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Victor

Thank you so much for your peek at my grt g mother so much information I will endeavour to do some more digging maybe see if I can find a listing for her at the birth index and get a copy birth cert. 

She did marry a man called Harry White and went on to have several more children and Harry bought an older dau to the marriage as well. My grdad changed his name to White (his stepdads name) by deed poll in 1946 just before my mum was born.

My grandads copy birth cert lists the address they were
living at (I don't have it with me at mom... I'm at work)  when he was born and that she was a domestic servant and the informant which implies she lived alone. Is it an idea to ask someone to check parish records to see if anyone else was living at the same address.


I will definitely put something on the notice boards too!
Thanks again!

Heather

Dear Hackstaple

Thanks for your reply!

I must admit I have learnt something this week which puts a slant on what you have said, and I have had to think a bit before I replied to you!

My mum managed to track down one of her cousins (using GenesReunited) who still lives in the village my grandad lived in as a boy. She spoke to him on the weekend and this is what he recollects from family stories!

Their grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Miles-Parsonage.
Apparently she was the daughter of landed gentry from the Birmingham area, and there was a story about a servant involved too!
How much of this is true I can't say.

I don't know any more than that but when the birth certificate I have just ordered arrives if there is no father listed as looks likely from this and what you have said is the census from 1901 the best place to go to next, and how do I do that?

Looking forward to your reply.

Regards
Heather
 

Hi Kev

Thanks again for your help!

I have just had a look at the site and I want to double check it asks for a Volume no is that 11b and a pg no is that 78 ?

Sorry to be a pain but I don't want to make a mess of it as this is all new to me!

Heather
 

Please can any one help?
I have my grandads original birth certificate but only the left hand end!!!! It says from the Brecknock district the next bit begins D but not sure what rest says. He was born June 1904 and his birth was registered July same year. Grandad lived in Ynysddu in the Rhondda for many years and I have found family there but no one can help with this!! I would like to find out both his parents names. Any suggestions where to look !
Heather