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Hello,

I'm stuck and would really appreciate some help.

I am looking for the birth or christening record for Eliza Green, my direct relation.  I have her marriage certificate from the GRO that shows her father as David Green and at the time of her marriage on February 25, 1862, she was living in Thrandeston and married in the Thrandeston Parish Church.  It shows Eliza as 18 years old, for a year of birth as 1844 which corresponds with what's reported on later census'.

I believe that her mother is Eliza Burrows, christened in Burgate on 20 Oct 1822, who  married David Green in  Oct Nov Dec quarter 1841, BMD index Hartismere district, volume 13, page 1005. 

Eliza had two older brothers, David b. 1842 and Charles 1843.  Christening records are on Family Search with mothers maiden name Burrows. The one for David just gives Suffolk as a location whereas on Charles, the christening location is Mellis. Next is Eliza whose record I'm searching for. After that there are two other children, Elijah and John.  The family is found in the census for 1851 for Mellis, Suffolk.

I can't seem to find any of the children in the GRO database.  I've tried under Green and Burrows, searching without a first name, searching as exact matches as well as the other options. They must be there! 

Searches on Freereg, Freebmd, and Ancestry haven't turned up anything. 

I'll work on it for a while then put everything away and then try again another month.  Nothing new turns up. 

Have I missed the record or a step?  Thanks for looking this over.  Marion



 

 

I'm very new to military matters and am having some trouble interpreting the information I find searching online. My great grandfather was a Royal Engineer. His dad was one, too, and I've located ggg's documents online describing his physical aspects, his discharge and pay.

I can't find similar records for gg online so would like to write away but to where? From what I see, searching here, I'd need to know the battalion and his soldier number? 

The 1881 census  shows he was at the School of Military Engineering in Gillingham, Kent. His 1886 marriage certificate says Royal Engineer. A document we have called a Warrant says that is appointing him to be a Warrant Officer in Her Majesty's Regular Forces from the 10th day of April 1897 ...and I've found a Soldier's Effects Registry document that relates to him and something called an Army Ardnance Corps that has his name and birthday but refers to Fathers Regiment so I'm not sure what it is. His death certificate (d 21 May 1917)  shows "Captain, Royal Engineers, D.O. Sheffield).  It doesn't seem that anything has his number on it.

There are numbers on some of the documents that I've tried putting into search engines but nothing turns up.  Should I copy the documents I have and send them somewhere with a search request or maybe there's something else to look up first?  Thank you for your time and thoughts. Marion