Help finding living family members?

[AbbieRose]

Hi there,

My mother bought a box of books at an auction and inside was a beautiful large bible that the owners had recorded marriages and births into. I won't post the births here as they were as recent as they were all born in the 1960's, which is recent.

The only information i have on the marriages is the following:

Miss Elsie Roberta(?) Carter
Mr Anthony James williams

Married 1st September 1959


I seemed to have found the marriage register records on ancestry which says they were married in Wandsworth, Surrey. I also found all the children mentioned in the book on ancestry.

I built a small (and private) tree with their names in the hopes of finding a public member tree that shared them in case I found a family member. However, it seems not one has popped up.

Can anyone help my find any living relatives of this family so that I may return this beautiful book to them?

[lizdb]

Have you tried simply googling the names of the people born on the '60's?  They may well come up on Linked in , or Facebook, or on a website for their employer, or such like.

[dawnsh]

Ancestry has the London Electoral registers upto 1965 online. They may give you a start.

The surnames don't help much, maybe too frequently occuring.

[AbbieRose]

Have you tried simply googling the names of the people born on the '60's?  They may well come up on Linked in , or Facebook, or on a website for their employer, or such like.

I have tried this, for it to only pop up with Facebook suggestions. One or two potentials popped up whom I have messaged, but they seemed a stretch at most and unlikely to be the children I am looking for. The rest were not matches, sadly.

[josey]

Nevertheless, you have the names available here...

A very worthy exercise, so I hope you are successful Abbie.

[panda40]

Try the local history group for that area most have group pages on Facebook. Often if shared in a group you can reach a wider range of people.
Good luck hope you are able to reunite it with one of the people mentioned in the bible.
Regards
Panda

[familydar]

FindMyPast has more recent electoral registers.  If you don't have a sub you may find your local library does.

Jane -)

[mazi]

Is, I wonder, given the date, that it is possible the children of the marriage put it in the auction whilst clearing their parents house.

Mike

[hallmark]

Where was the Auction?  Contact the Auctioneers to ask if they can contact the Sellers??