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The Common Room / FINDING FAMILY WITH LITTLE INFORMATION :S
« on: Wednesday 25 January 12 22:39 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I'm looking for my ancestors on my mother's father's side, but it is proving really difficult because my grandfather does not know anything about anyone older than his father... All he knows is that his father had a brother called Claude, and two sisters called Ivy and June.... He doesn't know if there are any more of them.  The only issue is that Roland Todd was born in 1924 and his mother's maiden name on the birth indexes record Balcombe as the mother's maiden name...

It is rumoured that Roland's mother and father lived on a barge..  Roland is registered in Hastings, Hampshire but no one is sure whether they moved on from there afterwards. 

Claude is recalled to be the oldest (my grandfather believes) ..

Other than this, I have nothing to go on... I'm not sure where to start, Ancestry does not list a Claude Todd with a mother's surname Balcombe which makes me think that he may have been born before 1915 and the maiden names of those before 1915 is not shown :/

I'm just stuck really :S

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Seaman's Orphanage Hull
« on: Wednesday 25 January 12 22:03 GMT (UK)  »
I'm not sure when she went into the orphanage, I only found out she were there from the 1901 census which listed her as an orphan.  I have tried looking for her in the admission book but only so many pages are available.   I couldn't find her name in there which is obviously frustrating but I intend on looking for the leaving book to see if she is in there instead.  Surely if the census lists her as being in the orphanage, she will be in their documents... :S

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Seaman's Orphanage Hull
« on: Monday 23 January 12 19:44 GMT (UK)  »
Ohh!  I had wondered that because the common belief is that when a child is an orphan, they are, usually because both parents have died... This is very interesting! And also because of the fact that my family at one time (I too) have lived very close to Sutton :)

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Seaman's Orphanage Hull
« on: Monday 23 January 12 19:01 GMT (UK)  »
Wow, Hi Carol, Sorry for not replying sooner, my emails did not notify me that you had posted anything.  This is wonderful news to hear about!! Especially as it has taken me absolutely ages to find anything about Susannah before the ages of 13! 

There is something though which I don't understand.  I found Samuel in the same Orphanage as Susannah but if their mother were alive in 1911, how come Susannah is registered in 1901 as an Orphan :S  Or have I read all this wrong! :))

I am so very grateful for the help and the information you have given me and I wonder where you found this information?  Was it on the Ancestry website? :)

:)

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Seaman's Orphanage Hull
« on: Saturday 21 January 12 20:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, Thank you for the link :)

Her name was Susannah Elizabeth Warvill and I can only find her in the 1901 census.. Her birth index

does not show her mother or fathers recorded surname so I'm trying to find out as much as I can about

this place :)

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Seaman's Orphanage Hull
« on: Saturday 21 January 12 18:44 GMT (UK)  »
I'm looking for a particular person.. In the 1901 census this female was 13 and was in the Seaman's and

General Orphan Asylum but in the 1891 census, I cannot find the person named... Will all the

documentation be found in the books mentioned above?

Thank You

:)

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