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st Kitts how to research HANLEY/ MATTLEY heritage
« on: Tuesday 11 September 18 02:24 BST (UK) »
How do I go about helping someone find out about her St Kitts heritage

I managed to find a record of her grandfather Martin Luther HANLEY b10. * Oct 1933  leaving Kingston and arriving Southampton 28 Oct 1960

Destination Leicester

Where  he married Doris MATTLEY in 1963   

I cant find her passage ...she was born 1937  her middle name was Agatha I'm told
She died in Leicester in 2014 but I believe she was also born in st Kitts

Martin Luther HANLEY died June 1978

They had a son 'Steve'  who also died young.  I think his birth name may have been Leroy Irvin S Hanley b1969

Can anyone help us learn more about  the ancestors please
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Re: st Kitts Jamaica how to research HANLEY/ MATTLEY heritage
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 11 September 18 02:39 BST (UK) »
Have asked 4 duplicate post to be removed don't know how to do it myself .... I misspeltl surname too shouldn't post after bedtime !
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Re: st Kitts Jamaica how to research HANLEY/ MATTLEY heritage
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 11 September 18 04:44 BST (UK) »
As far as I know St.Kitts is not in Jamaica it's another Caribbean island about a 1000 miles away.

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Re: st Kitts Island how to research HANLEY/ MATTLEY heritage
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 11 September 18 08:16 BST (UK) »
Thanks solid rock when I searched St kitts on ancestry nothing came up but when I put in Jamaica too I came up with ship record .maybe that's why I'm not finding Doris. ..was the collective term for those islands British West indies in the 1930s ?

Will  modify title ...thanks
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Re: st Kitts how to research HANLEY/ MATTLEY heritage
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 11 September 18 17:10 BST (UK) »
Doris Mattly  had 2 brothers called William and Jimmy but I cant find them in GB either
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Re: st Kitts how to research HANLEY/ MATTLEY heritage
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 11 September 18 17:26 BST (UK) »
According to GRO Death Index, Martin Luther Hanley was born 23 October 1933. Free BMD.

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Re: st Kitts how to research HANLEY/ MATTLEY heritage
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 11 September 18 17:50 BST (UK) »
Thanks Barry have modified
Death record gave that date of birth
With death June 1978 Leicester

I don't understand the marriage record given as 12/1963 Apr Oct.Nov .dec
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Re: st Kitts how to research HANLEY/ MATTLEY heritage
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 11 September 18 23:16 BST (UK) »
Am I allowed to post ship record ?

 /    /  1960
There was a page of men and 1 woman all cabin class and most coming to live in UK many to London Birmingham or Leicester most had destination street address

Martin L HANLEY just had the town of Leicester as a destination ...maybe he didn't have family or friends here but why would he choose this town ?
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Re: st Kitts how to research HANLEY/ MATTLEY heritage
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 16 September 18 08:52 BST (UK) »
Well ive got worldwide sub to ancestry had a quick search using Caribbean as a general term

With the Hanley name

Nothingcame up

I.ll try later but it may be a case of using elders knowledge to get a start
The afro carribean genre has a nice cafe and various events including our community radio so ill ask if anyone knows/ knew the Collins MAttLEY or Hanley familiez
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