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Family History Beginners Board / Re: princess Alice orphanage in birmingham
« on: Tuesday 04 April 17 13:05 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all so much. I had found a Lillian skidmore in the orphanage in Bristol and hopes that was one of his sister's. This information is going to help me loads I am so grateful.  :) xx

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: princess Alice orphanage in birmingham
« on: Wednesday 29 March 17 21:14 BST (UK)  »
Thanks I will do x

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: princess Alice orphanage in birmingham
« on: Wednesday 29 March 17 16:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi joney
Yes I am trying a website from national archives. Thank you

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Family History Beginners Board / princess Alice orphanage in birmingham
« on: Wednesday 29 March 17 16:41 BST (UK)  »
Hi am very interested in finding more information about my maternal grandfather Alfred Bertram skidmore born 1907. He was put into the orphanage at the age of 3 or 4 after his father had passed away. He went with at least another sibling possibly Lillian. Mum then remarried and took other sibling out but left my grandfather there. Not sure where to start my search. Any help would be appreciated thanks xx

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Warwickshire / Re: Selena May Hopkins (nee) Baker (known as Lena)
« on: Friday 02 August 13 16:57 BST (UK)  »
Thanks that's brilliant.  Especially as you found Ernest the older son.  I often wondered who Ern was on the old birthday cards that belonged to my dad.  I knew she had a son George from her husband Ernest Thornton.  Never found Ernest.  To be honest no one mentioned him that's still alive.  So that's a puzzle solved.  My fathers family tree is quite difficult because he was Donald Jones so that in itself was hard.  Had a limited amount of details.  Susannah Baker I knew as Granny Baker but she died in 1967 so I haven't much memory of her.  She was my Grandmothers Step Mum.  Lena (Selena May) tied them altogether.  Be good if I could find out more about Aunt Lena.  Cheers though a lot of info there I didn't know x

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Warwickshire / Re: Selena May Hopkins (nee) Baker (known as Lena)
« on: Friday 02 August 13 07:49 BST (UK)  »
Hi, yes trying to find out more about her and ancestry too.  Her mothers name was Susannah Selina Baker.  She married my Great Grandfather James Baker in 1919.  Her maiden name was Phillips.  She was a widow Susannah Thornton when she married James with a son George Thornton.  Her previous husband was killed in action WW1.  They had Lena in 1920.  That's all I know apart from she married a David Hopkins and possibly had 2 or 3 daughters.  My Dad had some birthday cards from Aunty Lena in his belongings when he passed away in 1991.  His name was Donald Albert Jones.  My Grandmother was Ivy Jane Baker who was James Baker's daughter from his first marriage to Elizabeth Greenhall.  So any information would be helpful.  Thanks x

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Warwickshire / Selena May Hopkins (nee) Baker (known as Lena)
« on: Thursday 01 August 13 20:07 BST (UK)  »
Am trying to find any information about My fathers Aunty Lena who sadly passed away in 1990 aged 70.  She was married to David Hopkins and I believe she had 2 or 3 daughters.  They lived in Erdington Birmingham.  She was my Grandmothers half sister Ivy Jane Jones (nee Baker).  Her mother was Susannah Selena Baker (nee Thornton).  Have managed to trace her marriage, birth and death and possible offspring. 

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Clare / Jeremiah Green, Landowner in Kilbaha in the early 1900's
« on: Thursday 01 August 13 19:59 BST (UK)  »
Am looking into the family history of some close friends.  Their mother comes from County Clare she was born in 1927 and is from a big family.  Her Mother and father had a farm in Doonaha think it was named Haugh Farm (that was the families name).  Her maternal grandparents were Jeremiah Green and wife Mary?  Her parents were Margaret Green and William Haugh.  The lady I am talking about has dementia so we are trying to find more out from her history to talk to her about it.  As far as they know Jeremiah Green must have been a landowner and think that he would buy strips of land off tenants who couldn't pay their rent etc.  Would love any history of the area's in County Clare from the 1920's to end of 1940's.  Have tried the usual sites but no look.  Also a family member had been researching but came up against a brick wall.

I am also after more information about my Great Great Great Grandmother Catherine Govers Irwin who came from Dublin in the mid 1800's.  She married an Edwin Baker and settled in Birmingham.

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Australia / Re: Cremation/Burial Records for Lois May COULSON
« on: Saturday 27 July 13 16:29 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Judith, I managed to find out when Lois May Coulson passed away through my Aunt and know where she is cremated too.  Lovely that some family have posted on here.  Hope to get more information now.

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