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First Name GERTRUDE
Last Name BARKE
Baptism Day 9
Baptism Month May
Baptism Year 1888
Mother's Given Name Edith
Father's First Name Frederick
Parish Holy Trinity, Vauxhall Bridge Road
Birth Day 2
Birth Month Jan
Birth Year 1884
Place HOLY TRINITY, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD
County Middlesex
Record set Westminster Baptisms
CategoryBirth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records

(same time, Frederick Charles born March 31 1888, abode, 61, Bessborough Place, occ. of Father, Assistant in Linen Drapers)


Deaths Sep 1888 (>99%)
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BARKE Frederick Charles 0 St Geo H Sq 1a 285

(looks to relate also)

Chris :)

He is a widower when he marries Caroline and Melissa has said she has the birth cert for Frederick jnr

Name:Gertrude Barke
Estimated birth year:abt 1883
Age:18
Spouse Name:
Bertram Frank Moyse
Spouse Age:20
Record Type:Marriage
Event Date:9 Jun 1901
Parish:South Lambeth St Stephen
Borough:Lambeth
Father Name:Frederick Barke
Spouse Father:William Moyse
Register Type:Parish Register

(Witnesses on above, Frederick Barke, Edith Mary Barke, occ. of Father, Foreman)

Chris :)

Thanks Ricochet. I have a note of Fred Charles and wondered if he was linked, given date and area (and there are a number of twins in the Barke family). Will look further into that. Fred Snr is noted as being a widower on 1901 census (I think, don't have my info to hand) and also on his marriage cert to Caroline, but that doesn't necessarily mean he WAS a widower! If Edith did go into an asylum with no chance of parole as it were, then it makes sense (although that could be a fatal mistake lol!), especially given the secrecy re her.

Prickles, thank you for that info. I didn't realise that patients would be registered just under their initials. Maybe it is just deemed to be a mystery forever! Oh if only we could go back in time!!!!

Hi Melissa,
I think we connected a long time ago when I was researching the Barkes, but we concluded there was no connection.. however, looking at what you have now found, you are definitely describing my family!
I have been doing a bit more digging, and I think I may have solved the mystery of what happened to Edith Barke, nee Cooper. There are two Edith Barkes listed as marrying after 1901...I've a feeling maybe the marriage between Edith Cooper and Frederick Barke broke up and they both remarried, although I can't find any mention of a divorce...but that may have been quite common back then when divorce was expensive and difficult. It may explain why the daughters were unknown in my family, if they sided with their mother perhaps? Also, they were a bit older and might have been living independently by then. I'd have to look in a bit more detail at my notes, but if you are still out there Melissa...I'll let you know what I found.
Katherine Ashton (nee Barke)

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