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Does anyone know more about this person?
She was my First Cousin twice removed.
I know for certain that she was born on 16 July 1918 at 43 Barrows Road Aston. I have the Registration Certificate from Aston in Birmingham: Father Henry Ewart Holland Toolmaker; mother Sarah nee Geering. Birth is also on GRO Aston 1918 3Q 6d 559.
According to family recollections her mother Sarah was a Professional Mezzo Soprano Singer with the City of Birmingham Choir and it is said that Mary Ann Edith was also a professional opera? singer.
Mary Ann Edith's parents are well documented, but apart from her birth details I have found absolutely no information about their daughter Mary Ann Edith.
It is possible that she was with her parents when the 1939 Register was taken. The parents are at 43 Barrows Road with a son Ernest b 1924. One other person is not shown, possibly Mary as she is less than 100 years old.
Any further info would be gratefully appreciated.

I would be interested if anyone could fill gaps in, identify with, or correct this story of a chap who seemed to play fast & loose with his identity. His name was George Geering and he was my Great Great Uncle.
Briefly he appears to have abandoned his first wife, had a child by "Wife" no 2 and then skipped off to New York to illicitly marry a wife no 3 before taking up a quiet life in Weston Super Mare.
It has taken me some time to try to sort out his convoluted life and it goes on a bit, but here goes:

The early years. He was baptised in Birmingham on 1 July 1849 to Henry Geering and Harriet nee Hunt. His parents both originated from Westham/Pevensey in Sussex. The family was to run a major manufacturer of Brass Bedsteads and Safes in B'ham. In the 1851 and 61 Censuses the family including George were living in Birmingham with nothing untoward about the census data.

Wife No. One. On 28 Sept 1870 he married an Ellen Inchley at St Marks B'ham. George describes himself as a Lithographer, father Henry a Bedstead Manufacturer. Ellen had been baptised on 18 Jun 1848 in B'ham and in the 1851 & 61 Censuses is living with her parents Joseph and Ann.
The 1871 Census has George & Ellen Gerring living in Dudley St B'ham, George a Lithographer born in Warwickshire. Nothing amiss here.
In 1875 the Geering family's Apollo Safe Business goes bust in Birmingham (several reports in the London Gazette). Our George is described as a salesman for the company.

Wife No. Two The 1881 Census for Nelson Terrace, Stockton on Tees indicates that George is starting to go astray. He is listed as an Artist (Painter) born in 1851 in Pevensey Sussex with a wife Sarah Geering b 1851 in Cowbridge Glamorgan Wales.  No marriage Certificate found. Strange - what's happened to Ellen and although George's parents came from Pevensey he was born in Birmingham?
The 1891 census lists at Richmond Terrace Penkhull (Part of Stoke on Trent) a George Geering Widower, Lithographer b 1851 Pevensey. No sign of Sarah. There is a daughter Nelly age 9 born Stockton and a niece Elizabeth Jordan, dressmaker b Croydon 1864. I have a birth certificate for Nelly from Stockton born 29 Jan 1882. Father George Geering a Lithographer, mother Sarah Geering nee David.
That gave me a clue to finding out about Sarah. The 1851 & 1862 Censuses have a Sarah David born 1847 in Cowbridge. She also has a sister Elizabeth born 1839. The 1881 Census for Cowbridge lists an Elizabeth Jordan, widow, b 1840 Cowbridge together with her daughter Elizabeth b 1864 Croydon. The younger Eliz will be the one living with George in the 1891.
Sarah died on 5 April 1891 at Penkhull Stoke, death reported by "husband" George Geering a potter's artist.
So it appears that George abandoned first wife Ellen some time before the birth of Nellie by Sarah in Stockton in 1882. In the 1881 census Ellen is at Hickman Rd Aston B'ham as Ellen Greening married living with her widowed father Joseph Inchley and also her sister Emily Prime. She then disappears from the radar until the 1911 Census when she pops up as a licenced victualler running the Railway Station Tearooms at Abingdon Oxfordshire! I'm sure this is her, because the next year there is a probate record for an Ellen Inchley, died 23 Oct 1912 who left £180 to Emily Prime (her sister).
Part Two Follows

An Agnes Howison (or Howieson) who married (probably not formally) a John Crawford around 1800 was my Great great great Grandmother.
There has been some earlier correspondence on Agnes Howison, but none as far as I am aware covering this issue.
I have off Scotland's People good quality scans of Parish Records for the birth of Agnes Howison stated to be in Lanark Parish. Identical summaries are also on Family Search.

