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The Common Room / Elise Rivet (Algers 1890)
« on: Monday 30 August 21 07:43 BST (UK)  »
Sorry to blunder in but I'm really keen to work out if

Elise Rivet born Algers 1890 ( Mother superior St Elisabeth Lyon -1940) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lise_Rivet

Was related to Paul Rivet (Musée de l'homme resistance) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rivet

I don't have the time / know how to try and find out and all subscriptions to the various ancestry sites have expired.

I'd very much appreciate any help.

Thanks

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The Common Room / Lt Co John Dryden Mather / Denis Ainslie Mather / Patricia Mather (1920's 30's)
« on: Monday 16 November 20 08:56 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all

I'm trying to find out more about my adopted mother's origin and story. (She's 91)

I have reason to believe that the family of Lt Col John Dryden Mather (Wife Caroline, Son Denis Ainslie , Daughter Patricia) are aboslutely integral to finding out the last piece of a long a complex tale that I can't really go into..

My question is; how on earth can I find out if they have any living decendants?

I know where they lived in the late 1920's and early 1930's and I think Denis Ainslie Mather had children.

But that's all.

I don't know where else to ask..so thought I'd try here!

Thanks all. Any help will be much appreciated.

T

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The Common Room / 1939 Register general enquiry.
« on: Wednesday 25 July 18 08:00 BST (UK)  »
Hello All

I'm not a regular user of this board but the last time I tried, I was bowled over by generous response.

So here goes.

I'm searching the 1939 register for an individual. I've found their name, but see it's been 'crossed out' with green ink and altered (amended) with another name.
I know the person in question remarried some 15 years later. Could the 1939 register have been 'corrected' to reflect the new married name all those years later or would the correction have been a lot earlier (maybe a reversion to a maiden surname after a divorce in the period ~1939...or something?)
I can provide a link to the individual in question if needs be, but really it's just a general question regarding a 'correction' to see what this may signify.

Thanks in anticipation.


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Family History Beginners Board / Hi Everyone! I'm looking for my mother's birth mum. London adoption Early 30's.
« on: Tuesday 19 January 16 23:56 GMT (UK)  »
I'm stumbling around a bit as a newby so apologies if I manage to breach board etiquette or annoy anyone with my opening post.


We've hit a brick wall. My mother was adopted through one of those voluntary charity institutions in London back in 1934. We've managed to get the name and age of her birth mother via her birth certificate and adoption certificate and a hospital record extracted from the London Metropolitan Archives. The adoption case records are unavailable (ie protected).

My problem is, despite checking for a great many hours on the various online resources, including both Ancestry and FindMyPast and all the other major ones there's not a single match (seemingly anywhere on the planet) even allowing for spelling mistakes and some considerable leeway on the birth year etc. Nothing, ziltch, nada.

The only promising lead is a person with the same name in a possibly linked geographic location but with a birth date some thirteen years out! What's more that is just name and a birth year from a household on the 1939 register with no birth/ marriage/death record to follow up.

My questions would be.

1) Is it possible that the hospital records could have been mistaken/ falsified (by getting the birth date 13 years out). The LMA are absolutely adamant that the entry is clear.

2)Presumably there are mountains of records that aren't yet available online and we'll have to plunder all records offices across the SE....or is that it?

Any help at all would very gratefully recieved. My mother isn't getting any younger and I'd really like to help get some closure on the doubts and worries that have plagued her entire life.

Please...anyone? Thanks.






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