Baby Caroline

I haven't had time to find out much more in the last couple of days, except for one thing.

It looks very much like baby Caroline Hyde Adams did belong in the family.  When I went back and checked on the record of burial for baby William Pitt Adams (he who we also did not know anything about before - the brother of Thomas, and child of George with his first wife, Elizabeth Adams), I found that he had been buried at St.Clement's Church on November 21st, 1878, aged 3 years, and his abode was listed as Victoria Rd.

When I found Caroline Hyde Adams listed below, buried March 7th, 1890, aged 16 months, her abode was also listed as... Victoria Rd.

Surely, this is fairly strong evidence that this little girl belongs to us.  Once I get my hands on copies of all the birth and death certificates, these puzzles along the way will  get answers.

But!  There is still no sign of that Elizabeth Adams making an exit.  What became of her?  Why was she not buried at St. Clement's?  

I have just spent the last half hour going around Victoria St. and St. Clement's on Google Street View.  The houses on Victoria St. do not look old enough to be the original buildings.  When I went around Cranborne on  Google Street View last week, I could still see the old Adams family home there, although there were no civic numbers on the buildings, so I could only guess at which of three or four it could have been.  It was listed as 29 High St. in the censuses I checked in the 1800s, in case anyone else wants to have a look.  Isn't technology wonderful?



photo credit: http://archiseek.com/2009/1876-st-clements-church-bournemouth-dorset/