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Title: Crose
Post by: J.Roebuck on Saturday 25 September 04 22:51 BST (UK)

Hello!
Can anyone help me?   I haven't got very much to go on, but i am trying to trace my Grandads mothers side of the family.   All i know is that her maiden name was Crose...She married into the Greenwoods (maybe around 1919. They had 3 children - Rose, George and my grandfather Samuel) and they lived in Whittlesey,Cambridge. Her first name could have been Rose as that is the name of her daughter... ???
Can anyone help??  :)

Title: Re: Crose
Post by: Cell on Sunday 26 September 04 06:12 BST (UK)

Hi,
Have you tried looking for the birth entries   of Rose, George or your grandfather Samuel?. The free BMD is not going to list them http://freecen.rootsweb.com/index.html( I believe it only goes up to 1910). And then  you can order one of their birth certificates to get the mother's "Rose"  real  name and address  and where she was living at the time.

You can either search the record offices in the UK ( someone else will have to advise you on that, I'm not in the UK) , or use the pay per view 1837 site http://www.1837online.com/Trace2web/aboutuslisting.jsp( which I have had  to use for a lot of my family )  to get the  volume and page number, to order the birth certificate http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/.

I'd start off  first by trying to find your grandfather samuel's birth entry. If you can find it order his birth certificate to get more information about his  mother ( and father) . Samuel's ( or his siblings)  birth certificate will tell you his mother's ("Rose")  maiden name and  her christian name, and where she  was living at the time of his birth.


Hope that is of some  help to you  :)

P.S don't assume Samuel's mother may be called Rose, it could be his grandmother's name , his mother or father may have called one of their daughters after their own parents. Or an an aunt, anything .Or even  because they thought it was  a pretty name, no reason  at all sometimes.

Try looking for your grandfather Samuel Greenwood  birth entry first  if you can find it, and order his birth cert to find your "Rose"

Title: Re: Crose
Post by: J.Roebuck on Wednesday 06 October 04 23:37 BST (UK)

Thanks for the advice! very greatfully recived!! I have just recived some info that suggests her name may have been Marjorie...

Thanks for the help!

Regards Jane.