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I think I've found your problem -- your Cheshires are not Cheshires, they really are Cheshers.
That's how they appear with Eleanor in the 1901 English census in Shropshire, Eleanor with children Louisa, Martha J and Samuel -- the entry is messy (with the "h" inserted), but it's Chesher. Louisa Chesher's birth was registered in 4th quarter 1888 in Shropshire, Samuel in 4th quarter 1890.
I don't see Martha Jane's birth in the BMDs at all. Oh, here she is; it's mistranscribed as "Cheshee".
So it seems that the name really was Chesher, not Cheshire, and the error is in the Home Children records.
Aha -- your Eleanor was born Cheshire in 1866, though. (Her age is mistranscribed by 10 years in the 1891 census, which didn't help me.) In the 1881 census she's Eleanor Cheshire. Rather odd that her children are registered as Chesher, but presumably she was at least semi-illiterate. (Also the explanation for why my gr-gr-grmother Fallowell appears as Farrowell when she marries, but not the explanation for why she and my gr-gr-grfather married some years after all their children were born!)
This still leaves us stymied, though. There is no Louisa or Martha (Jane) Chesher (or any likely mistranscription of those given names) in the Cdn records
- getting married
- having a child
- in the 1911 census
There is one Louisa Kate Chesher in the birth records, but she was having children in 1899 and 1903, so that is not yours. I think that must have been who I was talking about when I said:
"There is one with mother Louisa Chesher -- in 1903, perhaps a little early. And I can't find that couple -- husband Wilson Irwin -- in the 1911 census on a quick check."
-- I have no idea how I got the husbands muddled.
Was Edith Annie born 1896 Eleanor's daughter? Her birth was registered as Chesher, and she is Edith A Chesher in 1901, living with aunt Mary Jane Bishop. (Heh, I see Mary Jane finally got herself married -- she had daughter Sarah Cheshire already in 1881. Reminding me of that gr-gr-grmother's two daughters, in this instance! And remembering that we must always remember circumstances; my gr-grm's unmarried pregnancy was a result of sexual exploitation by the master of the household where she was a maid.)
Anyhow, like I say -- this has got us no farther. No Cheshires or Cheshers to match them in the Cdn records, at least as transcribed at Ancestry. The records collected there are very incomplete. For instance, if they had moved from Ontario somewhere other than British Columbia, their marriage would not appear there.
In 1911, there is a Louisa in British Columbia born Sept 1888 in England, immigrated 1900, married to a John Quinn born 1882 in New Zealand. He died in 1914. ... but she was probably Sarah Louisa Rowley, who married a John Quinn in 1910. Other than that, I can find just no trace of anyone who looks like either sister.
I'll keep poking around in my spare moments though!
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