Big thick brick wall - Margaret Dalzell Cooke

[L25]

Err ... no!  Miss Poohs, are you "Jinty?"

[Miss Poohs]

Yes

[aghadowey]

Once LiverScot has made 3 posts then you can both exchange recent family details and personal information offline.

Is Margaret's supposed age calculated from her marriage certificate? (this was asked in reply #1 but I didn't see an answer).

[Miss Poohs]

Thanks aghadowey - yes, it's calculated from other certs, as we've never been able to find exact birth documents - a real mystery.

[Elwyn Soutter]

Miss Poohs,

GRONI in Belfast keep the statutory birth records. I suggest you ring them and ask them to search for Margaret’s birth for you. There is a birth search facility on their computer system whereby you can enter the parents’ names whilst leaving the child’s forename blank. That search should then bring up every child born to those parents. That should find Margaret’s birth if it’s there, and provided it’s spelled Cook(e). If the birth is not quite where or when you were expecting, but was within what is now Northern Ireland, they should still find it. (That will resolve whether the 1915 birth is hers too).

GRONI will normally do that search on the spot for you. There may be a search fee as well as a fee for the certificate. (I think it depends how much searching they have to do). You can pay over the phone by debit or credit card. http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/gro

[Miss Poohs]

Ohh thank you Elwyn, that's great information and certainly worth a try.

I've been chipping away at this for a very long time with no success - and now I'd love to be able to help closer relatives (who I've been lucky enough to find) unravel this mystery.

[aghadowey]

For reference-

Eveline Cooke birth July/Sept.1913 Belfast registration district vol. 1 p.328
Agnes May Cooke birth Apr./June 1915 Belfast registration district vol. 1 p. 328 (not 1913)
William Robert Cooke birth Apr./June 1917 Belfast registration district vol. 1 p. 306

Agnes' birth rules out the 1915 Margaret.

[Miss Poohs]

Oops that was a typo on my behalf I have Agnes 1915 - 1991, just Margaret D to find.

Thank you so much aghadowey much appreciated

[L25]

Once LiverScot has made 3 posts then you can both exchange recent family details and personal information offline.

Is Margaret's supposed age calculated from her marriage certificate? (this was asked in reply #1 but I didn't see an answer).

Thanks aghadowey. I didn't mean to infringe the rules of the forum. I was just excited about finding a possible new connection.