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Family History Beginners Board / Re: "Inmate" In An "Institution"
« on: Monday 22 April 13 16:34 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: vronlady on Monday 22 April 13 16:28 BST (UK)
can you put up all the details from the marriage cert about her father  and  witnesses and addresses . it may help us find her in 1911.

Thanks for your help!

Winifred Jones - 27 - Spinster - House Keeper - Red Gables, Formby - Edward Jones - Railway Labourer

Witnesses - J. Pickering, Alice Jones

Marriage was in 1916, so not sure if that'll yield much, but any help is always appreciated...

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: David KING - Age Discrepancies
« on: Monday 15 April 13 08:42 BST (UK)  »
But then I'll have cracked it, right? Because Mabel King's birth cert. will show her mother's maiden name, which will be either Cooper or Baker (I imagine Baker) and then I'll know which marriage cert. to order...right?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: David KING - Age Discrepancies
« on: Monday 15 April 13 06:51 BST (UK)  »
Oops sorry, you can tell I'm still a beginner! Guess I'm on the right board then(!) I think I read "marriage certificate" for "birth certificate"...in my defence, it was late...  :-\

Ah well, I'm learning slowly but surely (emphasis on first adverb)  :)

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: David KING - Age Discrepancies
« on: Sunday 14 April 13 22:55 BST (UK)  »
That's part of my problem though...I don't know whether Susannah's maiden name is Cooper or Baker, but I know my David King married A Susannah and produced my great-grandma...which is why I ask if there are any advanced tips I should be aware of...there must be SOME way to be sure, but maybe it's more circuitous than I'm thinking at the mo... ???

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: David KING - Age Discrepancies
« on: Sunday 14 April 13 15:47 BST (UK)  »
I know her mother's name was Susannah since I've found David and A Susannah in the census, but my problem now is which of those two marriage records to order if I want to go further back...

Is it sensible to order the "more likely" one of the two? (i.e. marrying before 1871, and in Mutford rather than Ipswich) And to what extent can I be SURE at this remove which one is correct? Advanced tips appreciated!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: "Inmate" In An "Institution"
« on: Sunday 14 April 13 14:41 BST (UK)  »
Well well, the certificate finally arrived, and I've learnt not to trust everything I'm told...Winifred wasn't a Wiltshire lass at all, but from Wolverhampton...

From this one marriage certificate I've been able to deduce her parents and her mother's parents based on a bit of detective work in the 1901 census (she was living with her uncle in Norwich, which then helped me find her mother's maiden name, i.e. her uncle's name)

I'd still like to find her in the 1911 census though, two years before she gave birth to my grandfather illegitimately...the search for that goes on, but now I'm two generations further back on my Dad's side, so many thanks to all those who helped me in my quest!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: "Inmate" In An "Institution"
« on: Saturday 23 March 13 18:48 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks Mabel...the search goes on...just waiting for that marriage cert...

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: "Inmate" In An "Institution"
« on: Saturday 23 March 13 18:05 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Mabel Bagshawe on Thursday 21 March 13 20:40 GMT (UK)
That birth date only fits Winifred Estelle from Swindon, who probably married there in 1916
    

May I ask why you say that?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: "Inmate" In An "Institution"
« on: Thursday 21 March 13 23:08 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for that...maybe the inmate is not my lady then...hmmm...

The reason I was leaning that way was that the family story was always "she was a servant in a big house in Wiltshire, fell pregnant (probably by the master) and went away to have the baby"...if this "household" she's in in 1911 is the a household where she's a domestic servant, then that could be the one...I guess I'll leave this as the last line I go down for sure, cos it seems to be the hardest to unravel...

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