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Topic: Where do I try next? Stuck at 1901. (Read 378 times)
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Phil32
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 22
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi All,
This is my first post since joining up, so hello to everyone, & hopefully someone can advise me how to get over this brickwall that I have recently hit!
Basically, I am trying to establish the children of 2 married couples that were living in Bardwell suffolk. Both couples married shortly before the 1901 census, & one couple had 3 children by 1901. However this is where my search has hit a brickwall, as I have just discovered the parish registers for this period in time are only copied up until 1900, so how can I find if there are any subsequent children without the risk of wasting financies on possible birth certs?
I am sure this is the worse period of time in family history to be researching!
If anyone can help & advise me where to try next to establish this info, then I would be most grateful.
Many thanks,
Phil32.
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chris359
RootsChat Member
Posts: 144
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Welcome to Roots Chat - you won't regret joining!
Bardwell registers are almost certainly deposited with Suffolk Record Office - I think probably the Bury St Edmunds branch. If you are not living near enough to research them yourself, you could contact the RO direct (- they will charge a search fee), hire a researcher, or make a request for someone visiting the RO to look on your behalf. For a smallish parish and at that time (early 20th century, when registers are usually fairly legible) it shouldn't take too much time.
Have a look at the Suffolk Record Office website.
Hope this helps,
Chris
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Suffolk: ABBOTT, BISHOP, BUCKLE, BULL, CROUCH, DALBY, DEATH, DIAPER, FAIRWEATHER, LEADER, MEADOWS, NOBLE, PLEASANCE, RANSON, RAYNHAM, RINGE, SCARFE, TAYLOR, WHITE
Essex: SHEPHERD, ASHBY
Norfolk: SCARFE, MICKLEBURGH, MALLOWS, MEADOWS
Northumberland: SCOTT, BEARUP, KIDD, TINLIN
Dorset: MORRIS, GALPIN, WOODLAND
Channel Islands: WAKEHAM
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Rian
RootsChat Senior
Posts: 359
My grandmother, Lilian Fennessy Hopkins
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Hi Phil
If you post all surnames and any details you have, then we can do a look up for you ("find my past" has basic on-line data, but you need a sub for it). After mid 1911 mother's maiden name was recorded so, we can then be fairly sure of the right couple. For births before that, you could at least send for possible certs, naming both parents, and will then only have to pay a default fee if they are not correct. This will only work for a fairly uncommon name of course.
Cheers, Rian.
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Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukResearching: Anderson, Atton, Bagley, Banks, Barlow, Bartin, Braid, Carveth, Cleary, Couper, Fennessy, Frank, Frisby, Garner, Hathaway, Hollis, Hopkins, Irvine, Jones, Karrasch, Kennett, Kirkpatrick, Kirkness, Kopittke, Leslie, McGinty, Marriott, Meredith, Minshull, Nind, Pearce, Pulley, Reid, Rendall, Shearer, Shorter, Spence, Stephenson, Tate, Warren. UK, Ireland, Prussia and Australia. |
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Phil32
RootsChat Extra
Posts: 22
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi again,
Many thanks Chris, Rian & Andrea, you sure don`t hang about on here do you! I have been reading through other genealogy forums that don`t seem to have any replies?
Anyway, I really appreciate all your help & advice, & what I intend to do is get all of the factual information & contact the Bury st E record office & request a parish register search. Unfortunately the names that I am researching seem quite common in the suffolk area when using the freeBMD website, but hopefully I should be able to narrow things down as most of the other records were registered at Bury st E post 1908 & prior to this at the Thingoe register office.
I shall start sorting things out now & get in touch with the records office tomorrow.
Thanks again for your help & time.
Phil32
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Dave Francis
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 2755
Cornelius Fisk Goodwin (1880-1961)
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Hi Phil - and a warm welcome to Rootschat from me as well!
As I understand it you are trying to identify the children of two couples who were married just before the 1901 Census.
Parish registers can obviously be a boon, but you can get some important clues from the GRO Births Index. From about 1912 (possibly 1911 - I can't remember the exact date) the Index started to include the mother's maiden name. Provided that the parents had a fairly unusual combination of surnames (ie. not Smith and Jones) it is quite easy to trawl through the Births Index and pick up likely candidates.
As your couples were married over 10 years earlier, they may have stopped having children by then. But it might be worth having a look nevertheless.
Hope this helps
Dave
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukSurnames include: FRANCIS in Glamorgan / LANWORN in Monmouth / BLACKMAN, RUSSELL in Sussex / KEARSEY, BARLTROP in Essex / TOOKEY in Leicestershire / LASHMORE in London and Kent / GOODWIN, PASQUE, ATTOE, FISK, QUINTON, RUFFLES, CULLINGFORD and others in Suffolk / MAYOSS anywhere anytime! / GILMORE in Belfast |
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