Help with BICKERDYKE family

[lizdb]

no questions are stupid.

The simple answer is - you dont! With a common surname there will be hundreds of possibilities.
With a name like Bickerdyke you are lucky.
but you will need to send for certs to prove they are the right ones - should show father, Thomas.

Sometimes you need to approach things from a number of different angles. For example, seeing if Lily senior made a will-  if so it may mention her daughters by their married names. Or finding the marriage of one of them - and then you may find one of the sisters was a witness and was already married, so gives her married name. Keep an open mind and slowly piece bits together, is my advise, and most of all - never assume anything!
Happy hunting - I take it you are into it yourself now, so i shall back off!
But hopefully the info on Lily actually being a Gaines was useful.

[lizdb]

pS still no death registration for Lily Potts in Jan 1946!

[silver1]

Thanks for all your help,
Im sure I'll be back to ask you advice again.
 

[carol8353]

Maybe this is why you couldn't find her death as Potts?

Lily L Bickerdyke married Benjamin POTTER in Leeds in Mar 1/4 of 1921

And her death as Lily L POTTER happened in Leeds in the March 1/4 of 1946 she was 58 ref 9b page 512.

Regards,

Carol

[lizdb]

Carol - you are a star!

Here is her death
Lily L Potter 58 Leeds area 9b 512, in Jan/F/MAr 1946

[lizdb]

You'd got that too? why didnt I read that bit?

[carol8353]

I added it after....so you're not going mad Liz 

Carol

[lizdb]

I'm sure there are many who would say otherwise......


But I must say this is a rewarding thread - from the sketchy info that Emliy Bickerdyke had a mum Lily Potts and thre sisters whose surname was unknown, we have (subject to confirmation by certs, but I am 100% sure) found that Lily was actually a Gaines, who married a Bickerdyke in 1907, had the four girls in 1908 - 18, and later married a Potter in 1921!
I am itching to find Thomas Bickerdykes death (which we now know is between 1918 and 1921)  to round it off, but I did tell Silver I would back off now he/she is getting into it!
And then it is all set for finding Lily L Gaines in the censuses as a child too...

[Tati]

OK, my turn then  Great job, Liz and Carol 

1901
RG13/4237 27 18
Leeds, Yorkshire
11 Corporation St
Emma Gaines, head, mar, 54, b. Leeds
Chas, son, 19, (can't read occupation: perhaps Furniture maker or furnace something), b. York
Herbert, son, 16, Spring Fitter, b. York
Lily, dau, 14, b. York 

1891
RG12/3705 56 37
Leeds, Yorkshire
5 Quandrant St
2 rooms occupied
Francis Gains, head, 45, Brass Finisher, b. Theakstone
Emma, wife, 44, b. Leeds
Emma M, dau, 16, Weaver, b. Leeds
Charles K?, son, 9, scholar, b. York
Herbert E?, son, 6, scholar, b. York
Lily L, dau, 4, scholar, b. York