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The Common Room / Re: Missing birth records
« on: Sunday 06 January 19 20:34 GMT (UK) »
Just want to clarify/add in case anyone goes off down a rabbit hole....
...DNA tests match as a cousin with a guy living in Canada, whose grandmother was Gladys Boyes. Her sister was Nellie and this has been confirmed verbally from another cousin/aunt.
My dad also recollects both Nellie and Gladys being mentioned when he was small.
Based on other records, Smethwick and Kings Norton in particular seem to be the main area the family lived.
Our Ancestry tree has a suggestion (not proven) that Thomas Stokes' mother could be Ellen Jane Deakin born c1861 which may be where this info is coming from.
...DNA tests match as a cousin with a guy living in Canada, whose grandmother was Gladys Boyes. Her sister was Nellie and this has been confirmed verbally from another cousin/aunt.
My dad also recollects both Nellie and Gladys being mentioned when he was small.
Based on other records, Smethwick and Kings Norton in particular seem to be the main area the family lived.
Our Ancestry tree has a suggestion (not proven) that Thomas Stokes' mother could be Ellen Jane Deakin born c1861 which may be where this info is coming from.