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Quote from: Redroger on Saturday 20 January 24 12:56 GMT (UK)

There is something wrong with these records or is just me approaching senility?

In this case, RR, I'm sorry to say but it's you.  Well, some bits, as you have the month correct, and given the usual weather we can get in January you no doubt remembered that bit correctly as well. 

FreeBMD only has one Buff death registration in Boston registration district between 1961 and 1970. John T Buff, aged 75.
FreeREG has the burial date as 19 January 1965. And the PR also has noted 'plot number 535 (ex verger).

Sorry, I meant to add March quarter 1965, which would tie in with the burial date on FreeREG.

Also forgot to say, that if you no longer go to Boston, because you have a date of burial  (and back in those days burials usually took place within about ten days of death, often quicker) if you ask nicely via an email to Boston library they will probably send you copies of John/Jack's obituary/funeral report taken from the original newspapers, rather than any filmed ones. I can't remember when the filmed newspapers end; possibly about the end of the 1950s which is the current limit on the BNA website.
Depending on the day of the week a person died and was buried, you could have an obituary one week and a funeral report the next; or a combined report in one week.

Hi Roger,

If you really want to know Ann's mother (and possibly, though he's unlikely to be mentioned, father) then you have no alternative but to send for a copy of the birth certificate. Black-and-white PDF copies can be obtained from the GRO for £7, which is a bit cheaper than £11 for a fancy pink one.
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/login.asp
As Mabel has said, with no mother's maiden name detailed in the GRO Index, then it would seem that Ann was illegitimate.

I checked FreeREG for Luffman (+ Soundex) in Lincolnshire 1859 and 1860.
Two entries.
No baptisms.
One for a marriage of Elizabeth Luffman.
The other, burial of Ann Luffman, infant, 18 July 1860, in Great Steeping.
Person burial abode; Alford.
There are some Luffmans living in Alford in 1861, but I didn't investigate further.
Nor I have checked to see if there was a workhouse in Alford where baby Ann could have been living, and died.

SUSANNAH Auckland Baptised 22 Nov 1892, All Saints, Gainborough
Parents HENRY and MARY ANNE

(snipped)

I cant find Henry/Mary Anns Marriage but Henrys Sister ROSE married George BINNS, 24 Apr 1886, All Saints, Gainsborough, Father JOSEPH Auckland, Labourer

1871 the Family is under Angland

That's most unlike you Trish. 

Henry Auckland and Mary Ann Roberts are on the same FreeBMD page June quarter 1883 Gainbro' registration district.

(The 'spare' lady on that page is Sarah Haines, who is actually page 1425. I've advised FreeBMD of the error.)

Marriage is not in the 1837+ Lincolnshire Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/
and as most of the PRs for Gainsborough registration district have been deposited at Lincoln Archives (see Introduction), it's likely that Henry and Mary married in either the Register Office or a non-conformist church. Though see the note at the bottom of the Introduction page re some Notts parishes being in Gainsborough registration district.

Mary Ann's surname matches that in birth registration of Susanna Auckland December quarter 1892.

Hello Jason
I think the marriage cert. is the only way forward..the 1892 birth at Gainsborough has
the mothers maiden name as Roberts..not much help at this stage.
Jackie

I've contacted them a few times with the reference both via email and phone asking for cost and a copy without success. I'm in Scotland so it's cheaper/quicker to use their service than try myself but the Archives never work out for me, the library is  different story, I've had heaps from them in the past without any trouble.

That is really bad of them. Are they trying to do themselves out of a job?
Think I'd be asking to speak to the person in charge and complaining long and loud, and if that still didn't get a result then I'd be making noises to the county council.

Lincs FHS haven't done them -

http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk/images/lfhs-publications/PublicationsCoverage.pdf

That refers to publications. There are a lot of MIs which have yet to be (hopefully)  published.
Cumberworth has been 'transcribed'. There will be a copy at the LFHS Research Centre in Monks Way, and there is also a copy at the Society of Genealogists in London.
Free to view in Lincoln; charge to pay at SoG.