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Looking for relatives of Horace Geoffrey Fleetwood

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Helen

Helen Report 20 Jan 2012 16:44

I am trying to contact any relatives of Dr Horace Geoffrey Fleetwood, born 1923, died 1994 (?), son of Charles Clarence Fleetwood.

Flick

Flick Report 20 Jan 2012 16:47

Buy the death cert to get the informant's details

Look on freebmd to see whether he married.etc

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

Look in search trees for possible links on GR

Flick

Flick Report 20 Jan 2012 16:48

Name: Horace Geoffrey Fleetwood
Birth Date: 11 Jun 1923
Date of Registration: Jul 1994
Age at Death: 71
Registration district: North Shropshire
Inferred County: Shropshire
Register number: 29D
District and Subdistrict: 7131
Entry number: 77

Flick

Flick Report 20 Jan 2012 16:50

Have you traced his sister?

Madmeg

Madmeg Report 21 Jan 2012 00:04

Was he in the Royal Army Medical Corps and made Lieutenant in 1952?

The Army might be able to supply details of next of kin.

Flick

Flick Report 22 Jan 2012 22:29

His parents

Marriages Jun 1922 (>99%)
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Fleetwood Clarence Jones N.Bierley 9b 63
JONES Mabel E Fleetwood N. Bierley 9b 63

Helen

Helen Report 24 Jan 2012 14:50

Thanks for the hints, Flick and Madmeg. I don't know whether he was in the army as late as 1952. I am also not sure how to go about finding his sister on the Genes Reunited site, given that the Census records available are before he was born.

Liz 47

Liz 47 Report 24 Jan 2012 17:03

Try "search trees" on this site to look for his sister,
Liz

Flick

Flick Report 24 Jan 2012 22:19

Look on freebmd for his marriage........

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Then look for a child of the marriage on the same site.

Buy the death cert................

What is your connection to this man?

His sister's birth is on freebmd......find it.....then look to see if she married.

You're not going to find her on GR unless she's in someone's tree

Flick

Flick Report 24 Jan 2012 22:25

Name: Greta Mary Fleetwood
Birth Date: 7 Mar 1924
Date of Registration: Jul 1998
Age at Death: 74
Registration district: Stoke On Trent
Inferred County: Staffordshire
Register number: C69F
District and Subdistrict: 7371C
Entry number: 220
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Births Mar 1924 (>99%)
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Jackson Greta M Hughes Chorlton 8c 1090

Flick

Flick Report 24 Jan 2012 22:33

Name: Clarence Fleetwood
Birth Date: abt 1896
Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1964
Age at Death: 68
Registration district: Northumberland South
Inferred County: Northumberland
Volume: 1b
Page: 391

Helen

Helen Report 25 Jan 2012 15:14

Flick and Liz, thanks very much for the hints – appreciated. We are relatives on his wife Greta's side – they had no children. I think the key is to find out his sister's name (we didn't know he had a sister) and see if she had children. I will try out some of the suggestions and report back if any luck!

Helen

Helen Report 27 Jan 2012 16:43

OK, his sister's name was Mary J Fleetwood. There is a Mary who sent him mail from Canada, so it is presumably her. There is no record of her having married in the UK. We will have to try Canadian genealogy websites. We have no idea what her married name was!

Helen

Helen Report 10 Feb 2012 08:14

Thank you to everyone who responded to this thread with offers of help. I now consider the thread closed. I have made contact with Geoff's niece in Canada, which would have more difficult without the tips received here. Thanks!