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Hello Sylvia, Thank you so much for your advice.
I am very new to this game and to be honest finding it quite stressful!!!!! But fun!
At the moment I have had quite a few "hits" on the St. Catherin'es site, although not purchased any certificates as yet. Through Genes I have made contact with a far flung relative in Australia and we have been able to exchange very definite information re our ancestors so this has been very interesting.
Whilst I have everything in "folders" on the computer I am also going to organise a "paper system". I have only managed to go back as far as my Great Great Great Grandad Challis and would now like to go back to this same generation via my Great Grandad Ager.
Thanks again for your help which is greatly appreciated.
Regards Joan
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I found a Rose Ager as a servant on the 1891 as a servant in St Mary Suffolk, and lots of other Agers but not your family.
Tricks for you to try are
use christian name only, plus birth year +/- 5, and county of birth ...... surname may be wrongly transcribed.
I have a feeling they may have been entered under the worng surname altogether.
However, I also looked on freebmd ............ the only Samuel Ager death I could find was 70 when he died, way too old.
I couldn't find a Betsey Ager remarriage.
sylvia
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First, have you bought William's birth certificate?
This is the onyll document that will tell you his mother's maiden name.
It will cost £7 from www.gro.gov.uk
This is his birth registration from www.freebmd.co.uk (which you can search yoruself)
Births Jun 1861 (>99%)
Ager William Risbridge 4a 403
June is the quarter in which he was registered ........ which fits in with his March birth.
You will need the GRO reference number, this is the set of 2 numbers after Risbridge.
Now I'll see what else I can fnd for you.
BUT you must get that certificate to get his mother's maiden name, and be sure you are following the right line.
THEN you should get his parents marriage certificate to find the name sof their fathers ....... again this is the only way you can be certain of the corret names.
Anything you find on censuses or that we find for you is only circumstantial evidence.
sylvia
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WILLIAM AGER Born 16.3.1861 in Bury St. Edmunds.
His father was Samuel Ager born c.1841...mother was a Betsey also born c.1841. Betsey MAY be nee Borhcam. (I found a marriage record of a Samuel Ager and an Elizabeth Borcham married at Saint John the Evangalist, Bury St. Edmunds 24th March 1864).
William had three sisters Annie born c.1864, Ellen c.1867 and Rosina c.1869.
I have found them all on the 1871 England Census, but have drawn a blank in being able to find them elsewhere.
I have only been tracing my relatives since 8th January this year so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I believe that Samuel died and his wife remarried again (possibly to a ???solicitor???). Also one of William's sisters (don't know which one) emigrated to South Africa.
Thanks again for your help.....also A BIG THANK YOU to "Michael" and "John" who have helped me so much in these last few weeks.
Joan
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