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The Common Room / Re: Puzzling birth
« on: Today at 15:53 »
Yes I use the GRO index, it's worth £3 to resolve puzzles like this, my great grandmother had three husbands and on some of the children's births it says late, then formerly for her maiden name

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The Common Room / Re: Puzzling birth
« on: Today at 13:20 »
Yes on the GaRO index for the mmn there is just an  -  no name  the birth was registered by the master of the workhouse a month later, don't know where Hughes came from? But he is not our Robert anyway so was a bit hasty posting this Thank you

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The Common Room / Re: Puzzling birth
« on: Today at 11:09 »
That should be Gateley, not Hartley

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The Common Room / Re: Puzzling birth
« on: Today at 11:08 »
For the sale of £3 I got the birth certificate of Mary Collins and it is her, the mother is Kate Ellen Collins late Hartley, no maiden name, and the father is Robert Collins a slater so it isn't grandad's brother but still a strange birth

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The Common Room / Puzzling birth
« on: Today at 10:41 »
I was browsing the Online Parish Clerks and came across this
Workhouse Oldham Births
22 March 1890
Mary Hughes legitimate daughter of Robert Collins & Kate Hughes
Parish chargeable Oldham

How could she be legitimate? Maybe should read illegitimate? There is no birth registration for this baby, there is another birth on 18 March 1890 of Annie Hughes illegitimate daughter of Sarah Hughes That birth is registered.
I suspect that Robert Collins is my grandad's eldest brother who was a cab driver, married with two daughters when he ran off to Peterborough with another woman in 1896.
Any thoughts welcome Thank you

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The Common Room / Re: 1939 Register
« on: Sunday 14 September 25 22:44 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for that, not too long to wait, I know where he went to work. His sister born 1929 and died 2004 has been visible since it was released.

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The Common Room / 1939 Register
« on: Sunday 14 September 25 19:17 BST (UK)  »
My uncle would have been 100 on September 17th, when will he be redacted on the 1939 Register? I will nip to the library to see if he had started work.
Thank you

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Canada / Re: Canadian Newspapers
« on: Monday 01 September 25 16:01 BST (UK)  »
I don't know who Mrs Driver can be, I know he left legacies to four female friends, will have to dig out the will. Far as I know his only relatives were his brother and his wife who was my grandad's cousin.
Thank you again

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Canada / Re: Canadian Newspapers
« on: Monday 01 September 25 14:14 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for these, sounds a bit odd, other parts of the empire? Their father died in 1926 leaving £3,800 so they could afford to please themselves.
Thank you

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