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Thank you for bringing this one back.

Since posting, through DNA, I have discovered that my grandfather was William Rothwell Wolfenden who was born in Oldham in 1884 and died in 1937 in Manchester. He was married at the time of his relationship with my grandmother and had five children with his wife, one of them being born the same year as my mother! I have found him on the 1921 census so do know a little bit more about him.

I would love to see a picture of him but have had no success so far.

Thank you for your interest.

Hi.

Thank you so much for your replies.  I shall look into the information you’ve provided and hopefully can move forward with my search.

Heywood: I haven’t been able to find any photos.  Is it a picture of William? 
Through the DNA results I managed to find his great granddaughter but she didn’t know anything about that side of the family.   Before my search I only knew his name so was delighted to find a match which confirmed who he was. 

Thank you all again.

Thank you again for your replies.

There is no occupation on two of the girls' birth certificates but on my mums it says charwoman.  I think she worked for a time at Booth Hall.  Her address on all the birth certificates is 101 Back Cropper Street, Manchester which was roughly in the centre of Manchester - now the Oldham Road dual carriageway, I believe.

Keyboard86 - that is indeed my grandmother.   She left Manchester in 1926 and relocated to Northampton where the family still live.  I have Charles Vickers death certificate and he did indeed die in 1918.  My grandmother told her eldest daughter the truth of their father but my aunt kept it to herself for many years until I asked where my grandfather was buried. 

Blackburn Fossil.  Thank you for that link.  I'll look into it. 

Alpine Cottage.  I have done Ancestry  DNA but it didn't come up with any close matches.  I don't know how she supported herself. 

Thornbird.

 

Hi all.  Advice needed. 

My Mum was born 14 September 1925 illegitimately to Annie Vickers (nee Shaw) in the workhouse maternity wing - she was never in the workhouse as such but as my mum was very overdue that is where she was sent.   (123 Crescent Road, Crumpsall).  All I know of my grandfather is that his name was possibly William Woolfenden.  I can find nothing about this relationship anywhere even though she had three illegitimate daughters by this man.   I think he may have been married but I'm not sure.  I also think he may have been Jewish but my grandmother came from a devout Roman Catholic family. 

My question is, how can I find the workhouse records to see if a fathers name was given so I could  clarify I have the right name and if it gives any further information?    Also, is there anywhere else I could look to find some information? 

Any help would be very much appreciated. 

Thornbird

Hi

Many thanks for replies.

My grandmother had told her three daughters that their father (Charles Vickers) had died in 1925, three months before my mother was born.  I have his death certificate which shows he actually died in 1918 before any of the girls were born.  She had told Teresa shortly before she died that she had to unburden herself and admitted that Charles was not their father.   I have all three girls birth certificates with just a line through the father's name.  My mother's baptism certificate also has no father mentioned on it.   I think the same man is the father of all three girls but cannot be sure.   My grandmother came from a strict catholic family and we had wondered if the father was Jewish as she was disowned by her family. 

Winifred is still alive and would love to know who her father was as I would love to know who my grandfather was and why she never married him.   

Thank you so much for the link you sent.  I will try them.

Many thanks again.