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Hi I'm looking into my family tree and trying to find info on William smith from derby think he was a dentist practitioner not sure of age dob ect maybe had 2 sons if any body could help at all with anymore info
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Hello
It would help if you could give more information as you haven't given us much to go on.
Some dates would help.
Jackie
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The 1939 Register comes up with three who are dentists. Whether any of them are the one you are looking for........ ???
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Hi I'm looking into my family tree and trying to find info on William smith from derby think he was a dentist practitioner not sure of age dob ect maybe had 2 sons if any body could help at all with anymore info
Any particular Millennium??
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Hi i no I've not to much to go on its a bit of a tricky one it's my grandnas birth father that's the only details we have he was an older man who we gather was married at the time he was promising my great grandma everything and had got my nanna pregnant she was totally in love with him at the time obv back in this day it was not spoken of. When he found out my nanna was having his baby he was not interested and dudnt see her again. Her father forbid it she married and my great grandad adopted my grandma and brought her up so not much to go on myself my nanna was nora foxcroft she married John laverick layfield grandma being born originally as Anne Margaret layfield known as Margaret layfield she married my grandad Keith hadaway tia
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Also 1939 cud maybe be around that sort of time my grandma was born u think I'm 1944 28th April thanks aporeciate any insite
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I'm getting a tad muddled here. You have four names:-
Nora Foxcroft, John Laverick Layfield, Anne Margaret Layfield and Keith Hadaway.
When were the above people born and are any of them still alive? If still alive you should remove their names as Rootschat has a no living persons policy. This is to prevent anyone being spammed etc.
What was their relationship to each other?
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Hello
Is this the marriage you are referring to:
Nora Foxcroft and John L Layfield in 1955, Staincliffe, Yorkshire (taken from familysearch)?
Jackie
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http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=660492.msg6393015#msg6393015
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Sorry slightly confusing I didn't realise of the policy my nanna great grandma was nora has passed and was married to John laverick layfield also passed he adopted my grandma Anne Margaret or Margaret she's known as to us as hos own. it's her actual birth father were trying to find some info on who s name is William smith my nanna didn't speak of him or what happened really so we've not alot info about him apart from name area derby and think he had two sons and was dentist practitioner.
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... but you must have some idea of the dates involved?
When / where was the child you speak of born?
Approximately how much older was the mystery dentist?
Approximately where did the mother of the child live at the time?
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... but you must have some idea of the dates involved?
When / where was the child you speak of born?
Approximately how much older was the mystery dentist?
Approximately where did the mother of the child live at the time?
Also 1939 cud maybe be around that sort of time my grandma was born u think I'm 1944 28th April thanks aporeciate any insite
It's looks like child (gran) was born in Skipton and registered under mothers maiden name. (Free BMD relevant quarter) If the dentist was from Derby, was gt gran living away from home, but came back to Yorkshire for the birth? Or is it possible that Yorkshire is where the dentist worked, but may have been from Derby originally?
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I am going to summarise here what I think you are looking for
Your great grandmother - Nora Foxcroft had a relationship with a married man in 1943 - William Smith, who was a dentist from Derby.
William had 2 sons to his wife
Nora, then got pregnant with your grandmother - Anne Margaret - who was born in Q2 1944. (And registered as Margaret Ann Foxcroft.
She never seen of heard from William after she discovered she was pregnant.
Nora Foxcroft later married John Laverick Layfield (in 1955 going by previous posts).
Nora was born in 1920 and you think William was older, so therefore born before 1920.
You are looking for William Smith
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"Re: 1861/71 Census Look-Up, Please - Laverick - Hetton-le-Hole/Shotton?
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 20 December 17 01:52 GMT (UK) »
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I'm not connected to this family in anyway, Jade Hadaway, but reading this thread I see from your posts that you are having trouble finding your nanna Nora Layfield, nee Foxcroft.
Nora appears to have been 11/12 years older than husband John Laverick Layfield (married 1955).
Nora Foxcroft's birth was registered in Dec.qtr.1920 Skipton - mothers maiden name Crabtree.
Nora Layfield bc.1921 died 28/10/2007 Barnoldswick - this ties in with the birth entry.
However, you might want to get Nora and John's marriage certificate to confirm the name of her father as there were 2 couples named Foxcroft/Crabtree marrying in Skipton just 3 years apart!
Harry Armistead Foxcroft married a Polly Crabtree 1916 - there is 1 public tree on Ancestry which shows Nora was their child
however
Irving Foxcroft married a Sarah Crabtree 1919 - there are 3 trees on Ancestry which show that Nora was their child!! I would lean towards this being correct as they have a full birthdate for Nora and show that she'd married and had a daughter (although no details of them given). Nora's birthdate 19/11/1920 and trees confirm she died 2007.
Hope this helps you.
Annette"
From the link I gave above.
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Have found 2 Williams who were dental mechanics - one was a William b.4/7/1911 living in Skipton (where the child was born), the other a William E. born 30/10/1910 living in Repton, Derbyshire.
However, both men were still single at the start of WW2.
Annette
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Hi yes that's correct nora and Irvine and Sarah was her parents the summary is correct also date of birth and death for Nora are correct also I think my nanna may of been working in the army on switch boards at the time of meeting William smith but not sure we're and was how she first met him and met up with him also after this weva he came down to Yorkshire after maybe I'm not sure but all this sounds correct Margaret birth was 28th April 1944 nanna Nora was 19th nov thank u