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Hi everyone, could somebody please help, i,m fairly new to this and have just found out my uncle was put into a orphanage I think around 1909 (ish) he was born in 1899 name Frank Stone and was born in mid glamorgan his parents were frank stone and Loiusa Bartlett, any helpers please

This could be him in the 1911:

INSTITUTION STONE FRANK M 1900 11 Swansea Glamorganshire

Thank you Janice, how do I find out about why he was put in a orphanage please. and the date his mother louisa died.x

1901 for reference (so we know Louisa's age)

Frank Stone
Age in 1901: 1
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1900
Relation: Son
Father's Name: Frank
Mother's Name: Louisa
Gender: Male
Where born: Cadoxton, Glamorgan, Wales

Civil parish: Canton
Ecclesiastical parish: Canton St Paul
County/Island: Glamorgan
Registration district: Cardiff
Sub-registration district: West Cardiff

Frank Stone 31 born Devon
Louisa Stone 35 born Cirencester
Emily Burnham 15 born Manchester
Albert C Burnham 10 born Manchester
Richard M Burnham 4 born Cardiff
Frank Stone 1

Was Louisa's death the reason for him going into an orphanage, do you know?

I,m really not to sure, that is why i,m trying to find out the year she died.x

Have you looked on the 1911 census for the other members of the family?

EDIT - the delete was me - it posted twice!

Don't know if this will help, or give you contacts who can help.

There's a possible marriage of Emily Burnham to Thomas Parsons in 1906.

Nellie Parsons MMN Burnham was born in Cardiff district in 1912 and appears on several trees on this site. The contacts might know what happened to Louisa.

Was Louisa married twice? Are the Burnham children hers?

OK, found the answer to that one in 1891

Emily Burnham
Age: 5
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1886
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: George
Mother's Name: Louisa
Gender: Female
Where born: Bury, Lancashire, England

Civil parish: Salford
Ecclesiastical parish: St Stephen
Town: Salford
County/Island: Lancashire

Geoge Burnham 42
Louisa Burnham 28
William Burnham 24
George Burnham 10
Emily Burnham 5

yes amily was married twice previously to a george burnham and then frank stone.

sorry that should have been louisa not amily!!!!!!!

Have you found a marriage for Louisa to Frank Stone? I can't find one.

However I have found a marriage of a Louisa Burnham in 1909 reg'd in Cardiff!! Do you think she may have remarried rather than died?

this is all getting very confusing, perhaps she did,nt marry frank stone then, so do you think she may have married yet again, what a lady !!!

Don't know. Jumping to conclusions here!! The 1901 says she is Louisa Stone wife of Frank, but I can't find a marriage - can you?

A marriage in 1909 to someone who wasn't prepared to take on Frank would explain why he was sent away. We don't know it was actually her though without the cert. Have you got any certs or proof of what happened to Frank?

Also, what happened to Frank senior?

No Janice I can,t find a marriage certificate either, also I don,t knw when frank senior died, but would really like to know as to why he a=was put into orphange and circumstances surrounfing this.

If you can afford to splash out on random certificates, I would order the marriage cert of Louisa Burnham in 1909 and find out if it is the same person. If you have her first marriage you'll know her father's name as a check. Also you know she has been married before so that could be used as a check too.

If it is her, you'll have a possible reason for Frank being sent away. I would get the 1911 image for the Frank Stone in an institution and then you'll know where exactly he was sent to and can track down their records.

What do you think?

How do I go about getting the image, i have credits can i do that on this site.

The only place you can get the 1911 images is on the 1911 site

http://www.1911census.co.uk/

and you need to get credits for that site. It's £6.95 for 60 credits and it's 10 credits for the transcribed image.

thank you janet for all your kind help.

Good luck!
Hope you can solve your mystery. This hobby certainly keeps the brain exercised!!!