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Trying to find Searle

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HeyJudeB4Beatles

HeyJudeB4Beatles Report 24 May 2014 19:58

MC - love the avatar :-)...reminds me of my youth...everyone I knew of my mother's generation had purple rinsed perms and twin sets....on my 30th birthday I checked my hair was (a) long (b) straight and (c) dark brown ha :-)


I did wonder - without too much delving - whether Margaret Ann is of another generation. Whatever,the post is incoherent (at best).

Should Jacqueline ever return - unlikely I know - have you got the marriage certificate to Lydia Ellen Elford? I suspect William's middle name is not Herbert.

I also think there was a fifth child Alfred W(illiam??) who was born 1922 and died 12923

Researching:
Cording/Llewellyn/Hyde/Homer/Pattie/Irvine/Hunt/Mead

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 24 May 2014 15:07

Looking at the birth years of people in Margaret Ann's tree it would appear an incorrect assumption has been made and it's just a coincidence regarding the man's name in Jacqueline's post.

I would suggest that "try again" should apply to the reading of posts and checking of dates contained therein.

HeyJudeB4Beatles

HeyJudeB4Beatles Report 24 May 2014 13:43

I think what Margaret is saying is that she is a daughter of William Herbert Searle and that Lydia Ellen was not her mother. I am sorry but I do feel the wording is a little abrupt...try again is perhaps not appropriate?

However, a quick look at BMD shows that the William Searle who married Lydia Ellen Elford had a middle initial of A. William H married an Elneida Mellish.

Jude

Researching:
Cording/Llewellyn/Hyde/Homer/Pattie/Irvine/Hunt/Mead

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 24 May 2014 12:06

Margaret

I'm sorry, but your post doesn't actually make sense

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 24 May 2014 10:42

Hello, Margaret Ann -
Jacqueline posted that message in 2005, and is unlikely to be looking here for replies now.


If you want to contact her direct, you can try clicking on her name and sending her a private message. If she still has the same email address, GR will notify her that you've sent it.

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

margaret ann

margaret ann Report 24 May 2014 10:36

no one I know my father did not married a Lydia ellen. try again.

Jacqueline

Jacqueline Report 2 Jan 2005 20:37

I am trying to find information on my great grandfather William Herbert Searle, he married Lydia Ellen Elford in 1912 in Plympton, Devon. They had four children - Herbert William (known as Bill - my grandfather), Marjorie, Vera & Gwen. My grandfather married Florence Harris (Sis) in December 1936 and lived in Horton, Bucks. They had two children, William & Jeanette. Would be grateful for any information.