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Offline fogey

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Birth look up Liverpool
« on: Saturday 15 December 18 22:22 GMT (UK) »
Would somebody be able to look up the birth of a child in Liverpool or suggest how I can find it. I have the year of birth +/- one year and the mother's maiden name. I don't know the child's name and the father is marked as unknown.

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Re: Birth look up Liverpool
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 15 December 18 22:25 GMT (UK) »
No way to do what you seek.
You cant search the indexes based solely on mothers name.
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Re: Birth look up Liverpool
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 15 December 18 22:35 GMT (UK) »
So parents not married?  Have you tried under the mothers name? 

Where is the father marked as "unknown"
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Re: Birth look up Liverpool
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 16 December 18 07:18 GMT (UK) »
You don't say when this birth took place
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Re: Birth look up Liverpool
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 16 December 18 08:30 GMT (UK) »
if it's post 1911, use FreBMD with surname set the same as Mother's maiden name, and county set to Lancashire.
Leave forename blank, and set the years as appropriate.

Before then, and after 1st July 1937, use the GRO Index Search (https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates). You need to register, but it's free to use.
Enter surname and Mother's maiden name, then year +/- 2 years.
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Re: Birth look up Liverpool
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 16 December 18 12:42 GMT (UK) »
Do you know the mother’s whole name, or just her maiden surname? If the former, another possibility (depending on the time period) is to start by looking for a baptism.  Liverpool is well-represented in online baptisms, both C of E and (unusually) Catholic ones.

You haven’t given us enough information to give very directed help, though.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Birth look up Liverpool
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 16 December 18 13:15 GMT (UK) »
If its post 1911, then try FreeBMD.

Fill in the Mothers maiden name and leave everything else blank, specify the county as Lancs (OR even better,  the district as Liverpool and possibly West Derby) and a year.

hit enter and as long as its not a really common surname , you should be able to see results.
IF its a really common surname then you may get a message saying that search would take too long or too many results to display so you may have to do it  quarter by quarter for each year.

You can download the results into a csv file which will, if you use them, paste into a spreadsheet. Sounds like a really long job if there are lots with that MMN, but if you are desperate it may pay off.

and thank you, I didn't know you could search FreeBMD with just a MMN, but just tried it with a known MMN name and year/ district and it worked nicely. I've learned something new!

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