Found Great Auntie Rose Wheeler
Sparrowhawk
My Great Grandmother, Mary Ann Hubbard (or Habbert) married 3 times. Her first husband was James Wheeler. I've recently discovered that in 1865 they had a daughter, who they named Rose, and I think her middle name may have been Ann. I had wondered for some time if Mary Ann and James had any children, and poking around the ancestry sites, I finally found Rose.
Rose and her mother lived with Mary Ann's parents, James and Catherine. Mary Ann remarried, my Great Grandfather, Richard Wilkinson in 1872, when Rose would have been 8. I don't know if she stayed with her grandparents, or lived with Mary Ann and Richard.
The next trace I found of Rose, was the 1881 Census, when she was a servant at St. Paul, London. She would have been 16.
I'd sure love to know more about her life - if she married, if she had children. Its always exciting to find a new relative, and hopefully some day I'll find out more about Great Auntie Rose.
by Sparrowhawk
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familydetective on 2015-12-04 11:47:40FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915
Name: James Wheeler
Registration Year: 1860
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district: Bethnal Green
Inferred County: London
Volume: 1c
Page: 702
Spouse: Mary Habbert
England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
Name: James Wheeler occ labourer
Estimated birth year: abt 1836
Age: 24
Spouse: Mary Habbert
Spouse Age: 21
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 27 Aug 1860
Parish: St Philip, Bethnal Green
Borough: Tower Hamlets
Father Name: Thomas Wheeler occ labourer
Spouse Father: James Habbert occ labourer
Register Type: Parish Register
Both bride and groom lived in Brick Lane
Sparrowhawk on 2015-12-04 12:39:03Thank you for the information! Some of it I had, and I've corrected my family tree with the other information!
Sparrowhawk on 2016-08-13 15:57:34Found what I was looking for, re Rose Wheeler! Her full name was Rose Ellen Wheeler. I've always known my Grandfather, Richard Wilkinson, who was Mary Ann's son from her second marriage, had a favourite sister. We knew of her as Aunt Nell.
I found out Rose's middle name, and was quite happy with that, but still hadn't found Aunt Nell, till 2:40 in the morning. Out of a dead sleep, my brain finally made the connection. Rose Ellen was Aunt Nell! I don't know why I didn't get it before then! My mother's name was Helen, and she was called Nell.
When I finally had the whole name, I was able to find the name of her husband, James Robert Peters. They married in Hackney in 1886, and they had 5 children: Philip, Ruby, Ernest, Gladys Vera, and John Ernest Leslie.