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Louisa Elizabeth Fage b1874 - a Mrs Spring?

posted Sunday, 13 January 2008

Louisa was younger sister of my great-great-grandfather William Fage, born in 1874 according to the censuses. She was christened on 7 June 1874 in Sandy. She appears aged 7 on the 1881 census, and aged 17 by 1891, living with her parents and other siblings in Sandy. By the 1901 census, when she would have been around 27 years old, she has left the family home. There is a marriage record for a Louisa Elizabeth Fage and Thomas Frederick SPRING in the December quarter of 1891, Biggleswade (3b 846). Searching the 1901 census for a Louisa born in Sandy and aged around 27 returns Louisa SPRING as the most likely candidate.

In the 1901 census, Louisa is living with her husband, known as Frederick, in Main Street, Sandy. Frederick is a couple of years older than Louisa and is working as a Market Gardener's Labourer. They have five children: Albert, 9; William, 8; Frederick, 4; Ellen, 2 and Emily, one month old.  I don't know what happened to any of the family after 1901: Mrs Spring does not appear in the list of siblings of William FAGE, her brother, at the time of his death in 1940, so she may either have remarried, or have died by then. Alternatively, this may be the wrong 'Louisa'.