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Hi Carole,

I'm sorry - that's the problem - we don't know - just that he was born there.  However, I do know he was an Anglican.  At his marriage he gave his father's name as William - but for various reasons I suspect that he may have never known his father.

I was rather hoping that Lancashire had something similar to the resource we have for Sussex which lets me search on as little information as that!  When I was looking at a map I was thinking it was probably Christ Church. 

It's looking like a trip up north to spend some time trawling through registers might be in order!

Thanks for replying,

Liz   

Hi,

Thank you both, and thank you for cleaning it up a bit.  Much appreciated!  We were thinking later rather than earlier as the child is wearing a similar dress to ones my mother wore post WWII!  My initial reaction was that he was about 70 though so that fits.

 

Liz

Hi,

Martha was buried on 11th May 1843 at St Mary's Rye.  She was 55.

There were loads of Harvey families in Rye at the time all involved in the shipping industry in some way!

Liz

PS  I'll keep looking for Abraham Isaac - his brother Lester Stephen died in Rye and was buried 6 Mar 1869.

Hi,

I had this problem, looking for a 'Morgan' child who I knew to have been born and died in London or Fakenham. 

I started by using the dates of birth of the other known children to work out when another child might possibly have been born and this narrowed it down quite a bit.  I then went through the indexes and found all those children born in the relevant registration districts.  There weren't as many as I expected but it did take a long time!

I then crossed off any that had names that were already in use by a living child who had been born BEFORE them.  With the list that was left some seemed more likely than others - for example - do the family have 3 Christian names?  Do they use bibllical names?  You may find one jumps out at you!  But, it is very tedious!

Good luck!

Liz

Hi,

Sorry, I agree - definitely not South Africa - or for that matter any of the southern African coastal areas.  The only place I could think of that I remember have buildings even remotely like that was Swakopmund in Namibia - but it still looks African! 

My first thoughts were Brighton as those buildings look very familiar - I've messaged my mother and asked her to have a look - she gre up along there.  I thought a stick of rock ... I wonder how people carried recorders round in the 1940s?

Liz