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You can if course click on the FreeBMD site to correct errors made in the freebmd index

For instance the bride in a marriage on my tree was entered as married in Stockport but husband was entered as married in Stockton on Tees.   

If a marriage place is wrong or a wrong reference was typed then when Freebmd added all the brides to the grooms they didn't match and you find perhaps 6 men and 5 women listed and the missing woman is with other people whose correct references match her incorrect one.

FreeBmd will alter errors made by transcribers in their index but as their purpose is to index the national indexes as they stand they cannot alter mistakes made back in the 1867 pages for instance.

I find quite a few errors made by the government clerks preparing the national indexes.  Spelling mistakes in surnames though the name on the actual certificate is correct for instance.

Notes about these I include in a postem.

My great grandfather had the name Peter put down as his father's name on his marriage certificate but I could only find a woman with his mother's name marrying a James.  His Birth certiflcate said father was James.

Dna via Ancestry has proved the name James was right.   I have two new 4th cousins who are 2nd cousins removed to each other.

James' father was Hector, a subcontractor, who born in Scotland but travelled from site to site, his wife was from Worcestershire as was first child but then eight more born in England, Scotland or Wales in 7 different counties and the dna matches.     

Luckily one daughter was born in Stockport and all mother's maiden names of births 1837 to date are shown for births in Stockport Reg. DIstrict bearing  in mind registration boundary changes.  Thus I got Hector's wife's maiden name from CheshireBMD.

Poynton (next to Stockport) registers in Macclesfield also in CheshireBMD but is a district which did not allow mother's maiden names to be shown.

The money for the dna (less than the cost of 8 certificates) has found a few blood ancestors.  Worth the cash, definitely.

The Sarah I mentioned was with him for the 1939 index - thats where I got the address from etc.

Hazel Grove in Cheshire consisted of three parishes.    Bosden, Norbury and Torkington.   These names are not used now.

There were literally hundreds  Daniel / Daniels people.  So many in fact that the final s gets added and taken away when it shouldn't.  Henry seems to have the Daniel version.

Henry's two sons who died were John Daniel June Qu 1870 - Dec Qu 1870  and Rowland Daniel Mar Qu 1872 to Mar Qu 1874.  both born in Hazel Grove.

Henry's grandfather John Daniel was married twice and the cousin visiting Henry, Alice and Jane on the 1881 census was the daughter of the son of one of John Daniel's half brothers - she, the cousin emigrated to the USA just after Henry left for Australia.

Thank you so much for the links to the gravestones and everything.

Henry died of heart disease and dropsy.   Dropsy is now called Congestive heart failure and my mother died of that and I have it too sad to say.    My mother had a cousin on her father's side who had it so that is a double dose in her DNA and mine.

What a shame about Eva's husband dying before daughter was born.

Thanks again.

Since 2009 I have found ships Plymouth to Queensland Henry, Alice and Jane then later  Alice  Jane AND Martha ship Queensland to Sydney.    Alice of Jane's death cert says 15 months spent in Queensland then rest of life in NSW.

I don't know when this Martha was born.   At sea or in Queensland as no age given.    Cannot seem to find birth registration Queensland or NSW (late).

Was sent scans of "HASPIN" original 1845 birth cert for Alice and also death certs by an ORR descendant.   Can be seen on my public tree on Ancestry.

A Death certificate has popped up for Gertrude Ethel Ruby Bradstreet in Texas in 1967.   The death certificate mentions her father and mother's names with the spelling of Marion instead of Maryon.

I cannot find her on the 1940 Federal Census.

I wonder when she married Mr. Bradstreet and did he come after Mr. Pence or was there another inbetween

Mr Pence was personally handed a cheque for over $500,000 dollars by President Truman in 1940 for royalties for the bombs in WW1.   Wonder if he got some more for WW2.