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How do i find orphanage records?
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Hannah | Report | 26 Aug 2007 16:10 |
Hello Everyone! |
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KathleenBell | Report | 26 Aug 2007 16:35 |
Do you think that your grandmother could have been illegitimate and made up the deceased father to save face at her wedding? |
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Hannah | Report | 26 Aug 2007 16:40 |
Hi Kath, Thanks very much for that. |
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Germaine | Report | 26 Aug 2007 16:41 |
Hi Have only found the same as Kath who makes a good point that she could have made up a name for her father. |
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Hannah | Report | 26 Aug 2007 16:43 |
.......oh forgot to say i'm pretty sure her brother was younger. I know my dad talks of charles bailey existing because he was a local police constable and apparently as bent as the criminals- but my dad remembers very little from his childhood really. |
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Hannah | Report | 26 Aug 2007 16:45 |
Thanks to Germaine and Kath. In those days i guess it would have been very embarrassing to be illegitimate? xx |
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Germaine | Report | 26 Aug 2007 16:48 |
Have you checked the full index for Billy could be William. |
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Hannah | Report | 26 Aug 2007 16:52 |
Thats true. I've tried searching for charles but can't really find anything in the middlewich area. I also have no info on who her mother would be. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 26 Aug 2007 16:56 |
Sorry Hannah, |
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Germaine | Report | 26 Aug 2007 16:59 |
You won't be able to find any details on the cert without ordering. |
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Hannah | Report | 26 Aug 2007 17:00 |
I think you could be right there Kath. Thanks. |
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Germaine | Report | 26 Aug 2007 17:00 |
Kath you beat me to it. :-)) |
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Germaine | Report | 26 Aug 2007 17:02 |
Yes Hannah but the mothers maiden name only shows up in teh last quarter and after 1911. |
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Hannah | Report | 26 Aug 2007 17:04 |
Thanks Germaine! That would be great. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 26 Aug 2007 17:05 |
Between the 1901 census and 1912 when mother's maiden names were put on the birth index, it is quite difficult as you would have to look through the complete index looking for births with the correct surname in the approximate area, but there would be no way of knowing if these were the same family. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 26 Aug 2007 17:09 |
You could check with the Cheshire County Records Office to see if they have any records from local orphanages. I don't know if they are likely to keep these sort of records, but if they did they might have some sort of admittance records with details of family members. |
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Germaine | Report | 26 Aug 2007 17:25 |
Oh Kath youare so much better at explaining things than I am. I make it sound hard work. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 26 Aug 2007 17:31 |
Thanks for that Germaine, but explaining things and finding anything are two different things!! |
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Hannah | Report | 26 Aug 2007 17:32 |
Just spoke to my dad and he thinks that his mum Ida had a sister called Sarah Bailey. |
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Hannah | Report | 26 Aug 2007 17:33 |
Just to confuse things even more! - my dad thinks that Billy or william was Ida's step brother so i dont know how that one fits in! |