Birth and marriage help please!

[~Rachel~]

AAAAAAGGGH 20 days for cert to be delivered from Scotlands People!!

I'll have to learn some patience. 

[ivanidea]

Rachel

I hope it's the right one!!

I see that the "Recommendations" were signed (or countersigned) by "Monty". As I said an illustrious family!!

Please keep us all posted as to progress.

Ivan

[~Rachel~]

OK so I have the death cert for Sheila.

Died 18th July 1994 at Downham.

Name: Sheila Joan Mary SIXSMITH otherwise Joan Sheila Temple Mary Blackwood SIXSMITH.

Maiden surname: Macdonald

DOB: 19th Dec 1913 in England.

I won't put the informant or addresses as they relate to living people.

So doesn't really get me any further.  ??

Any more ideas people? Still waiting for the Scotland cert, maybe that will help... reallty don't get why i can't find it!

Rachel

[Annie65115]

How reliable do you think the informant/s were? If you can be sure of them, at least it narrows her place of birth down to England.

In fact, if the informants are still living, can you get any more info from them?

[~Rachel~]

Yeah I think the informant would be the most reliable you could get, but I would feel a bit awkward contacting them I think. I guess her infomation would only be as reliable as what Sheila herself was told!

I remember when I was searching BMDs there was one I discounted. I can't access ancestry to check for definite but I think it was something like:

Joan or Sheila MCDONALD
registered 1913?
Mother's maiden name: Boud
And was somewhere in Essex.

I might order that cert if I get no joy with the Scottish one! Although that really is clutching at straws a bit. I think there was a son registered a couple of years later and as far as I know Sheila didn't have a brother 

[ivanidea]

Rachel

If the situation becomes desperate (!), here are the BMD references for the McDonald births you mmentioned:

Births 4Q 1913   
Orsett  Vol. 4a Page 1238   
Sheila M McDonald   
Mother’s maiden name: Boud 

Births 1Q 1915   
Orsett  Vol. 4a Page 1219
Alexander L McDONALD   
Mother’s maiden name: Boud 

Orsett is in Essex and the places covered in Orsett Reg. District are shown on the following:

http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/reg/districts/orsett.html

I still think it might be worthwhile seeing if there is an obituary for Shelia Joan in the local 'papers for Downham in July/August 1994. Local libraries often hold copies of old newspapers and sometimes they will do a "look-up" if you have a specific date for the event in question.

Ivan

[~Rachel~]

Hiya Ivan,

Yeah I've contacted the local library and also Norfolk RO. I'm hoping the library are helpful as the RO charges £15 per half hour and I've gone a bit crazy with certificate ordering etc lately!

Also just had a quick look on free bmd (which I totally forgot existed  ) for a marriage between a Mcdonald and a Boud and couldn't find one - guess they're not complete though?

[~Rachel~]

Just had a reply back from Norfolk Heritage Centre, they've searched papers for the end of July and nothing. 

[~Rachel~]

Rachel

I hope it's the right one!!

I see that the "Recommendations" were signed (or countersigned) by "Monty". As I said an illustrious family!!

Please keep us all posted as to progress.

Ivan

Got it today, isn't the right one. 

I give up!