joseph Babic

[garstonite]

Hiya Chrissue...go to www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk and click on Merseyside Aliens...this is a record of all foreigners who arrived in Liverpool from 1879-1912.....I`ve checked for your Joseph Babic and he`s not there..so he never lived in Liverpool....will try geneanet.org and see if he`s on there....allan

[garstonite]

OK...I`ve been on geneanet.org and there are 32 tree matches...but NONE from Poland ...the majority are from France or Belgium....where did you get your info he was Polish ?...allan
ADDED...There are 11 archives submitted  for the Babic family back to 1660 and ALL in France.....

[garstonite]

there`s only one marriage for Babic on freebmd and that is in Dec Qtr 1929..

Violet Babic to Gustav A J P Maix in Dover 2a 2958 ....

.no birth on freebmd for Violet or any other Babic......looking more and more French than Polish....on geneanet there are 451 matches for Maix......page one has every single one in France.....allan

[garstonite]

We might have a slight spelling difference here....on freebmd in Mile End London
Babich..........3 marriages .......but No births and No deaths....allan

[Gaie]

Hi

FreeBMD is only transcribed up to about 1930 so is probably not much help; and we do not know if Josef's older children were born in this country or even if he married here.

There were at least 46 Babics born here between 1929-1969 and 16 Babic marriages.

It is just as likely that Josef arrived in the UK between wars or after WW2.

Geneanet seems to be a predominently French site - try putting JONES in and see what results come up

Babic does sound eastern European, it just doesn't sound very Polish; for example in the Poznan Project, which indexes marriages in the Poznan region which consisted of around 10 million people at the end of the 19th century and covers the period 1835-1884, there is only one exact match for Babic; the nearest most common variant is Babiak.

http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/babic

The above site gives the origin as Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Czech and Slovak.

http://www.croatian-genealogy.com/cro-surnames/03-babic.shtml

The above site says that Babic is the third most frequent surname found in Croatia.

Just throwing some food for thought into the pot  

Kind regards
Gaie

[Annette7]

Assuming he stayed in England I checked deaths from 1959 onwards.   Nothing with spelling as above.   The 2 nearest entries I could find were:

Joseph Alfred Babiak   b.2/4/1901 d.Sept.1979 Barnet

Jozef Babik  b.13/3/1896 d.Oct.1990 Hereford

Annette

[Gaie]

Annette, you're a star, I couldn't face checking quarter by quarter for deaths last night 

KR
Gaie

[chrissue]

Thank you to every one. As I am adopted the polish aspect came from the rather limited information that I have from the agency. His name is not on my birth cert but they were quite firm about his age. He might have come over before the war. The recods definately state he has children from a previous marriage. I'm fairly certain my birth mother has died but I haven't really checked that side as yet
chrissue

[chrissue]

I think I need to find if any of his kids survived. I think they did but I'm going to have to dig my birth mothers family to see if any of them are alive and know the background.
Thanks to everyone who has helped
Chrissue