born in any of them!!!!! I know it is the right one too. Just had another thought - are you sure her name is Mildred? My GM was always know, indeed she even married, with the first name of Mabel - it wasn't till she died and my Mum had to find her birth certificate that we found out her maiden was really Eveline Mabel.
Hya SHeila
her name was definitely Mildred, my gran's birth certificate has it on there. As for the birthplace the only mention we can find of a Mildred (millie) Gelson is on the 1901 census and has her birth place as Shepherds Bush. Even a search of the entire country didn't produce a Mildred Gelson (or variant) born at the right time.
grannyscrap
23-02-2006, 08:44 PM
I don't know what else to suggest. Perhaps one of our experts will have some suggestions. Let me know how you get on, though please.
Just a thought, but what about Goldson??? Please don't ask me to explain, I haven't a clue, it just sprang to mind is all :lol:
Also try the variants with a sen rather than son, and with a double l rather than a single one.
Mistakes quite often got made when the censuses where done, and some of the writing is so appalling it might have been logged in at a later date as something else.....
yllas
23-02-2006, 08:53 PM
just to let you know its possible its a big spelling mistake.
we've got Turner who ended up as Twiner...
how about Galson, Nelson, gewelson , can you do a search with just *son...i expect that would take forever. Any chance yo ucan search a sister or brother...may help you find the house etc...just that on the census entry we were looking for a male but found him by finding the a female.
GL
Annie
23-02-2006, 10:18 PM
I'd try Gilson/Gillson. Sounds very similar, particularly accented.
And yes, it can be a big mistake. My Dure that I hunted everywhere for turned out to be a Dewar (obviously just written as the recorder heard it).
Peeves
25-02-2006, 08:01 PM
I agree, it is probably a big spelling/transcribing mistake.
I've been trying to track down my 2nd gg James Breeze in the 1861 Census and resorted to searching using just James, 1840 +/-1 and Radnorshire. Guess what, I found him and he is listed as James Bruger. When you look at the entry you can see that it is definitely Breeze but you can just about see how someone would have transcribed it as Bruger!!
I realise this doesn't actually help you find your relative but I am sure she is out there somewhere!!
Elaine
Bluemoonjules
25-02-2006, 09:46 PM
....probably a spelling mistake, but also might be the wrong place entirely.
My Mum spent months looking for her mother's birth in 1897 in Vauxhall, London, and it turned out she was born near Richmond in Surrey.
The other one was that one of my great grandmothers was probably illegitimate as she appears on one census under her mother's maiden name, but under a subsequent stepfather's name on another.
My GGGrandfather was born in Wales and they had 'translated' the original transcription as somewhere else about 40 miles away (after he had moved to England). Good job I am better than they were at reading bad handwriting.
I've found a Mildred Evelyn Goodman, born Dec 1891 in Fulham. Do you think it's close enough to be worth buying the certificate?
My Grans birth certificate doesn't say Mildred Evelyn on it for her mothers name BUT her name was Mildred Evelyn.
nope, found an entry for her death in 1896 :(
Do you know when she died and how old she was?
katiepops
26-02-2006, 01:36 PM
Just a thought, but are you 100% sure that Gelson WAS her maiden name? Might she have changed her name to that of the father even though she wasn't married to him?
Kate
No idea when she died or anything other than what is on my gran's birth certificate :(
Just a thought, but are you 100% sure that Gelson WAS her maiden name? Might she have changed her name to that of the father even though she wasn't married to him?
Kate
Yikes Kate, if that's the case I reckon we are stumped!
yetanotherhelen
27-02-2006, 12:06 AM
I have heard of Gelston over here - think they produced whiskey last century.
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