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I like the format of working from behind it keeps you moving in the right direction if I had not watched WDYTYA I would not be it the right family.
I have a great-grandmother in 1891 Census,Mary Jane b. Ardwick (that is it) no nee name.All census taken 1871-81-91- are the same(no added info except the birth of each child.
So I start looking for marriage info, two years prior to the birth of her 1st.born.
Mary Jane and my great-grandfather in Manchester.
I find the registration which give me her nee name,then I find the marriage at the Cathedral it confims she is Mary Jane b. Ardwick and it gives the name of her Father,how hard can it be to find birth reg.
I can not find my 2nd great-grandfather in census of Ardwick 1861-51-41.
So I go back to 1861 census looking for Mary Jane now I have her nee name.
There she is living with her Uncle and Aunt,she is identified as their niece, she must be the niece of the wife ,her name is different from the head of household,but I am sure this is her,in the 1891 census her last child bears the name of the Uncle.
So now I am searching the marriage of he Aunt and Uncle,lo and behold I find the marriage reg.and the name of her Aunt is her nee also,born in Ardwick.
Now I find the Aunt and Uncle in 1851 census,but the lower half is decayed.
Aunt and Uncle are in 1841 census of Ardwick,below them my 2nd greatgrand parents with my 2nd great grandfathers name is a transcribed in error. Mary Jane is 3mo.old.
I never would have found them had I not found the Aunt and Uncle 1st.

I do their first son was Henry,he was born in 1859 baptized at the Anglican Cathedrale(Church of The Holy Trinity) Quebec City.Henry married Grace West of Ste.Foy in 1881.They moved to Montreal,Que. with family of 7 children in 1894, they had another son born in 1897.

2nd son William born in 1860,Baptized in St.Peter's Anglican Church in Quebec City.William maried in 1882 and moved to Mass.USA.

A daughter Anne Elizabeth born in 1868 in Bourg Louis,Baptized in Methodist Church.Anne became a teacher and moved to Montreal,Que.Anne was unmarried and is burried with her parents Henry and Mary Ann Duffy in Mt.Herman Cemetary,Quebec City.

Yes,this is as far as we can go.We are unable to find his entry to Canada.We know everything about him after this,his marriage,death but we are not able to find anything telling us where he was born in England or who his parents were.We did find a Henry King in Find My Past who matches his age.H e is in the Army at 13.5 years old,he is discharged in 1850 and he is not found in UK Census after that. His mother is mentioned as Elizabeth and he is in The Royal Artillary,we also saw a photo of him in Army Uniform.It seems to be him but without confirmation we can not be sure.He married Mary Ann Duffy in 1857 at the Anglican Cathedrale(Church of The Holy Trinity)in Quebec City.They were married by licence,it would have had to be so since Mary Ann Duffy were members of the Church and Henry was a Methodist,if you know the Anglican Church they need to know all about you before they will perfom a marriage.
Sorry for the long post.
Isobell

Quote from: california dreamin on Saturday 09 April 16 18:06 BST (UK)

Declan Donnelly
Bernard Cornwell
Paul O'Grady

Would love to see

Paul O'Grady
Colin Firth
Somebody off Corrie 
David Jason
Ricky Tomlinson
Caroline Ahearn
Shirley Bassey
Tom Jones

and many more

I would also like them to give Michael Parkinson a real shot and see if his family are really *that* boring, surely there must have been one interesting or juicy bit in there??!!

I would love to see Tom Jones.

My Jones Grandfather was born in Shropshire.

My Grandmother who was weird by all accounts,gives her race on immigration records as Irish,I have found her Mother and Father born in Manchester,also her Grandparents,no Irish yet.