Genealogy Chat

Brill!!

Thats fine Christine, very pleased to have helped - I get my fair share of help off others on here. Sorry, I was thinking ww1 for the dads army records!. Go to National Archives on line site and you can see what records are available. Click on family history then military.

Particular thanks to Heather!!!

Wow! I am amazed at what you are all finding, and very impressed. Thank you. It would make sense with the family names too, since Caroline Rouse had a daughter named Alice Eliza, although she later changed it to Alice Mary. With a sister named Eliza it does look quite possible the Mary Rouse is actually my Caroline. Does anyone have any advice if I wanted to go to Kew. I have never been there. Should I look up anything online first. Is it difficult to find documents?

Looks like they are right ones - I cant make out why three kids would be on their own in a barracks, but may be orphaned kids were kept with the regiment rather than send them to an orphanage. As Brenda said, I would defo look on the NA to see if you can find dads details. I just looked on records office someone was looking for a Thomas Doody, gun engraver back in August.

Those three girls are described as ''children of a deceased soldier''. They're also next in the list to ''Thomas DOODY'' - and I'm sure someone here was researching him! Christine

And possibly 1881 - you said dad was a soldier? This was the rifle brigade barracks: (Seems too much of a coincidence!!) Name: Mary E. Rouse Age in 1881: 8 Age months: 0 Estimated birth year: abt 1873 Relationship to head-of-household: Child Household: View other family members Family and neighbors: View neighbors Gender: Female Where born: Dover, Kent, England Address: 'Barracks' Winchester Civil parish: Winchester County/Island: Hampshire Condition as to marriage: Unknown Occupation: Scholar Education: View Image Employment status: View Image Source information: RG11/1233 Registration district: Winchester Sub-registration district: Winchester ED, institution, or vessel: Barracks Folio: 130 Page: 3 View Record Belinda Rouse abt 1877 Ireland Child 'Barracks' Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, England View Record Eliza Rouse abt 1875 Aldershot, Hampshire, England Child 'Barracks' Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, England View Record Mary E. Rouse abt 1873 Dover, Kent, England Child 'Barracks' Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, England Possibly Mary was a nickname or the enumerator misheard 'Carrie'?

Isnt this her in 1891? Name: Rouse, Carolin Age: 18 Estimated birth year: abt 1873 Relation: Servant Gender: Female Where Born: Dover, Kent Birth Country: England Civil parish: St George Hanover Square Ecclesiastical parish: St Marks Town: London City County/Island: London Street address: View Image Condition as to marriage: View Image Education: View Image Employment status: View Image Occupation: View Image Source information: RG12/68 Registration district: St George Hanover Square Sub registration district: Mayfair ED, institution, or vessel: 6 Folio: 9 Page: 12 (click to see others on page) GSU Number: 6095178

Caroline might be difficult to trace, but Archibald should be easier. If his soldier's documents survive (held at the National Archives, Kew) they should include addresses and next of kin. It is possible - I have certainly found this - that the whole family may have been abroad at the time of the census.

I have a Caroline Rouse in my tree. I think I found the right Caroline in the 1901 census as a visitor to a Taylor household in Marylebone. She is listed as being 28, a maid, born in dover in Kent with a 6 year old daughter Alice. She married in 1914 (as Caroine Elizabeth) and her father is listed as Archibald Rouse (deceased), a private in the rifle brigade. I can't find a Caroline Rouse in free BMD that matches her birth. I also wonder if she appears in any earlier census with her father. I haven't found her before 1901. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Christine