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Edith St Clair Blacklock born Newcastle Birth
16 Feb 1891
Death 1 May 1974 in Newcastle.

I cannot find her birth anywhere .

Any help, please.
x

Was that her married or maiden name when she died??

Maiden name, her married name was Bradbury (I can find her death, which is where Igot her dob from).
x

Have you found her on the census?

If you have her marriage cert what was her father's name?

Christine

Can't find her on the cencus either, I am going to have to order the birth certificate to see what's on there, was just trying to save the pennies first, just incase there was something that I had missed.
x

Do you mean you will have to order the marriage cert as you said birth cert.

Christine

I meant the marriage certificate, I was out last night :-). It's her birth I'm trying to find. x

Thought you must mean that.

The only Edith Blacklock I can find in1891, 1901 and 1911 was born 1888.

Christine

Thanks Christine, I've found those, but it's going against all the information that I have got.

I'll order the marriage certificate, and work things out that way.

Thanks for your help
x

Family search has Edith Blacklock bapt 20.6.1887 St Andrew N´castle d/o John Blacklock /Annie
This couple in 1891 have a son William aged 1.
Living 65 Gloucester Road Westgate John is a coachman. All b N´castle.
RG12 /4198/12/19
Marion

Hi Joanne

Re d-o-b on the death cert. This may not be correct as the person who registered the death may not have known the exact date of birth and could have been out by a couple of years.

You say she was born in Newcastle but you can't be sure of that without a birth certificate. Perhaps she was born in Scotland. Her middle name sounds a bit Scottish to me and children in Scotland are often given their mother's maiden name as a middle name. It might be worth checking on Scotlandspeople.

Kath. x

her marriage
Name: Edith St C Blacklock
Spouse Surname: Bradbury
Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1918
Registration district: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Registration county (inferred): Northumberland
Volume Number: 10b
Page Number: 295
Find Spouse:Rebert Bradbury

Marriages Mar 1918 (>99%)
Blacklock Edi St C Bradbury Newcastle T 10b 295
Bradbury Robert Blacklock Newcastle T. 10b 295

I've just submitted a correction to FreeBMD - the image says Edith, not Edi.

Also her groom is rObert on the image

I don't know if this mob has any relevance:

Marriages Mar 1885 (>99%)
BLACKLOCK John Stafford Newcastle T. 10b 13
CLIFF William Hargrave Newcastle T. 10b 13
Marshall Annie Newcastle T. 10b 13
Pomery Emma Newcastle T. 10b 13

For some reason, Newcastle lists this as:
1885 STAFFORD John B
1885 MARSHALL Annie
Marriage venue - St Michael with St Lawrence, Byker
Register No./Entry No.
EMG3/93 [The other couple get local ref=EMG3/94]


Births Sep 1887 (>99%)
BLACKLOCK Edith Newcastle T. 10b 84

Births Mar 1890 (>99%)
Blacklock William Newcastle T. 10b 95

Births Mar 1892 (>99%)
Blacklock Annie Newcastle T 10b 82
Blacklock John Stafford Newcastle T 10b 82
Deaths Jun 1892 (>99%)
Blacklock Annie 0 Newcastle T. 10b 1
Blacklock John Stafford 0 Newcastle T. 10b 2

Births Jun 1893 (>99%)
Blacklock Dora Newcastle T. 10b 59


[rg12/4198/12/? ] [rg13/4790/41/? ]


Clearly Joanne's got the actual d.cert, but the GRO index gives the same dob=16/2/1891, and this doesn't fit well with a quarter 3 rego - I can see the year being off, but the actual birthday is quite unusual.

mgnv

My grandfather always celebrated his birthday on Christmas Day ................ the family had to visit, etc etc


it was not until after he died in 1963 that my uncle found (or obtained) grandfather's birth certificate that we discovered he had actually been born on January 9 1885 not December 25 1884.

In his case, we had always believed a wrong year and date!


Granted only 2 weeks


Interestingly, I have his WW1 records .......... no date of birth that I can see, but he declares his age as 30 years 350 days ............... on December 11 1915. Which implies December 26 was his birthday!




sylvia

I have looked at the 1891 census of the family (or so I beliveved), which lists Edith as Elizabeth the North East dialect can be quite broad so I could understand the incorrect name, but as I have her death certificate and can identify her marriage, it still makes me think her name was Edith, especially as my mum was 'supposed' to be named after her.

I'm going roudn in circles with this one, think the only way to make sure is to pay for the marriage cert and see what paretn info this gives.

Anyone any other ideas?
x

Getting her marriage cert is a good idea. Apart from her fathers name and occupation the witnesses might be a help

Hway hinny - I'm wondering if Edith was misread as Elizth by the enumerator - it's hard to write with a geordie accent.