Middlesbrough birth request

[Bill_r]

I don't know if anyone is still interested in this post after so long but there is a twist.
My wife and daughter gave DNA samples ( daughter and granddaughter of May ) and my daughter followed the leads. May always thought her mother died in childbirth.

It turns out May had 9 half sisters / brothers. Beatrice Miller was her Mother. But we still haven't found her birth certificate. Beatrice had May? Baptised in Middlesbrough 1905, as Mary B. Miller. She then left her to be brought up by her father's parents in Newcastle upon Tyne.

We are still looking for Mary . Mays birth certificate. Regards Billr.

Regards Billr.

[Spelk]

hi Bill, have you checked out the birth q3 1905 of Beatrice May MILLER MMN JORDISON Gateshead 10a 1034?
Just possible the JORDISON may be a mixed up JOHNSTONE.

edit - no - seems she died in 1906.

[GrahamH]

The GRO Index has an entry for Amy Beatrice Miller born 1901  J Quarter in MIDDLESBROUGH  Volume 09D  Page 567 (I wonder was her real name possibly Amy, known in the family as May?). MMN is Russon.

The only Beatrice Miller in the 1901 census in Middlesbrough is Beatrice   Miller, Married, born 1879 in Middlesbrough.
She lived at 28 Boswell Street with husband George (b 1876, Gateshead, Iron Foundry Moulder), daughter Amy (under 1 born Middlesbrough) and 13 year old Alice Russon, domestic servant born Middlesbrough.

[softly softly]

Hi.

Is there any way to find a birth by searching the mother?
Beattie Miller gave birth to a girl in 1905 (I think).
The birth took place at Mrs. Nolan's, Oxford Street, South Bank, Middlesbrough. The child was given the name May Johnstone, but efforts to locate her failed.

Help please.

Bill.

Hi, trying to build a picture first of the mother. When the daughter was born atOxford Street, South Bank, Middlesborough the house in 1911 was occupied by Anthony Nolan & Lucy Louisa nee' Miller. Is this the sister do you know of the mother. Lucy Louisa Miller was born 1873 in Chard, Somerset, her mmn being North.

SS

[Spelk]

Bill
I am thinking that the birth of May MILLER/JOHNSTONE may never have been registered.

That lead me to wonder how come back in 1910 when this query was first raised you "knew" that May had been born in Mrs NOLAN's house in Middlesbrough if you do not have a birth certificate. A baptism might mention a parish or street but not a particular house in my experience.

I can see May JOHNSTONE age 6 and 16 in Newcastle with her grandparents in 1911 and her widowed Grandmother and probably father William in 1921 - both times at 21 Villa PLace. What I have not investigated is how many of the half sisters and brothers you mention were from her mother or her father. Not that I need to know - just nosey.

[softly softly]

May's exact dob was the 9th August 1905--died sq 1994.

SS