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I am looking for Michael J Bontoft who was born in 1946, his father was Jonathon Bontoft and his mother was Nelly Dawson who was Jonathon's (known as Jack) housekeeper.
Jack had five children with his wife Florrie East but she died in 1937. They were living in Thimbleby, Jack got a housekeeper and had a child with her.
I found a marriage between a Michael Bontoft and a Mary Everatt so sent for certificate but it turned out to be another Michael born in 1944 in Louth to Thomas W Bontoft and Florence Hewson.
I have been looking for the child of Jack and the housekeeper for ages, we went to Thimbleby and a stroke of luck met a lovely lady who knew the family and was able to tell me about Nelly and Michael. She thought Michael had married and gone to live at Bardney and was now deceased but this information I cannot confirm.
Has anyone any idea how I might find out anything about him?
Carol
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have you tried www.192.com?
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Thanks Pauline, tried that but it seems that the other Bontoft family who lived in Hemswell have now moved to Bardney!!!
I presume the Michael Bontoft I am looking for is deceased but I just cannot understand why I cannot find any record of him unless perhaps he used his mothers name Dawson because I do not think Jack and Nelly got married.
Carol
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Hi
I have found this birth
Michael J Bontoft
Mother Dawson
Oct Qtr 1946
Reg Horncastle Lincs
Vol 3b
Page 441
Margp
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Thanks Marj, just wish I could find marriage or death details for him.
Carol
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Possible marriage in 1973 Lincs Apr-Jun 3B 546
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Possible marriage in 1973 Lincs Apr-Jun 3B 546
That's the "other one", as noted by Cazza in first post.
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Hi Cazza
I have found a M J Bontoft in the British Book Records
1980,1982 and 1984
Windyridge Hemswell Hilltop
Margp
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Thanks again Marj but unfortunately this is also the other Michael, he lived in Hemswell until 2011 (I think!!) and then moved to Bardney.
I have found a Michael Bontoft and his family living in Silver Street, Bardney but I am fairly sure this is the other Michael who lives there now.
I am wondering if the lady I spoke to in Thimbleby has mixed up the family in some way because I think some of Jack's family with his wife Florrie-Herbert, Ernest, Wilfred or Gladys (the other daughter Kathleen died young) went to bardney.
Although this still does not explain why I cannot find Jack's son Michael somewhere!!
Carol
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Hi Cazza
Have you checked to see if Thomas W Bontoft and Jonathon Bontoft were related, Bontoft is not common name.
Margp
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Might it be that he died post 2005 and wouldn't appear in the online bmd records?
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Thank you all for your help. I think I had better cancel this search on this site just in case the Michael Bontoft I am looking for is alive.
Marj I will look into the possibility of them being related but better continue this search on my own.
Thank You.
Carol
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Surnames of England and Wales site shows 422 Bontofts in 2002. Having said this, and being well used to researching surnames of this frequency I believe that most Bontofts are in fact in Lincolnshire, so it would not be classed as an unusual name in Lincolnshire.
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Thanks to some amazing help from MargP we have found Michael J Bontoft.
His birth certificate told us that his father was indeed John Bontoft and his mother was Nellie Hall formerly Dawson, his birth details come up as both Hall and Bontoft but when he married he was Michael J Hall.
Sadly we found he has died in 1997 in lincoln as Michael J Hall.
His mother Nellie Dawson married Allan Hall in 1928 in Horncastle, he died in Horncastle in 1943.
Nellie died in 1956 and is buried at Thimbleby.
Thanks for all help given but especially to margP.
Carol