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Hi Everyone ,
 I hope everyone is well.
 I have a Thomas Rowland Thexton who was killed in WW1. I have the details of his WW1 army service but I believe he was in the army at some point before this. On Ancestry I only can find the War details. How do I go about finding if he was in the army before this?
 And I suppose it was possible to not be on a census  as the did this. Is there any other way of finding a Mum and son in 1901?

Thanks Everyone .I really appreciate the help on this site. You are all brilliant. I am getting better at looking for some things but occasionally hit a wall.
Marytm

Hello All,
I hope everyone is safe and well.
I have a strange man that's appeared on a Child's death and another child's birth certificate.
In my tree I have a Sarah Ann Lilley also called May, born in Dudley in 1873 married to a Thomas Rowland Thexton in Sheffield in 1893.
On the 1901 Census I cannot find Sarah Ann (Lilley) Thexton or her two year old son Harry.
Their eldest son Gilbert is 7 and at school. Thomas is boarding and it says single? Accidently?

In 1904 Sarah gives birth to a Mary Lydia in Sheffield, the birth Cert says Thomas Rowland Thexton is Dad.
She unfortunately dies in Norwich that same year and her Death Cert says a Charles Henry Thexton/Thetford is Dad.It says he is a Public House Manager and address is 45 Timberhill Norwich.
Sarahs next child I have as Edna May Thexton born in Norwich on 9th Nov 1905.The only birth I can find is a Sarah Edna and her birth Cert. as Charles Henry Thetford as Dad. May Thetford formerly Thexton as Mum .Born at the Mariners Inn, Wymondham.

Now my questions are which Charles Henry Thetford is this can I look him up through his Pub?
Is it all a mistake and have I got the wrong person ? But it is strange on the Death cert for one child and birth cert for another not just one of them?
Would it be possible not to register a child? Maybe these are not the same children?

Sarah ultimately is back with Thomas Rowland and they have two more children, Patricia my Nan and Rowland.

Any help or advice will be gratefully received.
Thanks Marytm

Hello,
I have been looking for a link between William Burton born 1869 in Oakamoor Staffordshire died 1925.He was married to Jane Critchlow and some other Burtons in the area. Descendants  of James Burton born in Alton in 1819 died Oct 1886 in Cheadle Staffs married to Lucy Nixon.I think quite a few of this family went to Australia and USA and returned? They live in neighboring areas and I can't believe the tree doesn't link somewhere but there are so many Burtons I
am getting quite mind boggled trying to sort them out.

If anyone could help that would be great.
Thanks
Marytm

I have been watching the House through Time program and he had the admission details of someone in an asylum. Does anyone know how you get these? And do you have to pay for them?

I have a John Watts born in Oldbury in 1850 who died in 1891 in the County Lunatic asylum Powick Upton on Severn. He was a widow with 5 daughters and I wondered why he was taken into the Asylum?

Thanks Marytm

I am having problems searching for Harry Peake's parents details.
 He married Martha Handley (prev Watts) in Birmingham in 1922.They were both living at 6 Burbury Street,Birmingham when they married.She was a widow.
 I have his Wedding Cert which says he is 46yrs old the same as his wife.
Martha was born in 1877.
It says his Dad was John Peake who is deceased at this time.
I am having trouble finding him on thr GRO website.
I am presuming he is from the Birmingham \Midlands area.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou
Marytm.