A Parry Puzzle - Rosina Jane Parry in 1921

Last year, when the 1921 census was released, I looked for my ancestors who I knew should be recorded in there, along with their closest relatives.  Although I did find most of the people I expected to, there were one or two that eluded me.  One of those that I was unable to find was Rosina Jane Parry, the sister of my grandfather, Donald Parry.

Rosina was born in Hereford, in April 1905.  Her mother died later that month, as a result of giving birth, so Rosina and her brother were brought up by their father, John, no doubt assisted by other members of the family, as well as friends.  John then died in 1918, when Donald was fourteen and Rosina aged thirteen.  They were each taken in by different relatives - in Rosina's case, I believe it was her aunt, Mary Parry, formely ROBERTS, the widow of John's brother, Thomas.

The family story is that Rosina then went to London when she was sixteen, ie round about the time of the 1921 census.

I recently returned to searching for her, trying various spellings and also missing out information, such as her surname.  I was intrigued to discover an entry for a "Rosina J TARY", born 1905, working as a servant in St George's Hanover Square, London, Middlesex, and giving her birthplace as Toronto, Canada.  The age would be exactly right for Rosina Parry, since the 1921 census was taken in June that year.

I have sometimes found TARY/TARRY as mistranscriptions for PARRY, which was one reason for taking a closer look at the entry.  And, comparing the "T" of TARY to the "T" of Toronto, the former does seem to be more curved, as if it could be a "P":

But there are some other "P"s on the page, which are more completely curved, so I could be wrong:

Another reason for taking a closer look at the entry was that, in 1924, Donald went out to Canada.

I have been unable to find any relevant entries for Rosina J TARY (or PARRY) in Canada, or entering the UK.

So, is it possible that Rosina and her brother, Donald, perhaps unhappy at the circumstances they found themselves in after their father died, dreamt of leaving and going to Canada - and that, having moved to London, Rosina adopted that as her birthplace?  [I have no evidence as to whether Rosina "ran away" to London, or whether it was with her aunt's blessing.] 

Am I making too big an assumption that this could be 'my' Rosina?

Can any of you reading this find evidence in other records that would prove the existence of the Rosina J TARY, and therefore prove my assumption wrong? 

 

Tempus Fugit

I spent a very enjoyable day yesterday, meeting up with several of the local members of the Guild of One-Name Studies.

We discussed a variety of topics, including:

    - the difficulty of identifying (or even realising!) what has happened in a case where someone marries a second spouse who has an identical name and birth year/parish to their first spouse, 

    - the availability of mother's maiden names in indexes such as the UK General Register Office, 

    - navigating the Guild's web site, 

    - what would happen to our study if we were to die today, and the various options for preserving our data on the Guild site, such as the Members' Websites project (https://one-name.org/the-members-websites-program-mwp/  ).  

    - how the Guild began and the background to some Guild projects, such as the Marriage Challenges and the Marriage Locator (https://one-name.org/marriage-locator/ ), 

    - what records are available to help with finding graves in a local cemetery.

In the course of chatting about data storage, and the types of files to keep, the question of the collection of 'Births, Deaths and Marriages' arose and was it worth keeping spreadsheets of these, now that the entries are so easily available on many sites.  I think some One-Namers no longer collect them in that format, but I still see some benefits to doing so.  They can help with keeping track of how 'complete' the study is. If additional information is added to the spreadsheet, to identify which entry relates to who, then that will also be helpful to future researchers, and (hopefully) save them from purchasing incorrect certificates, which is an important consideration with 'popular' surnames, where there might be several, identically named, registrations, in the same district, in one quarter.  

I also think that the ease with which statistical tables, graphs, or distribution maps, can be produced from such spreadsheets, is another benefit.  Producing, and publishing, such "added value" is one of the aims of carrying out a surname study, which takes it beyond just the "family history" of everyone with the surname. 

The time together with the other members soon flew by - which might explain the title of this post.

Then again, it could be the only 'explanation' I have for not posting anything since 2020. 

Or maybe, as a result of struggling to carry out some "non-Parry" research into the owners of a local historic house during the Tudor period, I've just got latin on my mind! 

[* "I don't understand," according to Google Translate :-) ]