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Shelly i can tell with some of the photos I have that they are related... the features from mother to daughter are so similar... but there is one wedding photo that my grandmother and gt grandmother are on and I would love to know if all th epeople in it are related but no luck so far.

lol SRS but you are a sylph like young thing :) if I was taller I would have more inches upwards to spread the weight ;)

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**tuts** Rose, 5'6 is tall in my opinion.....some people are just so ungrateful ;)

Uggers, have you checked Gretna Green marriages just in case?

Jill my son is going to be taller than me soon.... his father was 6 ft odd....my brother is 6'1 ish...but his son is close to 6'5 !...my maternal grandfather and his brothers were all 6'3 / 6'5...

why oh why did I have to take after the other side lol 5'6 at a stretch

My son is taller than me - by a long way! But also taller than his father.

But then, his father and I were born in the 1950s and were maybe shorter and more wiry than kids today? Son was born late 1970s and can't have inherited a tall gene from either family so maybe it's just a nutrition thing?

LOL

Jill

Phew....i thought you did the other one

Keeping fingers crossed it's the right one
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Steve, it was on QI that if you have ears with large lobes and your father doesn't...it could be the milkman lol... ( if Stephen Fry says it , it must be true? lol)

Julie , I did see thankyou I have sent off for the cert for Edward F Kensington... and hope it may be the right one & the parents marriage cert...will let you know what it says! if not I will go with the Collins certs and cross fingers lol

Thanks again xx

Im about to log off

Rose if this is the look up from last night did you not see my last post.....I don't think he was registered under his MMN


My Son will be taller than his dad, but then saying that so am i lolol

I'm taller than both my parents Rose...........*starts to doubt parentage*.

Maybe dad wasn't joking about the milkman after all. lol

:o))

I have been lucky with marriages on the London records, but the ones I am after now are just outside the area ..

here's a question, they say that sons are always taller than their mothers... are they also taller than their fathers?

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I think my great grandfather and his siblings were RC so I've not yet got any baptisms. The children were born between 1860 and 1879/80 and none of them are registered:( The parents married in 1861 though. My great grandmother was baptised and registered but despite her parents cohabiting for 47 years there ain't a marriage and I can't find baptisms for either of her parents and they're not registered although they both have a couple of siblings baptised - maybe one day:)

they might of been baptized in a different area
maybe the parish the wife came from

or ther grand parents always worth a look

You're right Joy - but my grandfather and his five "known" siblings were not registered and only two of them baptised. Plus, I have never found a possible marriage for the parents. All children born between 1874 and 1894.

Jill

I have one "ancestor" who is most probably not a true ancestor at all. But he took the woman in and married her and brought up the child (my gr grandma) as his own, so I owe him - big time. (And he could be the daddy - but no real explanation for not marrying her straight away in that case ...)

I think you're right in that they are still "family" in the true sense of the word. After all, there must be plenty of people not following a bloodline because of the behaviour of one of the wives in their tree so, fundamentally, does it really matter?

Anyway, let me know if you do need lookups and chin up!

Jill

until 1878 the registry of births was optional round here

Hi Uggers, I have all of them mum,dad and son on the census following their marriage ...so at worst it looks like either they 'jumped the gun' a little lol, or that my gt gt took on his wife's son. Either way they are all the right people in the right places ...... and the 'blood line' is not as important as the fact they were all 'family' really :)) (jeez I sound like Peggy Mitchell lol)

Rose, if everything else fits, chances are you're on the right track. My grandfather's ancestors don't appear to have registered any births until well after 1880 and I've not been able to locate many baptisms. Where they did marry, it was usually after the births of some of their children. Luckily I have had other info that backs stuff up enough but it's hard going;)

Thanks J* and Jill :)

will see if they offer me a discount as they sometimes do and will try and get paperwork sorted in the meantime... and await the certs!

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Hi Rose

Let me know too if you need any help ...

Jill