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Cheshire / Re: St Mary's Churchyard, Birkenhead - Reburial Records
« on: Thursday 25 January 18 19:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Girl Guide, yes I thought I would go back to Wirral Archives and see what I can find.
The reinternment was a big deal in the area at the time as the remains of 5,500 people were involved. They are all reinterned in a specific St Mary's area of Landican. The records that were shown to me at Landican do look VERY basic so I'm not too optimistic. Searching the web regarding the basics of the reinternment leads to think that as the remains were recovered they were placed in a new coffin in plot order and reburied the same way, so that is the route I am taking and will look as to whom was buried with whom and try and solve the problem that way!.

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Cheshire / St Mary's Churchyard, Birkenhead - Reburial Records
« on: Thursday 25 January 18 14:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hi , Can any one help?.
There was a family ancestor buried in St Mary's Churchyard, Birkenhead in 1916. In, approximately, 1957 the churchyard was sold to Cammell Lairds, Shipbuilders for the building of a dry dock. The remains (some 5,500 people, were reinterred in Landican Cemetery. Wirral Archives confirm the the person concerned, Hilda Humphreys (age 1) was indeed reinterred at Landican. At a visit to Landican today they say they have no record of the person as they only have a record of the first person buried in each grave. I think that there must be a record of who is buried where, can anyone point me in the right direction to look

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Derrick Humphreys
« on: Thursday 29 December 16 20:29 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much for this information, it will almost certainly resolve what has been a mystery within the family for many years. I will order the necessary certificates to, hopefully, prove the situation once and for all. Your help is very much appreciated!!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Derrick Humphreys
« on: Thursday 29 December 16 19:27 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all for your help with this it has certainly opened a few more lines of enquiry!

I totally missed the Harvey Brookfield connection and went the wrong direction onto John W Hockenhull as listed on the marriage register for Maud Elizabeth, I didn't realise that a witness would be recorded together with the bride & groom on the register, confusing!!.

The Brookfield/McLennan scenario is interesting and I will look into this further.

I would like to take up your kind offer to look in the GRO for adopted children if you don't mind, thank you!.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Derrick Humphreys
« on: Wednesday 28 December 16 22:59 GMT (UK)  »
Mothers forename was Martha Jane.

I don't know of a 1939 register, what is this please?

Yes, the couple that you are referring are Joseph and Martha Jane, married in 1901. I agree that it seems unlikely that they would have a child in 1929. This is the reason that I suspect that the child was not theirs but came from somewhere within the family. There were two other children Ann Jane b1904 and Thomas Cecil b1909. Whether either of these two had an illegitimate child is a possibility I suppose.The child born 1919 is my father. 

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Derrick Humphreys
« on: Wednesday 28 December 16 21:38 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, Maiden name was Sherlock b1881 d1957.

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Family History Beginners Board / Derrick Humphreys
« on: Wednesday 28 December 16 21:31 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone please help!! As a newbie I'm struggling to locate a birth registration for my fathers younger brother. The family have always appeared to have lived in Birkenhead.  In Ancestry it is recorded on his death record as 5/8/1929 but when I look for the birth record ten years either side of this date it is not evident. I suspect that a name change has taken place for whatever reason but I am at a loss to know where to look to locate his true surname if it has changed. I have changed the spelling of both surname and christian name and searched with just one or the other but all to no avail. Many thanks!.

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