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Family History Beginners Board / Re: False Details on Birth Certificate?
« on: Sunday 03 December 23 11:37 GMT (UK)  »
Have you got the actual birth certificate?  Or are you just going from freebmd? as they record the mothers maiden name as the mothers surname if the father is unnamed, whereas if you get the actual certificate it has a line through that section (gro show it as blank)

However if she claimed to be married and gave a name I don't think they asked for proof

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The Common Room / Re: 1939 register
« on: Saturday 02 December 23 11:22 GMT (UK)  »
The Irony is that the individual whom I'm interested in is redacted, born 1923 died 2007. His brother, living in a different
household born 1928 and is still alive Is unredacted. Shows that errors are made.

Same as me, my grandmother is redacted and died 2014, her younger brother is also redacted (died 2017), two of her sisters are unredacted - both died after her - in fact one has always been visible since the release date and she died this summer

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Nope no way near

If anything my family tend more the other way - my four children all attended their great, great grandmothers (on their father's side) 100th birthday (she was 86 when my eldest was born) and even she was born in the last century

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The Common Room / Re: Infant deaths - include or exclude?
« on: Friday 08 September 23 19:29 BST (UK)  »
If I know about them of course they go on there

Recently at my greataunts funeral she was described as the youngest of 5 children, the eldest died prior to any of the other 4 being born, all of that family knew him as their eldest brother, despite never meeting him (he died at 2 months old - from jaundice)

My grandmother was going to call her eldest after him - until he was born requiring surgery and there was a real change he may not survive, and she felt that it was tempting fate to call him after his uncle who died as a baby

My nephew was stillborn, he's on my tree

Saddest I found though was my dad's greatgrandparents who had 11 children, only three of them reached their 2nd birthday, my greatgrandmother was the eldest of the children (and I assume was the one who brought up the youngest as her mother died in childbirth - she was 15, he died aged 18 months) - 2 of her own children died as babies.   When I told my dad he said that was probably why she always kept herself detached from any babies in the family until they got to about 5 - she died the same month as her grandson died at a month old 

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The Common Room / Re: birth registration - parents pretending to be married
« on: Sunday 02 July 23 11:43 BST (UK)  »
Could lie now, I was never asked for proof of marriage when registering my kids (they did ask for date of marriage but you could make that up)

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Lancashire / Re: Brick Wall - help please
« on: Wednesday 28 June 23 22:57 BST (UK)  »
I'm a  bit confused

I can find a William Tiday (or similar) married to an Isabella and living in the Leicester area - but she's much older than your Isabella: born Manchester c1825

also she's still alive in 1911 - although indexed as Bella

and they were together in 1861

Are you sure you have the right people?

That Bella is my great great grandmother - William's father is also William and his Mother is Isabella (nee Jones)   - my grandmother was also Isabella - known as Bella

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Lancashire / Brick Wall - help please
« on: Sunday 25 June 23 19:05 BST (UK)  »
Trying to track down a bit of a side line on my family tree and wondered if anyone could help

This is my great grandfather's first wife

Isabella Catherine Constantine was born 4th March 1849 in Stockport to James Constantine and Esther
Found her in the 1851 census
Both parents died in the next decade (1856 and 1858) and by 1861 she's living with her grandparents, still in Stockport

20 Dec 1868 she married Richard Bowker in Manchester

I then can't find her until she married by greatgrandfather on 23 Dec 1882 in Nuneaton (William Tiday) - she is listed as Isabella Bowker, a widow daughter of James Constantine - so while Nuneaton is a really random place for them to be (though he did spend 16 years in the Army so maybe that explains it)

Then dies in Ashton Under Lyne in 1904

She may be a servant in Stockport in 1881 as Isabella Bowker the age is out and says she's unmarried and born manchester

I can't find a death for Richard Bowker or where they both were, any help appreciated

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The Common Room / Re: Born on February 29 on a Non-Leap Year Frederick Meller (Möller)
« on: Tuesday 15 November 22 22:00 GMT (UK)  »
Someone having a brain fart most likely - was told he was born the last day of Feb and they wrote 29th

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: How much did folk move between villages in 1700s
« on: Tuesday 25 October 22 20:37 BST (UK)  »
My 4 times great grandparents lived 25 miles from each other (in late 1700s early 1800s)

Married in the middle (ish), then 6 years after marriage moved to Calais, husband died there 7 years later so the wife moved back so while some stayed put several others moved


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