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I am trying to find info on my great grand parents

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Ann

Ann Report 15 Feb 2008 12:27

christine were your parents any by any chance bert and nelly and do you have a sister called joyce

Christine

Christine Report 7 Feb 2008 18:40

thankyou so much you have been a great help albert is her brother not 100% on the others though

Lewella

Lewella Report 1 Feb 2008 23:15

Albert's death

England & Wales, Death Index: 1984-2005
about Albert Stokell
Name: Albert Stokell
Birth Date: 29 Dec 1914
Death Registration Month/Year: Jan 2005
Age at death (estimated): 90
Registration district: North Yorkshire
Inferred County: North Yorkshire
Register number: T2
Entry Number: 294

Lewella

Lewella Report 1 Feb 2008 23:12

Possible siblings for Doris

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983
about Nelly Stokell
Name: Nelly Stokell
Year of Registration: 1913
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
Mother's Maiden Name: Plews
District: Darlington
County: Durham, Yorkshire - North Riding
Volume: 10a
Page: 65

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983
about Albert Stokell
Name: Albert Stokell
Year of Registration: 1915
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Mother's Maiden Name: Plews
District: Darlington
County: Durham, Yorkshire - North Riding
Volume: 10a
Page: 1

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983
about Stanley Stokell
Name: Stanley Stokell
Year of Registration: 1919
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Mother's Maiden Name: Plews
District: Thirsk
County: Yorkshire - North Riding, North Yorkshire
Volume: 9d
Page: 785

Lewella

Lewella Report 1 Feb 2008 23:04

Found her!

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983
about Doris Stokell
Name: Doris Stokell
Year of Registration: 1917
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Mother's Maiden Name: Plews
District: Thirsk
County: Yorkshire - North Riding, North Yorkshire
Volume: 9d
Page: 630

Her parents

England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1983
about Tom Stokell
Name: Tom Stokell to Kate Plews
Year of Registration: 1910
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Thirsk
County: Yorkshire - North Riding, North Yorkshire
Volume: 9d
Page: 931

Christine

Christine Report 1 Feb 2008 20:43

hi i have found her year of birth was 1937 i think doris's maiden name may have been stokell

Christine

Christine Report 1 Feb 2008 00:50

i don't know it but that is her am trying to find doreen's date of birth at the moment

Lewella

Lewella Report 1 Feb 2008 00:42

If you can let me have your grandmother Doreen's date of birth, I can find Doris's maiden name

Lewella

Lewella Report 1 Feb 2008 00:37

Do you have any birth dates for Doris's children?

Christine

Christine Report 1 Feb 2008 00:35

Her husband died in december of either 93 or 94 but i can't find him

Christine

Christine Report 1 Feb 2008 00:33

she had 2 sons i know of denis who died quiet young and john and i think three daughters doreen my grandmother not too sure of the other names haven't seen any of them since sgortly arfter my great grandmother died

Lewella

Lewella Report 1 Feb 2008 00:28

What other details do you have? When did she marry? What are the names and ages of her children?

Is this her death?

England & Wales, Death Index: 1984-2005
about Doris Ward
Name: Doris Ward
Birth Date: 10 Jan 1917
Death Registration Month/Year: Sep 1992
Age at death (estimated): 75
Registration district: Northallerton
Inferred County: North Yorkshire
Volume: 2
Page: 1998

Christine

Christine Report 1 Feb 2008 00:17

i am trying to find out some info on my great grand parents but am not sure where to start my great grandmother was called Doris her married surname was ward she died in 1992 sept i think she was born in 1917 i think it was somewhere in yorkshire not sure though can any one help