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From: "Lynn Bateman" <>
Subject: [CARDEN-L] Who is Maria?
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:12:03 -0000

Hi Listers,

I am trying to track down the burial places of Cardens who died before 1850. This is surprisingly difficult and I asked for advice on the Liverpool list. The only answers I received were from others with the same problem, all looking for their early RC Irish ancestors. One gentleman sent me a list of Cardens on the 1851 census for Liverpool. I thought I had them all anyway, but I certainly didn't have this one:

MARIA CARDEN, aged 19, prostitute, born LIVERPOOL.

We do have a Maria in our family, but she is much younger and I know all about her. So who is Maria, aged 19. Looking at the film nos. she is not living with any Cardens I have listed, and the fact that she was born in Liverpool makes her one of the earliest Cardens recorded here. I suppose she could be a widow: times were very hard in those days for widows. But, if she was born a Carden, I wonder who her parents are? I must get down to the record library and consult the 1851 census to see where and with whom she lived. I must say I feel very sad about her and wonder what may have forced her into this awful occupation.

Lynn
In sunny but very cold Liverpool

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