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Title: Help please
Post by: marlers on Friday 17 May 13 07:38 BST (UK)
Help me pleaseeeeee I,ve been trying to find some info on my Grandfather [Dads Dad] for 6yrs and have hit a massive wall which I cant knock down  I don't have very much info on him apart from his name was William Barnes d o b about 1884 in either Essex/Suffolk [Farm Labourer] died 1938 in Orsett Nr Grays Thurrock Essex From Typhoid Fever.He lived with Maude Lily Playle Born 1892 died 1944  as far as I can believe they never married had 4 children--- 1 William  born & died 1914----- 2 Winifred E M born 1915 ----3 Thomas William [my Father]  born1920 died 2005----4 Rose A M born 1925---- I have quite a lot of info. on Maude and her family which come mainly from Stambourne Essex .If there is anyone else out there that can help me knock down that wall I would be oh so grateful.

Marlers
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Kay99 on Friday 17 May 13 08:05 BST (UK)
I presume this is the same family so previous thoughts may help

Kay

http://www.GenesReunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1297351
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: marlers on Friday 17 May 13 10:31 BST (UK)
Hi kay thanks for reply yes it is the same family. .I still don't have any more info on William which I can say is def.him as the name is quite  a common one.I don't even have his Father/Mothers name my [Great grandparents] so I cant tie him up by that.I don't know if he was in the forces.By the death cert I don't think William and Maude lived in the same house as Maude lived in Orsett  for some yrs and Williams address was Horndon on the Hill a few miles along.I cant get a birth cert for William as said before don't know his parents names and also the name being so common.I don't really know which route to take now if indeed there is one to take.

Many Thanks      Marlers
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: jaco52 on Tuesday 30 July 13 17:19 BST (UK)
Hello

Barnes is a big gypsy name in Hampshire/Dorest and also in Kent/essex area. I dont know if this is any help but if its true you have Gypsy roots im sure i can help ??!!

Jaco :)
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: lizdb on Tuesday 30 July 13 17:33 BST (UK)
Tricky one, without a marriage to give us a fathers name for him.
Might have to wait till 2021, and the census, to see the family together and get a place of birth for William.

Title: Re: Help please
Post by: marlers on Tuesday 30 July 13 18:20 BST (UK)
Hi Thanks for the replies its always been a joke that I have gypsy blood so perhaps its true as the Barnes name is so common/popular and not having much info to go on it makes research so hard but I,m sure with the help of good people like yourselves I WILL complete my tree at some stage .I do go deeper into all the info that is passed on to me I don't forget about all the hard work people are doing for me.
Many thanks
Marlers
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: jaco52 on Tuesday 30 July 13 18:46 BST (UK)
Hello

did you recieve my message 'marlers' has soe interesting info i found ??

Jaco
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: marlers on Wednesday 31 July 13 06:04 BST (UK)
jaco52 I hope you have now received my reply
Thank you
Marlers