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A very long shot - just because she was a servant in Kensington in 1901 .

I don't see the birth of an Emily Sewell 1867-70 in Sheffield.

Emily Sewell
in the 1891 England Census
Name: Emily Sewell
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Relationship: Servant
Birth Year: 1867
Birth Place: Sheffield
Civil Parish: Islington
Residence Place: Highbury, Islington, London, England
Sub registration district: Highbury
ED, Institution or Vessel: 2
Neighbors:
Piece: 173
Folio: 39
Household Members:
Name Age
Richard Nettlefield 40
Frances Nettlefield 44
Margaret Nettlefield 17
Murice Nettlefield 11
Emmeline Nettlefield 8
Stanley Nettlefield 6
Kate Mills 32
Emily Sewell 24 - housemaid
Ruth Hunt 33

Could be her? If we could check the written entry rather than the typed may be written as Everlyn not Emily? Will try checking for an Emily in the other Censuses

I can't imagine AG would post info without checking the image, but................I have just done so, and it is very clearly EMILY

Emily in 1891 is a housemaid. Everlyn in 1901 is a parlourmaid.
Moving up the employment ladder?

Yes going up employment ladder - but would have given birth to Ivy Dorothy about 1893/4 (baptised 1894) Maybe her mother looked after Ivy as was visiting Sims family with Thomas and Emily (nee Bristol) in Reading 1901. Looking promising. Thanks for checking written entry as know errors do occur in transcription sometimes. Wonder if Joseph Sims wife was one of Thomas Sewells 20 offspring?

No, she wasn't:

Their marriage:

Marriages Jun 1889 (>99%)
FORD Elizabeth Hannah Reading 2c 632
Sims Joseph Charles Reading 2c 632

Births of the daughters listed on 1901 census:

SIMS, KATHLEEN EDITH mms FORD
GRO Reference: 1900 M Quarter in READING Volume 02C Page 361

SIMS, MAY mms FORD
GRO Reference: 1894 J Quarter in READING Volume 02C Page 341

Thanks Argyllgran! W mystery why they were there then! Too many mysteries in this one! Wonder why she morphed into Evelyn? Also who William Hood Carpenter was, equally Reubens father. Don’t think she married before Joseph Gower

Another longshot - could Reuben's father have been Robin Hood?


Marriages Dec 1903

Addicott Amy Elizabeth Hungerford 2c 685

HOOD Robin Hungerford 2c 685



Deaths Jun 1906

Hood Robin 25 Newbury 2c 144



1901 England, Wales & Scotland Census

Daisy Villas, 4, Newbury, Berkshire, England


Eliza Hood Head Married Female 47 1854 Thrigby, Norfolk, England -

Helen Susannah Hood Daughter Single Female 25 1876 Lowestoft, Suffolk, England -

>>>>>Robin Hood Son Single Male 20 1881 Lowestoft, Suffolk, England Joiner

Thanks Argyllgran! mystery why they were there then! Too many mysteries in this one! Wonder why she morphed into Evelyn? Also who William Hood Carpenter was, equally Reubens father. Don’t think she married before Joseph Gower . Guess Reuben’s father could have been a Robin Hood. On Reuben Hoods marriage cert to Winifred Daisy Collins he says father Reuben Hood, Engineer, deceased. He was living at 3 Warwick Rd at that time with Evelyn and her husband Joseph Gower. Ivy Hoodand Harry House were also living there on their Marr cert in 1916. Ivy says father William Hood Dec. Farmer.

Thinking about William Hood, carpenter -

back on page 1, after Erika had found Ivy's baptism with parents William and Emma, I found this, which I'll post again here:

William Hood
in the 1891 England Census
Name: William Hood
Gender: Male
Age: 60
Relationship: Head
Birth Year: 1831
Spouse: Emma Hood
Child: Edward Hood
Birth Place: Poulshot, Wiltshire, England
Civil Parish: Twickenham
Residence Place: Twickenham, Middlesex, England
Sub registration district: Twickenham
ED, Institution or Vessel: 6
Neighbors:
Piece: 1026
Folio: 163
Household Members:
Name Age
William Hood 60 - carpenter
Emma Hood 63
Edward Hood 23


This was clearly not the right couple - too old.

However, looking at the family again, I see (in 1881) there was also a son William. In 1881 he's a builder's apprentice, but in 1891 (when he's in Richmond Union Workhouse for some reason) and in 1901, he's listed as a carpenter:

William Hood
in the 1881 England Census
Name: William Hood
Age: 50
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Relationship to Head: Head
Spouse: Emma Hood
Gender: Male
Where born: Poulshot, Wiltshire, England
Civil Parish: Richmond
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England
Street address: 11 Crown Ter
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: Carpenter
Registration district: Richmond
ED, institution, or vessel: 18
Neighbors:
Piece: 845
Folio: 11
Page Number: 16
Household Members:
Name Age
William Hood 50 - carpenter
Emma Hood 50
William A. Hood 19 - builder's apprentice
Edward Jas. Hood 13


William Hood
in the 1891 England Census
Name: William Hood - carpenter
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Relationship: Inmate
Birth Year: 1862
Birth Place: Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
Civil Parish: Richmond
Residence Place: Richmond, Richmond, Surrey, England
Sub registration district: Richmond
ED, Institution or Vessel: 28
Neighbors:
Piece: 622
Folio: 117


By 1901, he's also an officer in the workhouse:

William Hood
in the 1901 England Census
Name: William Hood
Age: 39
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1862
Relation to Head: Officer
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
Civil Parish: Richmond
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary and St Matthias
County/Island: Surrey
Country: England
Registration district: Richmond
Sub-registration district: Richmond
ED, institution, or vessel: Richmond Union Workhouse
Neighbors:
Piece: 677
Folio: 189
Page Number: 1
Household schedule number: 1
Household Members:
Name Age
William Hood 39 - workhouse officer, carpenter (single)


His death:

Deaths Jun 1907 (>99%)
Hood William 45 Richmond, S. 2a 272



Maybe Emma Jane made his acquaintance in 1892?

Wow thanks for all that! I’ll run it through my cousin in Australia when she wakes up, as all this puzzling us both. You could well be right. He was still alive when she had Reuben in 1903 but doubt he was father if said Reuben Hood. Don’t think she married either.