Genealogy Chat

I may have found a marraige that I's assumed hadn't happened by tawling through the non free BMD - I shall have to wait till the cert arrives to find out if I'm right!

linda i got excited then when i looked at the map, but unfortunatelt the dates are too far out, my sam was bon about 1855 ish so it cant be them. Never mind, thanks anyway. ta k

ta linda been sorting out my unwanted cert details and so didnt get your reply til just now, will go and get the map and find out where bingley is but sounds promising, back in a mo k

1861 census for Yorkshire, Bingley shows a George Wilkinson, quarryman and a Mary Wilkinson with son Samuel born 1879 in Bingley. Is this them?

'the colwood tom' blinkin flip!! so 21 could mean virtuallly anything!! baaaa humbug. ta k

hi Jane ive looked at the bit which wasn't free bmd. i started on free bmd site,the site says limited info for the years i was looking for. instead i looked through allthe scanned pages on ancestry to try to find him. took along time and was fed up with no result. however i did find his wife that way before so not completely disatisfied tonight. cheers k

hi linda geoge was samuels dad, mary jane paris was samuels wife. I dont know his mums name but i suppose his mum could have been another mary too. But Manchester does seem a bit too far though, ta for looking for me. cheers k

sometimes '21' was put on a cert instead of full age and didn;t necessarily mean they were 21.

Samuel Wilkinson christened 23.3.1856 in Cathedral Manchester - parents George and Mary is the nearest I can find on IGI

merry sorry you asked as to where he was born in later census, well the chap seems confused but he named heckmondwick,and hightown yorkshire. The first is near bradford although not 100% sure of the latter. cheers k

hi merry his dad was george wilkinson, occupation stone masons labourer/ When he married mary Jane Paris they were both living in Bradford. k

oh eck, I've seen more samuel wilkinsons from the correct area than i could shake a stick at. Silly me for expecting his middle name to be recorded too. I thought also that when it said 'male' that it was an infant death and so they hadn't named the child. looks like a very hit and miss on the certs then. ta k

What was his father's name and occupation? Was he born in Bradford (according to later census?)? Merry

or maybe he was registered as just samuel or even as Male Wilkinson!! Where was he supposed to be born? Merry

Unfortunately it wasn't the law that births should be registered until 1875, so he may not have been. You might be lucky and find a baptism though. Anne

Have you checked using the non freeBMD section? USe the bit that says something like 'browse the entire catologue' or something similar. I've had a few beers so may be more help tomorrow

There was no penalty for non registration until 1875! Merry

i've got a marriage cert with age and full name of the groom, Samuel edward wilkinson aged 21 married 1876. by my calculations that makes him born in 1855 or 1554 depending on whether or not he had had his birthady that yr before he got married. So why, when i check through the birth records on ancestry every year from 1850 to 1859, can't i find him? I thought he may have lied about his age, but not more than 5 yrs surely? Are these full records or are there some missing? Getting very frustrated here. This is my problem family again!! Any advice please!!!! cheers Karen