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London and Middlesex / COLLETTE - ideas for C20th record sets to search
« on: Wednesday 11 May 22 10:24 BST (UK)  »
I'm trying to trace an individual relative for whom I can't find a death record, or many other records at all. Everything I know so far is in London hence posting on this board. 

This person was born in 1923, so possibly (though most probably not) still living. As I haven't identified a death record I won't fully name the person here. Surname is COLLETTE and m.m.n. JOHNSON.

Does anyone have suggestions for possible London-specific record sets or archives (maybe not digitised) that I could look at?

Here's what I have so far in terms of confirmed records:
  • GRO birth cert. in Wandsworth Reg. Dist., Dec Qtr 1923, giving all the expected information. N.B. there is a mistranscription of the person's middle initial on FreeBMD;
  • Registration at school in 1927 (age 4), confirming parents' names, from the "London, England, Poor Law School District Registers, 1852-1918" image set on Ancestry;
  • London electoral registers 1946-1950 inclusive (aged about 23-27), for this individual at his mother's address.
Additional possible records, but not confirmed to be this individual:
  • A single index entry for an individual with the same name (correct spelling) showing his appointment as a postman in 1949 in the London Postal Region ("UK, Postal Service Appointment Books, 1737-1969" image set on Ancestry). No other details.
  • More electoral registers, for an individual with the same name (correct spelling), in the Fulham and Barons Court areas in the 1950s - early 1960s. Interestingly the most recent electoral register match I've found is from 1964, for the Rowton House on Hammersmith Road. This was an institution which provided basic accommodation for down-and-out or low-paid working men.
  • A number of possible marriage entries in England/Wales, though none have the correct spelling of this person's forename or surname, and some are certainly different individuals.
I can't find a death index entry in England/Wales, Scotland, Ireland or Northern Ireland.

I also can't spot this individual in the 1939 register when he would have been aged 15; it's possible his entry is still redacted of course. He's definitely not with either his father or [the entry for the person I believe to be] his mother.

Any pointers would be very greatly appreciated. I can provide more identifying info via DM if anyone fancies the challenge!

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England / GRO death index for 2019/2020
« on: Tuesday 01 February 22 18:46 GMT (UK)  »
Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere - but I've just noticed that the GRO for England and Wales have just updated their search index for deaths, for all of 2019 (at least some death entries from that year were previously missing), and for 2020.

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England / England to require ethnicity on death certificates to help tackle Covid-19
« on: Thursday 22 October 20 08:13 BST (UK)  »
On the Guardian news website today:

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"The government is to make the recording of ethnicity on death certificates in England mandatory in an effort to tackle the unequal impact of Covid-19 on people from minority erhnic groups."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/uk-to-require-ethnicity-on-birth-certificates-to-help-tackle-covid-19

I thought this was interesting. In (all?) other official records in the UK where ethnicity is recorded for an identifiable individual (e.g. very recent censuses; job application diversity monitoring), there are strict rules on how that data can be used and shared, and a person's "ethnic group, national identity and religion" are usually self-declared. I can't think of any other record in England and Wales which would be open to the public, and in which ethnicity would be assigned to the subject of the record by another person. Presumably this will be the informant, rather than the doctor certifying the death.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classificationsandstandards/measuringequality/ethnicgroupnationalidentityandreligion


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Lancashire / William Richardson, mariner, and family of Liverpool and Belfast
« on: Thursday 07 May 20 17:14 BST (UK)  »
I'm looking for any information about the following RICHARDSON family of Liverpool and Belfast, following the baptism of their youngest child in 1836. I'm particularly interested in anything I might find out about the origins and seafaring career of the father William Richardson.

William RICHARDSON, mariner, married Jane THOMPSON, 3 Oct 1827 at St Peter's, Liverpool. Both of that parish.

They had the following five children baptised at St Peter's in Liverpool:
  • John, baptised 23 Jul 1828, parents William, mariner, and Jane, of Sparling Street
  • Ann Jane, bapt. 2 May 1830, of New Bird Street
  • James Thompson, bapt. 22 Apr 1832, of Blundell Street
  • Hugh Thompson, bapt. 6 Jan 1835, of Jordan Street
  • Diana Thompson, bapt. 13 Dec 1836, of Jordan Street
Later on:

Ann Jane Richardson, daughter of William Richardson, seaman, married William DUFF, engine fitter, son of Kennedy Duff, block printer, on 14 Jun 1855 at St Anne's Church, Belfast.

The groom William Duff was born 31 Jan 1832, Belleville, New Jersey, USA, and died 25 Nov 1874 in Dublin.

One of the witnesses at their wedding was the bride's brother Hugh Richardson.

Ann is in the 1901 census of Ireland, living with two of her grandchildren and a boarder, at Greenmount Street, Belfast, aged 73, born Liverpool. She died 3 Apr 1910 at 6, Kathleen Street, Belfast.

