RootsChat.Com

I ordered 2 from GRO both PDF format. one right, one wrong....
This William's mother is Martha Edwards, b 1866. No father on the birth Cert.
as it's a PDF I can email it if it's useful to you

what I didn't spot was the birth date, which came from Ancestry, citing Staffordshire BMD records. This shows 1862 as DoB. This suggest she was 96 when she died and 37 years older than her husband. I just checked FindMyPast for the same records, is shows the original entry with age=62, not born 1862!. Better fit, as this would mean born ~1896 and so 3 years older than her husband...

FindMyPast doesn't find a marriage record, but Ancestry does,
NameIrene Violet Kiviatkowski
Date of Registration1932, Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district
Dundalk, Ireland
Volume2
Page number441
FHL Film Number101576
Records on Page2

thanks for looking for me,
Geoff

I have the marriage certificate of one of my ancestors, Roland George Walters. It states his address in June 1949 as "The Race Course Prestbury". he was 27 years old in 1949.

His father, Reginald Charles Walters, is recorded as being a "Race Course Groundsman" and I assume they would be living together.

Would this make sense ? Was there accommodation for groundsmen / workers at that time at Prestbury ?

Does anyone have, or know of, any records from this period ? ( National Archives ? )

 out of interest, in 1939 they were living in Cardiff, Glamorgan, and his father's occupation is listed as "Racecourse : Caretaker & Groundsman (Foreman)"

Thanks in advance,

Geoff

I have been sent a spoon by my cousin. He found it in his mum's "stuff". Our dads were brothers, but my dad died in 1987.

It's tea spoon size, with a picture of a motorbike on the front.

On the back it is  engraved H G Trials 1955 Mr G Williams ( my dad was Gordon Williams )

Another family member seems to think there was a Home Guard Motorbike club ( Cheltenham area ), this would explain the HG. Does anyone know anything about this club / association ?

thanks, G