Reidy

[clubhistorian]

I'm hoping someone can help my dear friend.  Her father, John Reidy, was born in Wallsend in 1912.  His mother was Elizabeth.  Can anyone help with lookups for that area?   Thanks, Sally

[Morganllan]

Hello

modified - should have said Welcome to Rootschat!

John Reidy born 1912 (March Quarter) in Tynemouth district.
Tynemouth volume 10b page 399

Mother's maiden name was Lawler

She could buy the birth certificate from GRO.

I'll see if I can find anything else

Best Wishes
Morgan

[Morganllan]

There's a possible marriage in the same area:

James Riedy and Elizabeth Lawlor in 1911 December Quarter
Tynemouth volume 10b page 480

Mistakes are fairly common on certificates and some spelling changed over time, so this may be the right parents for John.

[clubhistorian]

Wow, that's fantastic.  Were there other Reidy's in the area?  How would she go about getting the birth certificate?  Thanks for all your help, Sally

[Morganllan]

Hello again Sally 

Certificate prices have increased this year. The GRO can provide them:

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

However they don't do a checking service (i.e. some degree of verification of your order) so you may be better off with the local register office. I'm not familiar with the area, but I know Tynemouth records are not all in the same place. Perhaps someone can advise which would be the correct register office, or you can use the GRO service.

Here's a link with some useful info about Tynemouth:
http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Tynemouth/index.html

If your friend knows the exact birthday, that will help. The birth certificate will confirm the details of John's parents, e.g. names, maiden name, Father's occupation.

This site tells you about what info is on BMD certificates:

http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm

If you decide to send for the certificates, you can post here again so that someone can help look for John's parents.

Good Luck
Morgan

[Michael Dixon]

Morgan,

 Yes, Wallsend town and wider parish was covered by Tynemouth Registration District from 1837 ( A wee bit quirky in that Register Office was in town of North Shields- even Tynemouth Parish Church lay in town of North Shields !)

Tynemouth RD covered a wide area in south east Northumberland, including Wallsend ( lying between Newcastle and Tynemouth/North Shields)

Tynemouth RD changed it's name in 1936 to Northumberland South.

With the creation of the new county of Tyne and Wear in 1974 out of the southern bit of Northumberland ( and a north bit of County Durham)
the same Reg Office divied up it's records, some to Northumberland Central and Newcastle, and get the rest and got a new name of North Tyneside Reg District.

Sally, I was surprised to see that on 1901 census, there were only 10 Reidy folk in all of Northumberland - all one family under Ireland-born Michael, a Customs official,  and Ellen Reidy. Living in the town of North Shields. (Census page ref 4603-77-10))

Also on 1901 census ( 4796-93-30)) was Elizabeth Lawler, 13 yr old dtr of Ireland-born widower Thomas, living in Vine St, Wallsend.

Michael
Newcastle

[clubhistorian]

Hi,

It's been quite a while since I posted about REIDY in Wallsend, but I've been doing as much research as my Ancestry.com subscription will let me .

James Reidy married Elizabeth Lawlor Oct 14, 1911 at St. Columba's in Wallsend.  Would it be possible for someone to do lookups for anything related to Reidy at St. Columba's, please?

I know they had one child, John, born January 1912, but there may have been other children.  It's also possible that at least one of the children died.

Also, I was trying to find James Reidy in the 1911 census in Wallsend, but was unsuccessful.  He would have been single & a miner.  I did find a James READY in Newcastle on the 1911.census.uk website, but it doesn't give me an enumeration district.  If someone could do a lookup for me, or at least tell me the ED, I can look it up myself.

Thanks so much!
Sally

[2zpool]

Dec 1913 registered as James F Reidy, mother's maiden name Lawlor, Tynemouth 10b 438

This was the only one that came up even using phonetic spelling

Janis

[sillgen]

Hi
Unfortunately we can't do 1911 look ups but  there are lots of suggestions for searching the free index on this thread:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,492718.0.html

www.freebmd.org.uk is a good site for searching for births, especially after 1911 when the mother's maiden name is shown.  I would assume that is what Janis has used, though the information is on Ancestry too.
Does the census information Michael gave you last year fit with that from the marriage certificate?
Regards
Andrea