N.B. several Ancestry trees seem to have Ann Jane Richardson as the daughter of a William Richardson from Wilkes, Georgia, USA. I don't know what evidence this is based on.

Hugh Thompson Richardson, shipwright, son of William Thompson Richardson, mariner, married Agnes LEMMON, daughter of William Lemmon, shipwright, on 11 Apr 1862 at Belfast.

Hugh was a witness at his sister's marriage, as above.

Hugh Thompson Richardson, shipwright, died 3 Feb 1892 at 31, Spencer Street, Belfast.

His death was reported in the Belfast Newsletter and seems to refer to his being the son of a "Capt. Wm Richardson" - however the digitised page image appears to be missing/cut off (from Ancestry and the British Newspaper Archive) and I haven't been able to read the full entry.

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Isle of Man / Researching Your Family History workshops at the Manx Museum
« on: Tuesday 19 February 19 15:35 GMT (UK)  »
Details of a free 90 minute workshop event running in Douglas on 2 April + 14 May 2019.

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"The Reading Room at the Manx Museum is a hub for people from all over the world tracing their Manx roots.

"The team are running a closed session for beginners to learn about the resources available there.

"After a brief talk there will be the chance to try some ‘hands on’ research.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researching-your-family-history-new-sessions-tickets-56483985120

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The Lighter Side / Oldest person found in a census?
« on: Tuesday 05 June 18 13:11 BST (UK)  »
This was previously discussed a decade ago. Who's the oldest person you can find in a census?

Discounting obvious transcription errors, I can find three people—two male and one female—in the 1911 census (England) who gave their ages as 105 (i.e. born abt 1806). No-one older than that.

I can see from FreeBMD that the two male centenarians died later in the census year, the female a year later in 1912 aged 106.

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The Common Room / Name for a child born to older parents long after its siblings
« on: Thursday 01 February 18 13:21 GMT (UK)  »
Is there a general term used in English for a sole last child in a family, born to older parents, long after its siblings were born? It seems to be a common phenomenon in large Victorian families, and you'd think there would be a name for it.

Google has thrown up terms in other languages - Afrikaans laat lammetjie ('late lamb'), Norwegian attpåklatt ('afterthought') - and, I'm guessing recent, American English slang caboose baby, but has anyone come across any other term?

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The Lighter Side / Boris Johnson's mummified seven-greats grandmother
« on: Thursday 25 January 18 11:16 GMT (UK)  »
BBC News - Boris Johnson 'is descendant' of mummified Basel woman http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42805485

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[...]This was compared, by scientists working independently from one another, with DNA taking from living descendants of the Bischoff family.

The results were clear, showing a 99.8% probability that the descendants and the mummy were all from the same maternal line.

Now the scientists and the historians were sure: the mummy was none other than Anna Catharina Bischoff. Born in Basel in 1719, she died there in 1787.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Completed Requests / MAWHOOD and COWLEY confusion, marriage Sheffield circa 1831-1842?
« on: Sunday 24 September 17 12:22 BST (UK)  »
Lucy COWLEY (b. abt 1831, Sheffield) married George Vauxhall in 1852 in Sheffield registration district (source: FreeBMD). The births of four of their children were registered under mother's maiden name Cowley, but one was registered with m.m.n. MAHOOD and one with MOULD (source: GRO Online Index. A seventh child was not registered).

When Lucy remarried in 1873 to William Swales, she gave her father's name as Samuel MOREWOOD (source: Findmypast, "Yorkshire Marriages").

In the 1891 and 1901 censuses, living with Lucy is a "niece", Pollie MAWHOOD (b. 1884 in Colne, Lancs). I believe Pollie is the daughter of Mary Ann Parkin and Samuel Mawhood (b. 1842, Sheffield, m. 1863) - and in turn that Samuel's parents were Samuel Mawhood and Ann Cowley (source: Findmypast, "Yorkshire Marriages"; GRO Online Index; 1861 and 1871 censuses).

My hypothesis is that Mahood/Mawhood/Morewood/Mould are all attempts to write down the same surname, and that Lucy Cowley and Samuel Mawhood, junior, were (half?-)siblings, i.e. that they named the same father at their respective marriages. (The two fathers' occupations don't quite tally but I suspect there is a mistake on Samuel, jr's marriage record, and that his father's occupation has been switched with the bride's father's.)

I can't seem to find any of these people on the 1841 or 1851 censuses.

Can anyone identify a marriage between Samuel Mawhood, senior, and Ann Cowley, before 1842, probably in Sheffield?...

...or help me to explain why Lucy sometimes used the surname Ma[w]hood/Morewood/Mould and sometimes Cowley? Was she the illegitimate daughter of Ann Cowley?

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