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Title: Rayner family help Please
Post by: study49 on Wednesday 18 August 10 13:34 BST (UK)
Hi

I need help in tracing Geraldine Claudia Blanche Rayner She was born c1888
She Married Edwin charles Hitchens 1908 in cornwall
She died in 1946 in cornwall

I have looked on he Cornish OPC but can only find a Gwendoline Claudia Blanche Rayner as a witness to a marriage.

I found the death and marriage cert on ancestry

On the 1911 Cencus i can find Edwin Charles hitchens living with his mother but no Geraldine also by then they had Edwin charles JR in 1909 but he is not listed either.
I have tried checking overseas cencus on ancestry to no avail. Can anyone help or have any suggestions where to look next.
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: rosie99 on Wednesday 18 August 10 13:43 BST (UK)
Hi

Have you tried searching her as Geraldine Hichens and no other info  ;)

Rosie
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: study49 on Wednesday 18 August 10 14:12 BST (UK)
Hi Rosie

Through ancestry it searches both names and all spellings. it is more her family i need so mother and father etc Just there seems to be no connection anywhere.

Thank you for the thought.

anna
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: gortonboy on Wednesday 18 August 10 14:18 BST (UK)
 have found her transcribed as hichens ?
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: snowyw on Wednesday 18 August 10 14:21 BST (UK)
Have you seen this?
Births Sep 1886 
Rayner  Geraldine Marguerite    Poplar  1c 665
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: carol8353 on Wednesday 18 August 10 15:29 BST (UK)
Hi Rosie

Through ancestry it searches both names and all spellings. it is more her family i need so mother and father etc Just there seems to be no connection anywhere.

Thank you for the thought.

anna

Rosie was suggesting you try her in 1911 as HICHENS  and that would be on Find My Past.  You said earlier that you can't find her or her 2 year old son Edwin.

Carol
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: rosie99 on Wednesday 18 August 10 15:34 BST (UK)
Hi Rosie

Through ancestry it searches both names and all spellings. it is more her family i need so mother and father etc Just there seems to be no connection anywhere.

Thank you for the thought.

anna


Rosie was suggesting you try her in 1911 as HICHENS  and that would be on Find My Past.  You said earlier that you can't find her or her 2 year old son Edwin.

Carol

Thanks Carol  :)

Sorry I wasn't more explicit   ::)
http://www.1911census.co.uk/search/tnaform.aspx
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: suffolk*sue on Wednesday 18 August 10 17:16 BST (UK)
It would be best to purchase the marriage cert and hopefully this will give fathers names and occupations.


I see in one census Geraldine is born in Westminster London.
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: study49 on Wednesday 18 August 10 18:38 BST (UK)
Hi

 Sorry to you Rosie I don't know why I assumed ancestry. I thought I had checked all spellings but it is great to have fresh eyes check data. Thank you to all for replies.
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: suffolk*sue on Wednesday 18 August 10 19:59 BST (UK)
This I think is her birth registration, but why the change of surname I don't know. Its the right year and area for Westminster.






Geraldine Blanche C Bottrell
1889
Sep qtr.
District: St George Hanover Square
County: London, Middlesex
Volume: 1a
Page: 425 
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: study49 on Thursday 19 August 10 08:39 BST (UK)
Hi

Thank you Sue for your time I wonder if she married twice?


Anna
Title: Re: Rayner family help Please
Post by: FlorencesGrandson on Saturday 29 December 18 00:38 GMT (UK)
I was just googling My Grandmother's Mother and came across this post. My Gran was Geraldine's Daughter Florence. I know one of My Grans Brothers died in WW2, another was Uncle Jackie who lived in Bristol and though never talked about assumed died of suicide.

I have only just got my Grans birth certificate from 1911 and at that time Her Mother and Father are
Edwin Charles Hitchens and Geraldine Blanche Claudia Hitchens (Formerly Rayner). They lived at Boases Row in Wherrytown Penzance and Husband was a fruit hawker. Love to know if you got any further with your search.