The first Parish Record is for 1778 and states: "Agnes. Lawful Daur. to John Howison and Mary Duncan Born 5th of December 1778"
There is no mention of any baptism. Some records on the same page for other (but not all) children also record a Baptism date.

There is another record on a later page of the Parish Records for Lanark in 1786:
"Agnes. Lawful Daur. to John Howison and Mary Duncan Born 12th and Baptised 16 January 1786"

At first sight it appears that the first Agnes died as a young child and a later child was again named Agnes.
Family Search lists John Howison and Mary Duncan as having nine children starting with a James b 2 Sep 1775. Both Agneses are listed and there are two Johns one born 1777 and another, presumably a 'replacement' b 1883. Interestingly all except the first Agnes are listed as having been baptised within a few days of birth.

So far so good. However I can find no later records of what happened to Agnes no 2 born 1786

What appears to be Agnes no 1 born 1778 is listed in the 1841 & 1851 Censuses
In 1841 at Reform Court Gorbals we have John Crawford b 1771 Lanarkshire with Agnes Howieson b 1781 Lanarkshire with three children
In 1851 at 24 Portugal Street Gorbals we have John Crawford a journeyman Tailor b 1770 Carmichael Lanarkshire with Agnes Crawford b 1778 Carnwath Lanarkshire.

Family Search lists John Crawford & Agnes as having 10 Children born in Pettinain including my Great great grandfather Andrew b 1806, confirmed by a Pettinain Parish Record from Scotland's People. Their first child John was born in Sept 1800. If his mother was Agnes no 1 she would have been about 22, if Agnes no 2 only 14 years old.

I wonder how accurate the Parish Records from Scotland's People are for the birth of Agneses 1 & 2. The records are stated to be for "Lanark" and appear to be from a later summary of original records.  The 1778 & 1786 pages are in a similar format and handwriting and are not in strict chronological order. For example children born in Oct 1778 are listed after others born in December. Also what is "Lanark Parish". Census and birth records for "my" Crawfords indicate that the family lived around Pettinain & Carnwath in Lanarkshire which are around Carstairs over 10km east of Lanark.

Anyone else got any similar questions about Scotland's People's "Lanark Records" for that period?

Any comments would be much appreciated
Waterside Jim

Does anyone know of, or have links to, my grandfather James McCready? I know quite a few facts about his life, but would love to know of any additional information or stories.
He was born the son of a James McCready & Mary Crawford on 1 Feb 1872 at Bridgeton Glasgow.
I have the 1881 (68 Doncaster St), 1891 (778 New City Rd), 1901(202 N Woodside Rd) and 1911 (9 Doncaster St) census returns.
He married my grandmother Agnes Chrystal Cochran on 10 June 1898 at Rollox Glasgow. They had my father James Buchanan Cochrane in 1899. After Agnes's death in 1923 he married Catherine Mitchell Sinclair on 5 April 1924 at Cathcart Glasgow. Around this time he was living in Dalmuir, then there is a big blank in his life.
He died on 18 Oct 1957 at 157 Shamrock St Glasgow.
I have certificates for all of these events and can let anyone with a close interest have copies. He seems to have spent his life as an Iron Turner and the 1911 Census says he worked at the well known Argyle Motor Works.
If anyone can help me paint a better picture of his life around this framework, I would be most grateful. Thanks

Herbert Henry Harbord Field b 1886 Birkenhead was most probably my wife's grandfather.
He was something of a Romeo and appears to have fathered at least two children by different women, neither of whom he married.
The 1911 Census has him living as a window cleaner at 106 Harrowby Road Tranmere, with his widowed mother Florence.
The first lady we know of was Amy Kathleen Howarth and she gave birth to Olga Gertrude Field-Howarth at Birkenhead in 1913.
The other was Annie Davies who gave birth to Herbert Harbord Davies (my wife's father) at Chester in 1917.
After that Herbert HH Field seems to have disappeared without trace. There was talk that he went to Australia or possibly N America but searches of shipping records etc have yielded nothing. Of course he may have changed his name.

Anyone out there who knows of this person, perhaps he fathered others we have yet to unearth?