How do I start looking for relatives from one name and date and area please?

[dscrerar51]

Hi,
Looking for advice on how to start a search for relatives of my late grandfather estranged from his family upon marriage to my late grandmother. Obvs I know their names and approximate dates and location but that's it. Thanks

[mckha489]

You could give us the information you know. 

Do you have the marriage certificate of your grandparents?  It should give his father’s name and occupation. Witnesses may be someone from his family who didn’t disapprove.

Find here https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl. Then order from GRO

If they married before 1939 have you found them on the 1939 register which should give his actual date of birth. Or perhaps you know this birthdate already? In which case can you narrow him down on the GRO index?

https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/

Go to “order certificates online” and then use the search functions.

[Girl Guide]

Welcome to Rootschat 

Are you looking to go backwards or forwards from your grandfather? Would you like to share his name and when and whom he married?

If so we can then help you with finding more information.

[Ladyhawk]

Hello and welcome to Rootschat 

If his year of death is after Jun 1969 use the FreeBMD link provided above and this should also give you his date of birth

[dscrerar51]

Hello and welcome to Rootschat 

If his year of death is after Jun 1969 use the FreeBMD link provided above and this should also give you his date of birth

Before, he died in Ww2 and is listed in armed forces records.

[dscrerar51]

Welcome to Rootschat 

Are you looking to go backwards or forwards from your grandfather? Would you like to share his name and when and whom he married?

If so we can then help you with finding more information.

Forwards. My grandfather was David Hook who married Jane Sands. Both from East end of Glasgow.

[dscrerar51]

Hello and welcome to Rootschat 

If his year of death is after Jun 1969 use the FreeBMD link provided above and this should also give you his date of birth

Thanks. I had a look. It seems to be for England and Wales. They were from Scotland.

[mckha489]

Their marriage in 1941 is available for 6 credits on Scotland’s people

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&dl_cat=statutory&dl_rec=statutory-marriages&surname=Hook&surname_so=exact&forename=David&forename_so=starts&spsurname=Sands&spsurname_so=exact&spforename=Jane&spforename_so=exact&record_type=stat_marriages

This will tell you the names of both sets of parents and their age.

[Ladyhawk]

Hello and welcome to Rootschat 

If his year of death is after Jun 1969 use the FreeBMD link provided above and this should also give you his date of birth

Thanks. I had a look. It seems to be for England and Wales. They were from Scotland.

There is this death entry year and age indicate he was born c 1892
as Mckha489 you need credits to view on SP

HOOK
DAVID
age 72
1964
644/2 849
Glasgow (South)
https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk - it's free to register

edited to Remove info.......missed WW2 reference