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ElizabethK

ElizabethK Report 12 Dec 2013 16:20

Remember the GRO Index is not yet complete - so there is still hope :-)

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 12 Dec 2013 15:07

I went to a talk a few years ago at WDYTYALive. Apparently the marriage of the daughter of the lecturer was not on the GRO list - he swears she did marry as he remembers walking her down the isle. Turns out the vicar didn't send the details in!

I have at least two insurmountable brick walls - missing parish records books. In both instances they have long been recorded as missing.

Dea

Dea Report 12 Dec 2013 15:03

Hi Debbie,

I am assuming that you have your birth certificate and that there is no father's name mentioned?

If this is the case, I think that you will need to find any friends or family on your mother's side and see if they can tell you anything.

Dea x

Debbie

Debbie Report 12 Dec 2013 14:42

I cant believe in these times of technology etc that its impossible to find something, somewhere that gives us a clue!

Maddie

Maddie Report 12 Dec 2013 14:34

I have a simiiar problem with my great grandfather, his name only exists on his children's baptism s certificates.
He is on one census but with his "wife's" surname, as are the children.
No birth, no marriage and no death.
Maybe one day as records are transcribed he may turn up. You never know what the future holds
Maddie

Debbie

Debbie Report 12 Dec 2013 14:26

Hi all,

Has anyone ever got to the point when there is absolutely no other way to go?
I have tried all the census records, been to what was 'Somerset House', births marriages and death certificates and I think I must have been an immaculate conception!!!. I can find no record of my father and unfortunatley I was never given a name!. Do I have to just accept defeat?

Debs