Pretoria (aka Victoria) Ivy Maud Dancy was born in Copthorne, Sussex 1900 suffering from accute deafness. (details from Ruby Holman verbal family history) [1]
By 1911 she was attending the Brighton school for deaf children.
In the 1901 census Pretoria Ivy Maud Dancy in her first year was living with her parents in Worth, Sussex. [3]
Joseph Hy Dancy Head M 25 Turners Hill, Sussex
Isabel Dancy Wife F 27 Peckham, London
Harold Stanley Dancy Son M 2 Copthorne, Sussex
Victoria Ivy Maria Dancy Daughter F 0 Copthorne, Sussex
(Victoria as mentioned is actually Pretoria Ivy Maud Dancy.)
In the 1911 census Pretoria Ivy Maud Dancy aged 10 and was a pupil living at the THE DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND DUMB CHILDREN in Brighton, Sussex. [4]
↑ "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2FCX-SSM : 1 October 2014), Pretoria Ivy M Dancy, 1900; from "England & Wales Births, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Birth Registration, East Grinstead, Sussex, England, citing General Register Office, Southport, England.
↑ DANCY, PRETORIA IVY MAUD (mother, PARKS) 1900 S Quarter in EAST GRINSTEAD Volume 02B Page 141
↑ "England and Wales Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSJZ-2R4 : 8 April 2016), Harold Stanley Dancy in household of Joseph Hy Dancy, Worth, Sussex, England; from "1901 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing Worth subdistrict, PRO RG 13, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey
↑ "England and Wales Census, 1911," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7BY-PJK : 13 September 2019), Pretoria Ivy Maud Dancy, Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom; from "1911 England and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO RG 14, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Pretoria by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Pretoria: