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Hi
Please can any one help me
I have been searching for my great grandfather but can't find anything on him in any Census records.
His name was Orris Ratcliffe
D.O.B- 1893
D.O.D- 1969

Hi Stacey,

Do you have any idea where he was born? Are you sure his name wasn't HORACE?

If he was born in 1893 he would only appear on the 1901 census.

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Do you know what Orris's parents names were?

Name: Orris Ratcliffe
Year of Registration: 1893
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Blackburn
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8e
Page: 445

marriage?
Orris Ratcliffe 1918 Jul-Aug-Sep MacKay Preston Lancashire

Hi
My Gran says his name was Orris and said he was born in Blackburn and that he had a sister called May.

Hi
That is great thank you so much I haven't been able to find his marriage but that is the 1 as that my great grans surname.
Also I don't know his parents name I don't think my gran can remember them either. Sorry.

Stacey if you order the birth cert using the ref I've posted above it will give you his parents names.

I will
Thank you for your help.

The Lancashire free bmd website will be handy for you to use...

http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/

From this site....

1918...Orris married Margaret Ferguson MacKay at the Methodist Chapel, Penwortham Bridge....you will also find his birth entered.

Linda

thank you I will look thank you again

Think this may be them on 1901 census- mis-spelt

place of birth given as Darwen, which is in Blackburn Reg District

Burris Radcliffe
Age: 7
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1894
Relation: Son
Mother's Name: Mary
Gender: Male
Where born: Darwen, Lancashire, England

Civil Parish: Poulton, Bare, and Torrisholme
Ecclesiastical parish: Morecambe St Lawrence and Poulton le Sands Holy Trinity
Town: Morecambe
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Lancaster
Sub registration district: Heaton
ED, institution, or vessel: 3
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 233
Household Members: Name Age
Bessie Colley Radcliffe 18
Burris Radcliffe 7
Mary Radcliffe 48
May Radcliffe 4


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Looks like Borris on image, no sign of father although Mary is not a widow, the other two are sisters

Hi Tom
Thank you
Please may I ask where you found this so I can have a look.

Also can anyone tell me when the next census is available to the public?

Well spotted Tom

Here is 1891

1891 England Census
about Mary Ratcliffe
Name: Mary Ratcliffe
Age: 38
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: James
Gender: Female
Where born: Darwen, Lancashire, England

Civil Parish: Over Darwen
Ecclesiastical parish: St James
Town: Darwen
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Blackburn
Sub registration district: Darwen
ED, institution, or vessel: 18
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Alice Ratcliffe 17
Betsy C Ratcliffe 8
James Ratcliffe 37
James T Ratcliffe 7
Jane A Ratcliffe 14
Leonard Ratcliffe 11
Mary Ratcliffe 38

1881 England Census
about Mary Radcliffe
Name: Mary Radcliffe
Age: 27
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: James
Gender: Female
Where born: Over Darwen, Lancashire, England

Civil Parish: Eccleshill
County/Island: Lancashire
Country: England

Street address: Nursery Nook
Condition as to marriage: Married
Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Blackburn
Sub registration district: Darwen
ED, institution, or vessel: 26
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Alice Radcliffe 7
James Radcliffe 27
Jane A. Radcliffe 11 >>>>actual image says 4
Leonard Radcliffe 1
Mary Radcliffe 27

Found them on Ancestry UK 1901 census, next census available is 1911 release due in 2011

Tom

Hi Stacey...Tom will have found this on the Ancestry website...it is a subscription only website...

http://www.ancestry.co.uk/

I think the family Tom found looks interesting as on the Lancashire bmd website Orris's birth was registered in Darwen.

The next census available is 1911 but due to the 100 year closure it won't be available till 2011/12....I can't wait!!

Linda

Stacey, you have to be like a bloodhound. Don't just look for one person and give up, look for another, and another, and guess at name mis-spellings, and just keep going.

But if you get stuck again, get back to us, we will help.

Margaret

I will thank you
Thank you all very much for all your help you are wonderful.

I think many libraries in the UK subscribe to Ancestry, and I believe the local records office holds images of their censuses.
BMD certs can be purchased thru the GRO in Southport, or, in this case, thru the local registers office in Blackburn (most likely, although I think there may a few local ROs who don't issue certs for genealogical purposes).

The formal way of citing these pages is:
1881
Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 4208; Folio: 126; Page: 12; Line: ; GSU roll: 1342008.
1891
Source Citation: Class: RG12; Piece: 3179; Folio 65; Page 21; GSU roll: 6098289.
1901
Source Citation: Class: RG13; Piece: 3985; Folio: 66; Page: 36.