Albert [Albert Arthur] INKSON [aka DOSSETT] b. 3 Mar 1865 Spitalfields, London
The story of Albert is [at least at this stage] enigmatic, to say the least. He should, perhaps, rightly be called Albert [Albert Arthur] DOSSETT [aka INKSON].
We knew from various records that he had been born in Spitalfields, London and now we have his birth certificate which confirms that although his birth was registered as Albert Dorsett [not Dosset]. The birth certificate of Albert Dorsett shows that his father was Henry Dorset and his mother was Ellen Dorsett, formally Peplow and that they lived in Union Street, Spitalfields [the western end of what is now called Brushfield Street, off Bishopsgate]. The problem is that there is no Henry Dorset and no Ellen Peplow that match the pair as can be found at the moment, nor any marriage record. Was Henry invented to hide an inconvenient truth? We know that Ellen was called Ellen Dossett when she entered the Whitechapel Union workhouse in 1862 for the birth of Charles, Albert's older [half?] brother but the 'Dorsett' could just be a misunderstanding. We also know that on the marriage certificate she is described as Eliza, not Ellen, Dossett a spinster when she did marry Frederick William Inkson.
What we do know is that when Albert was born, his mother [variously Eliza and Ellen] Dossett was not married to Frederick William Inkson but some researchers claim that Frederick William was Albert's father. Certainly, in the 1871 and 81 censuses he is called Albert Inkson, son of Frederick William but by the 91 census he is Albert A Dossett. We know that it is the same man because he was staying with Jemima Neal née Inkson his [half?] sister. At that point he was said to be 26 years of age and already a widower.
Thereafter the data presented here is based on him being Albert Arthur Dossett. There are two trees because he remarried after his first wife died.
