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Hi Deman,

That's excellent, thank you very much  John and Alice are my GGGGG (phew) Grandparents straight through my paternal line. I will contact you through PM later today when I have a bit more time.

This was the very first part of my tree I started looking at last year and have somewhat left it of late, I am related to John and Alice through their son John (b abt 1796). It would be interesting to compare notes.

Hi there,

I was adopted more or less from birth in 1981, so not sure whether this period is the one you want to know about, but I have no problems talking about it. 

I have a birth certificate both in my adopted name AND the name that was registered just after my birth. For instance on the BMD records only my first registered name appears, and not my adopted name that I was given at 9 months old.

I didn't know my birth name but sent off for my original birth certificate to the GRO using my adoptive name and a few other details.

Legally my name is my adoptive name as this over-rides the name I was given at birth. However my first birth certificate will still be on record and an official document.

Hope this helps you a bit. Feel free to PM me if you think I can help you any further,

All the best, Em

Well, can I heck as like find any birth registrations for Richard b 1848 Manchester and his sisters Ann and Mary . Any help welcomed 

Even going countrywide nothing obvious springs up with any of them. I thought I was going to have problems tracing the Kinlin family back to Ireland (which I wouldn't know where to start with) but I can't find any of their births on the mainland...is it possible they weren't registered?

Just pop over to the Yorkshire (North Riding) board if you need any help with Redcar information.

Teesside Archives in Middlesbrough hold all the records for the Redcar area, in case you didn't know.

Contact details on this web page: http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure-and-culture/archives/

Also Redcar Library might be able to help: http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/Libraries

Good luck with your searching 

Em

*EDIT* I've just seen your new thread on the North Riding board and realise I was too late to be helpful and you already know all this, sorry about that!

 I have just found online a photograph of my GG grandmother's brother in a 1906 Middlesbrough Football Club team photo.

He's sat just down the row from Alf Common, the first £1000 footballer  (How times have changed!)

I still need to do some digging as he is not showing up on the professional players online database, perhaps he was a reserve player. Still, very exciting for me, maybe that's because I am a Boro fan!