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Independent Islands => Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark => Topic started by: snowballmunn on Thursday 23 June 11 23:55 BST (UK)

Title: Sims - in Guernsey
Post by: snowballmunn on Thursday 23 June 11 23:55 BST (UK)

trying to locate any information on a Frederick Eli Sims born in Guernsey, Channel Islands 1897/98.  Suggestions on where I could find a birth certificate. Greffe in Guernsey has no record. ty

Title: Re: Sims - in Guernsey
Post by: CaroleW on Friday 24 June 11 00:15 BST (UK)

1901 census for London

William H Sims 40 b Newtown Hampshire (cannot decipher his occ)
Ann   39 b Berkshire
William   7 b Guernsey
Fred   3    ditto
Harry  5 months b Wandsworth London
RG13 Piece 366 Folio 152 Page 20

Title: Re: Sims - in Guernsey
Post by: CaroleW on Friday 24 June 11 00:25 BST (UK)

In 1891 - William H Sims was a widower living in Kent

William H Sims 30 b Newtown Hampshire - gen labourer
Adelaide 3 b London
Caroline Ellis 32 sister b Newtown Hampshire 
RG12 Piece 674 Folio 84 Page 4

Adelaide was baptised as Adelaide Matilda Louise and her mother was Matilda

Matilda died in Sevenoaks in the March qtr of 1891 but there are 2 deaths for that name in the same qtr - one aged 24 and the other aged 31

Adelaide married Gerald R Davis in 1913 in Hampshire

Title: Re: Sims - in Guernsey
Post by: CaroleW on Friday 24 June 11 00:38 BST (UK)

William Harry Sims married Matilda Goodman in London in 1886

William Harry Sims married Mary Ann Jennings in Hampshire in the December qtr 1891