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Posting in the hope someone else may be able to help me find out more about Alfred.

I can find Alfred Parker at 3 Violet Street, Halifax in the 1939 Register, which gives his date of birth as 2 Oct 1898. I can find him in the 1921 census returns which give his address as Whitehall Yard, Hipperholme (between Halifax and Brighouse) and his place of birth as Barnsley (as do his UK military records). And I can find his marriage record - he married Marie Edith Isabella Bellinger in Lightcliffe (also between Halifax and Brighouse) in 1918. Both his marriage record and his military records have his father’s name as John Parker. But despite knowing his date and place of birth and his father’s name I can’t find Alfred in the 1901 or 1911 census, I can’t find his birth record or any baptism record and I can’t discover who his mother was.

Any and all help tracking Alfred and his parents down would be most gratefully received.

Call Ancestry again and if the person can't/won't help then ask to speak to their supervisor.

I don't think your account should have been cancelled!

Mick

Thanks Mick, and I agree, it just all seems really odd to me

I received an Ancestry email this morning saying they’d failed to take a payment and to update my card information online. I did this but to no avail … I just see an error message which says the update has failed and to try again later. So I called the Ancestry helpline and they have tried all three of my credit cards at their end and they get the same error message every time. The lass I spoke to suggested we check the cards with the respective banks but having confirmed there is no problem with any of them the same error message appears. Trying to persuade the person I was talking to that the problem was at the Ancestry end was impossible. As of now she has cancelled the account and I can’t reinstate it online. Apart from the bit where I’m livid I’m somewhat at a loss as to what to do next and would welcome any suggestions.

I wondered if the witness Mary Pratt might be this woman, but have not yet investigated further.
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Drumcondra/Lr__Drumcondra_Road/1272534/

The housemaid where Lizzie is working as a cook is Margaret Pratt and I’ve assumed that the connection’s there. I’ll take a look at this though, thank you.