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Trying to find a Thomas family living in the area around 1905. They had a daughter, possibly named, Eva, was placed in foster care with a Mr and Mrs Taylor of London.

This looks like the Eva Thomas in question:

Name: Eva Thomas
Year of Registration: 1901
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
District: Ormskirk
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 811

Her birth cert would get you her parents' names, which could help.

There doesn't look to be a marriage transcribed yet that might likely be her.

If you got the birth cert it would give her exact date of birth, and it is often possible to identify a death, if it occurred post 1984, by searching by given name and DOB alone, and that would provide at least a good candidate for Eva's married surname, if she survived to 1984.

My Gramma was Eva born 1901, but she died in Canada (at 95), so no danger of confusion there. ;)


Meanwhile, there seem to have been very few Thomas-s in Ormskirk in 1901:


Name: Harry Thomas
Age: 48
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Annie
Gender: Male
Where born: Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales

Civil Parish: Ormskirk
Ecclesiastical parish: St Peter and St Paul
Town: Ormskirk
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Registration district: Ormskirk
Sub-registration district: Ormskirk
ED, institution, or vessel: 6
Household schedule number: 69

Mary Berry 40
Annie Thomas 45
Harry Thomas 48
Mary Thomas 16 - daughter


Name: Arthur E Thomas
Age: 28
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1873
Relation: Brother
Gender: Male
Where born: Ormskirk, Lancashire, England

Civil Parish: Ormskirk
Ecclesiastical parish: St Peter and St Paul
Town: Ormskirk
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Registration district: Ormskirk
Sub-registration district: Ormskirk
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Household schedule number: 224

Thomas Ball 21
Arthur E Thomas 28
Elizabeth Westhead 19
George Westhead 24
James Westhead 29
Jane Westhead 54
Joseph Westhead 15


Name: Murphey Thomas
Age: 70
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1831
Relation: Vagrant Inmate (Vagrant)
Gender: Male
Where born: Ireland

Civil Parish: Ormskirk
Ecclesiastical parish: St Peter and St Paul
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Registration district: Ormskirk
Sub-registration district: Ormskirk
ED, institution, or vessel: Union Workhouse


Arthur doesn't seem to have been married around then. Might Eva have been the daughter of Mary, who was the daughter of Harry and Annie, maybe?

Ah -- if Ormskirk was the *district* they were in, there were loads more Thomas-s, it seems. A couple of dozen married in that district in the first decade of the century, e.g.

Apologies for not replying sooner. Eva was definitely born c1905, 1901 too early. Mr Thomas was a miner.

Thanks

Samantha