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When I tried to register at the site you suggested, Debbie, namely: http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ I followed the registration instructions as indicated.  I selected the certificate type and provided the additional information requested in the series of little boxes.  But I was then informed that, before the registration office could choose the appropriate application form for me to fill in, I had to correct an error in my application.  The error was stated as follows:

"GRO index has to be given for pre-1900 E&W birth, marriage, and death applications." Not having any idea what this meant, I return to base here at RootsChat.Com for further advise.-Ron

Your suggestion, Debbie, that I get the 1890 birth registration to confirm parentage so that I could then see if the names of the parents on the English birth registration matched the names given on the 1918 marriage registration for Frederick----sounds like an excellent idea.  As you say, although I might not be a product of my father's 1918 marriage, I am still looking for proof of my father's past. To whom do I write to get that English birth registration?-Ron Price with continued thanks for your help.

You folks outstrip by far the efficiency of the dozen other geneology sites I've been browsing around for the last few years. I shall sing your praises in the circles of my my life I mix in and with....

Yes, as you say, "a marriage for Frederick in 1918 in Hamilton, Ontario.  He married Emma Firth Spiers and gave his parents as Frederick F. Price and Annie Walters." I do not need to "send away for the 1890 birth certificate to confirm parentage." I am not a son from that marriage.

Then you go on to say that my father was "living in Des Moines in 1910 and there was also a border crossing in 1913 where he returned to the same area.  Marriage in 1918.  I don't think you could narrow it down any closer in these type of records." I'm very happy with that little orsel of information.

I will contact the Hamilton Public Library, all being well, and ask them to search their directories and track him that way.

I am not interested in the background of my mother, Lillian Cornfield. I've got lots of stuff on her and, at this stage, I'm happy not to investigate my father's first wife.

And Nick, I was thinking the same thing as I was putting out the garbage last night. Spot on, Nick. My dad was an older man and, yes, as you say, "would my mother have married a 55 year old when she was only 40?" Goodonyer, Nick, as they say in Australia.

And so, Debbie and Nick, it is with warm appreciation to you both that I write these words.-Ron in Tasmania

Sounds very good, AMBLY and Debbie, very good indeed. As you say, AMBLY: "Everything - right down to his occupation in 1910 US Census, to the fact he lived in a family owned pub in Merthyr,  had at least 1 son died age 19 in WW2 - points to your Frederick James PRICE being the same man who stated on his US WW1 enlistment as having been born in June 1890 (5 years older than you believe he should be) and to his being the one who appears in the UK Census 1891 and 1901, and who immigrated via New York to Des Moines, US in 1908."

My dad used to talk about Des Moines Iowa when I was growing up. And so I think, as you say, "I don't think you could get any hotter match than what has been found!

The age (b 1890 as opposed to 1895) is the sticking point, but I'm going to give that one a miss for now. I'm going to run with this information for now and say "congratulations" to both of you--and with a great deal of appreciation. I will now take it from here after I get a good sleep.-Ron in Tasmania