Can't find my Great-Nan's birth record

[mark1717]

Thanks for the link

[groom]

According to everything we have found, it all points to her being born in Italy. It may be difficult to find where they actually came from as their POB in Italy on the 1911 is just given as unknown. The only thing I can think of is to get her death certificate and see if that gives an actual place of birth. However, as I said in a previous post, it depends whether the person who registered the death knew that, if not it may just say Italy. Or, as she had obviously been in Cumbria since a baby, they may have assumed she was born there as well.

[mark1717]

Ok thanks groom, i'll have to try the death record but i have a feeling they would have just put Cumbria.

[Galium]

https://familysearch.org/search

has some Italian records. There's nothing obvious showing up in searches at the moment, but a lot of the records are not yet indexed, and the only way to look at them is page by page.  Not much use if you don't know which area you need to look at.  However, the records are gradually being indexed, so if you keep going back to look every so often, something may turn up eventually.

[mark1717]

Thanks Galium, I've had a look but sadly could not find anything but i will keep checking.

[MargP]

Hi

This may be the brother of Julia and may indicate where Jennie was born

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VR8F-LZN

Margp

[groom]

That's a brilliant find, Marg. It might be worth adding that to Mark's new thread

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=683069.0

[MargP]

That's a brilliant find, Marg. It might be worth adding that to Mark's new thread

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=683069.0

Thanks groom, done

[MargP]

Name:
Jennie Routledge

Birth Date: May 1906

Date of Registration:Feb 1985

Age at Death:78

Registration district: Cockermouth

Volume:1
Page: 493

Hi, I know that this birth year is incorrect on this, but she she may have been born earlier and out of wedlock, has her parents did not marry until Aug 1906, I know that the age at death can be out, but it may be worth checking, it just seems strange that one child would be born in Italy in between 2 other children so young, I know that Robert was born in  Dec 1906 so Julia was pregnant at the time of the marriage