Missing surname and other complications!

[bedfordshire boy]

If you go into http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
you can order online. Part of the procedure is a Reference Checking which you can use if you want. Just specify there that the father must be Albert Chandler. If for the reference you have supplied the father isn't Albert the GRO does no more, just charges you £3. That way you save paying £7 for a wrong cert.

You have learned a valuable lesson with that online tree. Regard them as a clue, not as being gospel. Check yourself whatever information they contain before relying on it. Some of them are well researched. Others, like the one you have looked at, contain no sources, no precise dates or any other detail, and appear to have stuck in whichever event seems to fit, without checking.

Regards

David

[janan]

Ian
Just like to add to David's caution - when searching the International Genealogical Index on familysearch you will find some records are extracted others, member submitted. The extracted ones (except for the odd mistranscription) are pretty reliable but the member submitted ones need treating with the same caution as oneworld tree.

Happy hunting
Jan

[clonk]

Hi,
Albert and Louise Chandler were my Great Grand parents. They had 6 Children Alice, Alfred Known as John I believe, Edward,Nellie no idea what that was short for, May and Grace who was known as Barbara.
Louise or Louisa was Swiss and it is my understanding her maiden name was Faurnier but it may have been anglophiled. My Mother and Aunt spent many summers in Switzerland.

I would love to know more about the family
any information would be gratefully recieved!

[bedfordshire boy]

Welcome to Rootschat!

Since 2006 when this thread started, more information has come online, including the 1911 census. I'll take a look this morning to see what else can be found.

Nellie is usually short for Eleanor, but she may have been registered as Nellie, as there's a Nellie Mary birth in Bedford in the Mar quarter 1906

In 1911

1911 census details removed

Odd that the head should have given his name as Alfred, and he also signed as Alfred, when on this thread he's always referred to as Albert

The census details given in reply #16 is definitely not your Louisa - she was still with her father in 1911, age 24 born Berkshire. Which is not to say that the father Charles born 1865 Merident? Switzerland isn't somehow connected to your Louisa



David

[Wing]

Hi Clonk. Great news. That's a long time since I started this thread. Yes we have the same family and it looks like we are the same generation too. I am descended from Edward and his daughter, Barbara, is still alive and kicking and living with us in the Bedford area. Where do you come from now? Thanks.

[bedfordshire boy]

In 1911

1911 census details removed

Why?

I thought it was only 1911 look up requests that were banned

In any event isn't it about time that the whole question of the 1911 census was reviewed now that the FindMyPast exclusive arrangement with TNA has expired and the census is freely  available elsewhere? How do you know I didn't pop into Kew this morning to check out the census? "Because we say so. Subject closed" is not an acceptable answer!

[josey]

Clonk - you'd better take down Ian's email addy before it is removed; email addresses are not allowed on rootschat.

If not, make 2 more posts, then you & wing can exchange personal messages with your email addresses.

Josey
 

[clonk]

I am very new to this and don't know how to remove an email address. I am also the the worlds biggest techno turnip! Ian I have now got your email if you want to remove it.

[Wing]

Thanks clonk, all done. I have private messaged you so I hope you can find it.