Looking for missing births

**seeker** · 24-08-2011 01:42 PM

Hi. I have a whole family who dont seem to be registered except for the eldest child. Can anyone spot them?
They are Richard Power 1903 Camberwell
Mary Power born 1904 at Camberwell
Annie Power 1906 Camberwell
Nellie Power 1909 Camberwell
The only birth I can see for this family is GEorge William Power born 1901
They are on the 1911 census.

**pejay** · 24-08-2011 02:31 PM

Could this be Mary?

Mary Ethel Power Sep qr 1905 Camberwell 1d 887

**seeker** · 24-08-2011 02:35 PM

Hi Pejay. I might have to get that certificate. I was told by my grandmother [her half sister] that she was Mary Anne but maybe she remembered wrong. Grandma came out to Aust in 1915 and Nellie followed her later but no one knows what happened to the other girls. The boys all died in the war

**pejay** · 24-08-2011 02:37 PM

1902 Unnamed [male] Power Sep qr Camberwell 1d 869 could be Richard
Dec qr 1899 Nellie Camberwell 1d 876

**Bronson211** · 24-08-2011 02:41 PM

I have found a Donald Richard Power. 1903 Parents

Richard Donald. and Amelia Eliza Power Plumstead .St Paul
I will look again for others if I am on the right track

**pejay** · 24-08-2011 02:46 PM

Sorry nothing found for Annie. Could she have been registered somewhere different? Could Annie have been a middle name?

**slizzy** · 24-08-2011 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by seeker

They are on the 1911 census.

Hi Seeker, there's no Nellie with the family in 1911. Are you certain of her birth year?

**seeker** · 25-08-2011 05:05 AM

Hi. Only getting Nellies birth year from her death record here in Australia so maybe it is out. I have no Idea if Annie is a middle name.
A cousin od my father thought Mary and Annie were one person [Mary Ann] born in 1902 but died aged 18 mths, but I have a photo taken in about 1912 with all three girls very much alive. Their mother died in 1912 and I have no idea what happened to Mary and Annie. Only Nellie came to Australia and she died aged 23.
Their father was George William Power and mother Edit Martha Bolt [nee Southgate] her second marriage which was in 1900

**pejay** · 25-08-2011 03:00 PM

I cannot find any mention of a Nellie anywhere! I checked under the names Ellen & Eleanor too. The birth I found for a Nellie Power in Dec qr 1899 I am sure isn't the right one. I am really puzzled. Could Annie & Nellie have been the same person? as slizzy noted there was no Nellie with the family on the 1911 census. So where could she be?
The 1911 census is the only census to ask how many children were born of the marriage and how many survived. It may be worth you checking. Could she have been a half Sister? . I think it is looking like you may have to order Mary Ethel power's birth cert and see if it is the right one. Sometimes it is the only way to find out.
Just had a thought could Nellie be an alternative name for Ethel? I think Nellie was either Mary or Annie[whose birth we haven't yet got] a long shot though.What does it say on her death cert is it just Nellie?

**seeker** · 26-08-2011 01:47 AM

Hi. Yes, she is just Nellie,aged 23 on the death certificate. I am thinking she was born just after the census. The other part of the puzzle is all that my grandmother Edith Ada Bolt. born 1899 and her siblings are also missing. My grandmother is half sister to the Powers as her mother Edith Martha Bolt [nee Southgate] married George William Power in 1900 after her fisrt husband died in 1899. My grandmother did not come to Australia until 1915 and Nellie came later. My grandmother had a sister Louisa Mary Bolt born 1891 and she married in 1914 and came to Australia then, so she should be somewhere.[Nellie could possibly be them somewhere] The boys were probably enlisted.

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