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The Common Room / Re: Arthur is missing!

« on: Friday 13 February 26 20:56 GMT (UK) »

Thank you all so much! I love you all!

Please let me know if I can ever return the favour - sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees!

LisaJC

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The Common Room / Arthur is missing!

« on: Friday 30 January 26 12:44 GMT (UK) »

Hi, and thanks for reading my post!

I am stuck! I have Arthur Kelly (b.1906 and d.1967) but I cannot find any records prior to his marriage to Winifred Ashby in Coventry in 1928.
Through newspaper trawling, from a memorial notice, I discovered his father was Bill (William?) Kelly and his mother Mary Kelly. And also that there was a sister Mary who married Thomas Wareham.
However, I cannot find any of them before 1928. There is a family rumour that someone changed their surname when they went AWOL from the military, but again, nothing concreate. All of the records I have are in the Coventry area, but no baptism.
I can send off for Arthur's marriage certificate, as I haven't found a matching parish record online.
Could they have been Catholic? Although apart from the surname having Irish connections, there's nothing to suggest it.
Any help would be amazing.
Thanks

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Galway / Re: Thomas Manning b1851

« on: Tuesday 23 September 25 22:08 BST (UK) »

Thanks for those who have replied. We will get the marriage certificate. As for "Hubert" - like I said, this is only an Ancestry hint, therefore, needs to be taken with a pinch of salt until evidence can be found.
So, can anyone tell me where I can search for records for Ireland pre-1877? I can't find him on the 1871 census in England, therefore I assume he arrived between 1871 and his wedding in 1877.
Thanks

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Galway / Thomas Manning b1851

« on: Monday 22 September 25 21:16 BST (UK) »

Hi
Any pointers would be great!
I have records of Thomas Manning born 1851 in Galway. He appears getting married in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England in 1877 at a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. I can't find any records in England prior to that one. Lots after then. On all the census returns he states he's from Ireland, County Galway.
I know little about Irelands records, and I'm not sure where to begin! We are getting the marriage certificate as its not online, so at the moment I don't have his fathers name. Ancestry hints he could have been Hubert Manning, but as yet I only have the software algorithm's to tell me this!
thanks
LisaJC

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The Common Room / Re: What Happened to Ellen?

« on: Monday 22 September 25 21:11 BST (UK) »

Thanks everyone - I have everything on George (including his obit and his will) and his first 2 wives. It was the 3rd that was the mystery!
I will have a look at the links to Ellen.

Thanks again

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The Common Room / What Happened to Ellen?

« on: Thursday 17 July 25 20:48 BST (UK) »

In 1976 my husbands grand father, George F Johnson, married for a third time to
Ellen A Lang, registered in Uttlesford. They lived in Thaxted, however, this marriage was not approved of by the rest of the family. He died in 1985 but neither my husband or his older brother remember meeting her or even hearing about her until we started doing the family tree! My mother in law referred to her as "Penny". I don't know what happened to her, she's not mentioned in his will and we haven't found any documents relating to her at all.
Can anyone find Ellen A "Penny" Johnson, previously Lang? I have found a birth which is possible, and if its correct she had a twin called Marie R Lang.
So where did Ellen A Johnson go?
Thanks in advance
Lisa

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London and Middlesex / Electoral Rolls between 1926 and 1939

« on: Saturday 31 May 25 21:55 BST (UK) »

Hi
Can anyone tell me if there are any electoral rolls for Soutwark between 1926 and 1939? Online or physical document.
Thank you
Lisa

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Warwickshire / Re: Craddock family Birmingham

« on: Thursday 05 September 24 19:33 BST (UK) »

Thanks everyone!
I think I was just so tired last night that I couldn't see anything!

Lisa

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Warwickshire / Craddock family Birmingham

« on: Wednesday 04 September 24 22:20 BST (UK) »

I'm researching a Craddock family in Birmingham. I can't find many parish records online for this family. I've been told that the more recent generations were Catholic.
I'm looking for baptism for:

Ronald G Craddock born 1922 (birth registered Aston)
His parents were George Samuel Craddock and Cecilia Kinsey. I have all other information about Ronald except his baptism info.

His father was born in Gloucester. I cannot find any baptism or burial records for George Samuel Craddock (1887) or his father George Henry Craddock (1862-1901).

They all seem to be missing on the 1881 census too.

Now this could be the spelling/mistranscribing of the surname or the fact that I've been looking for hours and now I'm Craddock blind!

If you're bored and fancy a look up, please do this one and let me know. Thanks

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