Genealogy Chat

Update from previous thread. Hooray! Ive now found marriage between G/Father and G/Mother so to find her parents is it best to order copy of marraige certificate NOT her death certificate. 1st Qrt 1934 8d 56 Its late and I'm confusing myself!!! Thank you. Vanessa

Whoever registered her death thought she was born nearly a year earlier! Name: Elsie Hampson Death Year: 1993 Age: 85 Birth Date: 29 Jan 1908 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<**** Death Registration Month/Year: Nov 1993 Registration District: Bangor Inferred County: Gwynedd Inferred Country: Wales Register Number: 58 Entry number: 6 If that's the right death registration?? Merry

Apart from the supposed date of birth, the death cert would also tell you where the informant believed the person was born............. Merry

Births of Elsie Wilkinsons, Q1 1908 and Q1 1909: Births Mar 1908 Wilkinson Elsie Gainsborough 7a 731 Wilkinson Elsie Manchester 8d 300 Wilkinson Elsie Sheffield 9c 603 Wilkinson Elsie Tadcaster 9c 1060 Wilkinson Elsie W. Derby 8b 563 Wilkinson Elsie Annie Camberwell 1d 951 Wilkinson Elsie Mary W. Derby 8b 591 Wilkinson Elsie May Sunderland 10a 724 Births Mar 1909 WILKINSON Elsie Salford 8d 159 WILKINSON Elsie Middlesbro' 9d 603 WILKINSON Elsie Garstang 8e 685 WILKINSON Elsie Swansea 11a 1203 WILKINSON Elsie Elizabeth Lancaster 8e 703 WILKINSON Elsie May Sculcoates 9d 170 Merry

Caz, Thank you for the response. My g/mother wasn't born until 1909. She could have married anytime from when she was 18 (ish) until my father was born in 1939 (in Manchester), and presumably in the Lancs area somewhere. I'm led to believe she was the eldest but I've searched her siblings and there are several possible matches for each of them. Not sure where to go next. Van

Monty, Thanks for the reply. Yes thats the right death registration, would it help then to order a copy of that certificate? Van

these Elsie Wilkinsons are all registered JFM 1909 Salford vol 8d pg 159 Middlesboro vol 9d pg603 Garstang vol 8e pg 685 Swansea vol 11a pg 1203 Elsie Elizabeth Wilkinson Lancaster vol 8e pg 703 Elsie May Wilkinson Sculcoaten ??? vol 9d pg 170 if you think you can narrow down that one of these might be here, the birth cert will give the parents names Note ; removed my earlier message after re-reading yours!!

Did/does your father have siblings?? Were any of them older than him?? If they were, have you found their birth registrations? If he didn't have older siblings, I would concentrate re-searching for the marriage of his parents around his birth date and up to five years before and also AFTER he was born too!! Yes, I would get the death cert.......You never know what snippet of info might be on it!! I notice as well as the year of birth being different for Elsie, the date in Jan also differs. Merry

Merry My father has one sister but she is younger born 1943. I will do as you have suggested and firstly trawl through the marriage index and if that doesn't help me I will order a copy of the death certificate. The details were given to me by my father and he could have got them mixed up but I will confirm them with my aunt. Thank you for your help. Van

Caz, Thank you for your help. Van

UPDATE! Trying to trace my Great Grandparents - little information known! Update from previous thread. Hooray! Ive now found marriage between G/Father and G/Mother so to find her parents is it best to order copy of marraige certificate NOT her death certificate. 1st Qrt 1934 8d 56. It's late and I'm confusing myself!!! Thank you. Vanessa