Yates/Topping

[BILL.Y]

I've found Norman Yates born on the Wirral in 1917.  If it's my father (middle name Parkes) his dob was 8th Oct 1917.   His mother is listed as Topping.

How can I find her first name(s) and her date of death, please?

[suzard]

Isn't this more likely to be your father's birth reg??

Norman P Yates
mother's maiden name Parkes
Dec qtr 1917
Birkenhead
8a 794

Suz

[groom]

There is this marriage

Sarah A Topping
William Yates
Sept quarter 1915
Prescot Lancs
8b 1279

But as Suz said, the use of the name Parkes must have come from somewhere in the family 

[suzard]

..and the birth reg you found (mother's maiden name Topping - has no middle name ??

There is a marriage FreeBMD
Dec qtr 1914
William Yates
Amy B Parkes
Birkenhead
8a 1031

Your father's birth cert would have parents names
his marriage cert would give father's name
Suz

[suzard]

I can't find any more children -birth reg Birkenhead -mother's maiden name Parkes -but there is this death reg

Amy B Yates
age 24
Dec qtr 1918
Birkenhead
8a 1247

Suz

[junev]

hi,

and the death ties in with a birth of an Amy Beatrice Parkes in 1894 in Lancashire.

Junev

ps the middle name Beatrice is on the death record in Cheshire BMD

[suzard]

and here she is in 1901
59 Moorland Rdd
Everton
Lancs
Harry E Parkes Head widower 42 Driver groom (Lucy? Stables) Kinver Staffs
Emily E daughter 16 Liverpool
Florence daughter 12 Liverpool
AMY B daughter 6 Liverpool
Rg13 3483 121 26

Suz

[suzard]

do you think junev and I are on the right track, Billy???

Suz

[BILL.Y]

suz,

Yes, I'm sure you're right on track!  Parkes was my dad's mother's maiden name.  Doh!!  I should have twigged about the Topping misfit, although I didn't make the connection at the time.

The reason I didn't put parkes in the search was because I've been told that [sometimes] being too specific isn't a good thing as names are sometimes omitted on records (although, thinking about it, I guess that's more true for censuses than birth records).

Also Amy's death makes some sort of sense as my paternal grandmother was my dad's step mum.

Is there any way I can find the cause of Amy's death?  There was talk in the family about a fire but noone is really sure.

Thanks for all your help - it's been fantastic!!  This stuff is HARD!!  Well, for me, anyway.