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Offline Simon Mead

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The last sibling
« on: Saturday 24 March 12 06:00 GMT (UK) »
Further to a post in 'Deciphering & Recognition' - 1911 census - birth place - I wonder if anyone can offer any suggestions/advice/assistance as to where I might go now?

My paternal grandfather had 9 siblings and we have managed to trace the descendants of all but one and it was the post referred to that I hoped would help me to trace the descendants of the 10th.

The post I refer to enabled me to trace the wife - Mary Ann GREEN - of one of my grand uncles. He was William Thomas MEAD, born in Oxgate, Hendon in 1878. He served in the Boer War and re-enlisted for WW1. He married Mary in 1915, and he died in County Kildare in 1917. He left behind a daughter Marjorie S MEAD born in Salisbury in 1916. It's Marjorie - and any of her descendants - that I was hoping to find.

I can find no record of her after her birth. I entertained the idea that Mary re-married and Marjorie took her new father's name but can find no record of Mary re-marrying. In fact the only record I can find after 1917 is the death of a Mary Ann MEAD in Devizes, Wiltshire in March 1932. She was 55 at the time of her death which would make her birth date right for 'our' Mary.

I don't know if there is anywhere else I can look, anything else I can do which is why I'm asking those with far more experience than I for suggestions.

Simon
Researching
WRIGHT of Buckinghamshire
HALL of Froxfield, Hampshire
MEAD of Long Marston, Hertfordshire
MUDD of Yorkshire/Lancashire
SCHMITT of London
JULIUS of Nußbaum, Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
ENGEL of Nußbaum, Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
PHILLIPS of Kent
GRANT of Dundee
PUNTER of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

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Re: The last sibling
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 24 March 12 06:09 GMT (UK) »
Have you looked in old papers for any evidence of her marriage - (I am having trouble with my own family from the 20th century and it is because many of the records are too recent to be online - and I have to rely on past newspapers for information.)   

Born 1916 so her marriage if any, wouldn't be until about 1936-ish - give or take a couple.  Might be worth a go!  Also newspapers often give lots of information about other family members.   If I knew how to access British newspapers I'd look, but . . . . .    :-\     

Wiggy     ;)

Edit to add     Seems British records come up to much more recently than Australian records - - so, if she stayed in UK, it should be there shouldn't it? 

Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: The last sibling
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 24 March 12 06:16 GMT (UK) »
Try this site - it means a long trawl but  - good luck!

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/news/blnewscoll/

Wiggy    :)
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: The last sibling
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 24 March 12 08:03 GMT (UK) »
How do you suggest I use the site?  ??? ???
Researching
WRIGHT of Buckinghamshire
HALL of Froxfield, Hampshire
MEAD of Long Marston, Hertfordshire
MUDD of Yorkshire/Lancashire
SCHMITT of London
JULIUS of Nußbaum, Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
ENGEL of Nußbaum, Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
PHILLIPS of Kent
GRANT of Dundee
PUNTER of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire


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Re: The last sibling
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 24 March 12 08:23 GMT (UK) »




You could try this one until someone comes up with another solution :

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

I've had the quickest of looks, but you might do better !  :) :)

Kind regards,

Pels.
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Re: The last sibling
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 24 March 12 11:07 GMT (UK) »
there is this marriage reg which may/may not be of interest???

Edwin L C Mitchell
Marjorie S D Mead or Halstaff
Mere
Wilts
7c 937

Suz
Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England
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Re: The last sibling
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 24 March 12 11:14 GMT (UK) »
It looks like \marjorie was the 3rd wife of Ewdin Leslie C Mitchell

His birth was reg Dec qtr 1905 Amersham Bucks 3a 141

and death

Leslie C Mitchell
born 16 Oct 1905
death reg Mar 1975
age 70
Shrewsbury
Salop
30 0278

don't know if this will help or confuse???

Suz
Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England
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Re: The last sibling
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 24 March 12 11:31 GMT (UK) »
there is this marriage reg which may/may not be of interest???

Edwin L C Mitchell
Marjorie S D Mead or Halstaff
Mere
Wilts
7c 937

Suz

There is a birth for a Marjorie S D Halstaff in Devon
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Re: The last sibling
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 24 March 12 11:37 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Marjorie S D MEAD is not the person Simon is looking for. Marjorie S D was born Marjorie S D Halstaff and married Wilard W MEAD in 1931

Andy