If it isn't like finding a needle in a haystack with a surname like Smith! I seem to have ancesters that seem to like to change their christian names too
Please could some one tell me if they think that the people I have found are the right people. Or give me some idea on another way of confirming one way or the other.
My grandfather William Thomas Smith was born on 10th Oct 1911 at 15 Vicarage Road, Lye, Worcestershire. I have his birth certificate, which states his mother and father as James & Elizabeth Smith nee Thomas. On my Grandad's marriage certificate it states him as being James Richard Smith. This is Ok I think, but when trying to look for a marriage between an Elizabeth Thomas and a James Richard Smith in the Worcestershire area, is near on impossible. I have been struggling with these two for some many years now. They are really infuriating me!!! So I got really excited when the arrival of the 1911 census came about. Being as my grandfather was born it the same year, I thought it would be so easy just looking for the address, which I did. I realised my grandfather wouldn't appear on it as he was born later in the year, but I was most put out to find that a Thomas & Eliza Smith live at this address and not James and Elizabeth. I do have other brother and sister's names to go on, but they are pretty vague, info given to me by my dad, who didn't really have alot to do with his fathers side of the family, as his dad had moved to kent to marry and set up home. the other names that appear on the 1911 census are William, Sarah, Beatrice and Elsie. Seems strange to have 2 sons called william, if these are the family I'm looking for, but I was told that his brothers and sisters were Gladys, Arthur, Dempsey, Jean and a Beatty - which could be Beatrice. I would be interested to know if anyone would go with this family on the hunch that they have the right surname, they're in the right house and there is a Beatrice? Any help would be gratefully recieved.
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