Genealogy Chat

Have you tried the FamilyHistoryOnline site? I regularly pick up deaths, monument inscriptions and marriages on there... and the odd census stray.

Have you tried just googling combinations of names (in inverted commas so they're treated as a single item - and with surnames first or last) and places? You can sometimes pick up info you'd never have expected: I found a George Bennett ancestor recorded as a stray. Anyone who's ever looked up someone called George Bennett will know just what a miracle that was! - all by himself as a 'visitor' at 11 years old. If you're really lucky it throws up a whole website of family tree search by some remote cousin you didn't know about. good hunting! Christine

I am glad of that, I did the search before I saw your year of 1922.

thanks for that carol there is a couple of rellies in the list

Familyrelatives is indexed up to 1920. I checked from 1910 to 1920 and the only Barkes deaths are 1 Barkes Ann 87 Basford.7b 186 Death 2 1912 2 Barkes Clarence Basford.7b 238 Death 1 1913 3 Barkes Doris C M 2 Holbeck.9b 826 Death 1 1915 4 Barkes Edith V Basford.7b 189 Death 1 1918 5 Barkes Frederick V Basford.7b 220 Death 1 1913 6 Barkes George 49 Leicester.7a 165 Death 1 1910 7 Barkes George W 70 Sunderland.10a 729 Death 3 1915 8 Barkes Harry F 2 Holbeck.9b 727 Death 1 1913 9 Barkes Isabella T 55 Sunderland.10a 1286 Death 4 1918 10 Barkes Isabella Sunderland.10a 921 Death 3 1911 11 Barkes Jabez 54 Basford.7b 272 Death 1 1919 12 Barkes Jane 71 Hartlepool.10a 136 Death 4 1911 13 Barkes John 64 Basford.7b 231 Death 1 1916 14 Barkes John W B 36 Bradford.9b 222 Death 4 1916 15 Barkes John 79 Sunderland.10a 810 Death 4 1915 16 Barkes Margaret M 5 Sunderland.10a 632 Death 2 1912 17 Barkes Mary E 2 Easington.10a 562 Death 2 1915 18 Barkes Mary K E 49 Nottingham.7b 342 Death 3 1920 19 Barkes Mary J 43 Sunderland.10a 636 Death 2 1918 20 Barkes Rachel 61 Grantham.7a 642 Death 1 1914 21 Barkes Rose E 26 Sleaford.7a 1004 Death 4 1918 22 Barkes Samuel 65 Basford.7b 163 Death 4 1911 23 Barkes Samuel 59 Grantham.7a 256 Death 2 1911 24 Barkes Sarah 71 Basford.7b 251 Death 1 1919 25 Barkes Thomas N 1 Bradford.9b 237 Death 3 1912 26 Barkes William B 63 Sunderland.10a 727 Death 3 1914

i no they were alive after 1920 because they had there second daughter then and didnt have no more kids after that lol

would this mean i have to pay the library a visit lol

If they were born 1880s they might well live until the 1970s/80s. I think Ancestry has deaths after about 1980ish, but if its after 1910 and before 1980ish then its a question of trawling through the death indexes. If you find the wife's cert first and it says on it she was 'widow of...' then you will know that her husband died earlier! nell

Unfortunately, you may be in for a long hard slog through the GRO death indexes. Can't really think of any quick way of finding them. Sorry. Kate.

thanks nell i had a look on the bdm and the latest was 1909 with no signs of them died before then ill have a nose on 1901 census but thing is they didnt get married till 1910 lol

Look for their deaths were you think they will have died! If they died before 1910 they are probably on Freebmd. You could see if they are on the 1901 census - this will give you their rough ages. As deaths after 1870s include the age at death this will help to locate correct certificate. nell

hello am wondering if any1 can advise me on where to look for 2 deaths i have a martha and james barkes both born sunderland and at some stage lived in easington county durham was wondering where to look for there deaths have got there births as 1885 ish