british army/ channel islands births

Question

Ann Elizabeth Nettleton born to a military person stationed in Channel islands was born in Alderney 1858-9. from 1861 census in Newnham, Gloucestershire.Mother Ellen Geeves or Gibbs, father William in Royal Artillery. Brickwall. No birth record for Ann or marriage record for parents anywhere in UK. Mother seems to be from Somerset in 1841. On a birth cert. for another child John George Nettleton, his mother calls herself Gibbs but all records appear to be Geeves.

Answer 1

from the 1841 census:

Name:	Ellen Geeves
Age:	1 Mo
Estimated Birth Year:	abt 1841
Gender:	Female
Where born:	Dorset, England
Civil Parish:	Whitchurch Canonicorum
Hundred:	Whitchurch Canonicorum
County/Island:	Dorset
Country:	England

Household members:

George Geeves	25
Ann Geeves	20
Ellen Geeves	1 Mo

 

Answer 2

1851 census:

Ellen Yeeve [Ellen Geeve]
Age:	10
Estimated Birth Year:	abt 1841
Relation:	Daughter (Child)
Father's name:	George Geeve
Mother's name:	Ann Geeve
Gender:	Female
Where born:	Whitchurch, Somerset, England
Civil Parish or Township:	St Anne
County/Island:	Alderney
Country:	Channel Islands

Household members:

George Geeve35Ann Geeve32Ellen Yeeve10Mary A Yeeve6Hannah Yeeve66Linal Bridal26George Newbery21

Comments

Records are consistent with place of birth & put Ellen on the island. No marriage record found.

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I've missed this it being Yeeve. Brilliant. George Geeve ended up on chelsea pensioner records so they must all have been posted there.

Answer 3

I looked at the Channel Islands Births and Baptisms on FindMyPast and couldn't find her on the island of Alderney. Nor is she in the British Nationals Armed Forces Births. Sometimes the mothers went to Portsmouth to have their babies.