GRO indexes on gro.gov.uk !

[groom]

Wow - that really is brilliant, I've just found a maiden name from 1939, I knew his mother was a widow when she married but couldn't find her previous marriage. That's solved it without having to get the certificate.

[bibliotaphist]

More info and a quote from the GRO, at: http://www.oneplacestudy.org/blog/?p=1422

[Jomot]

Excellent!  Thanks for the heads-up.

[smudwhisk]

Well I've just found another child to my 2xGGrandparents of whom I didn't know anything.   Now have to find the death as he obviously didn't survive.

Annoyingly, though, the one birth I'd really like to have found out the maiden name for has a blank against it in their index.   I don't know for definite its the correct birth because the child was baptised under her mother's maiden name in the workhouse but I can't find a birth for her registered as such but the mother has previously been in a relationship where her other children's births were registered under the father's surname and I did wonder whether that had happened this time.  In another similar situation where the child was born in the workhouse, the birth was registered by the Workhouse Master so I would have thought that would have been the case this time and the birth would have been registered under the mother's surname.  Doesn't look like it and unfortunately as the Lambeth area Register Office charge a fortune for a search where the reference isn't known, I may have to take a punt at the birth cert with the missing mother's surname at some point or, as they say, let sleeping dogs lie since its not a direct line and I was just curious.  As I lose both mother and child after the 1851 Census, but I know the daughter was alive around 1914 as she is mentioned, although not by name, in a letter I have a copy of, I can't trace them any further forward anyway.  I suspect the mother became involved in another relationship and just assumed the man's surname again sadly.   She had previous at that.

[ReadyDale]

Wow, I'll be busy over the weekend tidying up a load of sideshoots!   

[smudwhisk]

The age on deaths pre 1865 is also going to be very useful.

[sami]

Thanks for posting that information 

sami

[lanercost]

I thought the GRO adding these indexes would be a waste of their time considering they're already on numerous sites but the extra maiden names, middle names and extra ages at death are fantastic!

[deeiluka]

I've been able to find a birth and death of another child of a couple between censuses . But I must admit I was working with a pair of uncommon surnames and knew the district.