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Research in Other Countries => Other Countries => Topic started by: brigidmac on Tuesday 11 September 18 02:24 BST (UK)
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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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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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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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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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Doris Mattly had 2 brothers called William and Jimmy but I cant find them in GB either
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According to GRO Death Index, Martin Luther Hanley was born 23 October 1933. Free BMD.
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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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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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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