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Jane Dawson

By adesso |
General Genealogy

Hello

Jane Dawson appears as the mother of William Francis Ballard in 1849 on the birth certificate. William Ballard as father. Fontenoy Street, Liverpool. Jane is my 3x great grandmother.

On the 1871 census in Liverpool her place of birth is Jersey Channel Islands.

Have never found a marriage record for her or evidence of her birth in Jersey. One contact on  Jersey told me that she may have been in a British military family there and may not appear on the records for Jersey. Also that maybe there is a Catholic register of births in Jersey???

It is rumoured that Jane and William may have been in France, Shropshire and Kent but I just don’t know about that.

Any help on Jane Dawson is most welcome!

thanks

David

 

Sorry can't find anything of use, did find a couple of baptisms around the correct time but they died at a tender age.

The only other possibility is if a mistake was made on the birth cert for her son William Francis Ballard 1849 where it states formerly Dawson… Dawson may have been a previous married name… rather than maiden… but unlikely. It’s said by a distant family member that they were in Shropshire, Kent and France. Most of the Janes registered in Jersey for around 1820 have French names. There maybe a catholic register there on Jersey… I don’t know. Interestingly, in a dna test I did the results showed an ancestral  dna link to Calais, Britanny and Aquitaine in France.

Or  maybe they weren’t ever married

tegards

David

It's possible they never married, however, it's very likely her maiden name is Dawson having had 4 children registered using the maiden name Dawson.

 

My advice would be put this to bed and revisit in a year or two when more records or resources may be available.