Genealogy Chat

can anyone tell me how to find my Great Grand fathers birth certivicate I have tried lots of reg offices I know his birth date and place of birth I have his marrage cert where a fathers name was there but I can't find him either I have tried St Catherines List is there anywhere else he may have been registered as he was illagitamite is there a list for these people I have been banging my head against this brick wall for 3yrs now PLEASE can someone help Molly He was born In Whitchurch Hereford in 1848 to a Miss Hardwick He worked as a coal miner He was married in Llanfoist Abergavenny On his marriage cert His father is named as a Benjamine (Pauly, Pavely, Pauley?) Whom I can't find at all on census He lived his life as a Hardwick He travelled back and forth to Northumberland during his working life that is about all I know if someone can suggest someway to get beyond him or where I can now search Thanks again Molly

Where and when was he born please? Registration in England and Wales did not commence until midway through 1837, and then it was not compulsory until 1875. If you give us some details, we may be able to help you. Liz

can you tell us the name and DOB and we could have a look for you.

Molly have you been searching under his mothers maiden name? If you post some details i.e. names, dates and places maybe we could help. Georgina.

The fact that he was illegitimate is irrelevant.His birth should still have been registered as normal. Give us some details we can work on .ie his name approx years of birth and area he might have been born in

Gill, I could not find my 2-g-grandmother's birth reg, despit ehaving her date and place of birth from a family bible. It was simply not listed in the GRO index at all. I wrote to Wigan register office (she was born in Wigan) giving as much info as I knew, and they located the cert and sent it to me within a couple of days. Fortunately this is rare, but a handful of births ( and presumably marriages and deaths) are missing from the index, despite being registered. Liz

Is there any way his surname could have been really misread. I ask because my own marriage record is mis-labelled because my father (who was the Rector, and took the service, so filled out the Register) had quite a flamboyant script and so my name was under BOU... instead of BEN...! When I looked at their copy of the cert, I could see why. Christine

Do you want to post the details here so we can all have a go? Liz

Where do the censuses say he was born? Liz

Ok, I have looked at the censuses. 1891 has been mistranscribed as 'Kingsland' which is incorrect. I cannot decipher what it should be though. 1901 says Hackney - have you tried contacting Hackney RD? Try: The Town Hall, Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 1EA. Tel: 020 8356 3493. Liz

I think it is Kingsland, the ing is very similar to the ing in Birmingham on the next page. Some info at http://www.eolfhs.org.uk/parish/kingsland.htm