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G'day folks.

Hope someone out there may be able to help. I am seraching for a few things of the above named. Alexander is my 5th Great Grandfather. He married a Mary SHORT in 1745 in Beath Fife. I have their children all born in Beath.

George Lessells
1747 – 1819

Elizabeth Lessells
1749 –

John Lessells
1752 –

Isobel Lessells
1754 –

Cecilia Lessells
1757 –

I cannot find the death of Alexander nor his wife Mary. I do not know who is parents are however I believe Mary's father was William SHORT. I suspect they both may have passed in Beath as that is where their children were born but that is a guess.

Many thanks in advance
Tern 

I hope someone can please help to find where my maternal GGG Grandfather is buried.

I am on a bit of a emotional roller coaster ride at present. I have been searching for years (along with my cousins) to find the death date and place of my maternal GGG Grandfather. I found online last night some transcribed memoirs on the Thorpe Norwich site, written by my GG Grandfather Jesse BALDWIN which I never knew existed. I am endeavoring to find out who the person was that transcribed the letter as I would say they are a direct relative of mine. In  this partially transcribed letter, it states where and when his father died.

George BALDWIN was killed on Jan 5 1854 in a horrific train smash in Thetford. He was a stoker on one of the trains that collided with another. I have now read many articles about the accident in newspapers from the time along with the rather graphic detail of his death, inquest etc.

At the time of Georges death, Jesse writes his father was working Eastern Counties railway - now altered to the Great Eastern Railway. Further into the memoir he says he was living in at 12 Railway cottage Thorpe Hamlet.

Jesse writes that his father was brought home in a coffin, so I know that after the accident he was brought home to "Theoulds Buildings near Foundry Bridge, Norwich at the house next to the river in the first row"

However, my quandary is I cannot find where George BALDWIN is buried.

George BALDWIN
Birth 19 July 1812 in Westminster St Margaret, England.
Death 7 Jan 1854 Thetford Norfolk, Vol: 4b, page 277.

Wife of George
Sarah Ann Ellis

Birth 26 Sept 1813 in Middlesex England
Death Apr 1896 in Norfolk, England.

Son and my GG Grandfather:

Jesse BALDWIN

Birth 7 November 1849 in 16 Spring Place, South Lambeth England
Death Apr 1919 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.
 
Any information on George would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards
Tern

Folks some much needed assistance required please.

The person listed on the bottom of this cert is who I believe to be my GGG Grandfather - Alexander Malcolm. Alas, the writing on this cert is horrid not to mention the huge smudge sitting over the last two columns which conceal key information i.e. marriages and children.

If anyone can decipher I would be extremely grateful.

Kind regards
Tern

G'day

I have pulled the last tuft of hair (ouch) from my head trying to find Thomas GEEN. This gent is my GGGG Grandfather. I am suggesting that Thomas GEEN was born around 1790 - 1795.

Thomas married  (I think he did) Sarah COATES. Sarah was born in Ilfracombe Devon and one could make the assumption ( I know I'm silly to say it) about the same time as Thomas. It states that these two people are the parents of Rachel GEEN on her death cert.  Rachel is my GGG Grandmother and was born in 1822 in Ilfracombe, Devon. She married Charles LEWIS (Ironmonger) who came from Swansea Wales. I do not know if Rachel is the first born, last or in the middle as I cannot find any siblings.

I guess if all else fails, I get Rachel's birth certificate, however I cannot find her birth registered anywhere, and that's the tricky bit. The earliest thing I can find on her is her marriage to Charles (18 March 1848 in Swansea) and then in a 1851 census where she married and living with Charles and has one young daughter Mary.

If anyone can help with this search, it would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards 
Tern

I am searching for Robert CLARKE after 1901. I have his birth in 1856 in Norwich Norfolk.  He married my great grand Aunt, Edith Priscillia POINTER. She was born in 1855 in Sprowston, Norfolk and died April 1906 in Norfolk.

They had the following children:

Edith Clarke (1880-)
Robert Clarke (1882-)
Flora Clarke (1887-)
William Clarke (1889-)
John Henry Clarke (1891-) 
Albert Clarke (1893 -)

I cannot find Robert CLARKE or any of the children after the 1901 census. I am wondering if they might have migrated to another country 

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Kind regards
Terngirl