Percy Platt - Illegitimate/Adopted Bolton 1898

[Ruskie]

So on the certificates, is there an address for the informant, (ie Margaret) and if so it is 44 Silverwell Place?

[Waterloo24]

No worries - maybe in your trawlings of the censuses, you saw the ones from Barton 
My favourite is Maggie up to now.

Thank you ... it does drown me sometimes.

I like Maggie too ... the welsh link with her mother Elizabeth is interesting.

x

[heywood]

I'm trying to make sense of your family memories  I am also doing what I advise not to do and that is making things fit 

Margaret and John Knowles had a child James 1905 who I think died in 1908. However, you need to look at the entry for Margaret Knowles in 1911 

Margaret had a child Dorothy in 1913 - no father named on baptism.

Maggie had brothers James and John.

[Waterloo24]

So on the certificates, is there an address for the informant, (ie Margaret) and if so it is 44 Silverwell Place?

I will try an attach it .... fingers crossed 

Nope its too big

Under name and address of informant it says -  M Ann Platt 44 Silverwell Lane Bolton

He was registered on 20/10/1898

[Ruskie]

So on the certificates, is there an address for the informant, (ie Margaret) and if so it is 44 Silverwell Place?

I will try an attach it .... fingers crossed 

Nope its too big

Under name and address of informant it says -  M Ann Platt 44 Silverwell Lane Bolton

He was registered on 20/10/1898

Thanks.

[heywood]

You can only attach a snippet - not the whole certificate.

[Waterloo24]

I'm trying to make sense of your family memories  I am also doing what I advise not to do and that is making things fit 

Margaret and John Knowles had a child James 1905 who I think died in 1908. However, you need to look at the entry for Margaret Knowles in 1911 

Margaret had a child Dorothy in 1913 - no father named on baptism.

Maggie had brothers James and John.

I know, I can imagine my mother is getting very frustrated that I didn't listen enough .. but I did 

I just so want to make sure its right for her and Percy.

If Maggie had brothers names James and John that is good as mum defiantly met Percy s brothers. One believed he was Jesus and was mad as a hatter. But if James died mum can't have met him.

She never mentioned a Dorothy 

I am wondering if I can find Maggies (Margarets) death certificate in some way and work back that might validate it. Mum remembers visiting Margaret in an asylum around 1950 and she died around that time.

[Waterloo24]

Thank you all for your help.

Despite the fact I am sorely tempted to stay here as you are all so helpful ... in Australia it is after 11pm.

Please do not think I am not responding to any kind offers of help or ideas, I am simply in the land of not .... trying to sleep off my confusion.

Many Many thanks to all x

[heywood]

Try to sleep on it. 

It is all far too tenuous to attach any reality to Maggie at the moment.

I can't see a birth for a John to her- just Dorothy and James. I had wondered if Doris/Dorothy were being confused.

Goodnight