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Title: *COMPLETED* Marriage now Birth 4 a Cooper
Post by: shirls15 on Tuesday 14 October 08 21:20 BST (UK)
Hiya
I need a bit of help looking for the marriage of a William Henry Jones and Ethel May Cooper(i think it was cooper but i'm not actually certain) i know that they had children if that helps -
Nellie Cooper Jones: 19/02/1909 - 16/05/1986 - Born in Langley Mill, Derbys
Jack Jones: c1915 - 21/05/1940 - Killed in action
William/Bill Jones: 1918
Arthur Jones: 12/05/1921 - 03/10/1967 - Born in Langley Mill, Derbys
plus there could be a Donald but my dad isn't sure.

I know its a long shot as its Jones  ;D but i am totally stuck

Thanks. Shirls x
Title: Re: Marriage JONES
Post by: Eyesee on Wednesday 15 October 08 01:44 BST (UK)
William Henry JONES married Ethel May COOPER, Jun qtr 1903, Basford, 7b 388.

Basford RD in in Derbyshire

You can search on FreeBMD for birth regs with the mothers maiden name. Unfortunately they only started putting the mmn on the index after 1911.

Jack JONES, Mar qtr 1920, Basford
William H JONES, Jun qtr 1918, Basford
Arthur JONES, Jun qtr 1921, Basford

Nelly Cooper JONES, Jun qtr 1909, Basford

Jack's details from the Commonwealth War Graves site

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2253856

Ian C
Title: Re: Marriage JONES
Post by: shirls15 on Wednesday 15 October 08 11:44 BST (UK)
thanks so much Ian :)
Title: Re: Updated Marriage now Birth 4 a Cooper
Post by: shirls15 on Wednesday 15 October 08 12:58 BST (UK)
Okay now looking for the birth of Ethel from previous post

Thankies :)
Title: Re: Updated Marriage now Birth 4 a Cooper
Post by: Necromancer on Wednesday 15 October 08 13:02 BST (UK)
have you tried FreeBMD Shirls ?

Ethel May Cooper marrying in 1903 - at a guess she was minimum 16, max - what 35 - could be older .... so use a date range spanning say 1865 - 1886 ?

all that practice on the other thread, thought you'd be an expert already   :P


Happy to help if you arent sure  :)
Title: Re: Updated Marriage now Birth 4 a Cooper
Post by: Necromancer on Wednesday 15 October 08 13:09 BST (UK)
Looking on the 1901 census theres 2 or 3 Ethels in the Basford District born late 1880s .... and another one in Ilkeston, with middle initial M - b 1867, an Assistant School Mistress.


I think you may have to get the Marriage Cert to reveal her Fathers name ...
Title: Re: Updated Marriage now Birth 4 a Cooper
Post by: shirls15 on Wednesday 15 October 08 13:18 BST (UK)
okie dokie... i'm just not sure on how to use freebmd  :-[
Title: Re: Updated Marriage now Birth 4 a Cooper
Post by: carol8353 on Wednesday 15 October 08 13:43 BST (UK)
Shirl,here's the URL for Free BMD

http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

You need to click on search- then on the next page choose Birth,Marriage or death- or all 3 at once! Not such a good idea if you are searching for a common surname.

You can have a play about with it,by just putting in her name.

And if it gives you just far too many to search through,narrow it by a date eg Mar 1865- Dec 1886 as suggsted by Newf.

To narrow it further you can scroll down the counties and click on one of them.

Come back if you get stuck and someone will run through the results with you.
With a surname like Cooper it pretty well can't be mispelt  ;D but you can also choose to search surnames phonetically if you have something that you're not sure of the spelling.

Have fun,

Carol