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Gloucestershire / Re: Hawkesbury website
« on: Friday 13 February 15 21:45 GMT (UK)  »
Ashley - don't know whether you are still looking for the Wimbow/Wimboles in Hawkesbury but Gloucestershire parish records have just gone online with Ancestry.  If you don't have a subscription, I do and would be happy to look anything up for you. 

They have the following, although apparently there is some doubt as to whether all parishes are covered:
Gloucestershire baptisms 1813-1913
Gloucestershire confirmations 1834-1913
Gloucestershire marriages 1754-1938
Gloucestershire burials 1813-1988
Baptisms marriages and burials 1538-1813

Lisa

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Gloucestershire / Re: Gloucestershire Parish Registers are on Ancestry
« on: Thursday 12 February 15 18:17 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: BumbleB on Thursday 12 February 15 17:57 GMT (UK)
You never know, perhaps the marriage certificate issued to the couple may contain the details.  Purchase of the certificate may confirm or deny this.  Remember this is the copy retained by the church - and at least you have original signatures (well, at least for Eliza)!!!! 

If you look through marriage records for this parish, exactly the same happens for a number of years.

I have the marriage cert from the GRO which is a copy of the parish register - is it possible to obtain a copy of that given to the couple, and where from?
Thanks
Lisa

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Gloucestershire / Re: Gloucestershire Parish Registers are on Ancestry
« on: Thursday 12 February 15 17:41 GMT (UK)  »
I did reasonably well but I think there must have been a lazy parish clerk in service when my James Woodman married the mysterious Eliza Mathews at Old Sodbury in 1841 as both of them have a line drawn through the box where their fathers names should be - as did the entry above theirs. Oh well.

1111
Gloucestershire / Re: Mortimer House, Clifton, Bristol
« on: Monday 09 February 15 19:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hi John_G
Thank you, that's set mine and husbands minds at rest.  Much appreciated.

Regards
Lisa

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Dublin / Re: Seeking Descendants of Lewis D R Huggard bTyrone
« on: Monday 02 February 15 17:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Darina
If you make one more post you'll be able to use the PM facility

Best wishes
Lisa

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Gloucestershire / Re: Mortimer House, Clifton, Bristol
« on: Wednesday 21 January 15 19:53 GMT (UK)  »
It went up for sale as "the shell of Mortimer House, with full listed building consent", so perhaps not converted at that point. Plus five townhouses in the grounds. You'd probably need a fair few quid!

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Gloucestershire / Re: Mortimer House, Clifton, Bristol
« on: Wednesday 21 January 15 19:11 GMT (UK)  »
Apologies, I didn't mean to cause any offence.

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Gloucestershire / Mortimer House, Clifton, Bristol
« on: Wednesday 21 January 15 17:57 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know anything of Mortimer House, in Clifton, Bristol?

I've seen it variously described as a hospital, maternity hospital or mother and baby home, but there doesn't seem to be much information on the WWW about it, other than recent newspaper reports about squatters moving in.

My husband was born there in the early 1960s, his mum was 17 and Irish Catholic, and unmarried, so am thinking it may been ones of those places for "girls who'd got into trouble." Certainly the intention was that he would be adopted, but this didn't happen and he was brought up by a relative.

I think the records will be kept at Bristol archives, just wondered if anyone on here knew of the place?

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The Lighter Side / Re: How many years have you been searching for any one person?
« on: Tuesday 20 January 15 18:33 GMT (UK)  »
10 years looking for Ann Woodman, whose illegitimate son George was baptised in 1785 in Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire, but with nothing to go on but a name, I'm probably not going to find her.

George went on to marry and have at least 2 sons (there's possibly a third, and others), George and James Martin. When George junior marries he gives his name as George Martin Woodman, son of George Martin Woodman. I did wonder if that might have been a clue to the elder George's father, but so far no sign of a marriage between Ann and a Mr Martin.

And about the same length of time looking for James' wife Eliza (nee Mathews). Fathers name left blank on the marriage certificate (James fathers details were also missing for some reason). Birthplace given on the census variously as Purton Wiltshire (possibly Porton, Wilts), Not Known and Wapley and Codrington, Glos. The 1841 census was taken after James and Eliza married, so she's not the one with father Isaac in Purton. I'm probably more likely to track down Eliza than Ann, but they are a struggle.

Thanks for listening!

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