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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Stuck in the 1830's at Bebington Parish
« on: Sunday 12 July 20 19:55 BST (UK)  »
UPDATE:

I finally managed to get some more information on James and Margaret Clarke. A few years later she married a Joseph Bennett in Liverpool, though still resided in the Bebington/Bromborough area. Her son James was listed under the last name 'Bennett' hense I couldn't find him the first time round in the earlier censuses.

So now I've got a few more questions. Would James have been Joseph's son, but because he was born to an unmarried mother he could only take her last name officially and not his? How would these things carry out? When he is married he is then in the censuses as a 'Clarke'.

Thank you!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone able to help with deciphering this WW1 document?
« on: Monday 05 June 17 12:53 BST (UK)  »
Thank you!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Anyone able to help with deciphering this WW1 document?
« on: Monday 05 June 17 12:33 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

This is a WW1 pension record for Edward Clarke who's my great great uncle. I can pretty much figure out the first few pages but it's the handwriting on the last few I'm puzzled with. There's seven documents in all but help with the last three would be amazing.

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1114&h=825970&ssrc=pt&tid=2507965&pid=1026456091&usePUB=true

Let me know if the link works or not.

Hayley

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How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / Re: I am stupid: how to send PM's on this site??
« on: Thursday 11 May 17 20:30 BST (UK)  »
Update: It worked as soon as I posted this, hence looking like a total mong.

Okay,so I've posted over the number of replies you need to put on the forum to PM someone, but it's still not working?! Just says I've posted one post which is complete nonsense. Could someone sort this for me before I go bonkers? Please?  :'(

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Family History Beginners Board / Stuck in the 1830's at Bebington Parish
« on: Saturday 08 October 16 19:40 BST (UK)  »
Hey everyone!

I've been avidly doing my family tree lately to find where my surname originates from (Clarke), but I've come to a bit of a dead end.

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60496&h=1293073&ssrc=pt&tid=104238029&pid=230038460599&usePUB=true

Name:   Margaret Clarke
Gender:   Female
Child:   James Clarke

CHESHIRE PARISH REGISTER DATABASE

Field Name   Field Value
KEYCODE   BEBIC02201092.30150
PADVER   bebiC1092.3
PARISH_CODE   BEBI
TAGGED   0
DATED   8340119
FORENAME   JAMES
SEX   M
MOTHER_FORENAME   MARGARET
SURNAME   CLARKE
OCCUPATION   SINGLE WOMA
RESIDENCE   STOR
ILLEGITIMACY   I

http://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~cprdb/

That's all the details I have at the moment. Obviously James Clarke was born an illegitimate child to single mother Margaret Clarke, but I can't seem to trace back from that anymore. If anyone could point me in the right direction, that would be fabulous. I'm mainly just looking for Margaret's DOB and where she was born.

Thanks!

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