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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: lisachloe on Monday 03 January 05 17:10 GMT (UK)
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I have previously put a post regarding trying to trace my husbands father.
My mother-in-law has been etremely secretive giving us details on him.She has just visited us & we have a little more info & I don't know where to begin
She says his D.O.B is 20th September 1935 & he was called Ernest Hibbert, His birth mother was called Maria Hall & apparently was murdered by her husband in Durham! He was then brought up by a couple called Jack Wild(e) & Annie Waters.
They later changed his first name to Alan. He lived at 29 Victoria Rd, Askern Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
He went into the Cold Stream Guards aged 17 in 1952 & probably stayed there until 1962/3.
He then stayed in London & was with the Richardson gang which rivaled the Krays! -(we think this could be why she's may have been secretive)
He met & married my mother-in-law in 1966 in Pontefract, West Yorks & they went on to have 3 other children, including my husband.
He left in 1981 when my husband was 14 yrs.
She has given us his national insurance number - although we don't think we can use this to gain any info on him.
We have tried all our previous links with the help from roots members & I'm hoping that with this new info we can try & find something out about him.
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hi Lisa!
With a dob after 1910 it wont be on free bmd but if you go to www.1837oline.com you should be able to find his birth its a pay to view site tho so you'd have to put a fiver on it!
Or you could try putting a post up on the board in the county in which he was born for a 'records office' lookup.
Are you trying to search for him??
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If he is still alive, then he should be traceable through his national insurance number via traceline. This is actually a government department.
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/research/traceline/index.asp#0
How it works is that you address a letter to the person that you are trying to trace, they then hold that letter and write to the person concerned saying that they have a letter for them and would they like it etc.
Or see this post for free online search of the entire electoral register for England (and telephone directories) but hurry the free trial finishes tomorrow:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=26089.msg100662#msg100662
Good luck
Casalguidi
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Yes, we are trying to search for him as he has a few grandchildren that he's never met & the fact that there's been so many stories regarding him - all of which were bad it would be good to hear his side of it all.
Thanks for your suggestions & I will try the link for Durham first as we've had that many different & confsuing tales we never know what to believe