Ada Pennance - Bury 1872

I first came across Ada in the family tree of John Hayworth at Wiki Tree (https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Hayworth-Family-Tree-79). Curiosity piqued, I started to dig as John had no listing for Ada's parents.

First I searched for her birth at the General Records Office and from Family Search at the LDS and found:

BIRTH:  PENNANCE, ADA   Mother maiden name MOLYNEUX  
OrderGRO Reference: 1872  S Quarter in BURY LANCASHIRE  Volume 08C  Page 479 Source General Records Office

Ada Pennance
Event Type Birth Registration
Registration Quarter Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration Year 1872
Registration District Bury
County Lancashire
Event Place Bury, Lancashire, England
Volume 8C
Page 479
Line Number 341
Source LDS

Then I looked for confirmation of Ada's marriage confirming her place in John's family tree:

MARRIAGE:
Ada Pennance
England and Wales Marriage Registration Index
Name Ada Pennance
Event Type Marriage to John Platt
Registration Quarter Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration Year 1895
Registration District Bolton
County Lancashire
Event Place Bolton, Lancashire, England
Volume 8C
Page 480
Line Number 238
Source LDS

This was confirmed by the 1901 Census which shows her living with the head of the household John Platt in Bolton, Lancs. Next, the GRO record indicated that the mother was a Molyneux. This turned out to be a miss spelling though as from the 1881 Census we find this record of the Mullineaux household at 11 Rutter Street, Little Bolton. Note here that the Pennance name has been mis-transcribed as Rennance. A common enough occurance. This gives us that the likely parents of Ada Pennance are Sarah Pennance age 38 and Jonathan Pennance age 39.

1881 England Census
Name: William Mullineux
Age: 31
Estimated Birth Year: 1850
Relationship to Head: Head
Spouse: Alice Mullineux
Gender: Male
Where born: Golborne (Golborn), Lancashire, England
Civil parish: Little Bolton
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England
Street Address: 11 Rutter St
Marital Status: Married
Occupation: General Labourer
Registration district: Bolton
Sub registration district: Little Bolton
ED, institution, or vessel: 19
Piece: 3836
Folio: 126
Page number: 45
Household Members:
Name Age
Jonathan Rennance 39
Sarah Rennance 38
William Mullineux 31
Alice Mullineux 29
Anne J. Mullineux 10
Ada Rennance 8
William Rennance 6
Mary A. Rennance 3

Contacting John to inform him of my findings he wrote back:

 "In 1894 Ada gave birth to a daughter who she named Sarah Alice.  At that time she was living at 100 Leicester Street, Bolton.

The registry of births states that Ada Pennance was a single woman at the time.  John Platt did not marry Ada until the following year, so Sarah Alice was an illegitimate child. Sarah Alice was raised by Johnathan and Sarah Pennance as their adopted daughter. Sarah Alice became Sarah Alice Haslam and died in 1960.  I found a photo of her at Ancestry.com.  My grandmother Doris never mentioned that she had a half sister, so either she didn't know or it was one of those things that people didn't talk about."

So anyway, next we might take a look at Jonathan Pennance and Sarah Pennance (nee Millineaux). Maybe they will link up to our family tree or maybe they are part of another branch entirely. Who knows?